Reviewed and updated October 9, 2026 by the SearchSystems.net editorial team. The arrest counts are the ones each agency reported to the FBI, as the FBI held them on October 8, 2026. 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 on September 23, 2026.
Baca County, Colorado, has about 3,400 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Baca County Sheriff's Office and two city agencies. An arrest 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 Baca County District Court. This guide says who keeps each one, what it costs and who may see it, with the arrest counts each agency reported.
This guide covers who makes arrests, how many arrests, booking and the jail, finding an arrest, copies, cities and common questions.
Related guides: Baca County public records, Colorado arrest records, Colorado inmate search and Colorado criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Baca County
The Baca County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Baca County. It reported 20 arrests for 2022, its latest complete year.
The FBI lists two cities in Baca County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Springfield, 1,298 residents: 37 arrests reported for 2025.
- Walsh, 516 residents: 0 arrests reported for 2023.
A city on that list is reported separately whether the officers are the city's own or the sheriff's under contract; the FBI's list does not say which.
How Many Arrests Springfield 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.
- Springfield: 37 for 2025, 46 for 2024, 80 for 2021, 58 for 2020 and 58 for 2019; 2022 and 2023 are missing months.
- Baca County Sheriff's Office: 20 for 2022, 60 for 2021 and 49 for 2019; 2020 is missing months.
- Walsh: 0 for 2023, 0 for 2022, 0 for 2021, 0 for 2020 and 1 for 2019.
Springfield's 37 arrests in 2025 were down 20 percent from 46 in 2024.
Through April 2026, Springfield reported 10 arrests, against 8 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Baca County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Baca County 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 2022 the jail held about 4 people, down from about 8 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2022 was 25 beds, and it ran at 18 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 Baca County Sheriff's Office at bacacountyco.gov/departments/sheriffs-office (page title: Sheriff’s Office | Baca County Colorado), phone 719-523-4511, 265 E. 2nd Ave Springfield, CO 81073, Monday - Thursday: 8am to 4pm, 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 Baca County
For Baca County the place to look is the case index of the Baca County District Court, kept by the clerk of the combined court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date.
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county, at coloradojudicial.gov/location/baca-county-court (page title: Baca County Court | Colorado Judicial Branch), phone 719-361-7020, belongs to a lower court, not to the Baca County District Court.
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 Baca County
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 Baca County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 719-523-4511.
- An arrest in Springfield or Walsh: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- The court file of a case that was filed: in the Baca County District Court it is kept by the clerk of the combined court. The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county, at coloradojudicial.gov, phone 719-361-7020, is a lower court's.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at bacacountyco.gov (page title: Open Records Request | Baca County Colorado).
- Your own statewide record: a name-based or fingerprint-based request to the Colorado Bureau of Investigation.
Cities in Baca County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for two of the six cities in Baca County: Springfield and Walsh. Pritchett, Vilas, Campo and Two Buttes have no separate reporting agency in the FBI's list.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Baca County District Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Baca County each year?
Springfield reported 37 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Baca County?
Ask the Baca County Sheriff's Office at 719-523-4511; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at bacacountyco.gov/departments/sheriffs-office.
Where are people arrested in Baca County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Baca County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Baca County?
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 Baca County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Baca County Sheriff's Office for its own arrests, or the agency that reports for the city where it happened. 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 bacacountyco.gov.
Is this the official Baca County website?
No. SearchSystems.net is an independent public records guide, online since 1997. It links to the official county, court and state offices described above and does not hold records, charge for them or take requests.