PUEBLO, Colo. (KOAA) — Tina Peters, the former Mesa County Clerk convicted in 2024 on charges related to election tampering, is no longer in prison.
- Watch News5's coverage of her release below:
According to an official statement from the Colorado Department of Corrections at the La Vista Correctional Facility, she has been processed for release as of Monday at 8:00 a.m. You can read that statement below:
The Colorado Department of Corrections (CDOC) can confirm that Tina Peters was processed for release from CDOC custody today, June 1, 2026.
The CDOC will not provide additional details regarding residential placement, reporting schedules, or travel logistics.
The CDOC does not coordinate media access or press conferences for individuals on parole; any requests for interviews or personal comments should be directed to Ms. Peters or her legal representatives.
Peters has been held since August 2024.
Peters was serving a nine-year sentence for trying to compromise the county’s voting equipment after she claimed there was fraud in the 2020 election and was running her own investigation.
- Watch News5's coverage of her sentencing below:
She was sentenced in 2024.
In May, Governor Jared Polis commuted her sentence, siding with an appeals court ruling.
In April of 2026, an appeals court found that a trial judge in her case considered Peters' protected free speech when initially sentencing her to nine years in prison, upholding her felony conviction but ordering a lower court to resentence her.
- Watch News5's coverage of the appeals court's findings below:
Governor Polis' decision made Peters eligible for parole.
“What happened, and I agree with the appeals court, which effectively said that because she has unpopular and, in my opinion, incorrect opinions, namely, she believes in election conspiracies, I don't know what else she believes, those should not be a factor in her sentencing. Her sentencing should be about the crime she committed,” said Governor Polis in his clemency letter.
Since his decision, Polis has been censured by the Colorado Democratic Party. President Trump has spoken out in the past in support of Tina Peters and her release.
In an interview with News5 Monday, Peters' attorney Peter Ticktin said Peters' release was a celebration. Ticktin had previously asked for a Pardon for Peters' from President Trump, but Peters was not convicted of federal charges, only state charges.
"This is a win," Ticktin said of Peters' release Monday morning, "I called for a pardon from the president, I knew I would never get a pardon from the Governor.”
Upon Peters' release Monday morning, she appeared on Steven Bannon's "War Room" and called her time in prison "retribution," she previously said after the governor's announcement that she "made mistakes" and "for those I am sorry."
Peters' attorney recently said in an interview with CNN that he did not believe Peters has contrition or remorse for what she did.
"It's impossible for somebody to feel contrition or remorse over something where they didn't really do anything wrong," Ticktin told News5, he argued Peters made a "harmless mistake" that was "weaponized against her."
"I think that she's sorry that she didn't do it in a different way," said Ticktin.
Governor Jared Polis cited Peters' taking responsibility in her application as part of the reason he decided to commute her sentence.
There are still unknowns over when and how Peters' was released Monday morning. News5 was outside La Vista Correctional Facility overnight, Ticktin said he did not believe Peters' was released out of the Pueblo prison Monday morning, she likely was transferred elsewhere.
The only other Department of Corrections facility for women in Colorado is the Denver Women's Correctional Facility.
The details of her parole conditions have not been released to News5 from the Department of Corrections, Ticktin said her parole conditions would likely not be anything out of the ordinary.
"They're the same as most people. It's not a situation where there were special circumstances, such as where somebody needs to stay away from somebody else or somebody has to make restitution," said Ticktin, he added that she will be able to travel. Ticktin also said he wants to take Peters' case up to the Colorado Supreme Court.
No media availability was made by the Colorado Department of Corrections. In a statement, Tina Peters' legal team also provided us with the following statement, which you can read below:
Tina wants everyone to know that it is easy to lose one’s freedom, but it is difficult to endure. She is grateful to all of her friends, reporters, attorneys, and loved ones for being so true through the period. Also, she is grateful to President Trump for never giving up on her, never quitting, and for fighting for her. Without his efforts, she would still be behind bars.
There is still a major concern for her safety, and she needs time to heal and get her health back.
The new warden made Tina’s release work like clockwork. He took no chances and had her moved before the press showed up. She would have let the press know, but couldn’t, and she is grateful to the warden.
Meanwhile, she will be making personal decisions as to many factors in the coming weeks.
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