New Hampshire's State Police say public criminal conviction history can be disseminated on request to anyone for a fee, and the Department of Corrections' locator shows each active sentence by the statute of conviction with the original release dates. The registry of criminal offenders searches by address as well as name, and the courts' case access portal, like several of the state's pages, refused an automated read. Vital records sit with the Secretary of State and the town clerks.
The order to use: the inmate locator and the registry for status, OPLC and QuickStart for licenses and companies, the Criminal Records Unit for a conviction history, the case access portal and the county clerks for cases, then the town clerk for vital records and the county offices for property, listed on the New Hampshire pages at SearchSystems.
- In custody: the Department of Corrections Inmate Locator, by all or part of a first or last name.
- Registered offenders: the State Police Registration of Criminal Offenders, by name, address, city, county or ZIP, with a warrant list for the non compliant.
- Conviction history, public: the State Police Criminal Records Unit, which disseminates public conviction history to anyone for a fee.
- Courts: the Judicial Branch case access portal, which refused an automated read.
- Licenses, companies, voters and certificates: the OPLC License Lookup, QuickStart, the Voter Information Lookup and the Secretary of State's Vital Records pages.
Written by SearchSystems.net from New Hampshire's own systems: the New Hampshire Department of Corrections, the New Hampshire State Police, the Office of Professional Licensure and Certification, the New Hampshire Secretary of State, the New Hampshire State Treasury, the New Hampshire Department of Justice, the New Hampshire General Court, each read on October 13, 2026 by the SearchSystems editorial team.
The inmate locator: sentences by statute
The New Hampshire Department of Corrections' Inmate Locator draws on the Offender Records Office in Concord and displays active sentencing information by the title of the statute under which the person was convicted, with the original minimum and maximum release dates for the active sentence; a date of 2999-12-31 means up to a maximum of life and 3000-12-31 means life without parole. Pending consecutive sentences, technical parole violations and out of state inmates housed in New Hampshire may show no release dates because they have not been calculated. The search takes all or part of a last name or first name, either one required, and the department says plainly that if the inmate's name is listed, the inmate is currently incarcerated. For the crime of conviction it sends the searcher to the sentencing court and docket number shown, noting that access to court records is governed by Part 1, Article 8 of the New Hampshire Constitution.
The registry, by address, and its warrant list
The Division of State Police's Registration of Criminal Offenders covers sex offenders and offenders against children, searched by first name, middle initial, last name, address, city, New Hampshire county, state or five digit ZIP code with at least one field filled, returning a subset of each record with the full record a click away. The page warns in capitals that the registry shows only the offense for which the person is registered, not the entire criminal history, and no out of state history. A separate list shows warrants for non compliant offenders, with law enforcement told not to arrest on the list alone but to check the state warrant file. The registry office is at the Department of Safety, 33 Hazen Drive, Concord, (603) 223-3870, NHSPSOR@dos.nh.gov.
Public conviction history from the Criminal Records Unit
The State Police Criminal Records Unit obtains, stores and disseminates criminal history record information on all arrests and dispositions of people charged with a criminal offense in New Hampshire, received through fingerprints taken of arrestees and complaints and dispositions from the circuit and superior courts, and its Central Repository is the only source for a complete New Hampshire criminal history. The unit states the public rule: public criminal conviction history maintained in the repository can be disseminated upon request to anyone for a fee, while confidential information including non conviction data goes only to law enforcement or to the person requesting their own record. New Hampshire criminal history never expires and is removed only by a Petition to Annul granted by the court with fees paid. Under RSA 106-B:14, conviction records from the division are the official source of certified conviction history for employment and licensing. The request runs through the unit's online applicant service, where the fee is set.
The New Hampshire courts, behind a wall
The New Hampshire Judicial Branch's case access portal and the news page announcing it both answered SearchSystems' automated read with Access Denied, so the portal is named here without description. The New Hampshire pages at SearchSystems list the county courts for records held locally.
OPLC licenses, QuickStart and the Voter Information Lookup
The Office of Professional Licensure and Certification offers an application for license verification covering the boards, commissions and councils under it, and says that a board not listed should be contacted directly; the page gives no fields, so those are on the application. The Secretary of State's QuickStart business inquiry loaded a browser check rather than a page, so its columns and terms are on the tool; it is the office's official business search, reached from the Corporations pages alongside annual reports, good standing certificates and UCC searches. The office's Voter Information Lookup answered without text, and its voters page frames the service for a voter finding their polling place and sample ballot.
Vital records at the Secretary of State
New Hampshire's vital records are administered by the Secretary of State, whose Vital Records page covers purchasing and correcting records, statutory authority and rules, a health statistics portal and preservation; the page itself, read on October 13, 2026, gave only the heading Find out below about your ability to access records, and the Division of Vital Records Administration's own page refused the read. The terms of access are therefore on those pages, and the New Hampshire pages at SearchSystems list the town and city clerks.
Unclaimed property, the ACP and the Right to Know Law
The State Treasury's Abandoned Property Division recovers, safeguards and returns intangible unclaimed property reported by banks, utilities, insurers, retailers and municipalities, including dormant account cash, wages and securities, through a searchable database at findnhmoney.gov, at no cost to the owner once evidence is provided, and it encourages checking often because new property arrives every year. The Attorney General's Address Confidentiality Program lets state and local agencies answer public records requests without disclosing the location of a victim of domestic violence, sexual assault or stalking: participants use a substitute address for a driver's license, Medicaid, car registration and other services, have first class mail forwarded, vote absentee, and are kept off any public list of registered voters. The program is not retroactive, so it protects only an address on which no state or local records have yet been created, applicants must first consult one of the state's 14 crisis centers, mail may be delayed five to seven days, and the program answers at (603) 271-8710.
The Right to Know Law is RSA Chapter 91-A, Access to Governmental Records and Meetings, published by the General Court; the Department of Justice's guide page refused the automated read, so the statute is the source, and the Secretary of State houses an Office of the Right to Know Ombudsman.
New Hampshire: conviction history for a fee
New Hampshire answers custody with the locator, registration with the registry, and the criminal question with a conviction history the State Police will sell to anyone. Licenses and companies follow from OPLC and QuickStart. The court record waits behind the portal's wall or at the clerk's counter, vital records are at the Secretary of State and the town clerk, and deeds are county records, all listed on the New Hampshire pages at SearchSystems.
Paid people search reports on Granite Staters are built from these records and resell the state's conviction history; the Criminal Records Unit sells it directly, and the locator and registry are free.
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