C.R.S. § 16-2.5-302: Peace officer actions leading to injury or death investigations - protocol - notification to decedent's immediate family.

(1) (a) Each police department, sheriff's office, and district attorney within the state shall maintain protocols for participating in a multi-agency team, which must include at least one other police department or sheriff's office, or the Colorado bureau of investigation, in conducting any investigation, evaluation, or review of an incident involving the discharge of a firearm by a peace officer that resulted in injury or death, or other use of force by a peace officer that resulted in death. The law enforcement agencies participating need not be from the same judicial district.

(b) Each law enforcement agency shall post the protocol on its website or, if it does not have a website, make it publicly available upon request.

(2) The law enforcement agency that employs the peace officer or the multi-agency team investigating an incident involving the peace officer's use of force that results in death shall notify each person in the decedent's immediate family known to the employing law enforcement agency, and a person designated by the decedent's immediate family, about the investigation of the incident. The notification must occur within twenty-four hours after the scene of the incident is cleared and must include the following information:

(a) The names of all law enforcement agencies that comprise the multi-agency team described in subsection (1) of this section that is investigating the use of force; and

(b) The status of the investigation.