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.
Clear Creek County, Colorado, has about 9,100 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Clear Creek 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 Clear Creek 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: Clear Creek County public records, Colorado arrest records, Colorado inmate search and Colorado criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Clear Creek County
The Clear Creek County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Clear Creek County. It reported 212 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists two cities in Clear Creek County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Idaho Springs, 1,699 residents: 262 arrests reported for 2025.
- Empire, 324 residents: 11 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 Each Agency Reports in Clear Creek County
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.
- Idaho Springs: 262 for 2025, 190 for 2024, 186 for 2023, 146 for 2022, 234 for 2021 and 227 for 2020.
- Clear Creek County Sheriff's Office: 212 for 2025, 210 for 2024, 68 for 2023, 140 for 2022, 94 for 2021 and 61 for 2020.
- Empire: 11 for 2025, 8 for 2023, 13 for 2022, 11 for 2021 and 7 for 2020; 2024 is missing months.
Together, the three agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 485 arrests that year. The two of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 474 in 2025 against 400 in 2024, up 19 percent.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Clear Creek County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in Clear Creek 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 37 people, down from about 71 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2025 was 75 beds, and it ran at 49 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 Clear Creek County Sheriff's Office at co.clear-creek.co.us/782/Detentions (page title: Detentions | Clear Creek County, CO), phone (303) 980-7300, 405 Argentine Street P.O. Box 2000 Georgetown, CO 80444, Monday through Thursday 7:30am - 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 Clear Creek County
Whether someone was arrested in Clear Creek County, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Clear Creek 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/clear-creek-county, phone 970-328-7036); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at co.clear-creek.co.us/m/directory/department?did=18, phone (303) 217-5222).
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 Clear Creek 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 by the Clear Creek County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at (303) 980-7300.
- An arrest in Idaho Springs or Empire: 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) 217-5222, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Clear Creek County District Court, through the court records page at coloradojudicial.gov, phone 970-328-7036.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at clearcreekcounty.us (page title: Request Public Records | Clear Creek County, CO).
- Your own statewide record: a name-based or fingerprint-based request to the Colorado Bureau of Investigation.
Cities in Clear Creek County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for two of the four cities in Clear Creek County: Idaho Springs and Empire. Georgetown and Silver Plume 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 Clear Creek County District Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Clear Creek County each year?
Idaho Springs reported 262 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the three agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 485 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Clear Creek County?
Ask the Clear Creek County Sheriff's Office at (303) 980-7300; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at co.clear-creek.co.us/782/Detentions.
Where are people arrested in Clear Creek County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Clear Creek County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Clear Creek 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 Clear Creek County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Clear Creek 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 clearcreekcounty.us.
Is this the official Clear Creek 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.