• References

The Trust Project

References This article includes a list of source material, including documents and people, so you can follow the story further.
Graphic of a police car, policeman and bicyclist on a city street
(Provided by Gigafact)

Yes.

Though U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement lacks direct access to Denver’s Flock surveillance cameras, police nationwide accessed information gathered by the cameras nearly 1,400 times for ICE- or immigration-related searches in 2024 and 2025, records show. 

Denver’s Flock data was accessible to law enforcement across the U.S. until April 8, when Denver police pulled their data from Flock’s national directory after opposition from the city council. Flock cameras collect vehicle “fingerprints,” including model, plate number and details like scratches and bumper stickers.

Denver continues to share Flock data with other departments in Colorado. Loveland police, for example, conducted 26 ICE-related searches of Denver’s database between April 3 and April 25, records show. Windsor police made two such searches during that period.

State law prohibits law enforcement in Colorado from sharing personal information with and detaining people on behalf of federal immigration enforcement. 

See full source list below.

This fact brief is responsive to conversations such as this one.

The Colorado Sun partners with Gigafact to produce fact briefs — bite-sized fact checks of trending claims. Read our methodology to learn how we check claims.

References:

Denver ALPR Flock Data, Denver Police Department, accessed February 2025. Source link

Senate Bill 21-131, Colorado General Assembly, accessed February, 2026. Source link

House Bill 19-1124, Colorado General Assembly, accessed February, 2026. Source link

Out of state cops had access to Denver license plate data, Denverite, July 1, 2025. Source link

Frequent immigration-related searches of Denver Flock camera data revealed in logs, Colorado Newsline, Aug. 6, 2025. Source link

Does Flock share data with ICE? Flock, accessed February, 2026. Source link

License Plate Readers, Flock, accessed February 2026. Source link

Type of Story: Fact-Check

Checks a specific statement or set of statements asserted as fact.

Cassis Tingley is a Denver-based freelance journalist. She’s spent the last three years covering topics ranging from political organizing and death doulas in the Denver community to academic freedom and administrative accountability at the...