Nebraska sells the two records most people search for. The judicial branch's JUSTICE system returns up to 30 cases from every county and district court in the state for $17, with the filed documents as images, and the State Patrol says plainly that you can request a criminal history report on anyone you want for a $45 fee, searched by name and date of birth. The registry searches by radius, the health department's license search is refreshed each morning, and the public records statutes have opened state records since 1866.
The order to use: the free lookups first, the incarceration search, the registry, the license search and the corporate search; then JUSTICE for $17 when the cases are the question, and the State Patrol report for $45 when the arrest record is; then the Office of Vital Records for certificates and the county register of deeds and assessor for property, listed on the Nebraska county pages at SearchSystems.
- Courts, all 93 counties: the JUSTICE court case search, $17 a search by party name, up to 30 cases with document images.
- Criminal history, $45: the State Patrol's Record of Arrest and Prosecution, by name and date of birth, on anyone.
- In custody: the Department of Correctional Services Incarceration Record Search.
- Registered offenders: the Nebraska Sex Offender Registry, by name, by county, city or ZIP, or within a one to three mile radius.
- Licenses, companies, voters and certificates: the DHHS License Information System, the corporate and business search, VoterCheck and the Office of Vital Records.
Written by SearchSystems.net from Nebraska's own systems: the Nebraska Judicial Branch, the Nebraska State Patrol, the Nebraska Sex Offender Registry, the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services, the Nebraska Secretary of State, the Nebraska Attorney General, each read on October 13, 2026 by the SearchSystems editorial team.
JUSTICE: every trial court, $17 a search
Nebraska has one county court and one district court in each of its 93 counties, with separate juvenile courts in Sarpy, Lancaster and Douglas, and the judicial branch's case information page explains that case records from the statewide trial court system, JUSTICE, are public record and most filed documents are viewable online as images. The one time court case search costs $17 per search by the name of a party, returns up to 30 cases, and gives three calendar days of access to the case detail with the date and outcome, the parties and their attorneys, court costs, payments, the register of actions and images of documents filed after April 16, 2008; a search with no results is still charged, and the courts recommend not narrowing by other criteria unless more than 30 matches turn up. New cases appear after a 24 hour lag, each court has an installation date before which its cases are not in the system, and a juvenile adjudication, the page notes, is not a conviction under section 43-280.
Frequent searchers subscribe through Nebraska.gov for $100 a year with up to 10 user names; for subscribers, general searches for lists of cases by party name, court type, case type, county, year, judge or attorney are free, viewing a case is $2, images are included, and judgment date and case number searches are $2 each. Case information in JUSTICE and the appellate system SCCALES is free at any courthouse kiosk or law library, including the Nebraska State Library.
The $45 RAP sheet on anyone
The Nebraska State Patrol's Criminal History Record Requests page says the public may request a Record of Arrest and Prosecution for any individual: Nebraska arrests where the person was fingerprinted and the resulting dispositions, which may be convictions, acquittals, declinations, no charges filed, or convictions nullified by set asides and pardons. Under Nebraska Statute 29-3523 some entries leave the public record on a schedule: an arrest with no charges filed drops out one year after the arrest, an arrest resolved by diversion after two years, and a charge dismissed on the prosecutor's motion or by acquittal or a completed court program immediately. The patrol describes itself as a library of what its criminal justice partners report, with corrections made at the source. A name based report, which the patrol calls the most accessible method and offers to anyone willing to pay the nominal fee, is searched on a name and date of birth, with Social Security number and former names helpful; fingerprint based national checks are limited to purposes authorized by law. The report costs $45.00 online, in person at any Troop Area office, or by mail to the Criminal Identification Division.
The incarceration search and the registry
The Department of Correctional Services' Incarceration Record Search answered SearchSystems with its title only, so its fields are on the page. The Nebraska Sex Offender Registry searches by first or last name, by region, meaning county, city or ZIP code, and by location, within a one to three mile radius of a specified point. Its page quotes Nebraska Statute 29-4002, under which the legislature found that sex offenders present a high risk of repeat offenses and required registration with local law enforcement so that communities can prepare, and it warns that registry information shall not be used to retaliate against registrants, their families or their employers, with vandalism and threats prosecuted.
Licenses updated daily, companies, voters
The Department of Health and Human Services' License Information System Search offers individual, business and facility searches and stamps its last update; when read it showed October 13, 2026 at 7:31 Central Time. The department also sells practitioner lists, with the names and addresses of people and businesses holding each type of license or credential it issues, through Nebraska.gov. The Secretary of State's Corporate and Business Search reports the status of all entities, trade names, trademarks and service marks registered in Nebraska, searched by name starting with, keyword, sounds like, exact match or account number behind a reCAPTCHA, with filed document images at $0.45 a page for filings after March 10, 1999 and batch records at $15 per 1,000; the office said when read that a new business entity search and filing system is expected to go live before the end of 2026. VoterCheck confirms a registrant's address, party association, ballot status and polling place from a first name, last name and county, all required.
Vital records and the proper purpose rule
The Office of Vital Records, now at 301 Centennial Mall South, First Floor, Lincoln, preserves Nebraska birth, death, marriage and divorce records and issues certified copies on security paper with a digitally enhanced state seal. Every request must meet a proper purpose, the fee is kept if no record is found or the wrong person asked, and anyone requesting a certificate for someone else must prove the relationship, a birth certificate naming the parents for a parent's record or a marriage record for a spouse's, with other requests to 402-471-2871. For genealogy, regulation 3-004.06 releases any vital record when the registrant has been dead at least 50 years. A no fee certified birth certificate is available to anyone without a current Nebraska license or state ID who needs one for voting.
Unclaimed property, the ACP and the public records statutes
The State Treasurer's unclaimed property page at treasurer.nebraska.gov returned not found; the office's search runs at nebraskalostcash.nebraska.gov, described by the office as the place to find unclaimed property and start a claim, with an auction live from October 6. The Secretary of State's Address Confidentiality Program gives victims of domestic violence, sexual assault and stalking who have moved to a place unknown to their abuser a substitute address for state and local agencies and a confidential mailing address with free first class forwarding, so that public records contain only the substitute; applications are made in person at designated victim assistance centers across the state, never at the Secretary of State's office, with questions at (402) 471-3568.
The Attorney General's Outline of Nebraska Public Records Statutes covers sections 84-712 through 84-712.09: all residents and all other interested persons may examine public records, make memoranda and copies and obtain copies, free of charge for inspection during office hours, under language in effect since 1866, with the word citizen replaced by resident in 2024. Agencies must respond within four business days, explain any denial, and face remedies and penalties for violations; the statute does not require an agency to create abstracts or answer questions. The Attorney General cites the 2024 Nebraska Supreme Court decision in Nebraska Journalism Trust for the statutes' purpose of empowering interested persons to examine public records.
Nebraska: a $17 court search and a $45 RAP sheet
Nebraska's free systems settle custody, registration, licenses and companies; the two paid ones, JUSTICE at $17 and the State Patrol at $45, deliver the court record and the arrest record from the source. The Office of Vital Records confirms births, deaths, marriages and divorces for a proper purpose, and deeds and parcels are county records at the register of deeds and assessor, listed on the Nebraska county pages at SearchSystems.
Paid people search reports on Nebraskans are compiled from these sources and resell the state's own $17 and $45 products; the courts and the patrol sell them directly.
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