DENVER — A whistleblower filed a lawsuit against Colorado Governor Jared Polis Wednesday, accusing the governor of ordering him and other state employees to turn over sensitive information to federal immigration authorities in violation of state law.

“My first reaction was of shock and concern,” said Nicole Cervera Loy, the policy and campaign manager at the Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition (CIRC) . “It feels like a betrayal of the trust that we work so hard to build with the community and with the governor's office."

The lawsuit was filed in Denver County Court on behalf of Scott Moss, the director of the Division of Labor Standards and Statistics in the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment.

According to the lawsuit, the state received a subpoena from Immigration and Custom

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