Idaho's best name search belongs to its corrections department, which lists everyone incarcerated, on probation or on parole, accepts a partial last name of two letters, and keeps the names of people who have finished their sentences while dropping their convictions. The courts' iCourt portal and the Secretary of State's business search answered an automated read with a wall or a bare page, so they are named rather than described.
The order to use: the IDOC search for custody and supervision, the ISP registry for status, DOPL for licenses, the business search for companies, then Health and Welfare for certificates and the county assessor and recorder pages SearchSystems lists for property, with iCourt for the cases once the county is known.
- Prison, probation and parole: the IDOC Resident/Client Search, by name or IDOC number, partial names accepted.
- Registered offenders: the Idaho State Police registry, by name, city, county or ZIP code, with a subscription option.
- Courts: the iCourt portal of the Idaho Supreme Court and Judicial Branch.
- Licenses and companies: the Division of Occupational and Professional Licenses search and licensee lists, and the Secretary of State's business search.
- Certificates, money and confidentiality: vital records at Health and Welfare, Your Money unclaimed property and the Address Confidentiality Program.
Written by SearchSystems.net from Idaho's own systems: the Idaho Department of Correction, the Idaho State Police, the Idaho Supreme Court and Judicial Branch, the Division of Occupational and Professional Licenses, the Secretary of State, the Department of Health and Welfare, the Idaho Legislature, each read on October 13, 2026 by the SearchSystems editorial team.
The IDOC resident and client search
The Idaho Department of Correction's Resident/Client Search provides information about individuals on court probation or currently under IDOC jurisdiction, meaning those incarcerated, on probation or on parole, including a listing of the felonies for which a person is serving time. The department states a rule that matters for a people search: the names of individuals who have served time and satisfied their sentence will appear, but their convictions will not. The search runs by name or IDOC number, and partial searches are accepted as long as they contain at least the first two characters of the last name or the first three digits of the number; a last name or an IDOC number is required. The database is updated daily, though the department says it may not reflect the most current location, status or scheduled termination date, and a mailing address appears once the person arrives in IDOC custody. Inaccuracies are reported through a Request for Information, copies of records come from IDOC Records Information, and the department is at 1299 N. Orchard St., Suite 110, Boise, ID 83706, 208-658-2000. The page also carried a warning about a phone scam in Ada County in which callers posing as a jail sergeant demand a fee to keep a defendant in custody; the department says no one is ever asked to pay to keep someone in jail or prison.
The Idaho State Police registry
The Idaho State Police publish the sex offender registry with searches by name, by city, by county and by ZIP code, a subscription for notifications, links to the county sheriffs, the Sexual Offender Registration Notification and Community Right-To-Know Act and its juvenile counterpart, and the national registry. The page gave SearchSystems its menu and no further description, so the search results are described on the site.
iCourt, and the Supreme Court's site
Idaho's court records are searched through the Judicial Branch's iCourt portal, which answered SearchSystems' automated read with a wall, as did the mycourts.idaho.gov address; the Idaho Supreme Court site itself answered with its heading and an I Need To menu. The portal is the state's official case search, and what it returns and what it charges are set on the portal. The Idaho county pages at SearchSystems list each county's clerk of the district court for records held locally.
DOPL: search a license, or get the whole list
The Division of Occupational and Professional Licenses offers a search for a license or registration, a service to get a list of licensees, a complaint form against a licensee and a public records request, alongside permits and inspections for electrical, HVAC and plumbing work. The division answers at dopl@dopl.idaho.gov and (208) 334-3233, and it warned licensees when read about fraudulent calls and emails from people pretending to represent DOPL or a licensing board. The list of licensees is the people search feature: a whole profession at once rather than one name at a time.
Companies and voters at the Secretary of State
The Secretary of State's business search at sosbiz.idaho.gov returned its title and no text, so its fields are on the page. The office's voter registration search, reached from elections.sos.idaho.gov, now lands on the voter tools at votertools.voteidaho.gov, which also gave no text; VoteIdaho.gov, read the same day, was built around the November 3, 2026 general election, with personalized sample ballots, registration deadlines, a state gun advisory question and county by county results of the May 19 primary. Whether the voter search shows other voters is set on the tool itself.
Birth, marriage, divorce and death records
The Department of Health and Welfare's Birth, Marriage and Death Records page covers ordering or changing a birth certificate, a marriage or divorce certificate, and a death, stillbirth or miscarriage certificate, each with instructions for filing a delayed certificate, so Idaho is a state where the health department holds marriage and divorce records as well as births and deaths. The same page describes the Putative Father, Voluntary Adoption and Abandoned Child Registries as ways people find others and stay connected. Behind the public page, the Bureau of Vital Records and Health Statistics runs the registration system with coroners, hospitals and funeral homes, and its provider page was last updated November 25, 2025.
Your Money, the ACP and the Public Records Act
Idaho's unclaimed property search is Your Money, the official state site, which answered with its title only. The Secretary of State's Address Confidentiality Program helps a person who moves to escape domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, malicious harassment or human trafficking keep the new address confidential through a substitute address and mail forwarding, which all state and local agencies must accept as the actual address under Idaho Code section 19-57; its third part is confidential voter registration records, so a participant does not appear in voter data either.
Idaho's Public Records Act sits in Title 74, Chapter 1 of the Idaho Statutes, published by the Legislature, whose site notes that statutes are updated each July 1 after the session; the Attorney General's public records page returned not found when read, so the Act's terms are in the statute itself. The Idaho State Police Bureau of Criminal Identification describes itself as the state's central repository for criminal records, fingerprints and crime statistics, serving law enforcement and assisting the general public through its fingerprinting and background check functions; the page gives no public search terms, so those are on its background check pages.
Idaho: IDOC keeps names, the counties keep deeds
An Idaho search leans on the IDOC database, which answers in one query whether a name is in prison, on probation, on parole or has been through the system at all, and on the ISP registry for status. DOPL and the business search tie the name to a license or a company, Health and Welfare confirms births, marriages, divorces and deaths, and the cases themselves are behind iCourt. Deeds and parcels are county records, listed on the Idaho county pages at SearchSystems.
The paid people search reports sold on Idahoans are compiled from these same sources; the IDOC search and the county recorder are where their claims are verified.
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