Overview

• Phil Weiser filed a civil lawsuit July 22 against Mesa County Deputy Alexander Zwinck for sharing a University of Utah student’s driver’s license and vehicle details with ICE agents via a task force Signal chat.
• The complaint seeks a court order declaring Zwinck’s actions unlawful under Colorado’s sanctuary laws and barring him from any future cooperation with federal immigration authorities.
• Weiser’s office is probing whether the multiagency drug-interdiction chat was systematically repurposed to facilitate civil immigration arrests in violation of state policy.
• Mesa County Sheriff’s Office removed its deputies from the encrypted group, placed Zwinck on paid administrative leave and is concluding an internal review of the incident.
• Caroline Dias Goncalves, held for about two weeks after her June 5 traffic stop, has been released on bond and remains in the U.S. pending her asylum application.