Use of facial recognition service by agencies - disclosure to criminal defendant required - warrants

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 24-18-308, under Use of Facial Recognition Services by State and Local Government Agencies.

Colo. Rev. Stat. § 24-18-308

(1) An agency shall disclose its use of a facial recognition service on a criminal defendant to that defendant in a timely manner prior to trial.

(2) In January of each year, any judge who has issued or extended a warrant for the use of a facial recognition service as described in section 24-18-307 during the preceding year, or who has denied approval of such a warrant during that year, shall report to the state court administrator: (a) The fact that a warrant or extension was applied for; (b) The fact that the warrant or extension was granted as applied for, was modified, or was denied; (c) The period of surveillance authorized by the warrant and the number and duration of any extensions of the warrant; (d) The identity of the applying investigative or law enforcement officer and agency making the application and the person authorizing the application; and (e) The nature of the public spaces where the surveillance was conducted.

(a) The fact that a warrant or extension was applied for;

(b) The fact that the warrant or extension was granted as applied for, was modified, or was denied;

(c) The period of surveillance authorized by the warrant and the number and duration of any extensions of the warrant;

(d) The identity of the applying investigative or law enforcement officer and agency making the application and the person authorizing the application; and

(e) The nature of the public spaces where the surveillance was conducted.

(3) In January of each year, any agency that has applied for a warrant or an extension of a warrant for the use of a facial recognition service to engage in any surveillance as described in section 24-18-307 shall provide to the agency’s reporting authority a report summarizing nonidentifying demographic data of individuals named in warrant applications as subjects of surveillance with the use of a facial recognition service.