Colorado

Castle Rock v. Gonzales is a U.S. Supreme Court case holding that a law enforcement officer could not be sued under 42 U.S. Code § 1983 for failing to enforce a restraining order. In the case, Jessica Gonzales was granted a restraining order against her husband during their divorce proceedings. In violation of the restraining order, the estranged husband took their three children, and despite repeated efforts by Jessica to have the order enforced, the police took no action.

Chiles v. Salazar, 607 U.S. 627 (2026) is a U.S. Supreme Court case regarding a Colorado state ban on conversion therapy. Specifically, Colo. Rev. Stat.

The Colorado Missing Indigenous Person Alert (MIPA) is an emergency notification program that shares crucial information about an Indigenous persons’ disappearance to the public in order to aid timely search and recovery efforts. This alert system was created in 2022 under the Office of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Relatives (SB 22-50 (Colo.

Jessica Lenahan (Gonzales) petitioned the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights indicating that her due process rights were violated when her repeated and urgent calls to police reporting her three daughters missing, were ignored; despite her having a restraining order against their father/her estranged husband. Previously, in Castle Rock v.

Local police failed to enforce a restraining order against the estranged husband of Jessica Lenahan Gonzales. Subsequently, the estranged husband murdered her three children. In Castle Rock v. Gonzales, 545 U.S. 748 (2005), the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that no affirmative duty exists on the part of the government to enforce a protective order.