Find Saguache County Booking Reports

Saguache County booking reports come from the sheriff's office in the town of Saguache, located in the remote San Luis Valley of south-central Colorado. This is one of the least populated counties in the state, and the jail here is small. All booking records are public under Colorado law. You will need to contact the sheriff directly since there is no online inmate search for this county. State-level tools from CBI and VINE can also pull up records connected to Saguache County arrests, and this page walks through each option.

Saguache County Sheriff Booking Records

The Saguache County Sheriff's Office handles all bookings in this county. The office sits at 515 4th Street, Saguache, CO 81149. The phone number is 719-655-2544. When someone gets arrested here, they are taken to the county jail for processing. Staff record fingerprints, take a booking photo, and log the charges into the system.

You can call the sheriff's office to ask about current inmates. They will tell you if someone is in custody and what the charges are. There is no online inmate search. For records from past bookings, you may need to put in a written request. The office is small, so be patient if you do not get through on the first call.

Note: Saguache County sometimes transfers inmates to other facilities due to its limited jail capacity. Ask the sheriff's office if you cannot find someone you expect to be held there.

Saguache County Records Online

State tools can help when the local office is hard to reach. The CBI criminal history check searches the entire state database for $6.00 per name. You enter the person's name and date of birth. Results include arrests reported by the Saguache County Sheriff's Office along with records from every other county in Colorado.

VINE is a free tool that tracks people currently held in county jails. Select Colorado, search by name, and the system shows their custody status. You can register for alerts by phone, text, or email. This works for inmates at the Saguache County jail and at most other Colorado detention facilities. The VINE phone line is 1-888-263-8463.

For anyone who ends up in state prison after a Saguache County arrest, the CDOC offender search covers those records. It is free and shows current location, sentence information, and parole dates for state inmates.

The CBI records check page is the broadest search tool available for Colorado arrest records.

These tools work around the clock, which matters for a rural county where the local office may not always be reachable.

Get Saguache County Booking Data

You have the right to see booking reports from Saguache County. The CCJRA at C.R.S. § 24-72-301 makes records of official actions open to the public. Arrests are official actions. The sheriff must respond to a records request within 3 working days, with a possible 7-day extension for complex requests.

Under C.R.S. § 24-72-302, an arrest record has the name of the person arrested, the arresting agency, the arrest date and location, and the charges. This is what you will get in a Saguache County booking report.

The fee structure is set by state law. The first hour of research time is free. After that, the county can charge $41.37 per hour. Pages cost $0.25 each. You sign a form that says you will not use the records for business solicitation. Call 719-655-2544 or write to the office at 515 4th Street, Saguache, CO 81149.

Note: For a single booking report, you should not have any charges since it usually takes less than an hour to pull one record.

Saguache County Mugshot Rules

Booking photos are public records in Colorado. You can get one from the Saguache County Sheriff's Office the same way you get any other booking record. But C.R.S. § 24-72-305.5 puts a limit on what can be done with them. Posting a mugshot online and charging money for removal is a misdemeanor with fines up to $1,000.

Colorado also allows sealing of certain arrest records. If a booking record in Saguache County has been sealed by court order, it will not turn up in any search. The CBI can seal records on its own when no charges are filed within the legal time frame. Sealed records are completely removed from public access. They still exist on file, but no public search will return them.

Nearby Counties

Saguache County is surrounded by several other counties in the San Luis Valley and mountain areas. The county where the arrest took place is the one that holds the booking report.