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Arapahoe County prepares fingerprint checks for massage businesses; sheriff advises using state vendor system
Summary
At a study session, county legal and law‑enforcement staff told commissioners they must set up a process to accept fingerprint‑based criminal‑history checks for massage‑facility owners, operators and employees by July 1, 2026, and recommended relying on Colorado Bureau of Investigation (CBI) approved vendors rather than creating immediate local licensing or trafficking ordinances.
Dawn Johnson of the county attorney's office told the Arapahoe County Board of County Commissioners on Wednesday that Colorado law now requires fingerprint‑based criminal‑history submissions from owners, operators and employees of massage facilities and that local governments must have a process in place to collect those submissions.
“We are required to have a process in place,” Johnson said, noting the 2024 law that added the mandatory fingerprint requirement and a 2025 bill that moved the submission deadline to “07/01/2026.” She told the board the county may adopt an ordinance or resolution to establish the intake process and that, separately, it may choose to adopt a local licensing program or prohibitions tied to trafficking‑related activities — but those licensing and prohibition tools remain discretionary unless changed by future legislation.
The attorney's office cautioned the board that recent statutory edits left some internal cross‑references unclear; Johnson said parts of the…
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