public records?

Question

where do i go to get public arrest records, if there are any warrants, etc???

for florida

Answer 1

If you are in Tampa, here is the link for Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office. You can look up arrests Or who's in jail.
I like the site! I look up old high school enemies to see if they've been bad! :^) (I found a few too!)

One thing, the database appears to only go back a couple of years (I think it's 5). If someone did something before that, you may Not find their arrest.

Answer 2

I don't know about Florida, but in New York State you'd be going to ask the County Clerk. (Look for the Actions and Proceedings office, if they have one.) That won't give you an ARREST record, but it will get you a record of convictions and indictments. You can get a certificate of disposition (an official record of the outcome of adjudication) from that office, too.
Some of these items might be under seal (youthful offender convictions, et cetera). There's nothing you can do there.

As for warrants... your best bet is to check with the marhal's office for your local Superior Court district. If you ask nicely, they might help you.

A complete arrest record is harder. I don't know what to do there, as I've never had to find one. I know that theoretically and legally, they should be available to the public, but the records acquisition process in certain counties in New York has become so red-tape-laden as to almost be unusable.

The problem here is that this sort of thing doesn't work in the real world the same way that it does on television. Warrants from different jurisdictions won't necessarily all show up on record at one marshal's office. Same with convictions. Misdemeanor convictions handed down from municipal courts might not be on record with the felony convictions at the county clerk's office.

You're going to have a lot of driving around to do. Good luck.

[EDIT: http://www.flcourts.org/osca/courts/county.html <--- I should have just Googled earlier. If not the County Clerk, then the Clerk of the Court for the relevant state judicial circuit. This ought to help.]

Answer 3

Arrest records get sealed until the actions are ajudicated in the court system; the courts are where you can go for conviction and docket records that are public.

Answer 4

Go to your local police station and court house. They have everything on file.

Answer 5

To the court house you wish to check.

Answer 6

The county clerk.

Answer 7

court house

Answer 8

You could always google their name and something usually comes up.