Broomfield County DUI Bail Information

A standard DUI carries a $1,000 bond under Broomfield's schedule, DWAI runs $800, and a Driving Under Restraint charge tied to an alcohol-related suspension jumps to $3,000. A prior conviction keeps the $1,000 figure but adds a mandatory Monitored Sobriety condition on top. A flat $30 booking fee and $10 bond fee apply to every case regardless of the underlying charge.

The detail that trips up the most families at the jail window has nothing to do with the bond amount itself: staff generally can't make change. Show up with $1,100 cash to cover a $1,040 liability, and rather than handing back the $60 difference, the facility deposits it straight into the inmate's commissary account instead — the transaction can stall entirely if the exact amount isn't on hand. Credit and debit payments go through the AllPaid system instead, carrying a roughly 3.5% service fee, and money orders made out to "City and County of Broomfield" are accepted weekdays during business hours. Personal checks are flatly rejected.

Even with the exact amount ready, timing against the jail's internal schedule matters. Shift changes run roughly 6 to 7 a.m. and 6 to 7 p.m., and a bond posted right at 5:50 p.m. can easily sit unprocessed until after 7:30. Release itself, once bond clears, still takes another two to four hours for out-processing, property return, and identity verification — none of which happens instantly just because the payment went through.

Staying in contact with someone inside runs through a system with real gaps. Remote video visitation through iWebVisit has to be scheduled in advance — no same-day option exists — and runs $5 for 15 minutes or $10 for 30. Onsite lobby video visits are even more limited: Tuesdays and Thursdays only, in narrow windows, with a valid photo ID required and no phones allowed in the lobby area at all. The phone system itself only supports outgoing calls, and the very first "I've been arrested" call home frequently gets blocked by a cell carrier's spam filter or collect-call restriction before it even connects — setting up a prepaid account in advance, or being ready to buy "debit time" from commissary, is the practical workaround. One underused tool: family members can leave a one-way voicemail for $1.99, which is genuinely useful for relaying something time-sensitive like "I'm at the window paying your bond right now."

Anyone with a prior alcohol-related offense faces an immediate compliance clock the moment they're released: Colorado law requires Monitored Abstinence as a bond condition, which in practice means reporting to a monitoring provider for SCRAM ankle bracelet installation or urinalysis testing within 24 hours. Missing that window isn't a minor slip — it triggers an immediate bond revocation warrant on its own, independent of anything related to the original DUI charge.