{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.hickenlooper.senate.gov/press_releases/hickenlooper-statement-on-detainee-accounts-of-tuberculosis-exposure-at-aurora-ice-detention-center/", "Hickenlooper Statement on Detainee Accounts of Tuberculosis Exposure at Aurora ICE Detention Center", "2026-09-22", "2026", "2026-09", "Democrat", "Senate", "CO", "John W. Hickenlooper", "H000273", "www.hickenlooper.senate.gov", "hickenlooper", "https://www.hickenlooper.senate.gov/press/page/", "scraper", "DENVER \u2013 Today, U.S. Senator John Hickenlooper released the following statement in response to a report by the Denver Post that an entire pod was placed on quarantine after being exposed to tuberculosis (TB) at the Aurora ICE Detention Facility. Neither ICE nor local health officials confirmed the report.\n\n\u201cPublic health officials can\u2019t stop a TB outbreak they\u2019re not allowed to track,\u201d said Hickenlooper. \u201cICE\u2019s refusal to follow Colorado law or give members of Congress answers puts lives at risk. They\u2019re trying to slow us down, but we won\u2019t stop pushing until we get to the bottom of this.\u201d\n\nRepresentatives from Hickenlooper\u2019s office visited the detention facility last Friday. ICE officials and medical staff at the facility refused to tell Hickenlooper\u2019s staff whether anyone had recently tested positive for TB or been exposed to it. This is the second reported case of tuberculosis at the Aurora ICE Detention Facility in recent months.\n\nIn June, Adams County Health Department was notified of a case of suspected TB at the facility, triggering a routine investigation, which was blocked by GEO. ICE later confirmed they had a positive TB case, but refused to allow state health officials to investigate. As a result, last month the state of Colorado sued GEO Group, which operates the Aurora ICE Detention Facility, to force GEO to comply with state law and allow public health officials to perform a full investigation.\n\nThe CDC\u2019s guidelines for \u201cPrevention and Control of Tuberculosis in Correctional and Detention Facilities\u201d state that it\u2019s \u201cmandatory\u201d for every correctional facility \u2013 private, federal, state or local \u2013 to report suspected and confirmed cases of TB to its local or state health department.\n\nHickenlooper visited the Aurora ICE Detention Facility at the end of August to demand answers on the TB outbreak and push ICE to comply with state law. Hickenlooper held meetings with Adams County and state public health officials before and after his oversight visit.\n\n###", 1, "2026-09-23T09:45:16Z", "2026-09-23T09:46:14Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.hickenlooper.senate.gov/press_releases/hickenlooper-statement-on-detainee-accounts-of-tuberculosis-exposure-at-aurora-ice-detention-center/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.3815441634505987, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}