Searching Weld County Criminal Dockets
Begin online with the Colorado Judicial Branch Docket Search. It comes prefiltered to Weld County and displays real-time Weld calendar data. Pick District for a felony or County for a state misdemeanor. A date alone is not enough. Pair it with another filter such as court type, division, case-number pieces, party, or attorney. Weld case numbers beat broad name searches. A common name can flood the screen with hearing cards.
- Read the summons, charging paper, or newest notice to identify the filing court.
- Enter the four-digit year, criminal case class, and sequence when those parts are known.
- Compare the hearing date, appearance type, courtroom, and case number on each result.
- If no setting appears, broaden the date range and confirm that the matter is not municipal.
- Request the ROA and any named filing from the Weld Combined Courts clerk.
No internet? Call the Weld clerk, visit the Centennial Center counter, mail a request, or ask about inspecting records at a public terminal. Call ahead to confirm terminal access before you travel.
Weld County Criminal Docket Court Split
Weld County criminal dockets are not stored in one universal file. Felony prosecutions sit in the Nineteenth Judicial District Court. Weld County Court generally handles state misdemeanors and state traffic cases. Ordinance and municipal traffic tickets are a different story. Those issued inside their city limits stay with the Greeley, Windsor, Erie, Evans, and Firestone municipal clerks. Whatever court issued the paper controls where you search first.
| Filing level | Typical matter | Record keeper |
|---|---|---|
| District Court | Felony and district criminal | Weld Combined Courts clerk |
| County Court | Misdemeanor and state traffic | Weld Combined Courts clerk |
| Municipal Court | City ordinance and local traffic | Issuing city's court clerk |
The official historic courthouse page helps explain the local building split.
One practical point matters here. Routine Weld court business happens at Centennial Center, not at the historic building many local references still list.
Inside a Weld County Criminal Docket
The public hearing card is only one slice of a Weld County criminal docket. It lists the date, time, estimated duration, displayed name, case number, hearing type, Weld County location, appearance type, and courtroom. What it skips is just as important. The full charge block, every pleading, the financial ledger, and the complete disposition do not appear there. Those items may live elsewhere. They can require the ROA, the complaint or information, and the disposition or sentence order.
| Case Number | Year, case class, and sequence, such as 2026CR#### |
|---|---|
| Charge | An allegation in the complaint or ROA, not proof of conviction |
| Setting | Hearing type, date, appearance mode, and courtroom |
| Order | A judge's written ruling or direction, requested from the clerk |
| Disposition | How the charge or case ended, confirmed through the ROA or signed order |
When settings conflict, read the newest Weld event first. A continued or vacated setting can linger in the history even after a new date takes control.
Weld County Criminal Docket Records
The Clerk of Court for Weld County Combined Courts keeps the state case files. Do not confuse that office with the elected Weld County Clerk and Recorder, who handles land, election, and motor-vehicle work rather than judicial criminal files. For a criminal ROA or a filed order, use the Judicial Branch Record/Document Request Form, email 19JDRecords@judicial.state.co.us, call 970-475-2400, visit 915 10th Street in Greeley, or mail P.O. Box 2038, Greeley, CO 80632. The Centennial Center location page identifies the main operational court site and its details.
The Weld clerk window is open 7:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. on weekdays except holidays, with an 8:00 a.m. opening on each month's fourth Wednesday. Pleadings by email or fax are not accepted. Records questions can still go through the dedicated email. Confirm costs and payment before mailing anything, and ask the Weld clerk first if an older criminal file may be stored off site.
How a Criminal Case Moves
A Weld criminal matter can generate many entries before it ends. The typical path opens with a complaint or information, then an advisement or first appearance. Arraignment records the plea stage. Bond events, status conferences, pretrial settings, and motion hearings may follow before the case reaches a plea or trial, disposition, sentencing, post-sentence review, and an appeal. Not every matter uses every stage.
Weld criminal docket flow: Filing › Arraignment › Pretrial › Plea or Trial › Disposition › Sentencing.
A Weld hearing card labeled Sentencing Hearing confirms a scheduled event, not any terms imposed. Request the disposition or sentence order for the actual result. A setting may have been reset. In that case, compare the newest notice and the live calendar against the old entry. Calling the Weld court grants no continuance by itself. The proper motion and division process controls that.
Weld County Criminal Docket Outcomes
A common reading error is treating a filed charge as the outcome. The complaint states an allegation. The plea shows how the accused responded. The disposition records how the charge or case ended. The sentence order records terms imposed after a conviction or plea. Each marks a separate point in the Weld County criminal docket.
- Charge
- An alleged offense, which is not a conviction.
- Plea
- The response entered to a criminal allegation.
- Dismissed
- A charge or case ended without the requested criminal judgment, as the order defines.
- Acquitted
- A not-guilty result after the fact finder resolves the charge.
- Disposition
- The recorded result for a charge or case.
Colorado records may also show a deferred disposition where the law allows it. Do not import labels from another state. The controlling local terms come from the actual Weld ROA and signed orders.
Courts That Hold Criminal Dockets
One clerk runs the paperwork for both courts. But the split matters when you search a Weld County criminal docket. District Court charges usually carry a CR case number. County Court handles its own misdemeanor and traffic classes. City cases never migrate into the state system just because the buildings sit blocks apart. A Greeley ticket stays a Greeley matter. Before you dig deeper, read the court name printed on your citation or charging papers.
The state calendar works as a hearing view, not a name-indexed history of every filing. So a blank result is not the end of the road. Try widening the date range, confirm the court, and call the right clerk. Want the full event line? File the official record form and pull the Register of Action. The Weld County case lookup page walks through the state search fields in more detail.
For local matters, the municipal clerks are your fallback. Call Greeley at 970-350-9230, Windsor at 970-674-2421, Erie at 303-926-2851, and Evans at 970-475-1123. Firestone handles its business through its official court page and by mail.
Weld County Criminal Docket Warrants
The Weld Sheriff's warrant database can fill in current warrant context. It is not a criminal docket, though. The database itself warns that a no-hit result does not prove no warrant exists. Charges, settings, pleas, rulings, and disposition all live in the court file. A warrant search is not the case history.
Money questions go elsewhere. The official Combined Courts payment page lays out how Weld state-case payments and collections work.
That payment channel covers only eligible Weld state-court obligations. Paying there tells you nothing about the full path of a charge, and it is no substitute for the ROA. Weld warrant questions should go to the Combined Courts clerk at Centennial Center or to the main court phone, which the official warrant page lists.
Weld County Criminal Docket Treatment Courts
Weld Probation runs two treatment tracks. The Adult Treatment Court is known as Drug Court. A DUI Court serves eligible people who choose the program. A judge, probation officers, and treatment providers work as one team under enhanced supervision. Neither is a public name-search database. The original criminal case number still ties you to any public setting on the docket. The Weld probation page is the official source for both programs.
Treatment reports can be restricted even when the hearing itself sits on a public calendar, so expect gaps. Weld also operates mental-health probation supervision. The district does not, however, brand a separate Mental Health Court docket or a Veterans Treatment Court, so do not read those programs into a docket label. The Weld chief-judge orders publish the district's administrative framework.
The 2024 Drug Offender Treatment Board order adds local program context. The criminal docket itself stays in the original court file.
Sealed Dockets and Public Access
Colorado classifies indexes, calendars, dockets, ROAs, orders, and judgments as court records. The classification runs under its own access system. What you can see from home differs from what the counter will hand you. Each record carries a security level: public, protected, restricted, suppressed, or sealed. Those levels control both what shows up and who receives a document. Juvenile cases may demand identification and proof of entitlement. So may some probate and protected family material.
Key rules:
CJD 05-01 governs public access to Colorado court records, including dockets and ROAs.
C.R.S. sections 24-72-301 through 309 govern criminal justice records and custodian decisions.
Colorado's sealing overview explains why eligible sealed records leave public view.
A blank Weld County criminal docket result has many innocent explanations. The date could be off. The Weld court could be the wrong one. The spelling differs. Maybe there is simply no hearing set yet, or an access limit applies. None of this means no Weld case exists. Ask the clerk what can lawfully be confirmed. Request the specific ROA or order instead of guessing from an empty screen.