Colorado § 17-19-102 - Employees of correctional facilities.
Full text of Colorado Colorado Revised Statutes § 17-19-102 — Employees of correctional facilities., with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 17-19-102. Employees of correctional facilities.
Any person who wishes to become or to continue as an employee, including but not limited to contract employees and volunteers, of a correctional facility, as defined in section 17-19-101 (3), shall sign, as a condition of his or her employment or of volunteering, a consent form in which the employee or volunteer shall give his or her consent to be stopped and searched without probable cause by a person of the same sex while engaged in the performance of his or her duties within or around the correctional facility. Said form shall be as promulgated by the executive director with the advice of the attorney general.
Source: L. 77: Entire title R&RE, p. 917, § 10, effective August 1. L. 2000: Entire section amended, p. 843, § 33, effective May 24.
Editor's note: This section is similar to former § 27-2-110 as it existed prior to 1977.
ARTICLE 20
Correctional Facilities
17-20-101. State institutions.
17-20-102. Administration of correctional facilities - wardens - reports.
17-20-103. Wardens and others - conservators of peace.
17-20-104. Reduced time for good conduct. (Repealed)
17-20-105. Trusty prisoners - allowance. (Repealed)
17-20-106. Forfeiture of good time. (Repealed)
17-20-107. Good time credit allowable. (Repealed)
17-20-108. Credits forfeited upon misbehavior. (Repealed)
17-20-109. Sections affect only certain prisoners. (Repealed)
17-20-110. Forfeiture for violation of rules. (Repealed)
17-20-111. One continuous sentence. (Repealed)
17-20-112. Wardens shall record infractions.
17-20-113. Behavior certificate - citizenship. (Repealed)
17-20-114. Federal prisoners - others. (Repealed)
17-20-114.5. Restriction of privileges in correctional facilities - restriction of privileges because of lawsuit filed without justification.
17-20-115. Rehabilitation and work programs for rehabilitation, reentry, and reintegration.
17-20-116. County or municipal roadwork. (Repealed)
17-20-117. Inmate rehabilitation and work.
17-20-118. Computation of time. (Repealed)
17-20-119. Discharge - clothes, money, transportation. (Repealed)
17-20-120. Convict to leave county. (Repealed)
17-20-121. Failure to observe conditions - penalty. (Repealed)
17-20-122. Justification of officer.
17-20-123. Insurrection - duty of citizens.
17-20-124. Visitors at correctional facilities.
17-20-125. Revolving fund. (Repealed)
17-20-126. Correctional facilities for women. (Repealed)
17-20-127. Canteen, vending machine, and library fund created - receipts - disbursements. (Repealed)
17-20-128. State authorized to receive Fort Lyon property - repeal. (Repealed)
17-20-129. Food donations to nonprofit organizations encouraged.
17-20-130. Visitation in correctional facilities - department policies - reporting - legislative declaration - definitions.
Source: official Colorado text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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