Larimer County Projected Release

Projected vs Actual Release Date

A projected release date is a computed or scheduled milestone. An actual release date is the date and time a custody stay ends. For Larimer County Jail, the official Released Inmates page confirms actual jail release rows after the public delay. The release API fields include release date and release reason for the jail stay, while the release-charge fields can include sentence days and good-time-credit days.

How to Find a Larimer Projected Release

Use the record system that matches the sentence. A county jail booking, a county jail sentence, and a state-prison sentence are different release-date tracks.

1. For a current Larimer County Jail detainee, check whether the person is still in current custody and whether bond, court orders, holds, or transfer language controls the next step.
2. For a Larimer jail release that already occurred, use the county release feed and release date selector. The page says shown data includes people released 8 or more hours ago and the visible release-by-day table refers to the past 3 days.
3. For a county jail sentence, read charge details when available for sentence days and good-time-credit days, then confirm with jail or records channels if the online window has passed.
4. For a state-prison sentence, search the Colorado Department of Corrections offender search by DOC number when possible, or by precise name with identity comparison.
5. For parole timing, check the CDOC parole hearing list and read the result as a hearing or eligibility event, not a guaranteed release.
6. For notification rather than calculation, register through VINELink Inmate Search and confirm any alert with the owning agency.

Larimer Jail Good-Time Fields

Larimer has a county-level detail that should not be blurred into state-prison law. The county release-charge API can include `sentence_days` and `good_time_credit_days`. Those fields are useful for explaining a local jail sentence, credit for time served, and county good-time adjustments when the record shows them. Colorado HB17-1015 clarified good-time sentence reductions in jails, but that jail good-time framework is separate from CDOC earned time for state prisoners.

A pretrial release is different. If the person is held before trial, the release date is usually controlled by bond, a court order, dismissal, plea, hold clearance, or transfer. In that scenario, the release feed confirms the actual jail event after release; it does not create a projected prison release date.

Colorado PED, MRD, and Earned Time

For CDOC prisoners, Colorado materials use Parole Eligibility Date (PED), Mandatory Release Date (MRD), Estimated Mandatory Release Date, Next Parole Hearing Date, and Sentence Discharge Date. The CDOC FY21 Statistical Report explains the baseline calculation: PED is calculated as 50% of the maximum governing sentence length minus pre-sentence confinement credit for the general offense class, and MRD is calculated as 100% of the maximum governing sentence length minus pre-sentence confinement credit. Earned time can then reduce both PED and MRD.

C.R.S. 17-22.5-405 authorizes earned time for eligible state prisoners and parolees, with monthly limits, specific higher-credit circumstances for certain lower felony and drug felony classes, a general 30% cap, earned-release-time scheduling for certain classes before mandatory release, and achievement earned time. Use may, eligible, and calculated because credits depend on statute, case management, conduct, sentence category, and record review.

Proposition 128 Timing Rule

Colorado Proposition 128 changed parole eligibility for covered crimes of violence committed on or after January 1, 2025. The Colorado Blue Book says covered persons must serve at least 85% of the sentence before discretionary parole or earned-time reductions, and a person with a third or subsequent covered crime of violence is ineligible for earned time or discretionary parole. The measure does not affect crimes committed before January 1, 2025, so dates and offense category matter when interpreting a projected release.

Why a Projected Release Date Changes

Future release dates can move because they are computations, not completed release records. The reason depends on whether the person is in county jail, state prison, parole process, federal custody, or another receiving agency.

Confirming a Release Date

For a Larimer jail release, confirm the actual event through the county release page, then use Larimer Sheriff Records if the online window has passed. The sheriff records page says arrest and charge summary reports go back to 2005 and identifies the records unit as 2501 Midpoint Dr., Fort Collins, phone 970-498-5110, email Sheriffreports@larimer.org. For official court disposition, Larimer records guidance points users to Larimer County Court rather than LCSO.

For a state-prison release, confirm CDOC status and date fields. For a custody-change alert, register through Colorado VINE. If the Larimer release reason says transferred, verify the receiving agency before treating the person as released from every custody system.

Larimer Release Date Scenarios

Larimer release-date questions fall into three different tracks. A pretrial county-jail detainee usually has no projected prison release date because bond, court orders, holds, and case status control the next step. A county jail sentence can involve sentence days, credit for time served, and county good-time-credit days, with the release feed confirming the actual release after it occurs. A state prison sentence uses CDOC fields such as Parole Eligibility Date, Mandatory Release Date, Estimated Mandatory Release Date, Next Parole Hearing Date, and Sentence Discharge Date.

Those tracks should not be mixed. A Larimer API field for `good_time_credit_days` is a county jail record field. C.R.S. 17-22.5-405 is a state earned-time statute for prisoners and parolees. Proposition 128 affects parole eligibility for covered crimes of violence committed on or after January 1, 2025. A person serving a local jail sentence and a person serving a Colorado prison sentence may both ask when release happens, but the math and records are different.

Why Larimer Dates Change

A projected date is not the same as an actual release. CDOC's statistical materials explain Parole Eligibility Date as a calculated board-consideration milestone for the general offense class, while Mandatory Release Date is closer to a maximum custody milestone. Earned time can affect those state dates, but eligibility does not equal release. The parole board may grant, deny, defer, continue, or later change a parole outcome depending on the case and law.

County jail dates can change for different reasons. Bond can be posted at any hour, but processing depends on booking workload and required steps. The Larimer jail help page says evenings, weekends, and holidays are traditionally busy. A new hold, transfer, court order, or receiving-agency action can also alter when the person leaves the facility. The best practice is to confirm the actual release after it posts, then use court, CDOC, VINE, BOP, or ICE records for the next system if one applies.

Colorado date terminology also needs careful wording. PED is a parole eligibility date, so it should be described as a consideration point. MRD or estimated mandatory release is a state calculation that can change. Sentence discharge is different again because it points to the end of the sentence or supervision term. For Larimer County Jail, the release date is a posted local event after the person leaves that facility. Keeping those labels separate helps readers avoid applying a state prison rule to a short county jail sentence.

When a projected date appears to be wrong, the best correction route is the owning office. CDOC controls state offender calculations and records. Larimer Sheriff Records controls sheriff-held jail records. The court controls sentence, disposition, credit, and sealed-case information. VINE can send notice of a change, but it does not calculate the date. BOP calculates federal prison dates, while ICE ODLS is a custody locator, not a sentence calculator.

If the only known fact is that someone left the Larimer County Jail, do not infer a state projected date. First read the local release reason. Then decide whether the case points to a local sentence, probation, state prison, federal custody, immigration custody, or court-only follow-up. That order keeps the projected-date search tied to the right source and prevents CDOC fields from being applied to people who never entered the state prison system.

For a Larimer reader, the strongest date answer is usually a paired answer: the expected or computed date from the proper system, and the actual posted release record after the person leaves that custody. The first helps with planning. The second confirms what happened. If those two records conflict, wait for the owning system to update or request the record from that office. A court change, hold, transfer, new sentence credit, detainer, or board action can make an earlier projection stale quickly in public records and agency files.