Prowers County Booking Reports

Prowers County booking reports are kept by the sheriff's office in Lamar, which sits in the far southeast corner of Colorado near the Kansas border. If you need to look up who has been booked into the Prowers County jail, the sheriff's office is the place to start. This county does not have a public online inmate search tool, so most requests go through the office by phone or in person. Booking records here are public under Colorado law, and anyone can ask for them. The county is mostly rural, with wide open plains and a small but steady number of bookings each year.

Prowers County Sheriff Booking Data

The Prowers County Sheriff's Office handles all bookings in the county. The office is in Lamar, the county seat. When someone is arrested anywhere in Prowers County, they get brought to the county jail for processing. Staff take fingerprints, a booking photo, and log the charges. That booking report then becomes part of the public record.

You can reach the Prowers County Sheriff's Office at 719-336-8050. The office is at 1001 South Main Street, Lamar, CO 81052. There is no online portal to search inmates in Prowers County right now. To get booking information, call the office during business hours or send a written request. The staff can tell you if someone is in custody and what the charges are. For older booking records that are not from a current arrest, you may need to put in a formal records request under Colorado law.

Note: Prowers County is a small office, so response times can vary based on staff availability and workload.

Prowers County Records Online

Even though Prowers County does not run its own inmate search website, there are state tools you can use to find booking and arrest data for people in this area. The Colorado Bureau of Investigation runs a criminal history check tool that covers the whole state, including Prowers County.

The CBI Internet Criminal History Check costs $6.00 per search. You type in a name and date of birth. The system pulls up any Colorado arrest records tied to that person, which can include bookings from Prowers County. This is a good way to check if someone has a record in the state without having to call each county one by one. The CBI tool draws from a central database that all sheriff's offices report into.

You can also use the VINE notification system to track an inmate's status at the Prowers County jail. VINE is free. Sign up on the website and pick Colorado, then search by the inmate's name. If you register for alerts, the system will call, text, or email you when that person's custody status changes. The toll-free VINE phone line is 1-888-263-8463. It works around the clock.

The CBI records check site lets you search for arrest and booking data across all of Colorado, which is helpful for a small county like Prowers.

Both of these tools work well when you cannot reach the local sheriff's office or need results fast.

Request Prowers County Booking Reports

Colorado's Criminal Justice Records Act gives you the right to ask for booking reports from the Prowers County Sheriff's Office. Under C.R.S. § 24-72-301, records of official actions like arrests are open for public inspection. The agency has 3 working days to respond to your request. They can ask for up to 7 more days if the request is large or takes extra work to process.

Fees for records in Prowers County follow state rules. The first hour of research and retrieval is free. After that first hour, the office can charge up to $41.37 per hour for staff time. Copies cost $0.25 per page. You will need to sign a form stating you will not use the records for direct business solicitation for monetary gain. This is a state rule that applies to all counties, not just Prowers.

Under C.R.S. § 24-72-302, arrest records include the name of the person arrested, the arresting agency, the date and place of arrest, and the charges. Prowers County booking reports contain all of this information. If you are looking for something specific, it helps to give the office as much detail as you can so they can find the record faster.

Note: Most simple requests for a single booking report can be handled within the free first hour of research time.

Prowers County Booking Photo Rules

Booking photos are part of the public record in Colorado. But there are rules about what you can do with them. Under C.R.S. § 24-72-305.5, it is illegal to post a booking photo online and then charge the person a fee to have it taken down. Doing so is a misdemeanor. Fines can go up to $1,000. This law applies to Prowers County mugshots the same as it does everywhere else in the state.

If someone from Prowers County ends up in state prison after their case, their records move to the Colorado Department of Corrections. You can search the CDOC offender search tool to find people currently in state custody. This is a separate system from the county jail. The CDOC search is free and shows current location, sentence details, and parole eligibility for state inmates.

Sealed records will not show up in any search. Colorado lets people petition a court to seal certain arrest records. The CBI can also seal records on its own when no charges are filed within a set time. If a Prowers County booking record has been sealed by court order, it will not appear in the CBI check or in any response to a public records request.

Nearby Counties

These counties border Prowers County. If you are not sure which county handled a booking, check where the arrest took place. The county of arrest holds the booking report.