Aurora ICE Facility Operator Says Colorado Overstepped Authority With New ICE Inspection Law

By: Marissa Ventrelli | Colorado Politics

The private prison company that operates the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement center in Aurora has filed a lawsuit against Colorado to stop the enforcement of a new law requiring additional health and safety inspections of immigration detention facilities.

The lawsuit from Geo Group, filed Monday in Denver District Court, lists Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser as the plaintiff, along with Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment executive director Jill Hunsaker Ryan, the department’s environmental health and sustainability director Jeff Lawrence, and Adams County Health Department executive director Kelly Weidenbach.

Earlier this year, the Adams County Health Department conducted an on-site investigation into the facility following anonymous reports alleging widespread illness among detainees.

The department alleged Geo Group’s legal counsel delayed health officials’ efforts to interview facility staff despite multiple attempts to do so, according to a
report from Denver7.

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