Louisiana's record is the Louisiana Computerized Criminal History system, LACCH, kept by the State Police Bureau of Criminal Identification and Information. It holds arrests, their dispositions, probation and parole bookings and incarceration for people arrested in Louisiana, plus the civil entries of people fingerprinted for jobs and permits, every entry created from a fingerprint submission; it holds nothing from other states.
The public route to the record is the Right to Review: under Louisiana Revised Statute 15:588 an individual obtains a certified copy of their own criminal history, by fingerprints, through the Louisiana Applicant Processing System's statewide network of IdentoGO sites. Employers and licensing boards get their checks through the same network with their own service codes, and the State Police no longer take walk ins at headquarters.
- Your own record: the Right to Review, scheduled online with a six digit service code, paid at the appointment, delivered as a mailed True Copy with a raised state seal or as a one time electronic link that expires in 30 days.
- By mail: for anyone physically unable to reach a site: the Right to Review authorization and disclosure forms with two FD-258 fingerprint cards and a $26 money order, cashier's check or business check to the bureau's post office box.
- Fees: $26 processing, $10 for fingerprints taken at headquarters, a $5 technology fee on every background check since December 1, 2024 under R.S. 15:587 D(1), and $3 more on federal checks from October 1, 2026 per the FBI.
- Employers: contact the hiring or licensing agency for its service code before scheduling; criminal history is released for screening when a law authorizes it, as it does for schools, day cares, health care, social services, gaming and regulatory boards.
Written by SearchSystems.net from Louisiana's own systems: the Louisiana State Police Bureau of Criminal Identification and Information page, the State Police fingerprints and background checks page, the State Police expungements page, the Right to Review authorization form, the Right to Review appointment scheduling guide, the State Police non licensed health care background check page, the State Police forms and documents page, each read on October 14, 2026 by the SearchSystems editorial team.
The record: LACCH and AFIS
The bureau describes LACCH as the repository of criminal history for the state of Louisiana, maintained by its Louisiana Criminal Justice Information Services section. It contains arrests, dispositions of those arrests, probation and parole bookings and incarceration information on people arrested in Louisiana, and information on people who applied for employment or permits requiring a fingerprint based check; it does not maintain arrest or conviction information from other states. Entries are created from fingerprint submissions through the Automated Fingerprint Identification System, a statewide system of more than 100 livescan booking sites integrated with mugshots and the criminal history, which identifies a person at booking in real time; the bureau can also update LACCH by hand from inked cards sent by agencies not on AFIS. A new submission is matched to any existing fingerprint record for the person, or a master record is created.
The Right to Review: two ways to receive it
The State Police page lays out the Right to Review as an appointment: schedule online, attend, pay for the service, then receive the report by mail or by email. The mailed copy is queued, printed by staff, stamped True Copy, signed by an employee and embossed with a raised state seal, which satisfies agencies such as the Secretary of State that require a printed copy with a raised seal; the State Police recommend it for all official purposes, including personal inquiry. The electronic copy is a secure link emailed with a password phrase that opens the report once, to be printed only from a computer, never downloaded to a mobile device, and expiring after 30 days; it is marked True Copy at the top of the first page and the bottom of the last and carries an employee's digital signature, and the State Police say it is for personal inquiry only. An expungement sometimes needs printed fingerprint cards with the report; those come separately from a sheriff's office, a police department or an IdentoGO site offering full fingerprinting, or at State Police headquarters for an additional fee.
Scheduling, service codes and sending results to a lawyer
Scheduling runs through the IdentoGO enrollment site with one of the six digit service codes in the State Police scheduling guide, each code tied to a delivery option; at the reading the guide marked the emailed Right to Review code as temporarily disabled. An applicant who wants the result delivered to an attorney or authorized representative enters that person's email or mailing address while scheduling and, for the digital version, gives them the security question and answer set during enrollment. The State Police warn that every later notice, including a fingerprint rejection, goes to the email supplied, that a lost security answer means a new appointment, that results can be opened only from a computer and only once, and that the Right to Review Attorney or Authorized Representative form accompanies the forms when a representative files on the applicant's behalf.
The mailed route and the fees
Someone physically unable to appear at a fingerprint site mails the Right to Review authorization form and the disclosure form with fingerprints and fees to the Louisiana State Police, Bureau of Criminal Identification and Information, P.O. Box 66614, Box A-6, Baton Rouge, LA 70896: two FBI FD-258 fingerprint cards and a $26 money order, cashier's check or business check. The form lists the fees as a $10.00 fingerprint fee when printed at State Police headquarters and a $26.00 processing fee required either way, paid in person as two separate money orders, cashier's checks or business checks or by credit card; it also notes that prints taken electronically at headquarters after 3:30 are ready the next business day. The signed form authorizes the State Police to release the record held in their files, other states' files or the FBI's where applicable, and cites 28 CFR 16.34, under which officials deciding suitability for a license or job must give the person a chance to complete or challenge the record.
Two notices change the arithmetic. Effective December 1, 2024 a $5 technology fee is added to every background check request under R.S. 15:587 D(1), and effective October 1, 2026 a $3.00 increase applies to every federal background check request, per the FBI, with state fees unchanged.
Headquarters: no walk ins
Walk in appointments are no longer accepted at State Police headquarters, 7919 Independence Blvd, Baton Rouge, LA 70806; routine fingerprint scheduling goes through the IdentoGO network, and the bureau's fingerprint office takes calls only for emergencies. Its hours are Monday through Friday from 7:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., subject to early closure when customer volume is high, and closed on every holiday the State of Louisiana observes. Many IdentoGO centers also capture prints digitally and print them onto a standard FD-258 card for the agencies that still require physical fingerprints.
Checks for employers, boards and health care
Criminal history is available, when authorized by law, for applicants for various employment: the State Police name schools and day cares, health care, social services, medical professionals, the gaming industry and regulatory agencies among those that require screening, and tell applicants to get the correct service code from the licensing or hiring agency before booking. The State Police forms page carries the LSP Internet Background Check with its authorization form, a general disclosure form for an employer checking an employee and a rap disclosure form for boards such as the State Board of Medical Examiners, the Board of Nursing, the Board of Pharmacy and the ABC Board, together with the onboarding packet, user agreement and FBI security policy a noncriminal justice agency must follow. For non licensed health care employees, the bureau is the sole provider of the state and federal checks required by R.S. 40:1203.2, which do not apply to hospital or licensed employees; a provider submits the VECHS onboarding packet, is approved by the State Compact Officer, completes CJIS security training and receives LAPS credentials to retrieve the records.
Expungement: $250 and a motion with the clerk
The bureau processes court ordered expungements, which remove an arrest and conviction record from access except as Louisiana Code of Criminal Procedure article 973 allows. The process starts with the clerk of court in the parish of arrest or conviction, where the forms and documents are filed, and the expungements page strongly recommends a Right to Review first, because the motion must match the booking on the state rap sheet: the arrest date is the date the booking agency took the fingerprints, the original charge is listed even if later amended, every count is included, misdemeanor and felony convictions go in their own sections, and dispositions, district attorney certifications and any fee waiver are attached. The State Police fee is a $250 money order payable to the Louisiana State Police, valid for at least a year and unaltered; a fee waiver from the district attorney is attached where it applies, and article 983(F) makes anyone ever convicted of a felony, including an expunged one, ineligible for a waiver. An order missing identifying information or arrest dates cannot be processed, and an amended motion needs an amended order. Title XXXIV of the code governs expungement and article 986 supplies the forms.
Reading a Louisiana record
A Louisiana criminal history is fingerprint built and Louisiana only. The certified Right to Review is the document that proves what the state holds, and the raised seal version is the one agencies accept; the electronic link is a personal look. An employer's check arrives through its own service code, never through the applicant's personal copy, and anything from another state or the FBI enters only where the law lets the bureau pull it.
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Related Louisiana records
The State Police record is one of the Louisiana records this site covers: the Louisiana court records guide explains the clerks' case files behind each disposition, the arrest records guide covers what a booking makes public, the inmate search guide finds people in Department of Corrections custody, and the Louisiana parish pages list each sheriff and clerk of court.