Lincoln County · 23rd Judicial District · Rules v2026.3, current through July 1, 2026
Seal a record in Lincoln County, Colorado
If your case was handled in Lincoln County, the motion to seal goes back to the same court, under the same case number — the Lincoln County Courthouse, at 103 Third Ave., Hugo, CO 80821, in the 23rd 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
- Lincoln County Courthouse
- Address
- 103 Third Ave., Hugo, CO 80821
- 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.
There is no self-help desk in Lincoln County. The 23rd Judicial District's Self-Help Center is at 4000 Justice Way, Castle Rock, CO 80109, and serves Lincoln, Douglas and Elbert counties. Mail goes to PO Box 128, Hugo, CO 80821.
Read off the Colorado Judicial Branch's own page for this court, https://www.coloradojudicial.gov/courts/trial-courts/lincoln-county, and checked on September 7, 2026. Call before you drive: counters move and hours change.
Where you file
- Judicial district
- 23rd Judicial District
- Which court
- Lincoln 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
- $65 processing fee on a motion to seal a conviction, paid to the Lincoln 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 Hugo 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 Lincoln County Courthouse 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 Lincoln County. Where do I file?
Still in Lincoln 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.