Reviewed and updated October 9, 2026 by the SearchSystems.net editorial team. The arrest counts are the ones the agency reported to the FBI, through 2020. The jail figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data. Every office link was opened and checked against the office's own site between September 23, 2026 and September 30, 2026.
Brush, Colorado, in Morgan County, has about 5,400 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and its arrests are reported to the FBI by an agency of its own. An arrest in the city leaves the same records whoever makes it: the arresting agency's report, the record of anyone held at the county jail, and, if the District Attorney files charges, a case in the Morgan County District Court. This guide says who keeps each one, what it costs and who may see it, with the arrest counts the agency reported.
This guide covers who makes arrests, how many arrests, booking and the jail, finding an arrest, copies and common questions.
Related guides: Brush public records, Morgan County arrest records, Colorado arrest records and Colorado inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Brush
The FBI lists Brush with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Brush Police Department. It reported 11 arrests for 2020, its latest complete year. A city is listed separately whether the officers are the city's own or the sheriff's under contract; the FBI's list does not say which.
Outside the city, the Morgan County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 265 arrests for 2025.
How Many Arrests Brush Reports
The FBI publishes every agency's monthly arrest counts on the Crime Data Explorer. These are the full-year totals, all offenses, as the FBI held them on October 8, 2026; a year with months missing or not reported is left out.
- Brush: 11 for 2020 and 48 for 2019.
Brush's 11 arrests in 2020 were down 77 percent from 48 in 2019.
Across Morgan County, the four agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 1,246 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Brush Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Brush and kept in custody ends up, whichever agency made the arrest, though a city department may hold someone in its own cells first and a person cited and released at the scene is never booked. The jail's record of each person held, with the charges, is a public record of the arrest, and once the person is released or sentenced the record continues in the court file.
On an average day in 2025 the jail held about 51 people, down from about 87 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2025 was 124 beds, and it ran at 41 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
SearchSystems opened and checked the jail page of the Morgan County Sheriff's Office at morgancounty.colorado.gov/sheriffs-office (page title: Sheriff's Office | Morgan County Where Prairie Meets the Sky), phone 970-542-3445, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 30, 2026.
A person sentenced to prison serves the sentence in a facility of the Colorado Department of Corrections, whose inmate locator is at cdoc.colorado.gov.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Brush
For Brush the place to look is the case index of the Morgan County District Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at coloradojudicial.gov/courts/trial-courts/morgan-county).
Colorado is one of the states that lets anyone look up another person's statewide criminal history: the state runs an online name-based criminal history check open to the public, through the Colorado Bureau of Investigation. That record shows what agencies reported to the state, which is wider than one county's court index but can lag it.
Getting a Copy of an Arrest Record in Brush
An arrest report belongs to the agency whose officer wrote it, and that agency releases it, not the court or the jail. Under the Colorado Open Records Act the agency must answer within 3 working days, extendable to 7 when there are extenuating circumstances, and it may charge research and retrieval time after the first hour, plus copying.
- An arrest by the Brush police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at brushcolo.com/your_city/departments/city_clerk/open_records_request... (page title: Brush, CO), phone 970.842.5074, Monday to Friday 8 am to 5 pm, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 26, 2026.
- An arrest by the Morgan County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 970-542-3445.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Morgan County District Court, through the court records page at coloradojudicial.gov.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at morgancounty.colorado.gov (page title: Colorado Open Records Act (CORA) Requests | Morgan County Where Prairie Meets the Sky).
- Your own statewide record: a name-based or fingerprint-based request to the Colorado Bureau of Investigation.
The Morgan County guide covers every agency in the county: Morgan County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Brush each year?
Brush reported 11 arrests to the FBI for 2020, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Brush?
Ask the Morgan County Sheriff's Office at 970-542-3445; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at morgancounty.colorado.gov/sheriffs-office.
Where are people arrested in Brush booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Morgan County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Brush?
The court files of criminal cases are public, and so is the statewide criminal history kept by the Colorado Bureau of Investigation: the state runs an online name-based criminal history check open to the public. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Colorado Open Records Act.
How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Brush?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Brush police for its own arrests, the Morgan County Sheriff's Office for the sheriff's. Under the Colorado Open Records Act the answer is due within 3 working days, extendable to 7 when there are extenuating circumstances; the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at morgancounty.colorado.gov.
Is this the official Brush website?
No. SearchSystems.net is an independent public records guide, online since 1997. It links to the official city, county, court and state offices described above and does not hold records, charge for them or take requests.