Sex offender & criminal face search
Search by photograph instead of by name. Submit a face, get ranked candidates back, and reach everything on that person across both corpora on one key — sex-offender registries and more than a thousand county, state and federal jurisdictions. Over three million records, one schema, every result citing its source.
Access is provisioned per account after a short compliance review, then enabled on your existing key.
Identity first, then the whole record
A photograph answers the hardest question — which of these people is this person. Everything useful follows from settling that.
1 · Resolve by face
Submit a photograph and get ranked candidates with a similarity score. Each candidate is a full published record — offences, addresses, source citation — not an image alone.
2 · Confirm the person
A reviewer decides, with the photograph and the official record side by side. A face match is evidence for a person to weigh, never a verdict the API hands down.
3 · Pull everything on them
The confirmed identity runs against the criminal corpus on the same key: jail bookings, prison custody, court dispositions and warrants across 52 states and the federal system.
Two corpora, one key
A photograph is the front door. These are the rooms it opens — and they answer different questions about the same person.
Sex-offender registries
Every record carries the offence, the addresses a jurisdiction publishes, tier where it is stated, the registrant’s photograph, and a citation to the official listing.
Criminal records
county jail rosters, statewide prison systems, court records and dispositions, warrant systems and statewide registries — more than a thousand county, state and federal jurisdictions, with coverage in every US state. This is the depth a registry cannot give you: what a person has been booked for, held for, charged with, and how the case actually ended.
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county jail jurisdictions answering, for the booking record that is usually the first thing anyone wants.
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statewide prison systems — post-conviction custody, with facility and admission date.
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key, account and schema across both products. No second integration and no second contract.
When a name is not enough to go on
Common surnames, transliterations and nicknames return dozens of candidates. A photograph is a second axis of evidence when text alone cannot separate two people.
Investigators & skip trace
A photograph is often the strongest thing in a file — an old ID, a social avatar, a doorbell still. Where a common name returns dozens of candidates, a face ranks them, and every candidate arrives as a full record with the source cited so it can go straight into a report.
Trust & safety
A reported account usually gives you an avatar and a handle and nothing else. Ranked candidates give a reviewer somewhere to start, inside the queue they already work in, instead of closing the ticket unresolved.
Marketplaces & onboarding
Flows that already capture a selfie or an ID photo can resolve that person against public records without asking them for anything more than they have already given you.
Legal, insurance & claims
When a file turns on whether two photographs are the same person, a ranked candidate list with cited official records is evidence someone else can check — which is the only kind that survives being challenged.
Built on published records, not the open web
The corpus is bounded and every match is traceable to an official listing. That is what makes a result something you can put in a report, hand to a client, or defend to a regulator.
Every match cites its source
A candidate is not an image — it is the full published record behind it, with a citation you can follow to the official listing. Evidence that survives being checked by someone else.
A bounded, lawful corpus
Photographs that US registries already publish to the public, as part of the record they publish them with. Not an index of the open web, and no template for anyone a jurisdiction has not already published — which is precisely why it is deployable where an open-web tool is not.
A person decides, every time
Ranked candidates with a score, never a yes-or-no verdict. The reviewer weighs the photograph against the official record — both the correct way to use a face match and the posture regulators expect.
Deploying it where biometric law applies
Several states regulate biometric identifiers directly — Illinois under BIPA, Texas under CUBI, Washington under its own statute, with more following. Getting this right is the difference between a face capability you can put into production and one legal will stop.
The review is the point
Access is enabled per account after a short review of your use case. That step is what lets us hand you documentation matching what you are actually doing, rather than a generic page.
Consent sits with you
Where a statute requires notice or consent from the person whose image you submit, that obligation is yours and depends on your flow. We will tell you plainly what we think you need before you build against it.
Paperwork that travels
Security and privacy documentation comes with access, alongside our Trust & Security posture and a BAA where the work touches health data.
This describes the landscape and our process; it is not legal advice. Bring your use case and counsel’s questions to the access conversation — request access.
Facial search questions
What does a facial search actually return?
Ranked candidate records with a similarity score, in the same shape as a name search — never a yes-or-no verdict. Each candidate is a full published record with its source cited, so a person decides with the official record in front of them rather than trusting a number.
What do I get back on the criminal side?
Once the photograph has settled who someone is, that identity runs against the criminal corpus on the same key and the same account: jail bookings, prison custody, court dispositions and warrants, each labelled by record kind so a charge is never read as a conviction. Resolve the person, then pull everything on them — that is the workflow, in one integration.
What is behind it once identity is settled?
Two corpora on one key: the sex-offender registries, and more than a thousand county, state and federal jurisdictions with coverage in every US state — county jail rosters, statewide prison systems, court records and dispositions, warrant systems and statewide registries. Over three million records between them, in one schema, with per-source provenance on every result.
Is facial search available today?
Access is provisioned per account by our team after a short compliance review of your use case — screening photographs of real people warrants that step. Tell us what you are trying to do and we come back with access and the compliance documentation that fits it.
How does this differ from an open-web face search?
The corpus is bounded and every match traces to an official published record. It does not identify members of the public — only people a jurisdiction has already published, and only as ranked candidates a human then decides on. That boundary is why it can be deployed by regulated teams and put in a file, where an open-web index cannot.
How is it priced?
Per search, like the rest of the API. The exact rate is confirmed when access is enabled, before you are charged anything.
Is this a consumer report?
No. Offendersearch is not a consumer reporting agency and results are not a consumer report. FCRA-covered decisions — employment, tenancy, credit — need appropriate process on your side, the same terms that govern every other endpoint.