Colorado runs a unified statewide District/County court system administered by the Colorado Judicial Branch. All non-Denver felony, civil, family, probate, eviction (FED), and misdemeanor cases search at coloradojudicial.gov/dockets statewide. Each county is assigned to a numbered Judicial District; the DA office matches the JD number.
Court-clerk note Colorado
¶ 01Statewide court docket search covers all 23 judicial districts; Denver County Court (municipal) has its own separate portal at public.denvercountycourt.org
¶ 02No free public online voter name search — SOS tool is self-lookup only; bulk voter roll data requires formal paid purchase request to SOS Elections Division
¶ 03El Paso County recorder has no free online document search — subscription service required ($50 setup + annual renewal)
¶ 04Weld County jail uses a daily arrest/release report rather than a persistent searchable roster
¶ 05Denver is a combined City and County — Assessor is a division of the Department of Finance, not a standalone elected office
¶ 06CO assessors generally support owner name search — unlike CA, no statewide restriction on online name lookup
Guided record check
Run this in order.
Start with the systems most likely to change your read of a person. Then cross-check custody, registries, and paper-trail sources before you go wider.
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01 · The docket layer
Start with courts
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Run county and statewide court portals first. Civil, criminal, family, and lower-court systems are often separate, so this is where most missed records happen.
Adams County is the 17th Judicial District (Adams + Broomfield). Cases run on the unified Colorado Judicial Branch statewide docket search. Covers District Court (felony, family, civil, probate) and County Court (misdemeanors, traffic, evictions/FED, small claims).
Brighton-area criminal, civil, family, and eviction (FED) history all live on the statewide Colorado Judicial Branch search. Filter by Adams County or 17th JD to scope results. Domestic violence civil protection orders show here too.
Statewide party name search across all 23 Colorado judicial districts — district and county courts for criminal, civil, family law, domestic relations, probate, small claims, and traffic. Exception: Denver County Court (municipal) has a separate portal.
One of the strongest free state court search portals in the country. Search by name and get results from every Colorado courthouse at once — criminal filings, restraining orders, divorce cases, evictions, and civil judgments all in one place. No account needed.
02 · Current risk signals
Check custody and registries
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Use jail, corrections, and registry systems to catch records that do not show up in a normal court search.
Name and map-based search of registered sex offenders in Colorado. Maintained by the Colorado Bureau of Investigation. Misdemeanor-only convictions and juvenile adjudications are excluded from public display.
Search by name or browse by map. CBI maintains this registry and updates it regularly. One important gap: misdemeanor-only sex convictions and juvenile adjudications do not appear publicly — a clean result does not mean no offense history.
Searchable database of current Colorado state prison inmates. Search by last name, first name, gender, or DOCNO. Covers the current CDOC population only — not county jails, parolees no longer under supervision, or federal prisoners.
Use this to check whether someone is currently in a Colorado state prison. If you know someone was arrested but they do not appear here, they may be in a county jail — check the county sheriff roster instead.
03 · Context and corroboration
Pull the paper trail
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Recorder, assessor, prosecutor, records-request, and licensing sources help verify addresses, liens, ownership, agency records, and local context.
Single unified search across Colorado Division of Professions and Occupations. Covers healthcare (medical, dental, nursing, mental health, OT, counseling, pharmacy, vet, optometry, audiology, acupuncture, chiropractic), real estate, mortgage loan originators, plumbers, electricians, accountants, engineers, architects, and more. Results include disciplinary actions and public action documents. Single portal for nearly all state-licensed professions — no per-board hunt.
CO is one of the cleanest states for license verification because DORA runs a single statewide search across nearly every profession. Disciplinary actions surface here, which is the highest-signal piece — a license in good standing is reassuring; a suspension or restriction is loud. Use this whenever someone tells you what they do for work.
Adams County property records search via the county assessor portal. Supports parcel/account number, GIS QuickSearch, and assessor web search. Covers Westminster, Thornton, Brighton, and Commerce City.
Property research for Adams County — the northern Denver metro corridor including Thornton and Westminster. Search by address or parcel to confirm ownership.
Adams County recorded documents via LandmarkWeb (Catalis). Supports name, document type, book/page, reception number, legal description, and date searches. Document images available without login.
Recorded documents search for Adams County — deeds, liens, and legal instruments for the Thornton, Westminster, and Brighton corridors. Login no longer required for document copies.
Free search of all Colorado-registered business entities — LLCs, corporations, nonprofits, partnerships, trade names. Search by entity name, agent name, or entity number. Filed documents and certificates of good standing are free to download.
Look up any business registered in Colorado — who owns it, who the registered agent is, when it was formed, and whether it is in good standing. Useful for vetting someone who claims to own a business or checking professional background.
04 · Outside the county
Run the federal backstop
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Federal court and incarceration systems sit outside local portals. Run them before you decide the search is clean.
Federal District, Appeals, and Bankruptcy courts. Over 1 billion documents filed. $0.10/page (capped at $3.00/document); free if quarterly charges under $30. Account required for search. Confirmed live 2026-05-03.
PACER catches federal cases the state DOC and state courts will not. Account required, small per-search fees. Worth using for white-collar, federal drug, immigration, and bankruptcy.
All federal prison inmates, current and historical from 1982. Search by name (with race/sex/age filters) or inmate number. Note: search backend showed intermittent error during 2026-05-03 verification — likely temporary. If main tool is down, try https://www.bop.gov/mobile/find_inmate/byname.jsp as fallback.
All 50 states aggregated, plus DC, US territories, and tribal nations. Search by name or location. DOJ-operated. Named after Dru Sjodin. Also links to abuse reporting resources. Confirmed live 2026-05-03.