Boulder Municipal Court Data Dashboard

This metric shows most cases filed by law enforcement in Municipal Court. It does not include most parking and photo enforcement filings; however, as these are handled in separate systems. Specific information about those types of cases can be found in the sections for parking and photo enforcement below. The data is broken out in three categories: General, Traffic and Animal. General contains municipal code violations that are criminal in nature and includes both petty and misdemeanor offenses. Traffic includes traffic infractions (such as Speeding, Disobeying Red Light and Failure to Obey Stop Sign) and traffic offenses (such as Failure to provide Proof of Insurance and Reckless Driving). Animal includes violations such as Dog at Large, Dog License, Rabies Vaccination and Aggressive Animal.

Note that felony offenses, driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs and most other drug related offenses are not filed in the Municipal Court. Those charges are filed in the 20th Judicial District (state court). The District Attorney’s Office for the 20th Judicial District has created a data dashboard that provides information related to those filings: 20th Judicial District, District Attorney's data dashboard website.

Page one shows case categories, based on year. Page two shows the case year, based on case categories.

This measure presents data relating to the final resolution of charges that have been filed in the Municipal Court. This includes guilty pleas, guilty findings following trial, not guilty findings, cases resolved by diversion, and dismissals. The first page shows final outcomes by year, while the second and third pages show final outcomes by case category (Animal, General, and Traffic) for a specific year.

Note: Only data from 2025 and later is available. This metric tracks charges, rather than cases; a case can have multiple charges. Additionally, values that are not represented in the data are not displayed on the report. (Specific final outcomes.)

This data tracks the number of days from the date that a case has been filed in the Municipal Court to the date that the case is closed. A case can be closed upon dismissal of the charges or upon completion of all outstanding obligations. The court uses this metric to evaluate how we are doing compared with other similar courts across the country. Expeditious case resolution is important for the community and for the parties.

This metric shows the number of entries the court has made when a defendant has failed to appear in court. Note that a defendant may fail to appear more than once in a case, and the data represented reflects the total number of FTAs entered for the year in all case categories.

Page one shows case categories: Animal, General, and Traffic, per year. Page two shows Failer to Appear by year based on case categories.

The Community Court Program is a collaborative effort between the City Attorney’s Office, the Municipal Court, and a number of non-profit agencies. Community Court participants have the option of earning dismissal of low-level municipal court charges by completing a condition. Examples of charges that the prosecution makes eligible for this program are Camping, Smoking in Public, Possession or Consumption of Alcohol or Marijuana in Public. More serious charges, such as Obstructing a Police Officer, Resisting Arrest, Obstructing Government Operations, Harassment, Assault, and Disorderly Conduct, are not usually eligible for resolution through this program.

A Community Court condition is assigned after consultation with the navigator, the prosecutor, and the judge. These conditions are designed to improve a defendant’s stability, which includes helping a defendant become eligible for housing resources. The Community Court works with partner organizations to offer low-barrier, no-cost mental health and substance use counseling to unhoused individuals in need of such services.

This metric provides data showing the number of conditions that were ordered and the number of those conditions that have been completed. Please note that, on occasion, there may be more completions than tasks assigned. This arises due to a data entry protocol that will be changed going forward. Additional pages in the report are broken down by specific condition and corresponding completion to better illustrate completion rates for each.

Because some data labels are determined by the value in our case management system, brief definitions for each condition can be found on the specific condition and completion pages. For the purposes of this report, "CCT" means Community Court.

This metric shows photo enforcement violations, including Red Light, Speeding (as detected by mobile vans), and Speed on Green citations. Separate pages show citations issued by year for each month and by month, grouped by year. Additional pages show citation issuance each month for a given year, as well as three violation types: red light, speed on green, and speeding as detected by a van for each year, 2021 to present.

Please note that this metric is updated quarterly.

This metric shows the number of parking citations issued by City of Boulder enforcement agencies each quarter. The main page (page 1) shows all citation issues in a given year. There are separate pages for each quarter of a given year as well. This measure does not include warnings issued by any agency.

Please note that this metric is updated quarterly.