Castle Valley Criminal History Checks
Start a Castle Valley search by deciding whether the sought file is a town administrative record, a sheriff incident, a jail booking, a filed court case, or one’s own statewide history. Castle Valley Town Hall cannot release a sheriff report just because the incident occurred within Castle Valley town limits. The record remains with the office that created and maintains it.
- Identify the responding agency, date, location, and incident or case number if known.
- Send a focused Sheriff GRAMA request for a Castle Valley law-enforcement report, with identification and a clear description of the requested file.
- Use the Grand County Jail Inmate List or call the jail for current custody after an arrest.
- Search Utah Courts Xchange under Grand County, then ask the District or Justice Court clerk for an official disposition.
- Use BCI Right of Access only to review one’s own fingerprint-linked Utah criminal history.
The official Castle Valley town website is the proper starting point for town government, notices, and administrative records.
The Castle Valley town source establishes the local government layer, while criminal incident and custody records continue through county custodians in Moab.
Castle Valley Has No Police Records Desk
No separate Castle Valley police department, jail, records unit, arrest blotter, police app, or local case-search portal was identified. That absence does not mean no official Castle Valley record exists. It means county law enforcement is the practical route for a Castle Valley incident, and the county jail and courts hold the later custody and case layers.
For an incident report, contact Grand County Sheriff at 25 S. 100 E. in Moab or 435-259-8115. Use the Sheriff’s records and GRAMA channel, not a general request to Town Hall. The form calls for identification, a reasonably specific description, and a case number when known. Sheriff reports are generally not released until a case is adjudicated, and a pending defendant may need the discovery route instead.
Records at the Castle Valley Police Department
Castle Valley does not operate a police department, so there is no town police records counter to visit. The required local meaning of this record channel is the Grand County Sheriff route. Sheriff deputies create incident and arrest reports for county-law-enforcement responses, while Grand County Jail staff create the separate booking record if a person is taken into custody.
Castle Valley Town Hall remains the custodian for records the town itself creates, such as public administrative material tied to ordinances, meetings, or town operations. It does not gain custody of a deputy’s report. Keeping that Castle Valley line clear prevents a request from being delayed or denied merely because it went to the wrong government body.
Grand County Sheriff
25 S. 100 E.
Moab, UT 84532
435-259-8115
Administrative counter: Monday-Friday, 8 a.m.-5 p.m.
Castle Valley Record Context
Castle Valley counted 347 residents in the 2020 Census and covers roughly 9.3 square miles. Official town planning materials stress rural character, dark skies, wildlife, viewsheds, noise and nuisance questions, firearm-discharge rules, and animal-control ordinances. Those civic priorities provide context for town administration, but they are not crime statistics and should not be used to imply criminal activity.
The official Census profile for Castle Valley supplies the place-level population source.
Countywide sheriff figures should not be labeled as Castle Valley data. No defensible official Castle Valley crime count was located, so a records search must stay tied to a named incident, agency, or case rather than to an invented trend.
Booking and Arrest Records in Castle Valley
Castle Valley has no holding facility. A person arrested through county enforcement is taken into the Grand County booking system in Moab. Jail staff then create the custody record, record intake charges, take fingerprints and a photograph, inventory property, and process holds, bond, release, or transfer. The sheriff incident report and the jail booking remain separate even when they concern the same event.
The official Grand County Jail Inmate List shows current Castle Valley custody rather than a complete arrest history. Call 435-259-8115 if a Castle Valley booking is recent or the list is unclear. A released or transferred person may no longer appear. For an older booking, request releasable material from the sheriff with a date, name, incident number, and requested document type.
Note: An intake charge is an allegation at booking, not proof that a prosecutor filed the same count or that a conviction occurred.
Castle Valley Ordinance or Criminal Record?
A town ordinance issue is not automatically a criminal court case. Some local matters stay administrative, while a state-law charge enters the county justice system. Felonies and class A misdemeanors go to Seventh District Court. Applicable class B or C misdemeanors and infractions arising outside Moab go to Grand County Justice Court. The record’s legal basis and prosecuting authority, not the town name alone, determine the court file.
- Town administrative record
- A file created and held by Castle Valley government about its own official work.
- Sheriff incident report
- The deputy’s account of a county-law-enforcement response, requested from the Sheriff.
- Booking record
- The Grand County Jail custody file made during intake.
- Court docket
- The chronological case record created after a prosecutor files charges.
A federal-land incident adds another route. If a federal charge leads to federal custody, the Federal Bureau of Prisons inmate locator is the official prison search, not the Castle Valley or county jail list.
The federal locator applies only to federal Bureau of Prisons custody and should not be treated as a town arrest search.
The Castle Valley Municipal Court File
Castle Valley has no identified municipal court or town case database. Criminal case records route to the county courts in Moab. Seventh District and Grand County Justice Courts share the county complex at 125 E. Center Street, but each clerk keeps its own docket according to jurisdiction. Ask which court received the filing before requesting a certified result.
| Court Name | No Castle Valley municipal court; use Seventh District or Grand County Justice Court as jurisdiction requires |
|---|---|
| Case Types Heard | District: felony and class A; Justice: applicable class B/C and infractions outside Moab |
| Case Lookup Channel | Utah Courts Xchange and the correct clerk in Moab |
| What the Docket Shows | Filed counts, events, hearings, orders, plea, disposition, sentence, and finances when public |
| Copies & Fees | Xchange may charge by search and $1 for documents; clerk copy charges should be confirmed |
The Utah Courts Grand County directory identifies the court offices serving the county.
The directory is the verified route to county court staff, rather than an invented Castle Valley clerk or municipal counter.
Search Castle Valley Cases in Xchange
Xchange does not provide a special Castle Valley court filter because the town has no separate court. Search under Grand County. Use a full party name or exact case number, then narrow by Moab court location, criminal case type, filing dates, or disposition dates. Common-name searches can reach the portal’s 500-result cap, so more precise filters matter.
A blank search result has limits. Xchange excludes juvenile cases, sealed and expunged matters, nonpublic criminal cases, and some older Justice Court records created before CORIS participation. Clerk-entered data reaches Xchange promptly, but a police incident will not appear until a prosecutor files and the clerk opens the case. The clerk, not a portal screenshot, supplies the official disposition.
Castle Valley Sheriff Record Requests
A useful Sheriff GRAMA request is narrow enough for staff to locate the right event. Include the requester’s contact details, a legible government photo ID, the date or date range, the Castle Valley location, the type of record, and the incident or case number if known. The form permits more than one record, but each item still needs a clear description and a stated basis for access where the material is not wholly public.
Utah law generally allows ten working days for a response. A five-working-day path applies only when the request meets the expedited statutory conditions and explains them. The Sheriff may respond by email or by phone when no email was supplied. In-person pickup requires identification and payment of charges due. No full sheriff fee schedule was found in the official material, so ask for an estimate instead of applying rates from another agency.
If access is denied, ask the response to name the record classification, exemption, and appeal official. That creates a clearer next step than resending the same broad request to Castle Valley Town Hall.
How Castle Valley Records Reach the County
A sheriff response creates an agency report. If an arrest follows, Grand County Jail creates the booking layer. The prosecutor then decides whether to file charges and which court has jurisdiction. Court staff enter the docket in CORIS, which supplies public Xchange data. Fingerprint-supported arrest information and reported outcomes may also flow into the BCI repository.
Record flow: Grand County Sheriff › Grand County Jail and Courts › Utah Department of Public Safety, Bureau of Criminal Identification
Castle Valley Town Hall is not part of that criminal-record flow unless the sought file is one the town itself created. A recent incident belongs with the sheriff, current custody with the jail, the legal outcome with the court, and a subject’s statewide Utah history with BCI. Countywide detail is available through the Grand County criminal history overview.
When Castle Valley Custody Is Missing
An empty or missing jail-list result can mean release, transfer, a delay in page display, use of another jurisdiction, or no county booking. It cannot establish that no arrest occurred. First call Grand County Jail. Then identify the arresting agency and ask whether the person was booked, cited, released, transferred, or taken elsewhere.
If the person moved to state custody or supervision, use UDC Offender Search by name or UDC number. If a case was filed, search Xchange. For older county booking material, use the sheriff’s records request channel. These checks answer different questions and should not be collapsed into one town history search.
Castle Valley Record Access Rules
GRAMA governs requests to Utah government bodies, but access follows custody and classification. Send town records to the town and sheriff reports to the Sheriff. Public, private, protected, controlled, sealed, juvenile, victim-identifying, and active-investigation classifications can change what is released. Court dockets follow judicial record rules, and BCI records have their own dissemination limits.
The GRAMA access procedure in Utah Code explains how a requester claims access to a government record.
The statute supports a focused request to the true custodian, not a demand that Town Hall retrieve records maintained by the Sheriff or courts.
Key Statutes:
Utah Government Records Access and Management Act - Section 63G-2-202 sets the request and access-claim process.
Utah Code §53-10-108 - BCI limits general dissemination while allowing a person to review and challenge their own record.
Utah court-record access rules - Xchange excludes private, sealed, expunged, juvenile, and other nonpublic records.