Larimer County · 8th Judicial District · Rules v2026.3, current through July 1, 2026
Seal a record in Larimer County, Colorado
If your case was handled in Larimer County, the motion to seal goes back to the same court, under the same case number — the Larimer County Justice Center, at 201 LaPorte Ave., Suite 100, Fort Collins, CO 80521, in the 8th 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.
The courthouse
- Where to file
- Larimer County Justice Center
- Address
- 201 LaPorte Ave., Suite 100, Fort Collins, CO 80521
- Clerk of court
- The state's page for this courthouse does not publish one, so we print none rather than guess. That page is linked below.
- Self-help desk
- The 8th Judicial District Court Resource Center, 970-494-3581, 08SelfHelp@judicial.state.co.us. They cannot tell you whether you qualify — a Colorado Supreme Court directive forbids it. They can tell you whether a form is filled in correctly.
- Desk hours
- At the counter, 201 LaPorte Ave.: Monday, Wednesday and Friday 8 to 4, Tuesday and Thursday 8 to 2. By phone, email or WebEx: Monday to Friday, 8 to 4. Closed noon to 1 on the second and fourth Wednesday of the month.
- How fast they answer
- The desk asks for up to one business day, and asks you not to leave a phone message and an email about the same thing.
- Where that came from
- The 8th Judicial District gave these details itself, on September 7, 2026, in the automatic reply it sends anyone who writes to that address.
The state's page for this court does not publish a clerk's number, but the resource center above answers the phone and can point you at the right counter. Larimer also runs a WebEx room, judicial.webex.com/meet/d08-all-resourcecenter, so a question does not need a drive to Fort Collins.
Read off the Colorado Judicial Branch's own page for this court, https://www.coloradojudicial.gov/courts/trial-courts/larimer-county, and checked on September 5, 2026. Call before you drive: counters move and hours change.
Where you file
- Judicial district
- 8th Judicial District
- Which court
- County court cases and district court cases are both heard at this courthouse. Your case number says which one yours was; file in that division.
- 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
- $65 processing fee on a motion to seal a conviction, paid to the Larimer County clerk of court, not to us. The court waives it if it finds you cannot pay. Nothing at all on a non-conviction, and $224 on an arrest that never became a charge, because that one opens a new 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 Fort Collins as anywhere else in Colorado.
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 Larimer County Justice Center in person?
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 Larimer County. Where do I file?
Still in Larimer 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.