Mesa County · 21st Judicial District · Rules v2026.3, current through July 1, 2026
Seal a record in Mesa County, Colorado
If your case was handled in Mesa County, the motion to seal goes back to the same court, under the same case number — the Mesa County Justice Center, at 125 N. Spruce St., Grand Junction, CO 81501, in the 21st 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
- Mesa County Justice Center
- Address
- 125 N. Spruce St., Grand Junction, CO 81501
- Clerk of court
- 970-257-3640
- Self-help desk
- Yes. This courthouse has help for people filing without a lawyer. 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.
Mail goes to PO Box 20,000-5030, Grand Junction, CO 81502. Questions about the process go to the 21st Judicial District at 21selfhelp@judicial.state.co.us.
Read off the Colorado Judicial Branch's own page for this court, https://www.coloradojudicial.gov/courts/trial-courts/mesa-county, and checked on September 7, 2026. Call before you drive: counters move and hours change.
Where you file
- Judicial district
- 21st 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 Mesa 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 Grand Junction 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 Mesa 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 Mesa County. Where do I file?
Still in Mesa 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.