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 2025. 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 25, 2026.
Steamboat Springs, Colorado, in Routt County, has about 14,000 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 Routt 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: Steamboat Springs public records, Routt County arrest records, Colorado arrest records and Colorado inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Steamboat Springs
The FBI lists Steamboat Springs with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Steamboat Springs Police Department. It reported 461 arrests for 2025. 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 Routt County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 202 arrests for 2025.
How Many Arrests Steamboat Springs Reports
Each agency reports its arrests to the FBI by month, and the FBI publishes them 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.
- Steamboat Springs: 461 for 2025, 527 for 2024, 486 for 2023, 453 for 2022, 454 for 2021 and 389 for 2020.
Steamboat Springs's 461 arrests in 2025 were down 13 percent from 527 in 2024.
Through August 2026, Steamboat Springs reported 300 arrests, against 287 in the same months of 2025.
Across Routt County, the three agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 714 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Steamboat Springs Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Steamboat Springs 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 29 people, up from about 19 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2025 was 56 beds, and it ran at 52 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 Routt County Sheriff's Office at co.routt.co.us/381/Detention-Center (page title: Detention Center | Routt County, CO), phone (970) 870-5509, 2025 Shield Drive Steamboat Springs, CO 80487, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 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 Steamboat Springs
Whether someone was arrested in Steamboat Springs, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Routt 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/routt-county, phone 970-879-5020); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at co.routt.co.us/m/directory/department?did=10, phone (970) 870-5200).
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 Steamboat Springs
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 Steamboat Springs police: the police records page SearchSystems verified at steamboatsprings.net/103/Records-Request-for-Information (page title: Records and Requests for Information | Steamboat Springs, CO), phone 970-879-4344, 2027 Shield Drive Steamboat Springs, CO 80487, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 25, 2026.
- An arrest by the Routt County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at (970) 870-5509.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, (970) 870-5200, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Routt County District Court, through the court records page at coloradojudicial.gov, phone 970-879-5020.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at co.routt.co.us/397/Request-for-Public-Records (page title: Request for Public Records | Routt County, CO).
- Your own statewide record: a name-based or fingerprint-based request to the Colorado Bureau of Investigation.
The Routt County guide covers every agency in the county: Routt County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Steamboat Springs each year?
Steamboat Springs reported 461 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Steamboat Springs?
Ask the Routt County Sheriff's Office at (970) 870-5509; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at co.routt.co.us/381/Detention-Center.
Where are people arrested in Steamboat Springs booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Routt County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Steamboat Springs?
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 Steamboat Springs?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Steamboat Springs police for its own arrests, the Routt 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 co.routt.co.us/397/Request-for-Public-Records.
Is this the official Steamboat Springs 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.