An Adams County Health Department report details the obstacles officials said they faced while investigating reported widespread illness at an Aurora Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility, including blocked staff interviews, delayed patient access, and unreturned testing kits.
The facility is operated by the GEO Group, a private Florida-based detention provider.
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The report said Adams County health officials received an anonymous complaint on Jan. 2 from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment about widespread gastrointestinal and respiratory illness at the facility. A second complaint from multiple anonymous sources from an unnamed local public health agency was sent to the county health department on Jan. 5. Adams County health officials said both complaints reported possible gastrointestinal illness among kitchen staff…