Colorado Springs Municipal Court

Colorado Springs Municipal Court cases in El Paso County, Colorado Springs, CO

Colorado Springs Municipal Court is a municipal court serving as the city's trial court of limited jurisdiction for violations of the Colorado Springs City Code. It conducts arraignments, trials, and sentencing, and administers fines, probation, and warrants arising from ordinance-based cases. Common matters include traffic and parking citations, misdemeanor offenses charged under the municipal code, code-enforcement and nuisance violations (such as property maintenance and animal-control issues), and certain juvenile ordinance cases. The court does not hear civil lawsuits, family law matters, probate, or felony prosecutions; those are handled by El Paso County Court and the Fourth Judicial District Court of Colorado.

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Services and Case Types Handled in Colorado Springs Municipal Court

Colorado Springs Municipal Court adjudicates violations of the City Code within city limits.

- Case types: traffic violations and misdemeanors (including photo-enforcement), parking, criminal ordinance misdemeanors (e.g., theft, harassment, disorderly conduct), animal-control and property/code enforcement, underage alcohol/tobacco, and municipal domestic-violence-related charges.

- Public services: case intake and filings (citations, complaints, motions, discovery, records requests); court hearings (advisements/arraignments, pretrials, pleas/sentencing, bench or jury trials, review/compliance hearings); issuance of mandatory protection/no-contact orders in applicable criminal cases; jury services (summons, qualification, deferrals/excuses); payment processing for tickets, fines/fees/restitution, with payment plans and community-service options; probation/compliance monitoring and classes; warrants and bonds; interpreters and ADA accommodations; online tools for payments, hearing information, and continuance requests.