Oregon criminal history is confidential and exempt from public inspection under ORS 181A.220 except where a specific statute opens it, and the Criminal Justice Information Services Division of the Oregon State Police is the central repository that answers the public where the law allows. Two services exist for the public: an Open Record Request, a name based search of the computerized criminal history repository that returns a copy of another person's Oregon record under ORS 181A.245, and a Copy of Your Own Oregon Record, a fingerprint based search that returns your own.
The open record is open with conditions. The State Police must notify the subject of the request and who made it, the subject has 14 days to challenge the accuracy of the information, and only then does the record go to the requester, limited by law to Oregon convictions and arrests less than a year old with no acquittal or dismissal reported. An employer must tell the applicant before asking and say so on the form.
- Someone else's record: $33.00 per request on the State Police open record request, by mail or online, with the person's full name, date of birth, Social Security number if available and a current or last known mailing address, which is required; results by mail only, never notarized.
- Your own record: $33.00 with a completed form and a properly rolled FD-258 applicant fingerprint card, mailed to the CJIS Division, Unit 11, P.O. Box 4395, Portland, OR 97208-4395; 7 to 10 business days plus mail, mailed only to you.
- Fingerprints: at a local law enforcement agency, a fingerprinting service or the State Police Salem headquarters, 3565 Trelstad Avenue SE, Building 1, Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., first come first served, $30.00.
- Not provided: other states' records, which come from those states, and the national record, which comes from the FBI.
Written by SearchSystems.net from Oregon's own systems: the Oregon State Police Criminal History Record Checks page, each read on October 14, 2026 by the SearchSystems editorial team.
The open record on another person: what the law releases
Under ORS chapter 181A a person or agency other than a criminal justice or law enforcement agency may obtain Oregon criminal offender information on someone else, and the State Police describe the result as limited access. If a criminal record exists, the requester first receives a notice that the 14 day waiting period has begun; the law provides any Oregon record of conviction and any Oregon record of an arrest less than one year old in which no acquittal or dismissal has been reported, showing the date of arrest, the offense, the arresting agency, the court of origin and the disposition, including the sentence, any parole date and any parole revocation. If there is no criminal information, or the person's record consists only of non conviction data, the requester receives a notice that the individual has no criminal record and nothing more.
The request must carry the individual's full name, date of birth, Social Security number if available, and a current or last known mailing address, without which the State Police cannot process it, plus the name and mailing address of the requester and the $33.00 fee; an incomplete or illegible request is delayed. By law the State Police notify the individual of the request, including who made it, and the individual may challenge the accuracy of the information; if no challenge arrives within 14 days of the notice, the response goes to the requester. An employer requesting information for employment purposes must, under Oregon law, advise the employee or prospective employee before requesting it and must say on the form that it did so and how. Requests are processed in the order received, answered in the manner received, and responses containing criminal history are mailed only. A record of someone else is never notarized. Businesses that use the service often can open a billing account for submitting requests, which does not give online access to results; those still arrive by U.S. mail.
A copy of your own Oregon record
A person can obtain a copy of their Oregon criminal history report, or a response stating they have no Oregon criminal history, by completing the State Police form, providing fingerprints and paying $33.00. Because of the confidentiality of the record, results are mailed only to the requester: not to an attorney, a family member, a friend or an employer, and the State Police will not send it to the Secretary of State for an apostille either, with no exceptions. The report covers Oregon only; another state's record comes from that state and the national record from the FBI's record check. Previously submitted criminal or applicant fingerprints on file cannot be reused, and prints cannot be transmitted electronically for this request, so a hard copy card is required.
The completed form, fingerprint card and fee go to the Oregon State Police, CJIS Division, Unit 11, P.O. Box 4395, Portland, OR 97208-4395; certified mail must go to the physical address, Copy of Own Record Unit, Oregon State Police, 3565 Trelstad Ave SE, Salem, OR 97317-9614. Processing generally takes 7 to 10 business days before the results are sent, not counting mail time, nothing can be expedited, and the only way to speed delivery is to supply a courier shipper at your own expense. Someone with no Oregon record receives a notice that a search of the master fingerprint file revealed no criminal record in Oregon.
Fingerprinting and the Salem counter
Fingerprints for the own record request come from a local law enforcement agency, a fingerprinting service or the State Police Salem office, at fees that vary by location. They must be properly rolled on the blue FD-258 applicant card, with rolled impressions of all ten fingers, two thumb prints and the four finger slaps of each hand showing clear ridge detail, and the card legible and complete with name, date and place of birth, gender, race, the subject's signature and the signature of the person taking the prints. The State Police themselves fingerprint the public only at General Headquarters, 3565 Trelstad Avenue SE, Building 1, Salem, OR 97317, Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Pacific, first come first served, for $30.00. Account and website help is at 503-378-3720 or orecord@osp.oregon.gov.
Notarization, apostilles and payment
The State Police notarize copy of own record documents for $5.00, and only those; a business, employer or agency sometimes requires a notarized copy to authenticate the result. A document that needs an apostille must be notarized by the State Police, since the Secretary of State may reject one that is not; someone who skipped that step can bring the documents to the Salem office, pay the $5.00 and leave them to be redrafted and notarized, not as a walk in or same day service, then have them mailed back or collected. Payment by mail is by check or money order payable to the Oregon State Police; in person at Salem, MasterCard or Visa debit or credit cards are taken, $50 and $100 bills are not, a personal check must be presented by the person named on it with government photo ID, and a business check by its signer with ID and proof of authority on the account.
Reading an Oregon result
An Oregon open record is a conviction record with a one year window on open arrests, released only after the person it concerns has been told and given two weeks to object; a response that the individual has no criminal record may hide a history of non conviction entries the law withholds. A copy of own record is the full Oregon file, fingerprint matched, and it reaches no one but its subject. Neither reaches beyond Oregon.
Questions about background checks in Oregon
Related Oregon records
The State Police record is one of the Oregon records this site covers: the Oregon court records guide explains the Judicial Department's own case files, the arrest records guide covers what a booking makes public, the sex offender registry guide covers the State Police registry, and the Oregon county pages list each sheriff and circuit court.