Delaware is a small state with a very large corporate registry, and its people search systems reflect that: the Division of Corporations gives away the registered agent's name, address, phone number and residency for every entity, active or inactive, while the courts offer a civil case search and the State Police publish a registry that can be searched by a registrant's workplace or online identifier. Criminal history is released only against fingerprints.
The order that fits: the civil case search for suits and judgments, the registry for status, DELPROS for licenses, the entity search for any company the person formed or serves as agent for, then the three county recorders of deeds for property, which SearchSystems lists on its Delaware pages.
- Courts: the Delaware Courts civil case search, reached from the judiciary's home page.
- Registered offenders: the Sex Offender Central Registry, by name, address, development, workplace, conviction state or online ID.
- Licenses: DELPROS License Look-Up, free, real time, with disciplinary documents attached.
- Companies: the Division of Corporations entity search, with the registered agent's name, address and phone number free.
- Voters, certificates and money: iVote, the Office of Vital Statistics and Delaware Unclaimed Property.
Written by SearchSystems.net from Delaware's own systems: the Delaware Courts, the Delaware State Police State Bureau of Identification, the Division of Professional Regulation, the Division of Corporations, the Department of Elections, the Department of Justice, each read on October 13, 2026 by the SearchSystems editorial team.
The Delaware Courts and the civil case search
Delaware's court system is made up of the Supreme Court, the Court of Chancery, the Superior Court, the Family Court, the Court of Common Pleas, the Justice of the Peace Court and the Administrative Office of the Courts, and the judiciary's home page lists a Civil Case Search among its services, described as access to the courts' civil case online database. The same page carries the courts' hours and locations by county, the e-filing and e-payment systems, a trade names service for researching and registering trade, business or fictitious names, and a warning that bogus calls and texts are making false claims about warrants, jury duty and toll violations. When read on October 13, 2026 the page noted a phone outage at the Administrative Office of the Courts and the Supreme Court in Wilmington, with calls directed to 302-255-0000. The home page does not describe a criminal case search, so this guide does not claim one.
The Sex Offender Central Registry, searchable by workplace
The Delaware State Police State Bureau of Identification maintains the Sex Offender Central Registry under Title 11, Sections 4120 and 4121 of the Delaware Code. Its search fields go well beyond a name: last name, first name, house number, street, development, county, city, ZIP code, workplace, conviction state and online ID, with an option to exclude offenders residing in Department of Correction facilities. The site shows only registrants the courts have classified as moderate risk, tier 2, or high risk, tier 3; tier 1 low risk offenders are not displayed. Tier 1 registrants must register for 15 years and tier 2 for 25, and the site explains the petitions by which a tier can be lowered. People arrested but not convicted are not required to register, and conviction includes adjudications of delinquency and pleas of guilty but mentally ill or not guilty by reason of insanity.
Registrants must supply every name and alias ever used, their driver's license, phone numbers, residential addresses, employer and school details, every vehicle owned or operated, all email addresses and internet identifiers and copies of any professional licenses, which is why the search can run on a workplace or an online handle. The bureau warns that positive identification cannot be established without comparing fingerprints taken at arrest, that the information can change quickly and is provided by the registrants themselves, and that anyone who uses it to threaten, intimidate or harass a registrant or their family may face criminal prosecution or civil liability. Automated harvesting is blocked with a human check every 10 pages of results. The map view adds offenders nightly and omits addresses it cannot geocode. The bureau answers at P.O. Box 430, Dover, DE 19903 and (302) 739-5882, and the state offers an email subscription for registry changes.
DELPROS: free, real time license verification
The Division of Professional Regulation's License Look-Up searches individuals by last name, first name, city, state, profession, type and license number, and facilities by name or doing business as name, and the division recommends starting with the profession and a full or partial name. Entries must match exactly how the information is stored, or the person may not be found. Results list each license with its status, and a Yes in the Discipline column opens the disciplinary history with each document downloadable; a number beginning L2K or APP is an application, not an issued license. The division calls its online verifications primary source verifications, free of charge and drawn in real time from the DELPROS licensure database, and a View Affiliations button shows prerequisite relationships such as a broker of record, a supervisor or a pharmacist in charge. The professions range from veterinary medicine and speech and hearing to social work and real estate appraisal.
The entity search: the registered agent, free
The Division of Corporations' entity search takes an entity name or file number, returns both active and inactive entities, and supplies free of charge the entity name, file number, incorporation or formation date, and the registered agent's name, address, phone number and residency, in real time as of the date of the search. Certificates of status and certified or plain copies of filed documents cost a fee and are ordered through a Delaware online agent or the Document Filing and Certificate Request Service. The search is by entity, not by officer, so it finds a person only through a company name already known or through the agent field of a result; the division prohibits data mining and excessive repeated searches and may suspend access for automated tools.
iVote, the Office of Vital Statistics and Delaware Unclaimed Property
The Department of Elections' iVote looks up a registration from a first name, last name, date of birth and driver's license or state ID number, all required, which makes it a tool for reviewing one's own record and requesting an absentee ballot rather than a lookup of other voters; polling places are shown once finalized, and anytime at gis.elections.delaware.gov. The Division of Public Health's Office of Vital Statistics answered SearchSystems with its heading only, and Delaware Unclaimed Property with its title, so the terms of both are on their own pages.
Criminal history by fingerprint, and FOIA by opinion
The registry page states that Title 11, Chapter 85 of the Delaware Code authorizes the State Bureau of Identification to release criminal history record information upon receipt of the subject's fingerprints and a fee set by the Superintendent of the State Police, with questions to (302) 739-5882; the bureau's own page redirected to a notice that its Dover office is at 600 S. Bay Road, Suite 1, Dover, with background check appointments at 302-739-2528. A fingerprint based release means the subject is present, so Delaware does not sell a name based criminal history to third parties through this route.
The Department of Justice's FOIA page says the Attorney General's opinions from 1995 to the present mostly concern disputes over access to public records and alleged open meetings violations under Delaware's Freedom of Information Act, and that the Attorney General can sue on a citizen's behalf when a public body ignores a determination that records must be released. The page SearchSystems read was an older press release about such a suit; the opinions themselves are the state's guide to what a Delaware agency must hand over.
Delaware: registry by workplace, agent phone for free
In Delaware the registry and the licensing lookup are the name searches, the civil case search covers suits, and the corporate record is the richest free document the state offers, with the agent's phone number attached. Property, deeds and local vital records are county matters in New Castle, Kent and Sussex, and the Delaware county pages at SearchSystems list the recorder of deeds and assessment offices for each.
Commercial people search sites resell these Delaware sources and cannot add the criminal history, which the state releases only against fingerprints. The courts' civil search and the county recorder are where a report is tested.
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