Summit County Detention Facility Release Routes
Summit County Detention Facility is the primary county jail for Summit County, Colorado. The Summit County Sheriff's Office Detention Services Division operates it inside the Summit County Justice Center at 501 N. Park Avenue in Breckenridge. It is not a state prison, federal prison, or ICE detention center. That distinction controls the release search route. A person held here may leave by cash bond, credit-card bond, bonding agent, personal recognizance bond, court order, dismissal, time served, completed mittimus, trustee or work-release credit, probation sentence, transfer to CDOC, transfer to another county, extradition, protective-custody process, medical or mental-health transfer, federal hold, or ICE hold.
No official Summit County public jail roster, 24-hour release list, or 72-hour release feed was found in the sheriff detention-services navigation or official source sweep. That means a missing online roster result should not be treated as proof that someone was released. For this facility, the useful proof is a jail release record, a bond record, a court docket event, a VINE custody-status notice, or a downstream locator if the person was transferred.
For direct community releases, the sheriff's bonding, inmate services, property, VINE, and records pages are the main local channels. For court-driven releases, Summit Combined Courts can show the bond order, disposition, sentence, mittimus, warrant recall, or probation order that authorized the jail to release the person. For state-prison transfers, use the Colorado DOC Offender Search. For federal or immigration transfers, use the BOP or ICE pages listed in the facility sidebar.
Confirm a Summit County Jail Release
Use the county jail workflow first when the person was arrested or booked locally. The broad Summit County released inmates search guide explains the sitewide chain, but this facility page is narrower: it follows the records that can confirm physical release from the Summit County Detention Facility.
- Check whether the release was bond-related. Summit's bonding page lists cash, credit card, and bonding agent as bond-out methods and links to the Colorado payment portal for inmate bond.
- Call the Detention Facility or Summit County Courts when a court event is the trigger. The sheriff's court-date page points court-date questions to Summit County Courts at 970-453-2272 or the Detention Facility at 970-453-2232 extension 1.
- Use Colorado VINE through the sheriff's VINE page if the person is still in an active custody feed or if a release, transfer, or other custody-change alert is needed.
- Request the releasable booking or release record from the sheriff Records Section when a timestamp, release type, transfer notation, or booking photo is needed.
- If the release was a transfer, follow the receiving system: CDOC for state prison, BOP for federal custody, ICE ODLS for immigration custody, or another county's sheriff records for a county transfer.
Summit's bonding page also posts the Colorado six-hour release rule for qualifying personal-recognizance and cash-bond conditions, unless extraordinary circumstances exist. It notes that fitting a required electronic-monitoring device can extend the hold up to 24 hours. That timing rule is release-relevant, but it is not a public recent-release list.
Summit County Detention Facility Records
The sheriff Records Section is the local path for releasable jail records and booking photos. Summit's records page says criminal reports, booking photos, and traffic reports can be requested online or by form, and that staff will contact the requester after confirming whether the report can be released and what fees apply. The same page states complicated requests, staffing limits, or off-site retrieval may require the 72 hours allowed by law.
Facility contact:
Summit County Detention Facility
501 N. Park Avenue, P.O. Box 210
Breckenridge, CO 80424
Detention phone: 970-423-8977
Sheriff main line: 970-453-2232
Records contact:
Summit County Sheriff's Office Records Section
Phone: 970-453-3520
Fax: 970-423-8894
Email: Records@SummitCountyCO.gov
Online request: Summit sheriff records request form
Useful request terms include booking report, jail release record, release date and time, bond release record, mittimus completion record, property release form, transfer record, and booking photo. Include the full name, date of birth if known, approximate arrest date, case number, and booking number if available. If the person may have been transferred, ask for the release or transfer destination if releasable.
About Summit County Detention Facility
The sheriff's Detention Services page describes a local jail built around court appearance, safety, custody, and out-processing rather than long state-prison terms. It reports 93 beds, an average daily population of 30 inmates in custody, and about 1,100 arrestees booked each year. The same page says the facility exists primarily to ensure arrestees appear in court by posting bond or remaining in custody until disposition. That is why many Summit County jail releases are court or bond events rather than final sentence discharges.
| Facility fact | Summit County detail |
|---|---|
| Operating agency | Summit County Sheriff's Office, Detention Services Division |
| Facility type | County jail and local detention facility |
| Address | 501 N. Park Avenue, Breckenridge, Colorado |
| Capacity | 93 beds |
| Average population | About 30 people in custody |
| Annual bookings | About 1,100 arrestees |
Summit County Release Property and Programs
Summit's Inmate Services page gives release-specific details that matter after a person leaves custody. It says inmate property can be released to family or friends after the inmate completes a release form that states what property should be released. Property can be obtained Monday through Friday during business hours. The same page says inappropriate mail is placed in the inmate's property bag, which the inmate receives when released from the facility.
The facility also has local custody programs that can affect the path out. Inmate Services lists commissary, mail, CIDNET phone and messaging, medical care, mental health, medication-assisted treatment, trustees, and programs. Trustees may be statutorily eligible for additional good-time sentence reductions based on work performance, and the Trustees page says eligible trustees earn days off their sentence. Work Release requires 5th Judicial District court authorization and final approval by the Detention Services Commander.
S.T.A.R.R. After Summit County Release
Summit's S.T.A.R.R. page is a local release angle that does not appear in many jail templates. It describes substance-use and mental-health treatment inside the Detention Facility and says care does not end upon release. STARR and SMART teams work to link people released from jail to community services, including competency enhancement and re-entry coordinator services. That does not prove a person was released, but it explains one local handoff that may appear around a Summit County jail exit.
When checking a release, keep the records question separate from the service question. The release record confirms custody status and release authority. STARR or community-service linkage may explain support after release, but it is not a replacement for a sheriff record, court docket, or VINE status update.
Summit County Facility Identity
Summit's Detention Services Division includes the jail, the S.T.A.R.R. program, and Court Security at the Summit County Justice Center. Its page describes staff roles that include in-processing, out-processing, protective custody holds, in-state transports, out-of-state extraditions, court escorts, investigations inside the facility, and public assistance. Those duties explain why a release from Summit County Detention Facility may not always mean a walk-out community release. It may be a court movement, a transfer, an extradition, or another hold.
That local role also affects wording in records requests. Ask for a release from Summit County custody or a transfer-out notation when the destination is unclear. If the person went to court, CDOC, another county, federal custody, or ICE, the next record lives with the receiving system. If the person left on bond or a court order, the court docket and sheriff release timestamp should be read together.
The official Summit inmate services page shows the facility's property and inmate-service framework. The screenshot below is relevant because property, mail bags, trustee credits, and inmate services can all surface near release or sentence completion.
Use that page for practical facility details, then use the sheriff Records Section or court docket when the question is the exact release time or legal authority.