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. Every office link was opened and checked against the office's own site on September 23, 2026.
Dolores County, Colorado, has about 2,500 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Dolores County Sheriff's Office. 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 Dolores 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: Dolores County public records, Colorado arrest records, Colorado inmate search and Colorado criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Dolores County
The Dolores County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Dolores County. It reported 8 arrests for 2025.
How Many Arrests The Dolores County Sheriff's Office 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.
- Dolores County Sheriff's Office: 8 for 2025, 7 for 2024, 20 for 2023, 19 for 2022, 54 for 2021 and 39 for 2020.
Through August 2026, Dolores County Sheriff's Office reported 3 arrests, against 2 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Dolores County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Dolores 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.
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 Dolores County
For Dolores County the place to look is the case index of the Dolores 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/dolores-county, phone (970)565-1328).
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 Dolores 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 Dolores County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Dolores County District Court, through the court records page at coloradojudicial.gov, phone (970)565-1328.
- Your own statewide record: a name-based or fingerprint-based request to the Colorado Bureau of Investigation.
Cities in Dolores County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists no city in Dolores County with an arrest reporting agency of its own; the counts above are the county agencies'.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Dolores County District Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Dolores County each year?
The Dolores County Sheriff's Office reported 8 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
Where are people arrested in Dolores County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Dolores County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Dolores 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 Dolores County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Dolores 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.
Is this the official Dolores 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.