Rep. Rochelle Galindo, D-Greeley, announced Sunday afternoon her immediate resignation in the wake of sexual assault allegations she said are false.

Greeley Police Sgt. Kyle Peltz confirmed late Sunday a police report has been filed against Galindo. The report is sealed, Peltz said, so he could not share any more information. Multiple outlets have reported the allegations are of sex assault.

“The allegations against me are false,” Galindo wrote in a news release. “That said, they will make my fight against the pending recall effort untenable. I will not put my constituents through what will surely be a recall campaign based on political smear tactics and false allegations.”

House Speaker KC Becker, D-Boulder, and House Majority Leader Alec Garnett, D-Denver, accepted Galindo’s resignation.

“We agree with Rep. Galindo’s decision to step down at this time and allow someone else to serve the people of House District 50,” they wrote in a statement.

Galindo was the target of recall efforts headed by two committees: the Committee to Recall Rochelle Galindo and Values First Colorado. In recent weeks, both committees to push for the recall and to fight it had money pouring in from outside the district.

Galindo was the first openly gay and person of color elected to statewide office in the district. She was elected November 2018 in a late landslide of votes, winning by a 1,468-vote margin against Republican Michael Thuener. Galindo was elected with the most votes ever cast in a House District 50 race.

“(I) hope HD 50 gets the representation they are entitled to,” Stacey Kjeldgaard, a former Weld County GOP chairwoman and head of the Committee to Recall Rochelle Galindo said Sunday.

A Weld Democrats vacancy committee will decide Galindo’s replacement. At this time, it is unknown who will serve on the committee.

– Tribune Content Manager Tyler Silvy contributed to this report.