Arizona's court lookup is the broadest single name search the state runs: one form, 177 of the state's 184 courts, free, with a typed verification word before each search. Around it sit the prison datasearch, the offender site, the medical board, the Corporation Commission's eCorp filings and the Bureau of Vital Records, several of which answer automated readers with a wall and are therefore named here rather than described.
Work it in this order: the court lookup for cases and the county they sit in, then the inmate datasearch and the offender site for status, then eCorp and the medical board to tie the name to a company or a license, then the Bureau of Vital Records for certificates, and the county recorder and assessor pages for property.
- Courts, free: the Public Access case lookup, 177 of 184 courts, refreshed weekly, with the eAccess portal for Superior Court documents.
- In custody: the ADCRR inmate datasearch.
- Registered offenders: the Department of Public Safety's sex offender compliance site.
- Certificates: the Bureau of Vital Records in Phoenix, (602) 364-1300.
- Companies, doctors and money: eCorp at the Corporation Commission, the Medical Board doctor search and unclaimed property at the Department of Revenue.
Written by SearchSystems.net from Arizona's own systems: the Arizona Judicial Branch, the Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, the Department of Public Safety, the Department of Health Services Bureau of Vital Records, the Department of Revenue, the Arizona Ombudsman Citizens' Aide, each read on October 13, 2026 by the SearchSystems editorial team.
The Public Access case lookup: 177 courts, one search
The Arizona Judicial Branch offers Public Access to Court Case Information as a single online search of court cases from 177 of the 184 courts in Arizona, with a link on the page that shows which courts are unavailable. To hold down high volume use, the site makes every searcher type randomly generated verification words before a search runs, and it tells anyone who needs volume access to contact the courts to discuss options; the same data can be supplied on electronic media for an annual subscription fee.
The lookup's own notes set its limits. Sealed cases, cases involving Orders of Protection, mental health and probate cases, and victim and witness data are excluded. Juvenile incorrigible and delinquency cases cannot be viewed, although other cases with juvenile parties, such as traffic cases, may appear. Charges stemming from local ordinance violations are not included, and neither are certain administrative functions of the superior court clerks, such as passport applications and private process server registration. The courts state that the information may not be a current, accurate or complete record of the case, that it is not the official record, that not all cases from a participating court may be included, and that it should not be used as a substitute for a thorough background search of official public records; the user is responsible for verifying it against the file at the court of record. Case information on the site is updated weekly, each Friday, to reflect cases through the Wednesday of the same week, so a filing from the last few days will not show yet.
For the documents themselves, the Judicial Branch points to its eAccess portal, which gives access to criminal and civil court documents in the Superior Court.
The ADCRR inmate datasearch
The Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry runs an inmate datasearch at inmatedatasearch.azcorrections.gov, also reached from the department's own site. Both addresses answered SearchSystems' automated read with a wall rather than a page, so this guide does not describe the search beyond naming it as the department's official lookup for the people in its custody.
The DPS offender site and the DPS records request
Arizona's sex offender information is published by the Department of Public Safety through its Sex Offender Compliance site, which answered SearchSystems with its title and nothing more. The same department takes records requests through its Public Services Portal; that page too carried its heading alone when read, so the terms for criminal history and other DPS records are on the portal itself.
The Bureau of Vital Records
The Department of Health Services' Bureau of Vital Records issues Arizona birth and death certificates, and its page is organized as a menu of who can obtain a birth certificate, who can obtain a death certificate, how to apply for each, stillbirth and fetal death certificates, corrections and amendments, delayed and foreign birth registrations, and a separate entry for marriage and divorce records, which in Arizona are not held by the bureau. Expedited service runs through VitalChek Network, and the page also lists the local county health departments as a place to apply. The bureau is at 150 North 18th Ave., Ste. 120, Phoenix, AZ 85007, with mail to PO Box 6018, Phoenix, AZ 85005, and answers at (602) 364-1300 and (888) 816-5907, Monday to Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., closed weekends and state holidays. Who may obtain a certificate is the first item on the menu for a reason: Arizona restricts certified copies to people with a qualifying relationship, which the bureau's own pages spell out.
Companies, doctors, voters and unclaimed money
The Corporation Commission's eCorp entity search did not answer SearchSystems' automated read at all, and the Arizona Medical Board doctor search, the Secretary of State's voter portal and its Address Confidentiality Program page each answered with a wall. The unclaimed property page at the Department of Revenue answered with its heading only. All five are the official systems for what they cover; what each shows is set on the site itself, and this guide claims nothing about them beyond the address.
The public records law, as the Ombudsman explains it
Arizona's Ombudsman Citizens' Aide keeps a page on the public records law. The law requires all officers and public bodies to maintain records reasonably necessary to provide an accurate accounting of their official activities and of any government funded activities, and any record in the custody of an Arizona government entity with a substantial nexus to government activity is a public record presumed subject to disclosure, a presumption the page sources to the Arizona Supreme Court's 2007 decision in Griffis v. Pinal County. Under A.R.S. section 39-121 the public has a right to inspect public records in person, and under section 39-121.01 a right to obtain copies, subject to reasonable copy fees. Section 39-171 requires every entity subject to the law to post on its website the name, telephone number and email address of an employee or department able to provide requested information or to forward the request to one that can, which is the line to look for on any Arizona agency site before writing a request.
The Ombudsman publishes a Public Records Law Booklet, an Agency Handbook chapter whose appendix indexes the records made confidential by statute, Attorney General opinions including one on copying fees, and the state archives' retention schedules. Its Public Access Unit answers at Ombuds@azoca.gov and 602-277-7292.
Arizona: 177 courts and one offender search
The court lookup carries most of an Arizona search: one form reaches 177 courts, returns the parties and the court, and the eAccess portal supplies Superior Court documents when a case turns up. The inmate datasearch and the offender site settle custody and registration. eCorp ties a name to a company and the Medical Board to a license, and the Bureau of Vital Records confirms a birth or a death for a qualified requester. Property follows the county: the recorder for deeds and the assessor for parcels, listed office by office on the Arizona county pages at SearchSystems.
Paid people search reports on Arizonans are assembled from these same systems, and the court lookup's own warning applies to them twice over: the data may be incomplete, and only the file at the court of record is official.
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