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.

Anyone can submit a request for the files because they are deemed as part of the public domain but corresponding guidelines must be observed. There are fees that must be paid for the retrieval of the files and are usually paid by money order or by check. After submitting your request, you must wait for a couple of weeks before results are returned. Once your request is accepted, no refund will be issued even if the files you requested for are not found. Also, if a case is still under investigation, its files will not be released to the public.

Arrest files are part of criminal files which are usually requested for by those who conducts background checks because of the vital pieces of information that they contain. In an arrest file you can find the name of the offender, the date and place the violation was committed, the nature of the violation, physical attributes of the offender, and many others.

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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