Personal information on the internet: protected persons (anti-doxxing)
Colorado protected-person doxxing law
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Colorado makes it a crime to knowingly post a protected person's personal information online when doing so poses an imminent and serious threat to their or their family's safety. Protected persons can also ask government officials to remove their personal information from online public records. Recent amendments added educators (2022), health-care workers and others (2023), and firefighters (2024).
- Where
- Colorado
- Citation
- C.R.S. 18-9-313
- Status
- In force
- In force since
- 2002-07-01
- Last amended
- 2024-08-07
- Enforced by
- District attorneys (criminal prosecution)
- People can sue
- No
- Penalties
- Violating 18-9-313(2.7) is a class 1 misdemeanor (18-9-313(3)).
- Applies to
- Any person who posts personal information on the internet about a protected person (including law enforcement and code enforcement officers, judges, prosecutors, public defenders, child representatives, health-care workers, educators, firefighters, and others listed in 18-9-313(1)) or their immediate family (18-9-313(2.7))
- State and local government officials who receive removal requests (18-9-313(2.8))
Rights it gives people
- Protected persons may request that state or local officials stop making their personal information available online in public records.C.R.S. 18-9-313(2.8)
Practices it requires
- Do not knowingly make available on the internet personal information of a protected person or their immediate family when it poses an imminent and serious threat to their safety that the poster knows or should know of.C.R.S. 18-9-313(2.7)
Sources
- Official text
- Colorado Revised Statutes 2024, Title 18 (Office of Legislative Legal Services, leg.colorado.gov)
Checked against these sources on 2026-09-25 by research agent (Claude), primary sources.
Unverified: Full list of protected-person categories in 18-9-313(1) not reproduced.
Research reference, not legal advice.