Searching the Lone Tree Court Docket
The prefix on a Lone Tree summons tells you where the case lives. E LT M means Lone Tree Municipal Court. E LT C means Douglas County Court. A Lone Tree street address settles nothing. City and state matters can arise in the same spot.
For a municipal matter, use the official Lone Tree Municipal Court page for session, location, and payment instructions. You can also call the clerk or stop by the staffed Kimmer Drive office. State hearing? Use the Colorado Judicial Docket Search. For documents, the official request form reaches court records. CoCourts also sells an unofficial ROA for many state cases.
- Read the full E LT M or E LT C prefix.
- Use the city court channel for an M summons and the state channel for a C summons.
- Match the citation number and date of birth in the applicable payment flow.
- Read the newest notice for date, time, location, and appearance method.
- Call the owning clerk if the result is blank or the setting appears to conflict.
Do not mail a record request to the Lone Tree Civic Center. It hosts sessions only. Outside those sessions it has no staff and takes no mail.
Lone Tree Prefix Check
Prefixes beat city-name searches in Lone Tree. The letter after the Lone Tree identifier splits a municipal docket from a state county docket. That single letter decides the portal, the clerk, the hearing building, and the record request channel.
| Prefix | Court | Search route |
|---|---|---|
| E LT M | Lone Tree Municipal Court | City court page and municipal clerk |
| E LT C | Douglas County Court | State docket search and Combined Court clerk |
Can't read the prefix? Call 303-339-8177 with the full citation number. A CoCourts miss proves nothing about an E LT M case. Municipal records stay with Lone Tree.
Lone Tree Municipal Court Basics
Lone Tree Municipal Court is a court of record. It handles city-code, traffic, misdemeanor, parking, and animal matters. The staffed clerk office sits at 9220 Kimmer Drive, Suite 100, Lone Tree, CO 80124. Call 303-339-8177. Listed office hours run Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Hearings happen at the Lone Tree Civic Center, 8527 Lone Tree Parkway. First Thursday sessions run 1 to 5 p.m. Second and third Thursday sessions run 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. No staff or mail serve the Civic Center outside sessions. Presiding Judge Jonathan Lucero oversees the court.
Lone Tree Clerk Office
9220 Kimmer Drive, Suite 100
Lone Tree, CO 80124
303-339-8177
Records, payments, mail, and setting confirmation.
Lone Tree Hearing Site
8527 Lone Tree Parkway
Lone Tree, CO 80124
Sessions only. No routine staff or mail outside court.
Keeping these two sites distinct prevents lost mail and wasted visits.
Lone Tree Two-Building Rule
The two Lone Tree buildings do different jobs. Kimmer Drive is the steady contact point for the docket, copies, payment questions, and mail. The Civic Center hosts scheduled court sessions. It is not a daily clerk counter.
Checking a setting? Call the clerk, confirm the date and session block, then use the hearing location on your latest notice. Requesting a record? Address it to the Kimmer Drive office. A judge sitting in the hearing building on court days does not make that building the records office.
Local rule: Send no routine court mail to the Civic Center. Use the staffed Kimmer Drive clerk office unless current instructions say otherwise.
Court Dates and Settings in Lone Tree
Lone Tree municipal sessions run in three Thursday blocks each month. Even so, a case may be reset, continued, or set at a specific time within a block. The summons, any later order, and the clerk's current record outrank the general schedule.
| Date | First, second, or third Thursday, unless a later notice resets it. |
|---|---|
| Time | First Thursday 1-5 p.m.; second and third Thursdays 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m., subject to the case notice. |
| Location | Lone Tree Civic Center for hearings, not the Kimmer Drive clerk office. |
| Judge | The presiding or assigned Lone Tree municipal judicial officer. |
| Setting Type | Arraignment, pretrial, trial, compliance, parking, or animal matter. |
If a setting is unclear, call 303-339-8177. A prior session date can linger in the record after a reset.
Lone Tree Record Digitization
In 2024, Lone Tree began digitizing all municipal records and building a new filing system. That project explains a lot. Old and new Lone Tree matters may not follow the same online path. Better clerk workflow does not mean every historic file is searchable from home.
Start with the city court page for current instructions. A file may not appear. Then call the clerk with the summons prefix, citation number, party name, and an approximate filing year. The clerk can tell a municipal case from a state case. The clerk can also explain which request method applies.
Older records may need more clerk legwork than newer digital files. Ask whether the court wants a written description or can work from the citation alone. Keep the request tied to one public item. Name the exact order, register entry, or other public record you need. A broad inquiry can get mistaken for a request to pull every municipal record.
Paying online does not mean the digital file holds every pleading or order. For a filed item, a copy request is still the right route.
Traffic Tickets in Lone Tree
A traffic ticket marked E LT M belongs to Lone Tree Municipal Court. Pay it online, by phone, at the counter, or by mail. The documented payment forms include Visa, MasterCard, check or e-check, money order, and cash. Contest the charge instead? Take the hearing route before you pay, because payment counts as a guilty plea.
The published Lone Tree amounts start with a base fine of at least $25 per point of the original charge. School and construction zones double that amount. Add a $10 VALE surcharge and a $30 court cost after a guilty plea, subject to the charge-specific rules. Confirm the exact total on the citation or with the clerk.
An E LT C state ticket is different. Douglas County Court handles it. See the Douglas County traffic ticket record for that route.
Lone Tree Red-Light Records
Red-light matters in Lone Tree run through a separate ViolationInfo lookup. Enter the Notice Number and PIN printed on the notice. The documented processor fee is $4. That flow differs from the usual municipal citation number and date-of-birth search.
| Record | Fields | Best confirmation |
|---|---|---|
| Red-light notice | Notice Number and PIN | ViolationInfo instructions and Lone Tree clerk |
| Municipal summons | E LT M prefix and citation details | Lone Tree Municipal Court |
| State traffic case | E LT C or state case number | Douglas County Court |
Every screen serves one narrow purpose. Treat none of them as a full court file. When you need a disposition or a filed order, request the municipal record from Lone Tree.
Where Lone Tree Cases Go
Lone Tree Municipal Court keeps the city-code docket and runs as a court of record. State misdemeanors, state traffic, small claims, evictions, and county-level civil cases go elsewhere. Those matters belong to Douglas County Court instead. Felonies plus district-level civil, domestic, juvenile, and probate matters sit with Douglas County District Court. So one Lone Tree address can feed three different dockets.
Docket flow: Lone Tree Municipal Court › Douglas County Court › Douglas County District Court.
The flow shows tiers, not a required trip. A municipal appeal follows the applicable 35-day court-of-record review route to Douglas District Court. Keep the Lone Tree case number handy, plus any later state review number.
Lone Tree Docket by Numbers
Lone Tree's 2022 annual financial report counted 919 municipal cases in 2022. Earlier years were close: 887 in 2020 and 917 in 2021. The same report counted 2,173 public-safety citations in 2022. Lone Tree has fewer residents than Castle Rock or Parker. Yet its docket volume stays steady.
Those nearby annual counts barely moved. They ran 887 cases in 2020, 917 in 2021, and 919 in 2022. Steady numbers like these argue for a reliable Lone Tree clerk route. Records are shifting into a new digital system, though. The counts say nothing about wait times. They cannot predict how any one Lone Tree matter turns out.
What they do explain is why citation numbers matter. The correct prefix matters. Direct clerk contact matters too.
Lone Tree Court Copy Route
Ask the Kimmer Drive clerk for an accessible Lone Tree municipal record. Give the E LT M number and the party. Add the filing year and the exact item, such as a disposition or order. Ask whether a plain or authenticated copy is available, and what the current charge is.
An E LT C matter goes through the Combined Court clerk. Options include DouglasRecords@judicial.state.co.us and the statewide Record/Document Request Form. You can also mail a request after confirming cost, or use the Justice Way counter. State vendor access supplies an unofficial ROA for many cases, not filed documents. The state form offers a Register of Action choice. It also has separate checkboxes for tickets, orders, judgments, and other case material.
The Lone Tree city clerk and the Combined Court clerk hold different files. Sending one request to both gains nothing. Use the summons prefix to pick the custodian. Confirm the charge and follow that office's delivery steps for pickup.
Did the matter move on appeal? The municipal clerk keeps the source record while Douglas District Court holds the review file. You may need both case numbers.
Lone Tree Court Record Access Rules
Request Lone Tree municipal records from the city court custodian. Colorado access law can seal cases, juvenile material, protected identifiers, and specified documents. So can lawful court orders. An event may still show on a public docket. That does not mean the filed item itself can be released.
Key rules:
Chief Justice Directive 05-01 governs public access practices for Colorado state court records.
Colorado Rule of Criminal Procedure 55.1 addresses openness and lawful limits for criminal court records.
Colorado Criminal Justice Records Act supplies the state framework for criminal justice record access.
Ask Lone Tree what proof of identity or request form it requires. Send a city record request to the right custodian, not to Douglas County government.