DENVER (CN) — A Denver judge on Wednesday granted a Colorado employment director’s requested injunction, blocking the governor’s order to disclose information to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

"Compliance with the subpoena would violate the statutory prohibition on providing personal identifying information for immigration enforcement,” wrote Second Judicial District Judge A. Bruce Jones in a six-page opinion.

On April 25, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security sent Colorado’s employment agency an immigration enforcement subpoena, prompting Democratic Governor Jared Polis to order the Department of Labor Standards and Statistics to comply. After internal objections failed, Moss sued Polis on June 4, arguing the subpoena response would violate state law. He was joined by the Colorado AFL-CIO and civil rights group Towards Justice.

Colorado laws SB21-131, the Protect Personal Identifying Information Kept by State Act, and SB25-276, the Protect Civil Rights Immigration Status Act, bar state agencies from sharing names, birthdates, family contacts and other personal data with ICE.

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