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What Is a Denver County Court Docket

A docket is a court calendar. It lists hearings, the case attached to each slot, the courtroom, the judge or magistrate, and the time the matter is set to be heard. A Denver County court docket is not the full case file. It is the schedule. The full file holds motions, orders, exhibits, and signed judgments. Those sit with the clerk and often require a request form or a counter visit to pull. A docket entry, by contrast, can be read from a phone in under a minute.

Denver dockets show several hearing types. The Colorado Judicial Branch docket search returns Arraignment, Status Conference, PreTrial Conference, Sentencing Hearing, Appearance on Arrest Warrant, and Return on Summons for Revocation of Probation. Denver County Court dockets add municipal arraignments, traffic settings, bond hearings, and protection order reviews. A status entry can mark a case as set, vacated, or continued. The same docket may list 30 or 40 names under a single courtroom on a single day.

Dockets matter for lots of reasons. Attorneys check them before walking into court. Family members track a defendant's next appearance. Victims confirm a sentencing date. Reporters scan the morning's set. Pro se litigants confirm their own hearing time. The docket is the public-facing piece of the case that moves the fastest, and Denver publishes it for free.

How to Find Denver County Court Dockets

Denver splits its court dockets across two official portals. Pick the right one based on case type. County Court matters, municipal cases, state misdemeanors at the county level, county civil matters under $25,000, small claims, traffic, and protection orders all live on the Denver County Court site. District Court felonies, civil cases over $25,000, domestic relations cases, Probate Court hearings, and Juvenile Court matters all sit on the statewide Colorado Judicial Branch docket search.

For Denver County Court, use the Denver County Court docket search. It asks for a courtroom and a date and returns the schedule for that room on that day. For state-court matters, use the Colorado Judicial Branch docket search, prefiltered to Denver County. There you can pick Denver - District, Denver - Juvenile, or Denver - Probate as the location, then narrow by date range, case class, or party name. Denver is one of the only Colorado counties where you must use both systems to get a full picture, because Denver County Court is separately administered from the rest of the state court system.

Note: Denver County Court dockets and Colorado Judicial dockets do not share a back end, so a single name search will not return both systems at once.

Denver County Court Docket Search Fields

The Denver County Court docket search is short and direct. It does not let you search by name. It builds the day's list around a courtroom and a date. Each courtroom code maps to a real room inside the Lindsey-Flanigan Courthouse at 520 W. Colfax Ave. or the City and County Building at 1437 Bannock St. Some codes are letter-and-number hybrids that map to specialty dockets, such as DMHC for mental health and ESCUR for escrow or surcharge calendars.

The result grid lists each case as a row. Visible columns are Case No, AB/TK, Defendant, Status, Language, Case Type, Scheduled Hearing Time, Disposition, DV, Counsel, DOB, Charge, and Charge. The duplicate Charge column reflects the portal's habit of showing the lead charge twice when more than one count is on file. Language shows whether the case has a court-arranged interpreter. DV flags domestic violence designation.

Colorado Judicial Branch Docket Search Fields

The Colorado Judicial Branch docket search is broader. It covers every state court in Colorado, with Denver carved into three location codes. The state portal lets you search by party name, attorney name, attorney bar number, case class, or case sequence. Date range is the only piece that always must be picked. Any other filter narrows the result set further. The portal returns paginated results and offers Export and Printable Version controls.

Denver's Four-Court Docket Split

Denver is the only Colorado judicial district that runs four separate trial courts. The Second Judicial District is not a combined court. That fact shapes every docket search. Denver County Court handles municipal criminal, state misdemeanors, traffic, civil up to $25,000, small claims, protection orders, felony advisements, bond settings, and preliminary hearings. Denver District Court handles felony criminal cases at Lindsey-Flanigan plus civil and domestic relations cases at the City and County Building. Denver Probate Court is its own constitutional court, often called the 24th Judicial District. Denver Juvenile Court is a separate trial court for juvenile matters.

Because of this split, the same family can have a docket entry in three different systems on the same day. A felony at District, a probate matter at Probate, and a juvenile case at Juvenile each show up on a different list. The Colorado Judicial portal lets you stitch the last three together. Denver County Court stays on its own track.

Sample Denver Docket Result Fields

A Colorado Judicial docket result for a Denver case shows the same set of fields on every line. The display is plain. Names are public. Dates of birth and home addresses are not shown in the public docket result, even when the case file itself contains them. Documents are not downloadable from a docket entry. Financial details, such as bond or fee balances, are not part of the docket row. To pull a copy of a filing, the request goes through the clerk.

Difference Between a Denver Docket and a Full Case Record

A docket is a schedule. A full record is the file. The docket says when a hearing is set, in what room, with what hearing type. The full case record holds the complaint, the motions, the orders, the disposition, and signed judgments. The two sit side by side, but the docket is what updates in near real time, while the file is what the clerk pulls when a copy is asked for.

For Denver District Court civil and domestic records, copy requests go to Room 256 at 1437 Bannock St., or by mail to the same address. For Denver District Court criminal, requests go to 520 W. Colfax Ave. For Denver County Court criminal and municipal matters, the clerk sits in Room 160 at 520 W. Colfax. For County Court traffic and civil, the clerk is in Room 135 at 1437 Bannock. For Probate, requests go to Room 230 at 1437 Bannock. For Juvenile, requests go to Room 125 at 520 W. Colfax. Each counter handles its own slice. None of them pulls files outside that slice.

State-court document copies can also be requested through the Colorado Judicial record request form. Denver County Court applies its own data request route at coradatarequests@denvercountycourt.org for County Court matters that are not in the public portal.

How to Read a Denver Docket Entry

Each docket entry packs a lot into one line. The case class code says what kind of case it is. CR is a felony or county criminal case. CV is civil. DR is domestic relations. JD is juvenile delinquency. JV is dependency and neglect or other juvenile matters. PR is probate. T is traffic. M is a misdemeanor in county-court terminology. C, CW, R, and S cover smaller civil, water, and small-claims style filings in the state class list. Denver County Court also references GS, GV, and D patterns on its own forms.

Courtroom codes carry meaning too. On the Denver County Court portal, DMHC indicates a mental health docket and ESCUR points to an escrow or surcharge calendar. Letter-and-number codes like 100KT and 175T often mark traffic dockets tied to a specific courtroom. On the state docket, divisions like 4G, 5A, 5F, 5G, and 5H are District Court rooms. Each room is tied to a single judge or magistrate. Knowing the room means knowing who will hear the matter.

Hearing types vary by case stage. An arraignment is a first formal appearance where charges are read. A status conference is a short check-in on case progress. A pretrial conference deals with motions, deadlines, and plea posture before trial. Sentencing is exactly what it sounds like. An Appearance on Arrest Warrant means the person was picked up on a warrant and the court is setting bond or next steps. A Return on Summons for Revocation of Probation is a probation violation hearing.

How to Search a Denver Court Docket Step by Step

The search runs in a few minutes if the case type is clear. The hardest step is picking the right portal up front. Once that is done, the rest is filling in a date, a code, or a name. Both portals are free. Neither needs a login for a basic search.

1. Confirm the case type. Municipal, traffic, small claims, county misdemeanor, protection order, or county civil go to Denver County Court. Felony, district civil, domestic relations, probate, and juvenile go to Colorado Judicial.
2. For Denver County Court, open public.denvercountycourt.org/Docket/Docket. Pick a courtroom from the dropdown. Enter the date. Hit Search.
3. For state matters, open coloradojudicial.gov/dockets. Set County to Denver - District, Denver - Juvenile, or Denver - Probate. Add a date range.
4. Narrow with a second filter. Case class, party name, attorney bar number, or division all work.
5. Read the result grid. Note the case number, room, time, and hearing type.
6. For documents, do not click the row. Go to the matching clerk counter, mail a request, or use the state record request form.
7. Save or export the result if needed. The state portal offers Export Results and Printable Version controls.

Denver Docket Access and Privacy

Public dockets in Denver are open under Chief Justice Directive 05-01. CJD 05-01 sets the Judicial Branch policy for public access to court records and was amended in 2024 and 2025. The current directive balances open access with privacy interests and creates a Public Access Committee that reviews policy. Most adult criminal, civil, and domestic relations dockets are public. Most probate and juvenile dockets carry restrictions.

Juvenile case dockets are governed primarily by C.R.S. § 19-1-301 et seq. and CJD 05-01. Access can be limited to parties, attorneys, agencies, and persons authorized by statute or court order. Sealed cases generally do not appear in public docket results. Suppressed cases, mental-health matters, adoption files, and dependency and neglect cases also have restrictions. Some Probate matters tied to mental illness adjudication may be restricted as well.

Personal identifiers like Social Security numbers, dates of birth in some contexts, financial account numbers, protected addresses, and minor names are redacted from public docket views even when the underlying case file contains them. The Colorado Bureau of Investigation public criminal history does not include warrant information, sealed records, or juvenile records, and the docket portals follow the same general rules.

Note: Sealed and expunged cases do not show up in public docket results, even when the case was active and public before the order issued.

Connecting Denver Dockets to Other Records

A docket entry is often the first signal that a Denver case exists. The next step is the full record. For complete case files, motions, orders, and dispositions, see Denver County court records. For arrest records, mugshots, and the County Jail booking list, see criminal records. Traffic citation searches use a different lookup, covered in traffic court records. To find out if someone on a docket is currently in custody, use the inmate records page. For active warrants or appearance-on-arrest-warrant entries, check warrant records.

Together, the docket and these other record types build a full picture of a case. The docket says what is happening next. The court record says what has already happened. The inmate and warrant pages say where the person is right now. Each layer answers a different question.