Colorado officials have turned over records to ICE four times this year — including once by mistake

Colorado state executives have turned over records requested by immigration government at least four times this year including once by mistake Gov Jared Polis office announced Tuesday The state Department of Labor and Employment provided records to U S Immigration and Customs Enforcement in response to three subpoenas from the agency this year Polis office mentioned One of those was a request that state officers erroneously complied with The Marijuana Enforcement Division provided records to ICE in response to another request That information newly substantiated to The Denver Post comes as state agencies have now acknowledged receiving nine immigration-related subpoenas this year from the Trump administration Whether to comply has stoked political tension internally as well as with immigrant-rights advocates since state law generally prohibits leadership employees from turning over personal identifying information to ICE The exceptions are if the state is ordered to comply by a judge or if the information is sought as part of a criminal examination The state did not turn over records in response to five of the ICE subpoenas received this year including one that Polis had initially decided to comply with before he was ordered not to by a Denver judge Polis spokeswoman Shelby Wieman revealed in an email that one subpoena sent to the labor department shouldn t have been complied with That subpoena sought wage and employment records from an employer whose name was redacted from the document before it was provided to The Post We are implementing procedures to ensure that erroneous sharing does not happen in the future including elevating any promising responses to Department of Homeland Assurance subpoenas to the Governor s Office for review and approval she wrote Wieman did not right away respond when requested why the agency had complied with the subpoena or if anyone had been disciplined as a development State law includes civil penalties for any state employee who provides information to ICE unless required by law The three subpoenas that Wieman disclosed were correctly fulfilled all involved alleged criminal investigations Two were also sent to the labor department Both were sent to the state in February One involved an research into human trafficking according to the document and the other was an analysis related to human and drug trafficking Both sought employment records from specific companies The narcotics subpoena stated that the probe includes numerous sufferers from other countries The subpoena sent to the marijuana regulators also sought employment input Tuesday s disclosure provided by Wieman is the first time that state bureaucrats have acknowledged complying with subpoenas from ICE The labor department earlier narrated The Post that it had received four subpoenas the Colorado Sun communicated late last week that the agency had received seven subpoenas Related Articles Colorado sheriff s deputy who alerted ICE to Utah scholar violated state law AG says U S Rep Gabe Evans has joined latest immigration modification attempt Will it succeed as enforcement surges Denver Mayor Mike Johnston calls for learned hopefulness on homelessness housing other challenges Pentagon to withdraw Marines from Los Angeles False hope of accountability from the Epstein battle Letters The marijuana regulatory division and the state Department of Populace Wellbeing and Habitat each received one such request But spokespeople for the state had previously refused to turn over the subpoenas or say if they d complied with them citing exemptions in state citizens records law allowing records related to criminal investigations to remain private Then early Friday evening the labor department published several of the subpoenas it had previously withheld A spokeswoman for the marijuana enforcement division notified The Post this week that it couldn t turn over the records shortly before Wieman published the document to The Post and other media outlets Wieman and a spokeswoman for the labor department did not directly respond when solicited why the state chose not to respond to the other subpoenas they ve received from ICE so far this year Stay up-to-date with Colorado Politics by signing up for our weekly newsletter The Spot