State official testifies against Polis in data-sharing dispute with ICE
By Danielle Kreutter | Denver7
DENVER — A whistleblower who accused Governor Jared Polis of ordering state employees to hand over personal information to federal immigration officials testified in court on Tuesday.
Scott Moss is a licensed attorney and the director of the Division of Labor Standards and Statistics in the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment. Earlier this month, he filed a lawsuit in Denver County Court, alleging that he was ordered by the governor to turn over information about people providing homes to unaccompanied minors to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in compliance with a subpoena.
Moss believed giving ICE the information would violate state laws that ban state and local government agencies from sharing personal information with f...