How To Search Public Arrest Records

The US Supreme Court has ruled that any person has the right to get information from a police record whether that person is involved in a lawsuit against the department or not. The police cannot withhold arrest information from the public. The public is able to access police records even beyond the basic information of name, address, date, time and place of the arrest and the offense for which the person has been arrested.

There are many places and websites from where you can get the access to free arrest records. One is your local courthouse and sometimes your police station. They allow free criminal arrest records to be seen but it may take some time before you get the information. Or you can access the public arrest records online through a search engine like Google or Yahoo. You open the search engine and type the name of the person whose arrest record you want to check and you will get it in most cases. Sometimes there may be people with the same name and you will get hundreds of results. In such cases you will have to elaborate further and state his address or date of birth.

There are online public arrest records searches but you may have to give your email address or some contact information. This may result in unwanted spam messages and you still may receive inaccurate information. Lastly, you can visit public record websites. These websites will give you access to a databases of millions of public records which you can easily search and find exactly what your looking for.