Florida's state lookups are unusually deep. The Department of Corrections publishes every felony offender sentenced to state prison or supervision, current and prior offenses included, with a search that can run on aliases and on the first letters of a name. FDLE's registry searches by neighborhood radius, by campus and by internet identifier. The DBPR licensee search runs by name or by city, and Sunbiz indexes not only companies but fictitious names and judgment liens. Court records, by contrast, are held by the county clerks, and the state courts' own court records page was not available when read.
The order that works: the FDC offender search with aliases on, then the FDLE registry, then DBPR and Sunbiz for licenses, companies, fictitious names and liens, then the county clerk of court and property appraiser pages SearchSystems lists for each county, where Florida's case files and deeds actually live.
- State prison and supervision: the FDC Offender Information Search, felony offenders only, with an alias search.
- Registered offenders and predators: the FDLE Sexual Offender and Predator Search, by name, neighborhood, campus or internet identifier.
- Licenses: the DBPR licensee search by name, license number, city or county, or license type.
- Companies, fictitious names and liens: Sunbiz at the Division of Corporations.
- Certificates, money and the law: the Bureau of Vital Statistics, Florida Treasure Hunt and the Attorney General's Open Government page.
Written by SearchSystems.net from Florida's own systems: the Florida Department of Corrections, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, the Department of Business and Professional Regulation, the Division of Corporations, the Division of Elections, the Department of Health, the Attorney General, each read on October 13, 2026 by the SearchSystems editorial team.
Court records: the county clerks, not the state
Florida has no statewide court case search, and the state courts' Court Records page at flcourts.gov answered SearchSystems on October 13, 2026 with a notice that the page cannot be found. Case records in Florida are kept by the clerk of court in each county, and the Florida county pages at SearchSystems list each clerk's official site, which is where a name is run for civil, criminal, family and probate cases in that county.
The FDC offender search: felons, aliases and prior offenses
The Florida Department of Corrections' Offender Information Search, part of its Corrections Offender Network, takes a last name, a first name or a DC number, with options to search aliases, to hide photos on the list pages for speed, to show only offenders with photos and to limit matches per page. The database holds public record information on felony offenders sentenced to the Department of Corrections, meaning state prison or state supervision, and includes current and prior offenses, with offense types that cover attempts, conspiracies and solicitations. People sentenced to county jail, county probation or any other form of supervision are not in it. The information is derived from court records provided to the department, which says it may not reflect the true current location, status or release date and makes no guarantee of accuracy; questions go to the Bureau of Classification and Central Records at (850) 488-9859.
The search hints matter. The name fields match everything that begins with the letters typed, so Will returns Williams, Willis, Williamson and Willoughby, which helps when a spelling is uncertain. A DC number is six characters, all digits or one letter followed by five digits, and is the department's primary identifier. With the alias box checked all aliases are searched; unchecked, only committed names.
The FDLE registry: by name, neighborhood, campus or screen name
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement's Sexual Offender and Predator Search offers an offender search by first and last name, a neighborhood search by address, city, ZIP code and radius, a university and campus search and an internet identifier search, along with offender, Blue and missing person alerts and downloadable registries. FDLE says the information is reported directly to it by the Department of Corrections, the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles, law enforcement officials and the offenders and predators themselves, and that it does not independently confirm its accuracy; corrections go to the Offender Registry Services Bureau at 1-888-357-7332 or sexpred@fdle.state.fl.us. The page lists absconded offenders the department is seeking, offers free email alerts when a registrant moves into a neighborhood, and notes that registrants must report all email addresses, internet identifiers, phone numbers, employment, vehicles and in state travel, which is what makes the identifier search possible.
The site defines its terms from the Florida Sexual Predators Act, section 775.21: a conviction includes a plea of guilty or nolo contendere even with adjudication withheld, a permanent residence is a place where the person stays three or more consecutive days, and a temporary residence is a place used three or more days in a year. FDLE also warns that no private or commercial enterprise is authorized to link to the site and that reaching it through such a link may expose the visitor to monitoring; the direct address is the one to use.
DBPR: licenses by name, city or county
The Department of Business and Professional Regulation's licensee search covers applicants and licensed individuals in the professions and businesses the department regulates, searchable by name, by license number, by city or county, or by license type. The department also offers a free download site for general information about a licensee group, such as mailing addresses, and reminds licensees that under section 455.275(1), Florida Statutes, the email address they supply is a public record. The department is at 2601 Blair Stone Road, Tallahassee, with a customer contact center at 850.487.1395. A search by city or county is the people search feature: it lists every licensee the department has in that place.
Sunbiz: companies, fictitious names and judgment liens
The Division of Corporations calls itself Florida's official business entity index and commercial activity website, and its Search Records page covers corporations, limited liability companies, limited partnerships and trademarks, fictitious names by registration number and other fields, general and limited liability partnerships by document number, judgment liens by lien document number, federal lien registrations and cable franchises, each with its own search guide. The search application itself at search.sunbiz.org answered an automated read with a wall, so its fields are on the site. For a people search the fictitious name and judgment lien indexes are the ones most often overlooked: a person trading under a business name registers it here, and a judgment lien filed against a person is indexed here.
Voters, certificates and unclaimed money
The Division of Elections' voter lookup takes a first name, last name and birth date as they appear in the registration record and is, in the division's words, intended for use by a registered voter to determine his or her own registration and voting status; it warns that knowingly altering another person's registration is unlawful under sections 104.011, 104.041 and 104.41, Florida Statutes. A supervisor of elections must process an application within 13 days of receipt, with one to two business days more before it shows online. Florida certificates are issued through the Department of Health's Bureau of Vital Statistics, with online and phone orders through VitalChek, which the department calls its only recommended vendor. The state's unclaimed property search, Florida Treasure Hunt, redirected without text when read, so its search is described on the site.
The Address Confidentiality Program at the Attorney General
Under sections 741.401 through 741.465, Florida Statutes, the Attorney General's Address Confidentiality Program provides a substitute mailing address for relocated victims of domestic violence, with the Attorney General's office serving as legal agent for receipt of mail and service of process. Information comes through the office switchboard at (850) 414-3300, asking for the program. A participant's actual address is kept out of the records described on this page.
Open government, and the criminal history FDLE holds
The Attorney General's Open Government page says Florida leads the nation in public access to government meetings and records, that the Florida Constitution gives the public the right to know how officials spend taxpayer dollars and make decisions, and that the Attorney General's Mediation Program helps resolve public access disputes. The office's own custodian of records is at 107 West Gaines Street, Suite 128, Tallahassee, 850-414-3300, PublicRecordsRequest@myfloridalegal.com. Several Florida agencies repeat the same warning on their pages: under Florida law, email addresses sent to a state agency are public records.
FDLE's Obtaining Criminal History Information page says it discontinued mailed Florida Criminal History Information Request forms on July 1, 2020 and points to its Florida Criminal History Record Check for electronic requests; it describes state and national criminal history information as available to governmental agencies for licensing and employment, and offers a personal review by which an individual obtains their own record, which cannot be used for immigration, employment or licensing. The same page links FDLE's Public Access System, a wanted persons, missing persons and stolen property search meant to help the public assist investigations, not to report them.
Florida: FDC, FDLE, DBPR and Sunbiz
Florida's state systems identify a person without a fee: the FDC search, with aliases on, shows whether the name has ever been sentenced to state prison or supervision and what for; the FDLE registry shows registration by name or by a screen name; DBPR shows licenses by name or by town; Sunbiz shows companies, trade names and judgment liens. The cases themselves and the deeds are county records, held by the clerk of court and the property appraiser, and the Florida county pages at SearchSystems list both for every county.
Commercial people search sites lean heavily on Florida because so much is public; their reports are these sources resold, and the FDC search, the clerk and the property appraiser are the places to verify them.
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