Court documents filed in Colorado's federal lawsuit against the GEO Group and the Department of Homeland Security show that state and county health officials spent more than two months trying and failing to gain access to an active tuberculosis case inside the Aurora immigration detention center before turning to the courts.
The filings, reviewed and reported by Colorado Public Radio, lay out a sequence of unanswered emails, missed deadlines, and referrals to lawyers. State health officials were first told of the case in mid June. More than two months later, public health investigators still do not know where the original patient is, whether additional people were infected, or who was exposed.
