In development · early access

Statewide criminal search — every state, one search

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

Not callable yet. The same one-search model is live today for the registry: search every US sex offender registry at once — 100% US coverage, continuously updated.

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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 all 50 states, DC, the territories and the tribal registries. The criminal beta 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? Join the beta and set the order.

Statewide search FAQ

Can I run a statewide criminal search here today?

Not yet — the state layer is part of the criminal records beta, in active development. What is live today, and works exactly the way this page describes, is the sex offender registry search: one query across every US registry, 100% US coverage, continuously updated.

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.

Will the beta search one state or all of them?

Both, by design: name a state and search it, or run every state at once — the model the registry search already proves out daily. The order states ship in follows demand from the beta list.

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. The beta is being built so 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.