Search Rio Blanco County Booking Reports

Rio Blanco County booking reports are maintained by the sheriff's office in Meeker, a small town in northwest Colorado. The county covers a vast stretch of land with a very low population, so the jail processes a limited number of bookings each year. All booking records in Rio Blanco County are public under state law. There is no online inmate lookup for this county, but you can call the sheriff or use statewide search tools to find the information you need. This page covers every way to access booking data here.

Rio Blanco County Sheriff Office

The Rio Blanco County Sheriff's Office runs the county jail in Meeker. All arrests made in the county end up here for booking. Deputies take fingerprints, a photo, and record the charges. The booking report is then filed as a public record.

Call the sheriff's office at 970-878-9620 for booking information. The office address is 355 4th Street, Meeker, CO 81641. Staff can tell you whether someone is in custody and what they were booked for. Since there is no web portal for inmate searches in Rio Blanco County, the phone is the quickest way to get answers. You can also send a written request by mail if you prefer. For older records, a formal request under Colorado law may be needed.

Rio Blanco County is one of the least populated counties in the state. The jail is small. Bookings happen less often here than in metro areas, which means records staff may have more time to help with your request during normal hours.

Note: The sheriff's office may have limited hours for records requests, so call ahead to check.

Rio Blanco Booking Records Online

While Rio Blanco County does not offer its own online search, statewide databases can help. The CBI criminal history check pulls arrest data from every county in Colorado. It costs $6.00 per name search. You enter a name and date of birth, and the system returns any arrest records on file. This includes bookings that were reported to CBI by the Rio Blanco County Sheriff's Office.

The VINE system is another free tool. It tracks inmates in county jails across Colorado, including Rio Blanco. You can search for someone by name and sign up for alerts. When their custody status changes, VINE notifies you by phone, email, or text. The toll-free number is 1-888-263-8463.

The VINE system is useful for tracking someone currently held in the Rio Blanco County jail.

These state tools fill the gap for counties that do not have their own online search systems. They pull from the same data that local agencies report into the central state databases.

Request Rio Blanco County Records

You have a legal right to request booking reports from Rio Blanco County. The Criminal Justice Records Act, starting at C.R.S. § 24-72-301, says records of official actions are open to the public. Booking someone into jail is an official action. The sheriff's office must respond to your request within 3 working days.

Under C.R.S. § 24-72-302, an arrest record includes the person's name, the arresting agency, the date and place of arrest, and what they were charged with. This is exactly what a Rio Blanco County booking report contains. You can ask for this information by calling 970-878-9620 or sending a letter to the sheriff's office at the Meeker address.

The first hour of staff time to find and pull your records is free. After that, Rio Blanco County can charge up to $41.37 per hour. Paper copies are $0.25 per page. You will sign a statement saying the records will not be used for business solicitation for monetary gain. Most requests for a single booking report should fall well within the free hour.

Rio Blanco Booking Photo Law

Booking photos taken at the Rio Blanco County jail are public records. However, Colorado law puts limits on how they can be used. C.R.S. § 24-72-305.5 makes it a misdemeanor to publish a booking photo online and then demand payment to take it down. Fines reach $1,000.

If a person booked in Rio Blanco County later goes to state prison, their records shift to the Colorado Department of Corrections. The CDOC offender search tool is free and shows current state inmates, their location, sentence length, and parole dates. This is a separate database from the county jail system.

Note: Sealed records will not appear in any search tool or in response to a records request.

Colorado law allows certain arrest records to be sealed by court petition. The CBI also has authority to seal records automatically when charges are not filed within a certain time. If a Rio Blanco County booking record has been sealed, no public search will turn it up.

Nearby Counties

Rio Blanco County shares borders with several other western Colorado counties. If an arrest happened near a county line, the booking report will be with the county where the arrest took place.