Industry Update - Fingerprinting

June 9, 2025

Thank you all for your patience regarding the fingerprint-based criminal history background check process. The Division is still waiting for the Colorado Bureau of Investigations (CBI) to release the codes you will need to provide to local law enforcement agencies, IdentoGo, or Colorado Fingerprinting.

As soon as CBI releases the codes to us, we will post them on our website and broadcast them via an industry update.

The submission of fingerprint cards to the CBI for purposes of a criminal history check is outlined in statute 18-12-407(3)(b), effective July 1, 2025, which only provides for two options for getting fingerprints taken: a local law enforcement agency or "any third-party approved by the Colorado Bureau of Investigation..." The CBI informed the Division on February 19, 2025, that the only two approved third-party fingerprint vendors are IdentoGo and Colorado Fingerprinting. Additionally, we were told that CBI "does not accept hard card prints except from law enforcement agencies."

We welcome your questions and comments. Please send general inquiries to dor_fdd@state.co.us. Direct rulemaking inquiries to dor_fddrulemaking@state.co.us.

Colorado Firearms Dealer Division 

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