This November, all Coloradans need to vote like their rights depend on it. Join our voter engagement campaign and help ACLU protect the right to vote, combat suppression, expand access and turn out pro-civil liberties voters. Every vote counts—and so … Continue reading
Featured Campaigns
Standing Up for Incarcerated Kids in Colorado
The ACLU of Colorado is committed to protecting children who are in the care of the Colorado Department of Youth Corrections (DYC) and to transforming the culture at DYC facilities to improve the safety of kids and staff. Read … Continue reading
Protect Patient Health: Stop the use of Religion to Deny Healthcare
The ACLU of Colorado believes that everyone has a right to receive appropriate healthcare and information. Everyday in Colorado, healthcare providers and hospitals deny care by imposing their religious beliefs on patients. These providers and hospitals refuse to provide: Appropriate … Continue reading
Make Colorado a Civil Liberties Safe Zone
Now more than ever, we need Coloradans to come together in support of civil rights and liberties. Sign the pledge and tell your local and statewide leaders to protect the rights of all Coloradans. Colorado has a tradition of valuing … Continue reading
Death Penalty
The ACLU of Colorado is committed to ending the use of the death penalty in Colorado. Continue reading
Criminalization of Homelessness
Colorado communities are passing new laws and enforcing old ones that essentially make it a crime to be homeless. The ACLU of Colorado is committed to protecting personal liberty and human dignity for all Coloradans, including those who are homeless or living in extreme poverty. Continue reading
Stop Solitary
Solitary confinement jeopardizes public safety, is fundamentally inhumane, wastes taxpayer dollars, and often leaves prisoners unprepared for re-entry into society when their sentences end. The ACLU of Colorado is committed to ending the use of long-term solitary confinement, especially for people with serious mental illness. Continue reading
End Immigration Detainers
The ACLU of Colorado successfully convinced all sheriffs in Colorado to stop holding people in jail on immigration detainer requests from federal Immigrations and Customs Enforcement. Continue reading
Marriage Equality
The ACLU of Colorado proudly fought for decades to bring full marriage equality to Colorado. Continue reading
End Debtors’ Prisons
The ACLU of Colorado worked with the legislature to pass a new law in 2014 ending the practice of jailing Coloradans for being too poor to pay legal fines and fees. Continue reading