El Paso County Government

El Paso County encompasses more than 2,158 square miles. The County is bordered on the north by Douglas and Elbert counties, on the west by Teller and Fremont counties, on the south by Pueblo County and on the east by Elbert and Lincoln counties. El Paso County's largest municipality is the City of Colorado Springs. Other municipalities within El Paso County include Manitou Springs, Green Mountain Falls, Fountain, Calhan, Ramah, Monument and Palmer Lake.

The western portion of El Paso County is mountainous, while the eastern part is prairie land where horses and beef cattle remain important sources of income. The altitude ranges from about 5,052 feet on the south central border at Chico Creek to 14,115 feet on the summit of Pikes Peak near the western boundary.

El Paso County is governed by five County Commissioners representing the five geographical Commissioner Districts, shown below. El Paso County Commissioners are elected by citizens within their respective districts and serve staggered four-year terms. County Commissioners are term-limited, serving a maximum of three consecutive four-year terms. The Board of County Commissioners elects officers and assigns community liaison responsibilities annually. Commissioner District boundaries are revised every two years to ensure equal citizen representation for all five districts.

The Board of County Commissioners serves as both a policy-making and administrative body for the County. All powers of the County, as a legal entity, are exercised by the Board of County Commissioners and not by its individual members.

Please read more about El Paso County on our website:

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El Paso County
Social Media Comment Policy
Updated April 2020

Social Media Platforms. This document constitutes El Paso County’s Social Media Comment Policy (the “Policy”). As described below, this Policy applies to the following social-media platforms:

• Facebook: ;
• Twitter: ;
• Youtube: ElPasoCountyCO;
• Nextdoor: El Paso County, Colorado

Purposes. The mission of El Paso County social media is to provide the public with timely, accurate and transparent information about El Paso County projects, events, public meetings, and any other happenings related to El Paso County government. We encourage your comments, your ideas, and your suggestions through our social media sites and look forward to an active exchange of ideas. While comments are welcome, they must remain relevant to the topic at hand and must not violate the Terms of Use and Content Policy. Our social media sites are limited public forums, and all posted content must relate to discussion of El Paso County programs, services, projects, issues, events and activities.

Terms of Use and Content Policy. El Paso County’s social media pages were created as limited public forums to allow users to discuss issues directly related to the governance of El Paso County. All posted content must relate to discussion of El Paso County programs, services, projects, issues, events, and activities. All content is subject to monitoring. Further, content and comments containing any of the following are not allowed and may be removed:

o Comments or content that are off-subject or are not topically related to the scope or context of the original post;
o Malicious or harmful software;
o Advertisements, promotions, or solicitations of a commercial product, business, company, organization or service;
o Content that violates any federal, state, or local law;
o Confidential, personally identifying, or private information as defined by State law;
o Content that is threatening, harassing, or discriminatory;
o Content that could be considered prejudicial, racist or inflammatory;
o Profanity, nudity (including, but not limited to, in profile pictures), indecency, vulgarity or obscenity;
o Name calling or personal attacks;
o False representation of another individual, organization, government or entity;
o Content that incites or promotes violence or illegal activity;
o Content that could compromise an on ongoing criminal investigation;
o Content that violates a legal ownership interest of any other party, including, but not limited to, plagiarized material or material that violates intellectual property rights or copyrights.

El Paso County reserves the right to restrict or remove any content that is deemed in violation of this Policy or any applicable law. Users may be temporarily or permanently restricted from accessing El Paso County’s social media pages if they repeatedly and consistently violate this Policy. To contest the restriction of access to a social media page, the user must submit to El Paso County Public Information at LaurenTostenson@ a written statement providing grounds for reinstatement. Requests shall be responded to on a reasonably timely basis, and access shall be restored if it is determined that the grounds for reinstatement are sufficient. A statement that the user will abide by this Policy in the future shall be sufficient, except when a user has continued to violate the Policy after having made such a statement. Any content removed pursuant to this Policy will be retained for one year. Users may contact El Paso County Public Information at LaurenTostenson@ at any time to identify content in violation of the Policy.

Disclaimers. El Paso County Public Information monitors the social media platforms it uses, but it is not responsible for content generated by users on these platforms. A Comment is the opinion of the commentator only. Publication of a Comment or image does not imply endorsement of or agreement by El Paso County. The opinions and/or views expressed on these pages do not in any way reflect the views of the site they are posted on, other sites affiliated with the site, the staff involved in maintaining the site or any members of the site. Comments and content should be understood to be entirely public, and users should not write Comments with any information that they consider, or would like to keep, confidential. We expressly disclaim any liability form any viruses or other contamination of your computer system or other devices used to access its social media platforms, and expressly disclaims liability for actions taken or not taken based on any or all contents of its social media sites.

Public Records. All comments made on El Paso County’s social media sites are considered public records and are bound by state and federal laws, including the Colorado Open Records Act, , et seq.

External non-county links on this site do not constitute official endorsement on behalf of El Paso County. All links posted as comments on El Paso County’s posts will be reviewed and may be deleted.

We understand that social media is a 24/7 medium; however, our moderation capabilities are not. We may not see every inappropriate comment right away, and we are trusting in the maturity of our community to ignore personal attacks and negative speech or respond politely.