Dolores County · 22nd Judicial District · Rules v2026.2, current through July 1, 2026

Seal a record in Dolores County, Colorado

If your case was handled in Dolores County, the motion to seal goes back to the same court, under the same case number. That court sits in the 22nd Judicial District.

The law is the same in all 64 counties. What changes locally is where you file, and how a particular clerk's office wants the paperwork.

Where you file

Judicial district: 22nd Judicial District
Courthouse town: Dove Creek
Which court: Dolores County runs a combined court, so county court and district court share one courthouse. File in the division that handled your case.
Municipal cases: A city ticket handled in a municipal court is sealed in that municipal court, not here. The forms and the statute differ.

What it costs here

$224 filing fee for a petition to seal, paid to the Dolores County clerk of court, not to us. Often less or nothing when the motion is filed into your existing criminal case.
$6 for your own criminal history from the Colorado Bureau of Investigation. Get this first.
A fee waiver is available from the clerk if you cannot pay.
Nothing else is owed to any court in this process.

Whether you qualify yet

Eligibility is state law, not county practice. C.R.S. § 24-72-706 sets the waiting periods, the exclusions and the intervening-conviction rules, and they read the same in Dove Creek as in Denver.

The Check below reads that statute against your own dates and gives you a dated answer, free, without asking who you are.

Common questions

Do I have to go to the courthouse in Dove Creek?

Usually not in person. Colorado allows remote appearances for sealing matters, and many motions are granted with no hearing at all when the district attorney does not object.

I moved away from Dolores County. Where do I file?

Still in Dolores County. The motion goes to the court that entered the judgment, whatever state you live in now.

Unburdened is not a law firm. This is legal information, not legal advice.