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.
El Paso County, Colorado, has about 753,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the El Paso County Sheriff's Office, seven city agencies and three campus, state or other 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 El Paso 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: El Paso County public records, Colorado arrest records, Colorado inmate search and Colorado criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in El Paso County
The El Paso County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for El Paso County. It reported 2,652 arrests for 2025.
Arrests inside seven of the county's cities are reported to the FBI by an agency of the city's own, listed here with the Census population and what each reported:
- Colorado Springs, 493,554 residents: 19,181 arrests reported for 2025.
- Fountain, 29,457 residents: 880 arrests reported for 2025.
- Monument, 13,408 residents: 289 arrests reported for 2023.
- Manitou Springs, 4,607 residents: 334 arrests reported for 2024.
- Palmer Lake, 2,575 residents: 26 arrests reported for 2025.
- Calhan, 730 residents: 12 arrests reported for 2025.
- Green Mountain Falls, 608 residents: 2 arrests reported for 2024.
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.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in El Paso County: Colorado Department of Revenue in Marijuana Enforcement Criminal Investigation, El Paso County (state agency); the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs and Pikes Peak Community College (campus police).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in El Paso 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.
- Colorado Springs: 19,181 for 2025, 17,382 for 2024, 16,329 for 2023, 14,995 for 2022, 10,894 for 2021 and 16,642 for 2020.
- El Paso County Sheriff's Office: 2,652 for 2025, 2,357 for 2024, 2,216 for 2023, 2,337 for 2022, 2,815 for 2021 and 2,778 for 2020.
- Fountain: 880 for 2025, 1,037 for 2024, 1,023 for 2023, 1,274 for 2022, 1,287 for 2021 and 1,039 for 2020.
- Palmer Lake: 26 for 2025 and 29 for 2024.
- Calhan: 12 for 2025, 15 for 2024, 18 for 2023, 21 for 2021 and 24 for 2020; 2022 is missing months.
- Manitou Springs: 334 for 2024, 397 for 2023, 422 for 2022, 406 for 2021, 206 for 2020 and 318 for 2019.
- Monument: 289 for 2023, 267 for 2022 and 176 for 2021.
- Green Mountain Falls: 2 for 2024, 0 for 2021, 2 for 2020 and 2 for 2019; 2022 and 2023 are missing months.
Together, the five agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 22,751 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 22,751 in 2025 against 20,820 in 2024, up 9.3 percent.
Through July 2026, the five agencies with every month so far on file reported 11,889 arrests, against 13,542 in the same months of 2025.
Manitou Springs and Green Mountain Falls reported only part of 2025 (9 months and 10 months) and are left out of the totals.
Booking: Where People Arrested in El Paso County Are Held
A person kept in custody after an arrest in El Paso 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 1,240 people, down from about 2,050 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2025 was 1,693 beds, and it ran at 73 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 El Paso County Sheriff's Office at epcsheriffsoffice.com/services/search-for-inmates (page title: Search for Inmates | El Paso County Sheriff's Office), phone 719-390-2151, 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 El Paso County
For El Paso County the place to look is the case index of the El Paso 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/el-paso-county, phone (719) 452-5490).
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 El Paso 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 El Paso County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 719-390-2151.
- An arrest in Colorado Springs, Fountain, Monument, Manitou Springs, Palmer Lake, Calhan or another of the cities listed above: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city; the city guides linked above name each city's records office.
- An arrest by Colorado Department of Revenue in Marijuana Enforcement Criminal Investigation, El Paso County, the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs or Pikes Peak Community College: the records office of the agency involved.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the El Paso County District Court, through the court records page at coloradojudicial.gov, phone (719) 452-5490.
- Your own statewide record: a name-based or fingerprint-based request to the Colorado Bureau of Investigation.
Cities in El Paso County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for seven of the eight cities in El Paso County: Colorado Springs, Fountain, Monument, Manitou Springs, Palmer Lake, Calhan and Green Mountain Falls. Ramah has 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 El Paso County District Court.
SearchSystems has a guide to the offices of these cities in El Paso County, with the 2024 Census Bureau population; a city with its own arrest records guide opens there:
- Colorado Springs (493,554)
- Fountain (29,457)
- Monument (13,408)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in El Paso County each year?
Colorado Springs reported 19,181 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the five agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 22,751 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in El Paso County?
Ask the El Paso County Sheriff's Office at 719-390-2151; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at epcsheriffsoffice.com.
Where are people arrested in El Paso County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the El Paso County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in El Paso 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 El Paso County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the El Paso 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 El Paso 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.