First responders request to keep address be kept confidential in voter registration records
First responders request to keep address be kept confidential in voter registration records
Effective the first of 2026, if you are a current or former first responder, or a spouse of one, you can now ask your local county clerk for an application form at no charge to become a confidential voter in Colorado.
Thanks to the passage and signing of House Bill 25-1195 into law last year—sponsored by Representatives Dusty Johnson and Matthew Martinez, and Senators Kyle Mullica and Mark Baisley—Colorado has established protections for first responders and their spouses to request that their address be kept confidential in voter registration records.
The new law, Colorado Revised Statutes, 24-72-204(3.5)*, broadens eligibility to all current and former first responders – including law enforcement officers, firefighters, emergency medical service providers and emergency communications specialists – along with their spouses.
You can download the form used to make a request here. It must be submitted in printed form to the county clerk of the county in which you are registered to vote.
*(b) (I) An individual may make the request of confidentiality allowed by this subsection (3.5) if the individual is a first responder or if the individual has reason to believe that the individual, or any member of the individual’s immediate family who resides in the same household as the individual, will be exposed to criminal harassment as prohibited in section 18-9-111, or otherwise be in danger of bodily harm, if the individual’s address is not kept confidential in accordance with this subsection (3.5).