OIS REPORTS
Investigations of officer-involved use of deadly force or potentially deadly force present a unique set of circumstances, which make them more complex than routine investigations. Law enforcement agencies (including the County Coroner as needed) investigate the incidents, and the District Attorney’s Office determines whether the use of force was lawful or criminal. Those reports are public by law: C.R.S 20-1-114 says, “The district attorney shall, if no criminal charges are filed following the completion of an investigation pursuant to section 16-2.5-301, C.R.S., release a report and publicly disclose the report explaining the district attorney’s findings, including the basis for the decision not to charge the officer with any criminal conduct. The district attorney shall post the written report on its website or, if it does not have a website, make it publicly available upon request.”
OIS Reports (by release date)
2024
2023
- Letter of Declination, dated Aug. 29, 2023 --Foster (Summit County)
- Letter of Declination, dated Sept. 19, 2023--Leoni (Eagle County)
2022
- March 21, 2021 incident--Empire (OIS Report dated Feb. 7, 2022)
2021
2020
- May 9, 2020 incident--south of Idaho Springs (GJOIS Report dated Aug. 5, 2020)
- -----Press Release, dated Aug. 14, 2020
- Dec. 5, 2019 incident--Avon (OIS Report dated Feb. 14, 2020)
- -----Press Release, dated Feb. 14, 2020