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Direct answer

What to use for criminal arrest records

The FBI Identity History Summary is a fingerprint-based record that an individual can request for personal review.

Route

Record sources for criminal arrest records

Need Official source What it can establish
Arrest report or booking event. Arresting police or sheriff; booking jail or detention agency. Ask the arresting agency’s records unit for the available arrest report and the booking custodian for the booking record. Supply the event jurisdiction and date, name and any report or booking number you already have; access and redactions depend on that office’s rules.
Later case outcome. Court clerk where charges were filed. Follow the case number into the court docket and request the disposition or judgment. Keep the arrest date separate from any later dismissal, acquittal or conviction.
Personal FBI history. FBI Identity History Summary Checks. FBI Identity History Summary requests are fingerprint based.
Local office navigation. USA.gov - Local Governments. USA.gov helps users locate local government offices; it is a navigation resource rather than proof about a specific person.
State prison information. USAGov - State departments of corrections. USA.gov provides a directory to state departments of corrections for state prison and prisoner information.

The FBI personal-history route is for your own record, uses fingerprints, and is not an inmate locator or a way to request another person’s FBI arrest record.

Important

Federal, state, and local custody systems are separate

Find the local custodian. Route local jail or warrant questions to the office that maintains them. This avoids turning one county or city source into universal coverage.

For a scoped records example, North Carolina’s court guide sends police-report requests to the law-enforcement agency involved and warns that the full report may not be public. Its court files come from the relevant clerk. Greenville County, South Carolina’s Detention Center separately links its inmate records; that is a county detention route, not the FBI personal-history product.

An arrest or booking is a dated event, not proof of conviction or present custody. An arrest record may omit the final disposition. Verify the later court outcome before describing it as a conviction; an empty jail result also does not erase a past arrest.

Check

Confirm the person before relying on a custody match

  • Verify the person. Keep identity confirmation separate from initial discovery: compare date of birth, location, and any case or record number before treating it as the intended person’s record.
  • Choose the custody system. Use the likely custodian—federal, state, or local—to select the locator. This makes transfer, release, and current-facility questions easier to interpret.
  • Confirm the outcome. Treat an older booking, index, or case entry as a dated event. Release, transfer, or later case activity can change what an older record means today.

Related Record Guides

Sources

Authoritative next stops

Official federal source; United States

FBI Identity History Summary Checks

FBI Identity History Summary personal review process and fingerprint-based identity history.

United States
Official federal navigation source; United States

USA.gov - Local Governments

USA.gov helps locate state and local government offices; it is navigation evidence rather than substantive proof about a person.

United States
Official source; Greenville County, South Carolina

Greenville County Detention Center

County detention custodian and official inmate-record navigation. Greenville County example only.

Checked October 2, 2026