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About Los Angeles County Criminal History

Los Angeles County criminal records are divided among the Superior Court, sheriff and police records offices, California Department of Justice, corrections system, and California Megan’s Law Website. This privately operated resource organizes those official channels so readers can identify the correct portal, counter, address, or phone line without treating any one database as a complete criminal history.

Why We Built This Site

Public access in California depends on the record holder. Los Angeles Superior Court keeps filed charges, hearing entries, and dispositions. LASD holds sheriff booking and custody material, while each city police department retains its own incident reports. A person seeking their own statewide rap sheet must use California DOJ fingerprint record review. CDCR and the California Megan’s Law Website cover still different records. We arrange the official contacts, request routes, fees, and search tools by custodian.

What You Will Find Here

  • Record guides: how criminal court case records are searched and read in Los Angeles County
  • Official check walkthroughs: how name-based and fingerprint background checks work through the California Department of Justice, Bureau of Criminal Information and Analysis repository
  • Agency contacts: where to reach the sheriff's records unit, the criminal courts, and the statewide systems that hold Los Angeles County records
  • Record cleanup help: how expungement and sealing work under California law and where petitions are filed

What We Cannot Do

This is a privately run reference site. We have no connection to any California court, sheriff's office, police department, or state agency. There are real limits to what we can help with:

  • We cannot run an official background check or pull a criminal record for anyone
  • We cannot file expungement petitions, records requests, or any other paperwork on your behalf
  • We cannot issue certified copies of any criminal record, court document, or rap sheet
  • We cannot give legal advice or explain how a specific charge or case applies to you
  • We cannot guarantee that every phone number, fee, or address listed on this site is current right now

Only the issuing agency - the sheriff, the court, or the California Department of Justice, Bureau of Criminal Information and Analysis - can provide an official copy of a criminal record. We can point you to the right office, but the document has to come from them.

Search Partners

Some pages on this site include search boxes powered by third-party providers. Those companies set their own pricing and run their own services. When you use one of those tools and it leads to a paid signup, we may earn a referral fee. That revenue helps keep this site free for visitors. We do not control what those tools charge or what shows up in their results.