Aurora Consent Decree

On Nov. 22, 2021, the city of Aurora and the Colorado Attorney General jointly and voluntarily entered into a mutually beneficial legal agreement known as a  consent decree , which the city considers its commitment to progress. The consent decree provides the  Aurora Police Department  (APD),  Aurora Fire Rescue  (AFR) and  Aurora Civil Service Commission  (CSC) with the opportunity to allocate resources, review current policies and adopt new ones, and focus training efforts in five key areas. Also referred to as pillars, the five key areas include:  • Addressing Racial Bias in Policing • Constitutional Policing • Chemical Restraints • Recruitment, Hiring and Promotion • Accountability and Transparency    The pillars include 78 individual agency mandates, which upon completion will fulfill Aurora's consent decree. The consent decree is scheduled to sunset after five years, or when all mandates have been accomplished. The consent decree encompasses two years of operational changes followed by three years of monitoring.

IntegrAssure was named the  Aurora consent decree monitor  in February 2022. IntegrAssure’s role is to provide technical assistance on new policies and training to ensure mandates are met on schedule. Progress is communicated to the community through regularly published reports, including four quarterly reports in year one and two semi-annual reports in year two.

The reports which detail the progress of the Independent Consent Decree Monitor are available to the public here:  https://www.auroramonitor.org/reports  RP6 signifies the end of the first two years of the monitorship. In the first two years, the Monitor found twenty-five mandates to be in substantial compliance that do not need to be actively assessed again unless changes are made to the underlying policy or process, and another twenty-seven (27) mandates in substantial compliance in this reporting period. Together, 52 of the 78 mandates are now in substantial compliance. This represents 66.7% of the 78 mandates in the Consent Decree. These are significant achievements for APD, AFR, CSC and the City.

This Report Card matrix provides the progress and status of the Independent Consent Decree Monitor's mandates, measured at intervals called Reporting Periods (RP) with valid dates listed below each period of reporting. The matrix contains each mandate by number, title, and synopsis, and the cells in the matrix represent the status (color) and progress (fill) of each mandate in the reporting period. The key to the report card is included below.

The matrix below will highlight the progress being made towards the upcoming reporting period. Roadmap for Reporting Period 8 is PENDING (04/15/2025). Stay Tuned!: