9NEWS: It’s been almost a year since 39-year-old Melvin Calero-Mendoza died while in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody in Aurora. A nonprofit that provides legal services to people detained at the facility has filed a lawsuit to get records after they said a Freedom Of Information Act request from November was never fulfilled.

“Our primary purpose in filing the Freedom of Information Act Request is to make sure we are gaining information about what went wrong in Melvin’s case so we can ensure the same thing doesn’t happen to some of our clients,” said Laura Lunn, director of advocacy and litigation at the Rocky Mountain Immigrant Advocacy Network. 

In her lawsuit against ICE, Lunn said the federal agency violated statute by failing to respond to a FOIA request for nearly 10 months. 

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