Colorado Gov. Jared Polis directed state employees to turn over information on sponsors of undocumented children to federal immigration authorities, despite protests that the order violated state laws limiting cooperation, according to a lawsuit filed by a senior official.

Scott Moss, a director within the state Department of Labor and Employment, alleged in the suit filed Wednesday evening that Polis personally decided to comply with an administrative subpoena from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE. The subpoena was part of “investigative activities to locate unaccompanied alien children” and to ensure they were being cared for, according to the lawsuit.

Moss is now asking a Denver District Court judge to immediately block Polis’ order to furnish the information, which Moss was directed to complete by the end of the day Friday.

The subpoena, issued by ICE to the state in April and not signed by a judge, requested employment and family records for the sponsors of undocumented children separated from their parents, according to the lawsuit. The information would include birth dates and addresses. Moss was involved in handling the request as director of the labor department’s Division of Labor Standards and Statistics.

The suit says Polis’ office had decided by early May not to comply with the subpoena because of state law prohibiting certain information sharing with federal authorities. But that stance shifted near the end of the month, the suit alleges,...

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