Morgan County Booking Report Access

Morgan County booking reports are held at the sheriff's office in Fort Morgan, a plains community about 80 miles northeast of Denver. The county is home to roughly 29,000 people and is known as an agricultural area. Booking reports document each arrest that happens in the county, logging who was arrested, the charges, and when the booking took place. These records are public under Colorado law. You can access them by reaching out to the Morgan County Sheriff's Office by phone or by using statewide search tools that aggregate booking and arrest data from all 64 Colorado counties.

Morgan County Sheriff Booking Data

The Morgan County Sheriff's Office manages the county detention facility and all booking records. Their phone number is 970-867-2461. The office is in Fort Morgan. Every arrest in Morgan County results in a booking at the county jail, regardless of which agency made the arrest. Fort Morgan Police, Brush Police, and the sheriff's deputies all bring their arrests to the same facility. The booking report is created during intake and stays on file with the sheriff.

Morgan County does not have a web-based inmate search. To find out if someone is in custody or was recently booked, you need to call the jail. Give the person's full name and date of birth if you have it. Staff will check their system. For basic custody questions, they can often answer right away on the phone. If you need a written copy of a booking report, ask about their records request process when you call.

Fort Morgan is the largest town in the county. Most of the bookings at the Morgan County jail come from arrests in or near Fort Morgan. Brush is the second largest town, and their police also book through the county system.

Search Morgan County Records Online

You can search for arrest and booking data from Morgan County through statewide tools without calling the sheriff. The CBI criminal history check is a paid service at $6.85 per name search. It covers the entire state. Enter the person's name and date of birth and the system looks through records from all Colorado counties. If the person has a booking record in Morgan County, it should show up in the results along with any records from other counties.

The CBI records page below is where you start a criminal history check. It works for Morgan County and every other county in the state.

CBI results include arrest records, charges, and case outcomes when available.

VINE is free and shows current custody status. Select Colorado on the site and search by the inmate's name. If they are in the Morgan County jail, VINE will show that. You can register for alerts. VINE sends you a notification when the person gets released, transferred, or has any change in status. Call 1-888-263-8463 for VINE help by phone. VINE works for every county jail in Colorado.

Note: CBI results may include records from outside Morgan County if the person has been arrested in other parts of the state.

Records Laws and Fees

Colorado's CCJRA at C.R.S. § 24-72-301 makes booking reports public. The law treats them as records of official action that must be open for inspection. Under § 24-72-302, arrest records must contain the person's name, the charges, and the arresting agency. The Morgan County Sheriff has to follow these rules.

To get copies, submit a request to the sheriff's office. They have 3 business days to respond, with up to 7 more days available for extensions. Fees are standard across Colorado:

• First hour of staff research time is free
• After the first hour, up to $41.37 per hour
• Paper copies at $0.25 per page
• You must sign a no-solicitation statement

For a single booking report request, you are unlikely to hit the hourly fee since it takes very little time to pull one record. Call 970-867-2461 to ask the Morgan County Sheriff how they want you to submit the request. Some offices prefer written requests by mail or email. Others will take your request over the phone.

Mugshots and Sealed Records

Booking photos taken at the Morgan County jail are public. You can request them from the sheriff. But C.R.S. § 24-72-305.5 makes it illegal to post a mugshot on a website and charge money to remove it. This is a class 3 misdemeanor with fines up to $1,000. The law targets mugshot extortion sites. It does not stop the sheriff from releasing photos through the normal records process.

Some records get sealed. Colorado allows people to ask a court to seal arrest records, especially if charges were dropped or never filed. Once sealed, the record is gone from public view. It will not show up in a CBI check, on VINE, or through a direct request to the Morgan County Sheriff. Sealed records in Morgan County are treated as if they do not exist for purposes of public access.

The CDOC offender search can help you track someone who went to state prison after being booked in Morgan County. It is free and shows the inmate's current facility and sentence information.

Nearby Counties

Morgan County is in northeastern Colorado. The counties around it each keep their own booking records at their sheriff's offices.