Larimer County, Colorado
Seat: Fort Collins · Major metro
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.
Colorado
- Statewide court docket search covers all 23 judicial districts; Denver County Court (municipal) has its own separate portal at public.denvercountycourt.org
- No 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
- El Paso County recorder has no free online document search — subscription service required ($50 setup + annual renewal)
- Weld County jail uses a daily arrest/release report rather than a persistent searchable roster
- Denver is a combined City and County — Assessor is a division of the Department of Finance, not a standalone elected office
- CO assessors generally support owner name search — unlike CA, no statewide restriction on online name lookup
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.
Start with courts
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.
Check custody and registries
Use jail, corrections, and registry systems to catch records that do not show up in a normal court search.
Pull the paper trail
Recorder, assessor, prosecutor, records-request, and licensing sources help verify addresses, liens, ownership, agency records, and local context.
Run the federal backstop
Federal court and incarceration systems sit outside local portals. Run them before you decide the search is clean.