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The Denver Police Spy Files

Additional Spy Files Documents

The following documents related to Denver's Spy Files controversy are posted on this website. Click here for a narrative chronology of the Spy Files controversy.

• Sample documents from Denver Police Department's Spy Files
  (including documents released at the ACLU news conference on March 11, 2002, and additional documents released beginning November, 2002)
  
  
  
• ACLU news release, March 11, 2002: ACLU Calls for Denver Police to Stop Keeping Files On Peaceful Protesters.
  
  
  
• ACLU letter to Denver Mayor Wellington Webb, March 11, 2002
  
  
  
• Mayor Webb's press statement, March 13, 2002
  
  
  
• Denver's policy that governs police intelligence gathering: Denver Police Department Intelligence Systems Information [PDF]
  
  
  
• ACLU letter to Denver Police Chief Gerald Whitman, March 25, 2002
  
  
  
• Denver Police Department's reply to ACLU, dated March 29, 2002 [PDF]
  
  
  
• ACLU news release, March 28, 2002: ACLU of Colorado Files Class Action Lawsuit Challenging Denver Police Spy Files on Peaceful Protest Activities
  
  
  
• Class Action Complaint, American Friends Service Committee v. City and County of Denver, filed in court March 28, 2002[PDF]
  
  
  
• ACLU letter to panel of former judges conducting review of Denver police Spy Files, dated May 17, 2002
  
  
  
• ACLU's response to City and County of Denver's motion to dismiss Spy Files lawsuit, filed in court June 11, 2002 [PDF]
  
  
  
• Report of Panel Appointed to Review Denver Police Department Policies for Collection and Retention of Criminal Intelligence Information, June 28, 2002 [PDF]
  
  
  
  
• Draft policy, proposed June 28, 2002, on collection, dissemination, and purge of criminal intelligence information [PDF]
  
  
  
• Confidentiality Order, signed by Magistrate Judge Shaffer, July 12, 2002 [PDF]
  
  
  
• Magistrate Judge Craig Shaffer's Order, August 29, 2002, holding that 22 intelligence files are not subject to discovery [PDF]
  
  
  
• Denver News Release, September 16, 2002, Police to Modify Access to Intelligence Files
  
  
  
• Plaintiffs' Motion for Protective Order[PDF], filed October 16, 2000
  
  
  
• "Spy Files Update," All Rights Reserved, ACLU of Colorado Newsletter, November, 2002
  
  
  
• ACLU News Release, November 21, 2002: Colorado Springs Police Surveillance Information Appears in Denver Spy Files
  
  
  
• Judge Nottingham's order denying Denver's Motion to Dismiss, October 21, 2002 [PDF]
  
  
  
• Denver Intelligence policy, 1983, distributed by Ari Zavaras at news conference, December 22, 2002 [PDF]
  
  
  
• Press statement of Ari Zavaras, December 22, 2002 [PDF]
  
  
  
• Denver Post's motion to intervene in Spy Files lawsuit, filed December 26, 2002 [PDF]
  
  
  
• "They Know When You Are Sleeping," by Katha Pollitt, originally published in The Nation, January 27, 2003
  
  
  
• Memorandum to "All Troops," by Lt. Joe Black, Commander, Intelligence Bureau, November 2, 1998 [PDF]
  
  
  
• Settlement Agreement, announced April 17, 2003 [PDF]
  
  
  
• Settlement Agreement, Exhibit 1, new DPD Intelligence Policy [PDF]
  
  
  
• Preliminary Report of the Public Safety Review Commission Regarding the Denver Police Department Intelligence Files, August 21, 2003

• “Spy Files Archives to be Housed at Denver Public Library,” text of Mayor Hickenlooper’s news release, June 17, 2004

• Third Audit Report, Denver Police Intelligence Bureau, October 27, 2004

• Correspondence between Spy Files Auditor and Chief of Police, October 2004

• ACLU letter to Denver Mayor and City Council raising concerns about Denver’s continued participation in FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force, December 30, 2004