Search the Pueblo County Court Docket

How to Search the Pueblo County Court Docket

Start with the Colorado Judicial Branch Docket Search for any state-court hearing. Pick the 10th Judicial District or Pueblo County. When the form offers a courthouse choice, select Pueblo Combined Court. A date alone will not work. The form requires a date plus one more filter. Supply a case number, a party, a court type, a division, or an attorney. District Court and County Court share one building. Even so, they keep distinct case classes and calendars.

Know what a free result actually gives you. It is a hearing card, not the whole Pueblo County court docket history. The card lists the start time and expected duration. It can also show hearing type, appearance mode, courtroom, case number, and a party or case-style label. For older entries or the full chronology, turn to a Judicial Branch-approved vendor such as CoCourts. Need the complaint, an order, a judgment, or a certified copy? Those come from the Clerk of Court at Pueblo Combined Court.

1. Identify whether the matter is state, City of Pueblo, or federal.
2. Open the state docket form and choose Pueblo County or Judicial District 10.
3. Add a date and one more search filter, then narrow by court type when known.
4. Read the newest hearing card and check its appearance type and courtroom.
5. Use the ROA vendor or clerk request process when the hearing card is not enough.

Three Pueblo County Docket Layers

Think of Pueblo County court docket access in three layers. The state portal hands out free calendar data. An approved commercial provider sells a real-time Register of Action, or ROA, for many civil, water, small-claims, domestic, felony, misdemeanor, and traffic cases. The clerk holds the documents behind those entries. Colorado Courts E-Filing, also called ICCES, powers the court's electronic process. It is not a free public pleading viewer.

That split solves a common puzzle. One channel can show a hearing for free. Its earlier entries may cost money to view. The signed order may still take a clerk request.

Each channel answers a different question, so pick the one matching yours. The Pueblo County court landing page lays out the local docket route and the services the court offers.

When a saved docket link, a county filter, or a local service address stops working, the official landing page is the safe place to restart. It stays current even when old links go stale.

What a Court Docket Shows

A full Pueblo County ROA opens with a header. The header carries the case number, court, class, filing date, status, caption, parties, and counsel. Then come events in date order. Those events can include filings, minute orders, settings, rulings, a disposition, and financial activity. The free docket search shows a narrower calendar view. So do not mistake its fields for the complete file.

An entry points to what happened. It is not always the signed item itself. When exact terms matter, treat a judgment entry as your cue to request the signed judgment.

Pueblo County Docket Case Codes

Colorado case numbers can route a Pueblo County docket search before any name gets typed. The first four digits are the year. Letters mark the case class. The last digits give the sequence. CR generally marks District criminal; CV marks District civil; M marks County misdemeanor; T marks traffic; S marks small claims; JV marks juvenile; PR marks probate; DR marks domestic relations; and C is used for County civil. Reading the code tells you which court level you are in.

ROA

Register of Action, the dated case summary rather than the set of filed documents.

Setting

A scheduled event; it may be a conference, advisement, plea, trial, or review.

Minute order

A short court-entered record of a ruling or proceeding.

Continuance

A move to another date; the earlier historical entry may remain.

Certified copy

A clerk-authenticated copy used when ordinary printouts are not enough.

Split a number into year, class, and sequence when the state form gives separate boxes. Leave out spaces unless the form asks for them. A wrong class can pull up the wrong Pueblo County court docket. Note: Case codes help identify the court level. But a code alone does not reveal whether a record is public.

Which Courts Keep Dockets

Pueblo County is exactly the 10th Judicial District. District Court, County Court, and magistrate divisions all operate through Pueblo Combined Court. The City of Pueblo runs its own separate municipal docket. State cases from Boone, Rye, Pueblo West, Colorado City, and other county communities land at Pueblo Combined Court. That applies when they fall within state trial-court jurisdiction.

Appeals create a second case number. County Court and qualified municipal court-of-record appeals go to District Court, while District Court judgments generally move on to the Colorado Court of Appeals. If a matter moved, search both the original and the appeal dockets.

Avoid the Wrong Pueblo County Clerk

State trial-court case records live with the Clerk of Court at Pueblo Combined Court. The elected Pueblo County Clerk and Recorder does a different job. That office records deeds, plats, marriage licenses, election material, and Board records. It keeps them at the historical courthouse. Its online public records search covers recorded instruments. It does not cover criminal or civil court cases.

The County Clerk and Recorder page details those separate county functions.

Court docket business belongs at the Dennis Maes Pueblo Judicial Building. Land and other recorded county instruments belong at the historical courthouse.

Finding Court Dates and Settings

Start with the newest written notice or order you have. Then check it against the Pueblo County court calendar. The state portal lets you search by date, case number, or party name. An entry might read Setting, Plea Sentencing Hearing, Case Management Conference, Review With Appearance of Parties, or Court Trial. Read those labels carefully. Each one marks a scheduled event, not a result. A docket entry naming a hearing date tells you the case was set, nothing more.

Look at the appearance field next. If it says VIRTUAL, that tag covers just the one event it sits on. It does not turn every hearing in that division into a remote hearing. When the calendar and your written notice disagree, call Pueblo Combined Court at 719-404-8700. You can also use the division number in the official staff directory. Judges and divisions control continuances. A clerk records a new date. But a clerk will not grant a continuance just because you phoned in. For a deeper look at settings, resets, and missed dates, see the Pueblo County court calendar walkthrough.

For a live example, see the Pueblo-filtered docket results page. It displays each day's settings in its calendar-card format. Case numbers and hearing labels are grouped by division.

If the county filter drops Pueblo after you leave a results page, just go back to the main form and select Pueblo again.

Pueblo County Docket Calendar Quirks

One local habit worth knowing: the civil eviction calendar. Pueblo schedules forcible-entry-and-detainer matters on Mondays and Thursdays at 8:30 a.m. Treat that standing slot as a landmark, not a rule. The written summons or a case-specific order still controls, and holidays, closure notices, or a judge's direction can shift everything. Before any setting, check the live Pueblo County docket.

A continuance also deserves care. The live event changes; the old ROA entry stays where it was. Anyone who reads only the first date listed risks showing up for a setting that no longer exists, so work from the newest order and the current calendar card. A weather or holiday closure does not mean cancellation either. The hearing may simply be reset or moved to a virtual appearance.

Municipal cases add one more wrinkle. Pueblo Municipal Court runs a separate Today's Docket. It publishes its own continuance instructions. A statewide search filtered to Pueblo will not surface a City case, and a City continuance request will not move a state case.

Public Access to Dockets

Colorado treats its court records as presumptively open. Remote access is another matter. It runs narrower than what a visitor can see at the filing court itself. Chief Justice Directive 05-01 governs court-case records, along with exclusions, compiled data, and correction procedures. The Colorado Open Records Act covers many public records. Yet routine court-case requests go through the directive and the court clerk, not the county's land-record CORA form.

Some records never reach the public at all. Sealed, suppressed, and juvenile material may be missing. Adoption, protected family, and certain probate records can be restricted too. An authorized requester can be asked for identification and proof of entitlement. Remember that a no-result search never proves a case does not exist.

Restricted Pueblo County Docket Results

Restricted results are not always what they seem. Before assuming restriction, check the jurisdiction, spelling, case class, and date window. A municipal ticket may sit in the City system. An older file may be off-site. A hearing may fall outside the chosen dates. Narrow court or division filters can also hide an otherwise public Pueblo County docket event.

When a case truly is suppressed or sealed, ordinary public search may return nothing. Juvenile names and protected family information carry separate limits. An authorized requester may need to give the clerk a case number, type, year, location, date of birth, and government identification. The final access result turns on the record category, the governing directive or statute, and any court order.

Note: The vendor ROA carries an "as is" disclaimer. For a court-stamped record, go through the Pueblo clerk.

The Clerk and Docket Records

Clerk Leanna Salazar's office is the engine room for Pueblo County court records. It builds and maintains the Pueblo County Register of Action. The office also receives filings, enters court orders and settings, supplies copies, certifies documents, and transmits appeal records. The Records Department window is the in-person route for a public file. Use it for an older matter. It also works for anything that cannot be resolved online. One practical tip: call before traveling when a file is archived, restricted, or tied to a deadline.

Transcripts follow a different route, through 10CourtReporter@judicial.state.co.us. Include the case number, hearing date, judge or division, and the portion you need. Watch for one common mix-up. A $25 transcript of judgment is a clerk product tied to a civil judgment, not an audio or written hearing transcript.

Pueblo County Docket Copy Fees

The statewide Record/Document Request Form asks for a lot. It wants contact information and an address. It also wants the case number, the case category, the exact document, and whether certification is needed. The clerk normally responds within three business days absent extenuating circumstances. Treat that as a response expectation, not a promise. An archived file can still take longer than three days.

Save money by starting with the ROA. Pin down the exact document title and date first, and you may avoid paying to copy an entire Pueblo County court file. Parties and attorneys get a $15 maximum for ordinary copies in their own case. Nonparty copy totals are not capped by that provision.

Pueblo County Docket Filing Technology

The Dennis Maes Pueblo Judicial Building opened in August 2014, gathering the trial courts and probation under one roof. The technology remains split, though. Colorado keeps e-filing, public calendar access, ROA access, and document copies in separate lanes. ICCES is the e-filing system for submitting material. It does not turn filed pleadings into free public downloads.

The official Colorado docket search shows the filters the public can use for hearings.

Look at the fields on the portal and its purpose becomes clear. A date plus a case, party, court, division, or attorney filter goes in. Event cards come out, not document images.

Older material may sit off-site. The current request form allows actual retrieval costs. An online no-result should point you to the clerk rather than to a firm conclusion about the file.

Pueblo County Docket Caseload

The 10th Judicial District covers exactly one county. Its docket mix is anything but narrow. The March 2025 district summary reports 6,767 new District Court filings. It also lists 13,205 County Court filings for fiscal year 2024. County civil filings totaled 5,794, including 1,233 eviction matters. Another 402 were DUI or DWAI filings. Those numbers matter. They explain why court type, case class, and date filters are practical tools, not optional details in a Pueblo County docket search.

The reported bench held eight District judges, three County judges, and four magistrates. Many of them handle mixed dockets. A courtroom or division number therefore tells you more than any assumption that one wing of the building always handles one case type.

Court Dockets by City in Pueblo County

Pueblo County contains just three incorporated cities in the official 2020 population data. They are Pueblo, Boone, and Rye. Pueblo West and Colorado City are unincorporated census-designated places. Their state-law cases land in Pueblo County courts, not a city docket. Pueblo runs a full municipal court of its own. Boone and Rye post no online municipal docket. Check a local citation from either town for its named court and clerk.

Never treat the City of Pueblo's Today's Docket as a stand-in for Boone, Rye, or a Pueblo County state case. The issuing agency and case class decide the right docket.

Map and Directions to the Dennis Maes Pueblo Judicial Building

District Court and County Court files for Pueblo County are kept at the Dennis Maes Pueblo Judicial Building, 501 N. Elizabeth Street, which has housed Pueblo Combined Court and probation since it opened in August 2014. The Records Department window handles case files, copies, and certifications, and the building also contains a Self-Help Center. Do not confuse this address with the Pueblo County Historical Courthouse at 215 W. 10th Street, which handles recording and other county-clerk functions rather than court dockets.

Parking at the building is free but limited, especially on jury-trial days; if the main lot fills, the court points visitors to the 6th Street Mall lot rather than nearby business spaces. Expect courthouse security screening, and get judicial permission before recording anything inside.