Sedgwick County Booking Report Lookup

Sedgwick County booking reports are on file at the sheriff's office in Julesburg, near the Nebraska border in the far northeast corner of Colorado. This is one of the smallest counties in the state by population. The jail is tiny, and bookings do not happen often. But when they do, the records are public. You can get them by calling the sheriff. There is no online inmate search. Statewide databases from CBI and VINE give you a second way to find booking information tied to this county.

Sedgwick County Sheriff Office

The Sedgwick County Sheriff's Office is the sole law enforcement agency for most of this county. It sits in Julesburg, the county seat. Call 970-474-3355 for booking information. Staff can check whether someone is in custody and share the basic booking details.

Sedgwick County is so small that the sheriff's office operates with a very limited staff. The jail has a tiny capacity. In some cases, inmates may be transferred to a nearby county for holding, such as Logan County in Sterling. If that happens, the booking report from the Sedgwick County arrest still stays with the Sedgwick County Sheriff's Office. You request it from them.

When someone is arrested in Sedgwick County, the standard booking process applies. Fingerprints, a photograph, and the arrest details all get recorded. That booking report becomes a public record right away. Anyone can ask for a copy. You do not need a reason to look at it.

Search Sedgwick County Records

For a county this remote, statewide tools are often the easiest path to booking data. The CBI Internet Criminal History Check covers all of Colorado for $6.00 per search. Type in a name and date of birth, and the system shows arrest records on file, including any reported by the Sedgwick County Sheriff.

You can search for current inmates using the free VINE system. Choose Colorado, then look up the person by name. VINE tracks custody status at jails across the state. If the person is in the Sedgwick County jail or has been transferred to another facility, VINE should have their status. Register for alerts to get notified when anything changes. Call 1-888-263-8463 to use VINE by phone.

The CBI records check pulls statewide arrest data, making it useful for small counties with no online tools of their own.

These state tools are available 24 hours a day, which helps when you cannot reach the sheriff's office.

Note: Very recent arrests may take a short time to appear in the CBI database after the local office reports them.

Sedgwick County Records Request

The Criminal Justice Records Act gives you the right to inspect booking reports from Sedgwick County. Under C.R.S. § 24-72-301, records of official actions must be open for public inspection. The office has 3 working days to respond to a request.

Colorado's fee rules are the same everywhere. The first hour of retrieval time costs nothing. Past that, Sedgwick County can charge up to $41.37 per hour. Copies run $0.25 per page. You sign a statement promising not to use the records for business solicitation. For a county with very few bookings, finding a specific record should not take long at all.

C.R.S. § 24-72-302 defines the contents of an arrest record: name, arresting agency, date and place of arrest, and charges. That is what a Sedgwick County booking report will include.

Booking Photos in Sedgwick County

Mugshots from Sedgwick County are public records under Colorado law. You can request them. C.R.S. § 24-72-305.5 makes it a crime to post a booking photo online and demand payment for its removal. Violators face fines up to $1,000.

The CDOC offender search covers state prison inmates. If someone arrested in Sedgwick County ends up in state prison, their records transfer to CDOC. The search tool is free and shows where the inmate is held, their sentence, and when they might be released.

Sealed arrest records are not available to the public. Colorado courts can seal records by petition, and the CBI seals some records automatically. If a Sedgwick County booking has been sealed, it is gone from every public database.

Sedgwick County is in the 13th Judicial District, which covers several counties on the eastern plains. Court cases from Sedgwick County bookings go through this district. The booking report stays with the sheriff's office, but court filings move to the district court system in the 13th Judicial District.

Note: Record sealing in Colorado does not destroy the record. It just removes it from public view and search results.

Nearby Counties

Sedgwick County borders only two other Colorado counties. It also touches Nebraska to the north. Booking reports are kept by the county where the arrest took place.