Colorado Public Radio: Colorado’s attorney general’s office has launched a new complaint filing system designed to allow residents to report alleged misconduct by federal agents — including those from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

The program officially launched at the end of January. And although the rollout of this reporting tool coincided with weeks of controversial and violent federal enforcement activity in Minneapolis — during which two people, Renée Good and Alex Pretti, were killed by federal agents — Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser says its development has been in the works for months.

“Obviously what’s happening in Minnesota highlights the importance of such a complaint system, but this has been, for us, a months-long project,” Weiser told CPR News. “But for us in Colorado, there was actually an earlier incident in Durango where someone was allegedly assaulted by an ICE agent that’s now being investigated by the Colorado Bureau of Investigation. So this issue is not new to Colorado; it’s been on our radar.”

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