Searching Baca County Criminal Dockets
Start with the free Colorado Judicial Branch Docket Search. It reaches a public Baca County criminal setting. Pick the Fifteenth Judicial District or Baca County. Narrow things down from there by Court Type, Case Class, a party, an attorney, or a case number. One caution: the tool rejects a date-only query. So pair the date with another filter. What you get back is a schedule row, nothing more. It is not the full Baca County criminal Register of Action. It will not hand you the complaint or the sentence order.
Have the case number? Enter it in pieces. A number like 2026CR30001 goes into three fields, split by year, class, and sequence, never as one string. Without the number, search the person's first and last name. Then match the court and case number before trusting the row. Felonies and misdemeanors share this same statewide tool, since Baca County runs no separate local criminal portal.
- Open Docket Search and set the location to Baca County.
- Choose County Court for a misdemeanor or District Court for a felony when that level is known.
- Add the year, case class, and sequence, or use a name or attorney field.
- Read the newest hearing type, appearance type, courtroom, date, and time.
- Call the Clerk of Court at 719-361-7020 if attendance depends on the setting.
- Submit the official record form for an ROA, complaint, disposition, sentence order, or certified copy.
Baca Criminal Dockets Change Courts
Felony complaints sometimes start in Baca County Court. They may then move to Baca County District Court after the first stage. Misdemeanors normally stay put on the County Court side. The Clerk of Court at Baca County Combined Court serves both. Still, the court assignment and case class drive the search. Check only one court level. You can miss a public setting once the file changes level.
| Baca court | Criminal work | Useful search clue |
|---|---|---|
| County Court, Division A | Misdemeanors, traffic, and early felony complaints | County Court or the matching case class |
| District Court, Divisions D and J | Felonies and later felony proceedings | District Court plus year, class, and sequence |
You will find the Baca County Combined Court at 741 Main Street, Suite 5, in Springfield. That office is the court-record counter. Suite 3, in the same building, houses the elected County Clerk and Recorder. Land records, elections, and motor-vehicle work live there. Criminal case dockets do not.
Inside a Baca County Criminal Docket
A public Baca County criminal docket shows the next or past scheduled event in a case. Its verified fields cover date, time, duration, public party name, case number, hearing type, location, appearance type, and courtroom. The clerk's ROA runs broader. Think of it as a short chronological account. It may include charges, sentences, and minute orders. A filed complaint or a certified sentence order is a third product. You must request each one by name.
| Case number | Year, class letters, and sequence, such as 2026CR30001. |
|---|---|
| Hearing setting | Date, time, duration, hearing type, room, and court-approved appearance mode. |
| Charge | Found in the complaint or information and summarized in an ROA when public. |
| Plea and minute order | Procedural entries in the ROA; the free calendar may show only the hearing label. |
| Disposition and sentence | Case outcome in the ROA, with the filed sentence order available as a separate request. |
No stable public Baca County criminal ROA sample shows charge statutes, bond amounts, lawyers, costs, or document links. A blank calendar field never proves the fact is missing.
Baca Criminal Calendar Is Not History
A scheduled event tells you when and where. It cannot prove the final outcome, and that gap matters in a Baca County criminal docket. A charge is not a conviction. A dismissal does not establish factual innocence. An old setting says nothing about whether the court later reset it. For the true procedural result, rely on the latest ROA. Also rely on the filed disposition or sentence order.
- Docket
- The Judicial Branch's public list of scheduled case events.
- Register of Action
- The clerk-produced chronological case summary, often called an ROA.
- Minute order
- A brief entry that records what occurred or what the judge ordered.
- Disposition
- The result or status that concludes a charge or case.
When the schedule shows no charge block, file the Record/Document Request Form. Select Baca County, identify the case, and check Complaint/Information, Register of Action/ROA, or Disposition/Sentence Order. The local court answers Baca requests, usually within three business days unless retrieval, review, or redaction takes longer.
How a Criminal Case Moves
A Baca County criminal file grows as the court acts. The complaint or information starts the accusation. Advisement or arraignment takes up the charge, the rights, and the plea. Bond events handle release and appearance conditions. Motions, pretrial conferences, and continuances then fill the middle of the ROA, and a plea or trial moves the file toward disposition and sentencing. An appeal opens a separate appellate file.
Baca criminal docket flow: Complaint Filed › Advisement or Arraignment › Bond and Pretrial Settings › Motions › Plea or Trial › Disposition › Sentencing.
The Fifteenth Judicial District also posts a narrow regional bond calendar for Saturday at 4 p.m. That bond setting does not replace the ordinary weekday docket. Search the current Baca County criminal case, then confirm the correct appearance channel with the clerk.
Choose the Right Baca Criminal Record
Pick the record that fits the question. A register of actions gives a short timeline of the Baca County criminal docket. The complaint or information shows what charge was filed. The disposition or sentence order shows the court's formal result. A transcript is different: it is a verbatim record produced through the district's JDF 4 process, not a substitute for an ROA or an order.
Requesting is flexible. Use the online form, visit the counter in Suite 5, or mail the Baca County Combined Court. Phone works for questions about a current setting. For a transcript, contact the reporter or transcriber by mail, delivery, or email to faith.camp@judicial.state.co.us; work starts once a deposit is paid, and the finished transcript is released after final payment. Older files stored off site can add retrieval cost.
Before the assigned Baca County criminal docket image, the Colorado Revised Statutes title collection shows the official statutes behind sealing rules.
That state material is only background. The Baca clerk still decides each local case-record request and fills it.
Courts That Hold Criminal Dockets
Two courts share one combined clerk's office in Baca County. Their criminal dockets stay separate. District Court is the general-jurisdiction trial court for felonies. County Court takes misdemeanors. It can hold early felony events. A town may also run its own municipal court for ordinance violations. Those sit outside the state trial-court docket. Among Baca's larger towns, only Walsh posts a municipal court page.
Federal charges never land in a Baca County criminal court docket. The U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado files through CM/ECF. It opens federal docket access through PACER. The District of Colorado CM/ECF page is the official source for the assigned image that follows.
That federal system holds no Baca County Court or Colorado District Court cases. Check the caption and the issuing court before choosing a portal.
District Court criminal appeals generally move to the Colorado Court of Appeals. They get a separate appellate case. County Court appeals generally go up to District Court under the applicable rules.
Baca Criminal Docket Filing Context
Baca District Court logged 29 criminal filings in FY2024, against 34 terminations. Read those as workload totals. They are not a headcount, a conviction count, or a tally of open cases. Traffic matters in County Court sit outside these figures entirely. Still, the docket keeps moving. Advisements, bond events, motions, pleas, trials, and sentence settings all pass through a small rural bench each year.
Baca County's two district judges travel across the four-county Fifteenth Judicial District, and the county judge works part time. So the current event row on a docket, the courtroom assignment, and a direct word with the clerk tell you more than habits borrowed from a big urban court with fixed daily divisions.
Sealed Dockets and Public Access
Colorado criminal court records are presumed public, but the rule has limits. Chief Justice Directive 05-01 governs court case records. Criminal Procedure Rule 55.1 lets a person ask the court to restrict access. That rule requires a public ROA notation of the motion and written findings. Sealed records, juvenile matters, protected documents, and personal identifiers may stay off limits. Others require identification or a court order.
Key Baca criminal access rules:
Chief Justice Directive 05-01 controls public inspection, copying, exclusions, redaction, and cost recovery for Colorado court files.
Colorado Criminal Procedure Rule 55.1 governs motions to limit public access to criminal records.
Colorado's sealing process summary explains how eligible criminal-justice records can leave ordinary public access.
Two assigned Baca County criminal docket images come next, with state sealing resources for context. Start with the Judicial Branch Seal My Case route, the branch's own help page on the process.
That form route helps a person find the right filing path. Only the proper court can decide whether access gets sealed or limited.
The Legislative Council sealing overview gives a second official account of the state process.
An empty online result has other explanations. It may be the date window, a spelling slip, the case-number format, an older file, or a municipal case. Call Faith Camp's office before reading silence as proof that no Baca County criminal file exists.
Confirm a Baca Criminal Reset
A continuance moves an event; it does not dismiss the case. Search a wider date range. Match the case number. Then find the newest Baca County criminal docket row. If the new setting is unclear, request the ROA. A court order plus current clerk confirmation beats an old notice. It also beats a stale search result every time.
Attendance matters: Call the Baca County Combined Court at 719-361-7020 before a setting when the date, room, or appearance type conflicts.
Rooms A, D, and J are the published local court channels. A blank appearance-type field grants no remote access. Opening a public livestream does not count as appearing. Webex appearances need prior court approval. When a file is restricted, the clerk may ask for government-issued photo identification. Or the clerk may explain that access requires legal authority.