Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser is suing a sheriff's deputy who Weiser says told ICE officials in an encrypted Signal chat to a woman who was allegedly in the U.S. on an expired visa, in violation of state law.

Colorado's attorney general has filed a lawsuit against a Mesa County sheriff’s deputy whose decision last month to share information with ICE led to the arrest of a 19-year-old college student from Utah.

According to the state investigation, Zwinck provided his location to the federal immigration officers in the chat and then stalled Dias Goncalves for at least five minutes, asking her about her national origin,