New Jersey's courts put five name searches on one page: civil and foreclosure case jackets, criminal cases, criminal judgments, judgment liens and Tax Court cases, each by party or defendant name. The Division of Consumer Affairs verifies licenses in real time and hands out the whole roster as a download, and the Department of Corrections runs an incarcerated person search engine. The State Police registry and criminal history pages, and the Address Confidentiality Program page, did not answer an automated read.
The order to use: the Judiciary's searches first, civil, criminal, judgments and liens; the incarcerated person search for custody; license verification and the business name search for livelihood; then the county offices for deeds and parcels, listed on the New Jersey county pages at SearchSystems, with the Office of Vital Statistics for certificates.
- Courts, five searches: the New Jersey Courts Find a Case page: civil and foreclosure, criminal, criminal judgments, judgment liens and Tax Court, by name.
- In custody: the Department of Corrections Incarcerated Person Search Engine.
- Registered offenders: the State Police Sex Offender Internet Registry, which refused an automated read.
- Licenses and companies: the Division of Consumer Affairs License Verification System and the Business Name Search.
- Voters, certificates and money: the voter registration check, the Office of Vital Statistics and Registry and the Unclaimed Property Administration.
Written by SearchSystems.net from New Jersey's own systems: the New Jersey Courts, the New Jersey Department of Corrections, the Division of Consumer Affairs, the Division of Revenue and Enterprise Services, the Division of Elections, the Unclaimed Property Administration, the Government Records Council, each read on October 13, 2026 by the SearchSystems editorial team.
Find a Case: civil, criminal, judgments, liens and tax
The New Jersey Courts' Find a Case page gathers the Judiciary's public case databases. Civil and foreclosure case jackets are searched by party name or docket number; criminal cases by name or county; criminal judgments by defendant name, SBI number, complaint number or indictment number; judgment liens by party name, judgment number or docket number; and Tax Court cases by party name, docket number or block and lot. Municipal court traffic tickets and complaints are found through NJMCDirect only with the ticket or complaint number, so a municipal matter needs the number rather than the name. The page also offers Supreme Court cases, court opinions, a guide to requesting court records, attorney discipline sanctions and judicial discipline cases, and answers for people looking for civil judgment collections, divorce records and the electronic access program. Run together, the five searches cover whether a New Jerseyan has been sued, foreclosed on, charged, convicted, or made subject to a judgment lien.
The incarcerated person search engine
The New Jersey Department of Corrections' Incarcerated Persons Information page links its Incarcerated Person Search Engine, visit restrictions, escapes, and statistics including population characteristics reports from 2014 through 2024 broken down by base offense, total term, mandatory minimum, age, race and ethnicity and county of commitment, along with release outcome reports and quarterly isolated confinement reports. The search engine itself at www20.state.nj.us answered without text, so its fields are on the page; the SBI number, which the department uses to identify inmates and which also keys the courts' criminal judgment search, is the identifier that links the two.
License verification in real time, and the roster
The Division of Consumer Affairs' License Verification System is a real time system with the most current professional license information, divided into a person search and a business search, since some licenses, including accountancy firms, architects' and engineers' certificates of authorization, barber shops, cemeteries, cosmetology shops, electrical contractor businesses, funeral homes, home improvement contractors, pharmacies and public movers, are issued in the name of the business. The site is for verification only, and anyone needing bulk license data is told to download the roster instead, which is the people search feature: the state's licensees as a file. The page still carried an October 20, 2021 notice that the online site was temporarily unavailable, with an automated telephone verification line at 973-273-8090, and a note that public movers and warehousemen moved to a separate portal.
The Business Entity Name Search and the Voter Information Portal
The Department of the Treasury's Division of Revenue and Enterprise Services runs the Business Entity Name Search, which gave SearchSystems only its heading and a link to its searching guidelines, so its fields are on the page; it is the state's official business entity index. The Division of Elections' registration check answered without text, and the division's Voter Information Portal page is written for the voter, with a hotline at 1-877-NJ-VOTER and the state's rule against electioneering within 100 feet of a polling place entrance.
The Office of Vital Statistics and Registry and the Unclaimed Property Administration
The Department of Health's Office of Vital Statistics and Registry answered with its title only, so its ordering terms are on the site; it is the state's vital records office. The Treasury's Unclaimed Property Administration, under administrator Steven Harris, never charges a fee to search and claim, offers a search and a claim document upload, holds public outreach events, and takes holder reports through an application rebuilt in September 2019; the page was last updated October 1, 2026.
The registry, criminal history and the ACP: pages that did not answer
The New Jersey State Police Sex Offender Internet Registry page and the State Police criminal history records page both answered SearchSystems' automated read with a wall on October 13, 2026, and the Department of Children and Families' Address Confidentiality Program page returned a site update notice, so this guide gives the official addresses and claims nothing about the terms of any of the three.
OPRA and the Government Records Council
New Jersey's Open Public Records Act is administered by the Government Records Council, whose site offers OPRA for the public, OPRA for records custodians, a Register a Denial of Access Complaint service, mediation, prior decisions, advisory opinions, training schedules and an OPRA Central for state, local, school and higher education records. A person refused a record can register a denial of access complaint with the council, and the council's prior decisions show how the Act has been applied.
New Jersey: five court searches and OPRA
New Jersey's court page does most of the work: five searches by name across civil, criminal, judgment, lien and tax matters. The incarcerated person search settles custody, and the license roster and the business name search settle livelihood. Deeds and parcels are county records, listed office by office on the New Jersey county pages at SearchSystems, and the Office of Vital Statistics holds the certificates.
Paid people search reports on New Jerseyans are assembled from these records, and the judgment and lien searches are free from the courts; a report's claims are checked there and at the county offices.
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