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Statewide criminal search — every state, one search

Today a statewide check means a different portal, login and format for every state you care about. This is the version you would expect: name a state, or search every covered state at once.

Depth still varies by state, and the reference is the honest per-state answer. The same one-search model already runs our sex offender registry search — 58 US registries, continuously updated.

Read the API reference

The patchwork problem

Fifty different front doors

Every state answers "run a statewide check" differently: some run a public court portal, some sell access to a repository, some route everything through paperwork. Fifty processes, none interchangeable.

Fifty different answers

Fields, name formats, what counts as a reportable record, how far back results reach — each state decides for itself. Comparing results across two states is an exercise in translation before it is an exercise in screening.

And the person moved

People cross state lines; their records stay behind. A statewide check in the state where someone lives NOW says nothing about the state they left — which is why "statewide" screening is only as good as running every state.

The model already works — for the registry

One search across every state is not a hypothesis here: it is how the live registry product works today, across the 50 states, DC, the territories and the tribal registries. The criminal search extends that model to the state criminal layer, beside the county and federal layers.

One state or every state, from one query
One schema, whatever the state calls its fields
Each record cited to the state source that holds it
API for your system, dashboard for your team

Which states does your screening touch? Read the API reference to start.

What a record looks like

A statewide custody record, normalized

A record from a state prison system (DOC), returned in the same scored, source-cited shape as the county and federal layers. Fictional data.

Jordan A. Sample

State · DOC custody

System: Illinois Department of Corrections
DOC number: IL-1148207
Offense: Aggravated battery
Status: Paroled
Facility: Formerly Graham Correctional Center

Sample record — fictional data. Every real record cites the state system it came from and the age of its most recent update.

Statewide search FAQ

Can I run a statewide criminal search here today?

Yes. The state layer is live: statewide prison systems, court records and registries, with coverage in every US state. Coverage depth still varies by state, so /v1/criminal/sources is the honest per-state answer. Our sex offender registry search remains the original product and works the same way.

What is a statewide criminal search?

A search of a state-level criminal record source — a court portal or state repository — rather than a single county court. It is broader than one county and narrower than the country, and today every state runs its own version by its own rules.

Can I search one state or all of them?

Both, by design: name a state and search it, or run every covered state at once — the model the registry search already proves out daily.

How does this relate to county and federal records?

State repositories are one of three layers. Most cases start at the county courthouse; federal cases live in the district courts; the state layer sits between. One search reads all three and cites, per record, exactly where it came from.

Is this a consumer report?

No. Offendersearch is not a consumer reporting agency and results are not a consumer report. FCRA-covered decisions need appropriate process on your side — the same terms that govern every other endpoint.