Does your sheriff enter you into a Criminal Database?
Feb. 11, 2004 - After more than a year of pressuring the Colorado Bureau of Investigation to release the names of those Sheriff Departments that enter Concealed Carry Permit Holders into the CBI Criminal Database, we now have the information.
Thanks to gutsy State Rep. Greg Brophy (R-Wray), this list is now public information.
Remember, Sheriff's offices (and the Denver police) are the only offices now issuing permits. But prior to the 2003 legislation, Police Departments also issued permits, and therefore could enter permit holders into CCIC, the Colorado Crime Information Center.
When the 2003 law was passed, it allowed Sheriffs to continue to enter these names into the database. House Bill 1205, which will be heard on Monday, Feb. 16th, would make that statewide database of permit holders illegal.
Why would a sheriff want to enter permit holders into that database? Essentially, their claim can be distilled down to keeping records on "persons of interest." What that means is that you are considered a dangerous person, just like a convicted rapist or murderer.
The following Sheriff Departments are entering concealed carry permit holders into CCIC. Included are the number of entries into that database from that department (if the number is very small, such as El Paso county, it means they are not entering permit holders into CCIC):
Sheriff Offices
SO Adams County 732
SO Arapahoe County 146
SO Archuleta County 151
SO Boulder County 669
SO Delta County 182
SO Dolores County 27
SO Eagle County 42
SO Elbert County 18
SO El Paso County 1
SO Fremont County 103
SO Gilpin County 34
SO Gunnison County 77
SO Hinsdale County 36
SO Jefferson County 1460
SO Kit Carson County 40
SO Lake County 38
SO La Plata County 666
SO Larimer County 2425
SO Lincoln County 5
SO Logan County 54
SO Mesa County 1085
SO Moffat County 6
SO Montezuma County 1
SO Montrose County 389
SO Otero County 32
SO Ouray County 11
SO Pitkin County 27
SO Rio Blanco County 100
SO San Juan County 4
SO Teller County 167
SO Yuma County 22
SO Broomfield 103
Police Departments
PD Greenwood Village 7
PD Pagosa Springs 1
PD Carbondale 5
PD Gunnison 2
PD Arvada 1
PD Golden 24
PD Edgewater 1
PD Fort Collins 1
PD Palisade 29
PD Monte Vista 8
To contact any of the sheriff's departments, go to:
http://www.csoc.org/counties.asp
What you can do about it?
We'll be offering suggestions as to how to pass HB1205 through the Colorado House (it already has every member of the committee it is being heard by as a co-sponsor) later.
For now, you should call your sheriff's department (if on this list) and DEMAND to be removed from this criminal database. It is an incredible outrage that Sheriffs would include permit holders on a statewide database with criminals, all designed to track you.
