Monday, October 21, 2013

California Criminal Records

By Ben Kingsley


The State of California has the biggest population in all of the United States of America. With the vast population, it is quite a challenge for police officers and other arresting authorities to keep the streets of California safe for its citizens. With an intention to increase security within the state, the government made arrest documents open for public access. Arrest documents are found at a county, state, and federal level. The Public Records Ombudsman is a good place to start searching for the documents. You can head to their office and file a request there. But if you are aware of which county the documents were initially filed, you can access the documents from there. In the case of Sonoma Arrest Records, they are available at the Superior Court of California County of Sonoma.

Any individual is entitled with the right to procure arrest files because they are categorized as public files. However, you must strictly follow the guidelines as specified by the office in-charge of the files. You will be asked for a certain fee if you want to get your hands on arrest files. You can execute the payment by sending a money order or a certified check. If your request is accepted, you will have to wait for some time, usually a few weeks, before the results of your search request will be ready. Bear in mind that the money you paid will not be given back to you even if the files you are searching for are not found. And if a case is still being investigated, the file written under that case will not be available for request.

Individuals or groups that want to run a history check on certain individuals usually turn to criminal files, which arrest files are a part of. There are a number of data that are useful in people running background checks such as the name of the criminal, date and location of the crime, the crime committed, physical attributes of the criminal, and many more.

An arrest file is automatically created under a person's name when he or she is arrested regardless if incarceration is necessary or not. It is a good thing though that it is possible to hide an arrest filed under your name. But that can only happen if the evidences against you are not enough to put you to jail or sentence you.

Usually, arrest files are found at the office whose personnel executed the arrest. But if you want to look for other sources where you can retrieve the files, there are online service providers that are authorized to provide them to the public. Go over the Internet and look for one that suits your searching needs but before deciding which one to use, make use that you do a background check on them to check if they are reliable or not.

There are a lot of important details you can get from Arrest Records but you have to be extra cautious in how you make use of them because there are corresponding punishments if you do otherwise. The details will be valuable in your goal to keep your family and friends safe from the hands of criminals.




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