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About Alabama Criminal History

Alabama criminal records are divided among several government systems. The Alabama Law Enforcement Agency maintains the state criminal-history repository, while the Alabama Department of Corrections operates its inmate system. Court files, the Alabama Sex Offender Registry, and records created by sheriffs and courts across 67 counties follow separate paths. Alabama Criminal History was built to help readers identify the correct statewide system or county records office without having to sort through unrelated government sites or mistake one government record for another.

Why We Built This Site

Public access in Alabama depends on knowing who created and who maintains a record. ALEA's Criminal Records Identification Unit holds the fingerprint-linked statewide criminal-history repository. The Alabama Department of Corrections tracks people in state prison, the Alabama Sex Offender Registry publishes the legally available registry data, and Alabama courts maintain criminal case information. Arrest reports, booking entries, jail rosters, and original case files usually remain with local agencies and courts in one of Alabama's 67 counties. This site brings the statewide routes together and connects them to county-specific sites containing local contacts, portals, fees, and procedures. Use the Alabama county directory when the record remains with a sheriff, jail, municipal court, or circuit clerk.

What You Will Find Here

  • County routing: a complete directory of all 67 Alabama counties, with each county linked to its local criminal-record resource
  • Statewide systems: clear explanations of the ALEA repository, court search, corrections locator, and registry, including their scope and access limits
  • Official record review: how fingerprint-based self-review works through the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency and why the restricted ABC service is not a public people search
  • Court guidance: how to locate and understand Alabama criminal court cases
  • Record-clearing information: where Alabama expungement petitions are filed and which government source can confirm the result

What We Cannot Do

This is a privately run reference site, not part of ALEA, an Alabama court, a sheriff's office, a police department, or any other government agency. Those limits matter:

  • We cannot issue a certified court file, rap sheet, or other official record
  • We cannot submit an Alabama expungement petition, public-record request, or other filing for a visitor
  • We cannot retrieve a criminal record or perform an official background check
  • We cannot interpret a charge or case as legal advice
  • We cannot promise that an agency's fee, address, telephone number, or procedure has not changed

An official Alabama criminal record must come from its source, such as ALEA, the court, or the county office that created it. This site can identify that source but cannot issue the document.

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Third-party providers power search boxes that appear on some pages. They control their own services, prices, and results. A paid signup reached through one of those tools may generate a referral fee for this site, which supports free public access to the reference material. We do not set a partner's charges or determine the information returned.