Summit County Booking Reports Search

Summit County booking reports are managed by the sheriff's office in Breckenridge, one of Colorado's busiest mountain resort areas. The county sees a large influx of visitors during ski season, which drives up the number of arrests and bookings compared to other rural counties. All booking records from the Summit County jail are public. You can contact the sheriff's office for current and past booking data. This page covers how to search for records locally and through Colorado's statewide databases.

Summit County Sheriff Booking Data

The Summit County Sheriff's Office is at 501 N. Park Avenue in Breckenridge. Call 970-453-2232. The office runs the Summit County Detention Facility where all local bookings happen. Whether someone is arrested by sheriff's deputies, Breckenridge police, Frisco police, or Silverthorne police, the booking goes through this facility.

During the booking process, staff collect fingerprints, take a photo, and record all the arrest details. The booking report becomes a public record at that point. You can call the sheriff's office to check on someone currently in custody. Staff will tell you if the person is being held and what the charges are.

Summit County has a higher arrest volume than most rural counties because of the resort towns within its borders. Ski season brings hundreds of thousands of visitors, and with them come DUI arrests, disorderly conduct, and other charges that are common in resort areas. The jail capacity is modest but adequate for the county's needs.

Note: Multiple police departments in Summit County make arrests, but all bookings go to the same county facility in Breckenridge.

Search Summit County Booking Records

Colorado's statewide tools give you another way to find Summit County booking data. The CBI Internet Criminal History Check costs $6.00 per name. Enter a name and date of birth, and the system pulls up arrest records from across the state. Any bookings that the Summit County Sheriff's Office reported to CBI will be in the results.

For tracking someone in real time, use the VINE system. It is free. Select Colorado and search by the inmate's name. VINE shows the person's custody status at the Summit County jail and lets you sign up for alerts. If the person gets released or transferred, you get a call, text, or email. The VINE phone line is 1-888-263-8463.

You can look up Colorado state prison inmates through the free CDOC offender search tool, which shows where inmates are held, their sentences, and projected release dates.

The CDOC search is separate from the county jail system and only covers people sentenced to state prison.

Summit County Records Request Process

Colorado's CCJRA gives you the right to inspect and copy booking reports. Under C.R.S. § 24-72-301, records of official actions are open to the public. Arrests and bookings are official actions. The Summit County Sheriff's Office has 3 working days to respond to your request.

The fee structure is set statewide. The first hour of research and retrieval time costs nothing. After the first hour, the charge is up to $41.37 per hour. Paper copies are $0.25 per page. Before getting your records, you will sign a statement saying you will not use them for business solicitation for monetary gain. This is required by Colorado law.

Under C.R.S. § 24-72-302, arrest records must include the person's name, the arresting agency, the date and place of arrest, and the charges filed. Summit County booking reports include all of this plus the booking photo. Call 970-453-2232 or mail your request to 501 N. Park Avenue, Breckenridge, CO 80424.

Note: During peak ski season, the office may receive more requests than usual, which could slow response times slightly.

Booking Report Laws in Summit County

Booking photos are public in Colorado. You can request one from Summit County. But C.R.S. § 24-72-305.5 says it is a misdemeanor to post a mugshot online and charge the person to remove it. Fines go up to $1,000. This applies to all booking photos in the state.

Sealed records are not accessible. Colorado allows people to petition for record sealing, and the CBI can seal some records on its own when no charges are filed within the required time. A sealed Summit County booking record will not appear in any search, whether CBI, VINE, or a direct request to the sheriff's office. The record still exists, but it is blocked from public view.

The Colorado Open Records Act works alongside the CCJRA. If you need documents that are not strictly criminal justice records, CORA covers those requests. Both laws give the public strong access rights to government records in Summit County and throughout the state.

Nearby Counties

Summit County is surrounded by other mountain counties along the I-70 corridor and beyond. The booking report stays with the county where the arrest happened.