SB 25-047

Senate Bill 25-047 in Colorado aims to enforce federal immigration law more strictly by allowing local police to cooperate with federal immigration officials and requiring them to report suspected undocumented individuals. The bill also revokes previous laws that protected people from being arrested near courthouses, restricted probation officers from sharing personal information with federal immigration authorities, and banned state contracts for private immigration detention services. Since the bill has been signed into law, local governments must now comply with these new requirements or risk losing certain grants. This affects anyone involved in legal proceedings, those on probation, and entities providing detention services related to immigration enforcement.

Official Summary

In 2006, the general assembly passed Senate Bill 06-090, which: Prohibited a local government from passing any ordinance or policy that would prohibit a police officer, local official, or local government employee from cooperating with federal officials with regard to the immigration status of a person within the state; Required a peace officer who has probable cause to believe that a person is not legally present in the United States to report the person to the federal immigration and customs enforcement office; Required each local government to provide notice to peace officers of the duty to report and to provide written confirmation of the notice and reporting statistics to the general assembly; and Prohibited a local government that violates this provision from receiving any grants administered by the department of local affairs. Senate Bill 06-090 was repealed in 2013. The bill recreates and reenacts Senate Bill 06-090. Current law prohibits: A person from being arrested while the person is present at a courthouse, or while going to, attending, or coming from a court proceeding, and provides remedies for a violation; A probation officer or probation department employee from providing personal information about an individual to federal immigration authorities; and State and local governmental entities from contracting with a private entity for immigration detention services or entering into agreements for immigration detention services. The bill repeals each of these laws. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)

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