La Plata Jail Mugshots
The official La Plata County inmate-search page does not itself publish a county mugshot gallery, a recent-bookings gallery, or a daily booking-photo feed. It sends current jail custody searches to VINELink's Colorado person search for an inmate in custody at the La Plata County jail. That distinction is important. VINE is a custody and notification route. It is not documented by the county as a public La Plata County mugshot archive, and no official static La Plata sample profile confirms a photo field.
For that reason, La Plata County jail mugshots should be handled as a records-access question, not as a guaranteed web-gallery search. Check the live VINE "More Info" view for any booking detail that is visible for the current inmate. If the photo is not displayed, or if the person has been released and the record is older, the traceable path is the La Plata County Sheriff's Office Records Department. The Records Department handles requests for closed criminal reports, requires photo identification for case reports, and treats criminal-justice records under Colorado's criminal-justice records law.
The county's own inmate-search routing page is the best starting point because it separates jail custody from prison and immigration custody. The La Plata County inmate-search page points to VINE for local jail custody, to the Colorado Department of Corrections for state prison custody, and to ICE for immigration custody.
That routing page supports a careful search order: county jail first through VINE, then records request, then state or federal systems only when the custody type has changed.
La Plata Booking Photo Search
Current custody should be checked before asking for a booking photo. A recent arrest in Durango, Bayfield, Ignacio, or another La Plata County location may still be in the La Plata County Detention Facility. The county directs users to VINE for that custody lookup. VINE can help confirm whether the person is in the local jail route and can expose the "More Info" view used by La Plata County for the Offender ID. The bonding page confirms that the Offender ID appears in VINE "More Info" and is needed for TouchPay bond transactions.
- Start at the official La Plata County inmate-search page, then choose the link for an inmate in custody at the La Plata County jail.
- Use the Colorado VINE person search by legal name. Try known spelling variants if the first search fails.
- Open "More Info" for the matching person and check whether any photo or booking detail is visible in the live result.
- If no booking photo is visible, note the name, custody agency, approximate booking date, and VINE Offender ID if shown.
- Send a records request to the Sheriff's Records Department when a booking photo, closed report, or older booking record is needed.
The Colorado VINE person-search interface is the public custody route linked by La Plata County for the local jail.
VINE is useful for current custody, but county materials do not confirm that La Plata County booking photos always appear there.
La Plata Mugshot Record Fields
No static La Plata County sample inmate profile is published in the official jail pages. The field inventory therefore separates confirmed fields from fields that are not confirmed in an official La Plata VINE sample. That keeps the booking-photo discussion accurate and avoids promising a public image that the county did not document.
| Field | What It Shows |
|---|---|
| Name | Person matched in the VINE custody search. Exact public display format was not extracted from a live La Plata result. |
| Custody agency or facility | Used to confirm the person is in the La Plata County jail route rather than state prison, BOP, or ICE custody. |
| Offender ID | Confirmed by the La Plata bonding page as shown under VINE "More Info" and required for TouchPay bond use. |
| Custody status | VINE is a custody and notification system, and the county link is for an inmate in custody at the jail. |
| Mugshot or photo | Not confirmed from an inspected La Plata VINE sample record. Verify in the live result or request through Sheriff's Records. |
| Charges, bond, booking date, housing | Not confirmed from an inspected La Plata VINE sample. Court and jail records may need separate requests. |
What is and is not public: Current custody status is searched through VINE. A booking photo is not confirmed as a public roster field for La Plata County and may require a Sheriff's records request, redaction review, or denial if an exemption applies.
Request La Plata Booking Photos
The Sheriff's Records Department is the local records channel when VINE does not show a booking photo or when a closed report is needed. The office is at 283 Girard Street, Durango, CO 81303, and lists public hours Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. The records phone is 970-247-1157, and the fax number is 970-259-4595. The county also links an online records-release request portal at forms.lpcgov.org and a printable form that can be faxed to the records office.
Requesters should be precise. Ask for the booking photo or booking-related record by name, date of arrest if known, agency or case number if known, and the La Plata County Detention Facility custody context. The Records Department page says only closed criminal reports can be released to the public and that customers must show photo identification for case reports. For large requests, La Plata County cites $0.25 per hard-copy page and $41.37 per hour for staff time when the request involves more than 25 pages or more than one hour of staff work.
The official La Plata County Sheriff's Records Department page lists the address, hours, photo-ID rule, fees, CCJRA notice, and request options.
The records page matters because it is the county source for the CCJRA process, fee triggers, and requester statement used for criminal-justice records.
Colorado Mugshot Access Rules
Colorado's general public-records law is CORA, but La Plata County states that requests for criminal justice records are treated as CCJRA requests. That means a booking photo request is not handled like a routine administrative file. Colorado criminal-justice records law distinguishes records of official action from other criminal-justice records. The Sheriff's page says records of official action must be open for inspection, while other criminal justice records may be open at the custodian's discretion.
Key Statutes:
C.R.S. 24-72-302 defines criminal-justice record terms, including basic identification information that can include a photograph.
C.R.S. 24-72-303 requires records of official action to be maintained and open for inspection.
C.R.S. 24-72-305.5 allows denial unless the requester signs a statement that the record will not be used for direct solicitation of business for pecuniary gain.
These statutes do not mean every La Plata County booking photo is posted online. They explain why the Sheriff's Records Department may review the type of record, the request purpose, the case status, and any legal limits before release. Juvenile records, sealed records, expunged records, protected investigations, court orders, and other exemptions can limit access.
La Plata Photo Limits
La Plata County does not publish a separate mugshot-removal policy in its official detention and records materials. No official county page invites people to remove a booking photo from a public mugshot gallery because no such county gallery is published. For a county-held booking photo, the practical route is to contact the originating custodian, address the underlying court record, or seek legal advice about sealing or expungement. A sealed record is one that is restricted from ordinary public access by law or court order.
Commercial mugshot sites are not a reliable official records source for La Plata County custody. They may copy stale data, omit court outcomes, or display a photo after dismissal, acquittal, or sealing. The records-safe path is to use VINE, the Sheriff's Records Department, and the court process. Court status matters because a booking charge and a court charge are different records. Custody and booking details are addressed through jail and sheriff records, while formal case outcomes are checked through the court system. For the court side of the same arrest, use La Plata County court records after jail arrest.
Note: If a record is sealed, expunged, juvenile, protected by court order, or exempt under criminal-justice records law, public access can be denied or limited.
Federal ICE Photo Differences
Federal, state, and immigration custody systems do not work like a county booking-photo request. A person arrested in La Plata County may later move to Colorado Department of Corrections custody after a prison sentence, or may be connected to a federal or immigration hold. The La Plata County jail can house Federal Marshals detainees when accepted, but there is no separate U.S. Marshals public mugshot locator in the official access paths.
The BOP Inmate Locator covers federal inmates incarcerated from 1982 to the present and shows fields such as name, register number, age, race, sex, release date, and location. It is not a county mugshot gallery. The ICE Online Detainee Locator System covers people currently in ICE custody or in CBP custody for more than 48 hours, and it cannot search records for people under 18. For sentenced Colorado prisoners, the CDOC Offender Search is the state-prison locator, not the La Plata jail roster.