Friday, February 3, 2012

Where do I find free public police records?

I need to know where to find, where to look for free public police and arrest records.Everything cost to look. I just need to find out if some one was given a ticket at a certain place at a certain time.Or if this person was even pulled over for any reason. Because this person was at my home when they were supposed to be ticketed. And I was wondering if maybe there has been some kind of I.D. theft going on. So if there is any one that can help me I would appreciate it. thank you.Where do I find free public police records?
Most Town Newspapers print the arrests and the dispatch of Police officers to a scene. That data is public record, the "Police Call" gives the time, the date and offense the person was charged with.



Contact your Local Town Hall or the town Hall in other cities for links to their websites.



However, a traffic Ticket is not considered a crime... simple speeding for example. Driving under the Influence is a crime.



Suggestion: Have the person involved go to the Police station to examine the Police officers copy of the offense and ticket. If your friend was Not driving at that time, Generate an immediate appeal of the Ticket. All Traffic Tickets have an appeal process in my state, with a time limit.



There are many cases where an innocent person was given a ticket for a variety of reasons...an error in the individuals License Number or License Plate number, a computer problem and even Identity thief.



You friend can have their Day in court.



Good Luck.
I live in arkansas and we can go to the court house and just ask to see the public records...they asked us specifically what we were looking for and they looked it up for us (which was a DWI on my husbands ex-wife) and we were able to get all the info we needed including who was in the vehicle with her. Sometimes you can also go to your local newspaper and find out. They may not be able to give you the info, but can tell you how to get it. Dont know if this will help, I live in a very small town...sometimes easier to get information around here than where your from???Where do I find free public police records?
on your township's municipal websiteWhere do I find free public police records?
there is no such thing as "free" records. Under FOI if you can show that you're indigent then you can receive free copies of reports or documents. However this is specifically reserved for scumbag prisoners who are now broke because they're behind bars and can't rob and burgle to make the fee.

In any case, most departments will not release radio logs without a fee and personal identifiers are usually redacted under FOI. If the police department enters motor vehicle violations that they issue tickets for in their blotter (and most do) than you may go look at the blotter. A police blotter is public record and avai;able through FOI.

You'll no doubt have an officer standing over you though. This is to ensure that you don't alter or remove anything from the book. Go to the police department or state police barracks (or to the organization that issued the ticket) and ask to speak with the Records Supervisor. If not available ask to speak to the duty sergeant/sueprvisor. Inform them that you'd like to check the police blotter for the date(s) of whenever this occurred for the issuing of a ticket. Be sure you have the correct date and time because cops don't have the time to dilly-dally while you flip through page after page of stuff because you haven't come prepared. If you don't see it in the blotter, ask the supervisor to please check (if they can and have time) and just let you know if a ticket was issued for so-and-so on that date and perhaps the officer forgot to make the entry. If they come back and say.."Nope...no ticket" then you have one other alternative. Ask the person who received the ticket when the court date/answer date is. You can either show in court or call the infractions bureau in your state if it's a mail in fine and ask if they received payment for the ticket yet as you want to ensure the person has paid his/her fine.

That should get you started anyway.

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