COLORADO BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
PUBLIC REQUEST FOR ARREST INFORMATION
NAME TO BE CHECKED (Please type or print clearly)
Last Name
First Name
Middle Name
Date of Birth
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/
Male
Female
(M M)
(D D)
(Y
Y
Y
Y)
Gender – Check One
Social Security Number
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Street Address (Mailing Address)
City
State
Zip Code
Association/Affiliation________________________ Phone Number (____)_____________
Address: ____________________________________________________________________
City_______________________________________ State______ Zip Code ____________
CBI ARREST FILE COMPILERS: Not all arrests are documented in CBI files. The CBI stores only records
of arrest which occurred in Colorado and for which readable fingerprints were taken and sent to the CBI. A
varying number of prints are returned to contributors due to poor quality that prevents a thorough search of the
file.
There is a normal delay of one or two weeks between the time of arrest and the time CBI receives the card
documenting the arrest. A person screened may have been arrested during the prior several days and the CBI
may have the card but has yet to add it to the file. In such cases, if the arrest card in process is the person’s
only known Colorado arrest, the reply would indicate “No record found.”
Sealing is permitted only when the arrestee has petitioned the court for sealing, and he/she has either been
acquitted of all charges relating to an arrest, or no charges were filed after the arrest, or all charges were
dismissed. Fewer than one percent of our records have been sealed by court order, and are unavailable.
RECORD RETENTION AND PURGE: A person’s record is purged when he/she reaches 80 years of ag