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 between September 23, 2026 and October 9, 2026.
Broomfield County, Colorado, has about 78,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by one city agency. 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 Broomfield 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: Broomfield County public records, Colorado arrest records, Colorado inmate search and Colorado criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Broomfield County
The FBI lists one city in Broomfield County with a reporting agency of its own:
- Broomfield, 78,323 residents: 2,511 arrests reported for 2025.
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 Broomfield 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.
- Broomfield: 2,511 for 2025, 2,744 for 2024, 2,935 for 2023, 2,490 for 2022, 1,645 for 2021 and 1,604 for 2020.
Broomfield's 2,511 arrests in 2025 were down 8.5 percent from 2,744 in 2024.
Through August 2026, Broomfield reported 1,782 arrests, against 1,665 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Broomfield County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Broomfield County is held at the county jail, whichever agency made the arrest, apart from the short stay some city departments' own holding cells allow; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked at all. The jail's record of each person held, with the charges, is a public record of the arrest, and the court file takes over from there.
On an average day in 2025 the jail held about 76 people, down from about 96 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2025 was 218 beds, and it ran at 35 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
A sentence of more than a year is served in state prison; the Colorado Department of Corrections lists its inmates at cdoc.colorado.gov.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Broomfield County
An arrest in Broomfield County can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: the case index of the Broomfield 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/broomfield-county, phone 303-464-5020); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at da17colorado.gov/About-Us, phone 303-659-7720).
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 Broomfield County
The report of an arrest is released by the agency that made it; the jail and the court hold their own records of the same event, but not the report. 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 in Broomfield: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, 303-659-7720, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Broomfield County District Court, through the court records page at coloradojudicial.gov, phone 303-464-5020.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at broomfield.org/2729/Public-Records-Request (page title: Public Records Request | City and County of Broomfield).
- Your own statewide record: a name-based or fingerprint-based request to the Colorado Bureau of Investigation.
The other Broomfield County guides go further: warrants, criminal records, court records, police reports, divorce records and property records.
Cities in Broomfield County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for Broomfield, the one city in Broomfield County.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Broomfield County District Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Broomfield County each year?
Broomfield reported 2,511 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
Where are people arrested in Broomfield County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Broomfield 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 Broomfield County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the sheriff's office or the city's police. 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 broomfield.org/2729/Public-Records-Request.
Is this the official Broomfield 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.