Reviewed and updated October 9, 2026 by the SearchSystems.net editorial team. The arrest and crime counts are the ones each agency reported to the FBI, as the FBI held them on October 8, 2026. Every office link was opened and checked against the office's own site between September 24, 2026 and September 30, 2026.
Boaz, Alabama, in Marshall County, has about 10,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate). In Alabama the public criminal record is the court file, kept by the Circuit Clerk; the statewide criminal history kept by the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency is released only to its subject and to the employers and agencies the law allows. This guide says where each record of a criminal case from Boaz is kept and how it is seen.
This guide covers the court file, the statewide record, local arrest records, the crimes behind the records, the prosecutor, sex offender registry, records requests and common questions.
Related guides: Boaz public records, Marshall County criminal records, Boaz arrest records, Boaz warrants, Boaz inmate search, Boaz court records, Alabama arrest records and Alabama inmate search.
Criminal Cases in the Marshall County Circuit Court
A criminal case from Boaz is filed in the Marshall County Circuit Court or the District Court, which takes misdemeanors, traffic cases, small claims and preliminary hearings in felony cases, and the court file, kept by the Circuit Clerk, is the record of it that the public may see.
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county is at marshall.alacourt.gov (page title: Marshall County | Twenty-Seventh Circuit Court of Alabama), phone (800) 354-6154, 424 Blount Avenue, Suite 201 Guntersville, AL 35976, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 24, 2026.
Statewide, Alacourt is the statewide online index of Alabama trial court cases, sold by subscription.
The Alabama Criminal History and Your Own Copy
The statewide criminal history kept by the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency is closed to the public in Alabama: it is released to its subject and to authorized employers and licensing agencies, and a member of the public uses the court's own case index instead.
To see your own record, the route is a fingerprint-based request to ALEA. The state page SearchSystems verified for it is at alea.gov/sbi/criminal-justice-services/criminal-records.
Arrest Records Kept Locally in Boaz
The Marshall County Sheriff's Office and the agency that reports for Boaz (filed by the FBI as Boaz Police Department) keep the arrest records in and around Boaz: the report and the booking record of each arrest stay with the agency that made it, separate from the court file and from the state repository.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Marshall County: Marshall County Drug Enforcement Unit (other agency); Snead State Community College (campus police); each keeps the records of its own arrests.
The Sardis City Police Department is listed by the FBI across two counties including Marshall County, so its arrests are not broken out for Marshall County here.
Together, the six agencies in Marshall County with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 4,004 arrests to the FBI that year; how each case ended is in the court file, not in the arresting agency's.
The agencies and their counts, year by year, are in Boaz arrest records.
The Crimes Behind the Records: Boaz in 2025
The agency that reports for Boaz had 10 violent and 109 property crimes reported for 2025; each one is a report on file with it, and each arrest that follows is the start of a criminal record.
The District Attorney for Marshall County
The District Attorney decides which arrests in Marshall County become charges and files them in the Marshall County Circuit Court or the District Court; the office answers questions about pending prosecutions, and the case files themselves are court records.
The office's page SearchSystems verified is at alabamaag.gov/about (page title: Meet The Attorney General | Alabama Attorney General's Office), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 24, 2026.
The Sex Offender Registry for Boaz
Registered sex offenders living in Boaz are listed on the Alabama Sex Offender Registry, run by the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency at alea.gov/node/43. The registry is public and can be searched online.
Registration itself is done in person with the local agency where the registrant lives: the sheriff's office, or the city police in a city with its own department.
Asking an Agency in Marshall County for a Record
An arrest report, a booking record or a local criminal history letter comes from the agency that holds it, not from the court.
Under the Alabama Public Records Law a county office must answer a request within a reasonable time; the statute sets no fixed deadline, and it may charge a reasonable fee for copies.
Frequently Asked Questions
Are criminal records public in Boaz?
The court files of criminal cases in the Marshall County Circuit Court are public and can be looked up through the court. The statewide criminal history kept by the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency is not public; you can get your own. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Alabama Public Records Law.
Can I search Boaz criminal cases online?
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county is at marshall.alacourt.gov (page title: Marshall County | Twenty-Seventh Circuit Court of Alabama). Statewide, Alacourt is the statewide online index of Alabama trial court cases, sold by subscription.
How do I get my own Alabama criminal history?
Through a fingerprint-based request to ALEA.
Who prosecutes crimes in Boaz?
The District Attorney, which files its cases in the Marshall County Circuit Court or the District Court.
Is this the official Boaz website?
No. SearchSystems.net is an independent public records guide, online since 1997. It links to the official city, county, court and state offices described above and does not hold records, charge for them or take requests.