Denver Police Department

Denver is the largest city in Colorado and one of the named PSDEX contributors in the ‘Sabotaging Sanctuary’ report published in 2022 by the Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition and Mijente. Denver also has VALE Act sanctuary protections — the state’s 2019 law restricting cooperation with immigration enforcement — as well as local policies.

Denver PD’s connection to LexisNexis’s PSDEX runs through CISC — the Colorado Information Sharing Consortium, a Colorado-based organization that operates the PSDEX data warehouse for LexisNexis in the state. CISC confirmed this role directly in a public records response. Denver PD representative Ron Saunier served on the CISC Board of Directors, documented in board meeting minutes from January 2021. The board meeting also included a LexisNexis account manager and representatives from the FBI.

CISC connects 124 Colorado law enforcement agencies, 87 of which actively mirror booking and release data. As a board member governing that infrastructure, Denver PD is almost certainly among the contributing agencies. The ‘Sabotaging Sanctuary’ report named Denver County specifically. The mechanism is the same one found in California and Minnesota: local sanctuary laws restrict what law enforcement can share directly with ICE, but the CISC/PSDEX route passes through a private company that those laws don’t regulate.