Friday, December 20, 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.

An arrest document is part of a criminal document. People that run background checks on other people can find a lot of useful details from criminal documents. Some of the details that you can find include the name of the arrested person, physical attributes, when and where the offense took place, description of the offense, and other similar details.

When a person gets arrested, an arrest file is filed under the offenders name even if the arrest did not result to an imprisonment. Fortunately, if the offender is proven not guilty or is cleared of the violation that he or she is accused of, the files can be sealed so as to protect the reputation of the involved person.

Normally, you can locate arrest files at where they were first filed but you can also get them from certain websites. There are various sites that are involved in supplying them to the public but not all of them are able to give credible and reliable information. So before you use the services of a certain site, be sure to check if they have a respectable track record in providing arrest files.

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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