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.
Fremont County, Colorado, has about 50,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Fremont 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 Fremont 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: Fremont County public records, Colorado arrest records, Colorado inmate search and Colorado criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Fremont County
The Fremont County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Fremont County. It reported 279 arrests for 2025.
Arrests inside two 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:
- Cañon City, 17,193 residents: 888 arrests reported for 2025.
- Florence, 3,883 residents: 30 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 Fremont County
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.
- Cañon City: 888 for 2025, 659 for 2022, 776 for 2021, 812 for 2020 and 743 for 2019; 2023 and 2024 are missing months.
- Fremont County Sheriff's Office: 279 for 2025, 442 for 2023, 480 for 2022, 441 for 2021, 491 for 2020 and 566 for 2019; 2024 is missing months.
- Florence: 30 for 2025, 121 for 2024, 138 for 2023, 94 for 2022, 181 for 2021 and 178 for 2020.
Together, the three agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 1,197 arrests that year. The one of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 30 in 2025 against 121 in 2024, down 75 percent.
Through August 2026, the three agencies with every month so far on file reported 641 arrests, against 825 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Fremont County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Fremont 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 2025 the jail held about 1,380 people, up from about 140 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2025 was 200 beds, and it ran at 688 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
SearchSystems opened and checked the custody page of the Fremont County Sheriff's Office at crimewatch.net/us/co/fremont/sheriff/180579/content/inmate-locator (page title: Inmate locator | Fremont County Sheriff's Office), phone 719-276-5555, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on October 1, 2026.
That page is the place to look for someone who was booked recently; a person cited and released at the scene, or held only a few hours by a city department, will not be on it.
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 Fremont County
Whether someone was arrested in Fremont County, and what came of it, shows up in three places: the custody page of the Fremont County Sheriff's Office described above, for anyone booked into the county jail; the case index of the Fremont 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/fremont-county, phone 719-204-2275); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at coloradojudicial.gov/media/press-release/jeff-lindsey-sworn-acting-...).
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 Fremont 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 Fremont County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 719-276-5555.
- An arrest in Cañon City or Florence: 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 handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Fremont County District Court, through the court records page at coloradojudicial.gov, phone 719-204-2275.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at fremontcountyclerkco.gov/forms/cora (page title: Colorado Open Records Act (CORA) Request | Fremont County Clerk & Recorder).
- Your own statewide record: a name-based or fingerprint-based request to the Colorado Bureau of Investigation.
The other Fremont County guides go further: warrants, inmate search, criminal records, court records, police reports, traffic tickets, DUI, divorce records and property records.
Cities in Fremont County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for two of the six cities in Fremont County: Cañon City and Florence. Williamsburg, Rockvale, Coal Creek and Brookside 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 Fremont County District Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Fremont County each year?
Cañon City reported 888 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the three agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 1,197 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Fremont County?
Look on the custody page of the Fremont County Sheriff's Office at crimewatch.net, or call 719-276-5555. It covers people booked into the county jail.
Where are people arrested in Fremont County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Fremont County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Fremont 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 Fremont County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Fremont 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 fremontcountyclerkco.gov/forms/cora.
Is this the official Fremont 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.