The "Blue" is Law Enforcement

Police misconduct exists across the country in every state, county, city and town. It is often buried behind expensive public records, obscured by an agency’s internal policies, and sometimes hidden by the very officers sworn to protect the public. Luckily, due to a few state laws here in Colorado passed in 2019, we have a state database of police misconduct. Sort of.

Blue Surveillance is an attempt to create a better resource that reveals the details of misconduct that the state’s Peace Officer and Standards and Training Board database fails to explain, telling only that something happened, not what or how.

The Newsletter and The Database

Our database is freely accessible and updated daily with all Actions from the POST database. This allows easy filtering and searching, and contains information like when an Action was added that is not so easily found on the official site. Additionally, there is the Officers tab aggregating information for an officer like previous employers, current employer, court cases, reports and other news clips. More details can be found in the data diary at the top of the database page.

The free newsletter is a weekly, short round up of officers who have had Actions added the week before, with notes on anything particularly interesting we could find, and a breakdown of involved officers.

The Future and our Mission

The goal of Blue Surveillance is to bring accountability to police misconduct across Colorado through mass aggregation of expensive, often obscured and difficult to acquire public records, so reporters, researchers, advocates and anyone who cares can make use of it.

We hope to bring to light misconduct and discrepancies that otherwise might be buried or impossible to notice — either from lack of funds, attention, or know-how. This will allow accountability to flourish, giving the public confidence that misconduct is either not happening, or being appropiately handled. One reporter, or one newsroom, can only do so much, and more eyes will always bring more journalism and accountability.

Currently, our funding is very small. We collect many records for anyone to use, like arrest affidavits, criminal history, resumes, job applications, and more, but in the future we hope to request and acquire every Internal Affairs report, complaint, and document related to any officer with misconduct so anyone can access, read and report on them. Because only when all the context and all the reports are removed from behind paywalls can the full scope of police misconduct be seen, and accountability happen.

But, documents are expensive. All public information we gather will always be free and accessible as the public records they are, so please donate or subscribe to help us become this central repository, help fund the requests and push through the wall that record law puts in front of us. Help us break down the barriers to an accountable law enforcement in Colorado.

Board of Directors

Andrew Fraieli

Founder & Executive Director

Andrew Fraieli is a perpetually disgruntled investigative journalist who has won awards for his reporting on homelessness and police misconduct in both Florida and Colorado. He's also reported on protests, book-bannings and other social issues. He founded Blue Surveillance in November 2025 out of spite due to being unable to afford the exorbitant cost of criminal justice records in Colorado. In his spare time, he's Editor-in-Chief of Florida's largest street newspaper — the Homeless Voice — and Creative Director of the Denver Voice. He is also a photographer and graphic designer who enjoys designing maps.

Linda Shapley

Director

Linda Carpio Shapley is Interim President/CEO of Rocky Mountain Student Media, which oversees independent, student-led organizations at Colorado State University in Fort Collins. Shapley has spent her career championing journalism through leadership roles at Colorado Community Media, a network of weekly and monthly publications in eight Front Range counties, at the political trade journal Colorado Politics, and at The Denver Post, where she left as managing editor. Shapley is also an adjunct journalism instructor at CSU and supports the Eyewitness Corps project with the League of Women Voters-Colorado. She also serves on the boards of the Colorado Press Association and the nonprofit street newspaper, The Denver Voice. A proud Chicana, she is especially passionate about serving diverse audiences and building sustainability for Local News so that every community has access to trusted information. She and her husband, Ed, live the empty-nest life in Thornton.

Dave Perry

Director

Dave Perry is Editor and Publisher of Sentinel Colorado. He has led the editorial mission of the print weekly and online daily for 32 years. Perry was key in evolving Sentinel Colorado in Aurora into a non-profit, community ownership model to ensure its sustainability. He received a bachelor’s of arts degree in journalism and also English literature from Metropolitan State University of Denver. He studied under storied Colorado journalists like Greg Pierson, Marge Beagle and Fred Gillies. Perry has written for the Associated Press, the Denver Post, Denver Westword and a host of local and regional magazines. His signed columns and house editorials have garnered more than 100 state and national honors since he began writing in 1988.