Alaska is unusual in one way that matters for a people search: its statute lets any person buy a state criminal history on anyone else, by name for $20 or by fingerprint for $35, through the Department of Public Safety. The court system's CourtView index is free but is not a criminal history check, and it says so on its search page. The registry, the corrections department and the vital records office round out the picture.
The order that fits Alaska: CourtView first for the free view of civil and criminal cases that remain on the public index; the Department of Public Safety name based check when the question is criminal history and the $20 is worth it; the registry for status; then Health Analytics and Vital Records for certificates and statements of search, and the county and borough sources for property.
- Courts, free: CourtView, with the courts' own warning that some cases never appear and some are removed after a time.
- Criminal history, $20 or $35: the Department of Public Safety background check, open to any person under AS 12.62.160.
- Registered offenders: the Sex Offender and Child Kidnapper Registry.
- Certificates: Health Analytics and Vital Records, in person in Anchorage or Juneau, by mail, fax or VitalChek.
- Licenses, companies and money: the state's professional license search, business entity search and unclaimed property search.
Written by SearchSystems.net from Alaska's own systems: the Alaska Court System, the Department of Public Safety, the Department of Corrections, Health Analytics and Vital Records, the Sex Offender and Child Kidnapper Registry, each read on October 13, 2026 by the SearchSystems editorial team.
CourtView: free, and not a criminal history check
The Alaska Court System's public case search, CourtView, is reached from the courts' Search Cases page, which opens with a notice worth reading before any search: a search of court case records on the site is not a criminal history records check of a person. The courts explain that some court case records never appear on CourtView and that some are removed after a time period, as provided by statute, court rule or court order, and they keep a page titled Cases Removed From Public Index that describes the categories that are left out. Anyone who needs a complete, official State of Alaska criminal history report is sent to the Department of Public Safety, described next.
What this means for a people search is that CourtView is the place to see the cases that are public today, with their parties and filings, and a clean result there proves only that nothing is on the public index, not that nothing happened.
The criminal history any person may buy
Alaska Statute AS 12.62.160 authorizes any person to receive Alaska criminal justice information, and the Department of Public Safety's Criminal Records and Identification Bureau, which maintains that information, explains the terms on its background checks page. A request can be based on a name search or on the record subject's fingerprints. The department recommends the fingerprint based check, because a name based search may miss criminal history reported to the central repository under aliases or other names. The fee is $20 for a name based check and $35 for a fingerprint based check, and either one includes Alaska criminal justice information only. Fingerprints must be on a standard FD-258 FBI fingerprint form; prints in any other format are rejected, including the standard form printed at a different size or on different paper.
A name based check can be requested online, by mail, or in person at most Department of Public Safety offices and many local police departments. Mailed results come by mail or by fax, not both, unless an extra copy is bought; extra copies are $5 when requested with the original and $20 when requested later. The statute also lets employers and licensing agencies screening applicants for positions responsible for the care of children and dependent adults receive additional information as an interested person, and it lets the subject of a record view or buy a copy of their entire record. The department publishes forms for each path: information requested by the record subject, by someone other than the subject, a request to correct criminal justice information, and a request to seal it.
The Sex Offender and Child Kidnapper Registry
Alaska's registry of sex offenders and child kidnappers is run by the Department of Public Safety at sor.dps.alaska.gov, where the older dps.alaska.gov/SORWeb address also lands. The registry page answered SearchSystems with its title and no description, so its search terms are set on the page itself.
The Alaska Department of Corrections
The Alaska Department of Corrections describes its work as secure confinement, reformative programs and supervised community reintegration. The page SearchSystems read gives the department's frequently requested telephone numbers rather than a name search: general institution questions at 907.334.2381, sentenced electronic monitoring at 907.269.0927, pretrial electronic monitoring at 907.334.5998 and reentry services at 907.269.5299, and it says all visitation is open at all facilities, with specifics and appointments arranged with each facility directly. Whether a particular person is in the department's custody is a question for those numbers or for the facility.
Certificates and statements of search
Health Analytics and Vital Records, HAVRS, manages Alaska's vital records: certificates for births, deaths, marriages, divorces, adoptions, paternity and amendments. Its page lists orders by walk in at its Anchorage or Juneau office, by mail, by fax or through VitalChek, and says plainly that it does not accept email orders. Among its services is one that a people search can use when no certificate is wanted: statements of search for vital records, the office's written answer to whether a record exists. It also issues marriage licenses and heirloom certificates, takes delayed birth certificate applications and certifies documents for international use. The same office holds the state's health data, such as the cancer registry and hospitalization records, which are statistics rather than records of named people.
Licenses, companies, voters and unclaimed money
Four Alaska systems answered SearchSystems' automated read with a block or with a bare page, so this guide names them without describing them. The Department of Commerce, Community and Economic Development runs the professional license search and the business entity search; the Division of Elections runs My Voter Portal; and the state's unclaimed property search is at unclaimedproperty.alaska.gov. Each is the official site; what each returns is set on the site itself.
The Alaska search: a $20 check and the courts
An Alaska search starts free and ends paid. CourtView shows the cases that are on the public index today, with their parties. The registry settles registration status. If the question is criminal history, the $20 name based check from the Department of Public Safety is the state's own answer, and the department itself says the $35 fingerprint check is the one that cannot be dodged by an alias. HAVRS answers whether a birth, death, marriage or divorce is on file, through a certificate or a statement of search. Property and recorded documents sit with the boroughs and the state recorder's districts, and the Alaska pages on SearchSystems list the official sources for each.
Commercial people search sites build their Alaska reports from these same public systems. In Alaska the state will sell the real criminal history to any person for $20, so a paid report of a criminal record is never the final word when the original costs the same.
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