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.
Dale County, Alabama, has about 50,000 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 Dale County 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: Dale County public records, Dale County arrest records, Dale County warrants, Dale County court records, Dale County police reports, Alabama arrest records and Alabama inmate search.
Criminal Cases in the Dale County Circuit Court
In Alabama the public criminal record is the court file. Criminal cases from Dale County are heard by the Dale County Circuit Court, which hears felonies, civil cases over $20,000, divorces and appeals from the district court; the District Court takes misdemeanors, traffic cases, small claims and preliminary hearings in felony cases, and the file of each case is kept by the Circuit Clerk.
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county is at dale.alacourt.gov (page title: Dale County | Thirty-Third Circuit Court of Alabama), phone 334-774-8011, 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
Alabama does not let the public search another person's statewide criminal history. The record kept by the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency goes to the person it belongs to and to employers and agencies the law authorizes; for everyone else the court file in the Dale County Circuit Court is the public record.
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 Dale County
The Dale County Sheriff's Office and the agencies that report for Ozark, Daleville, Midland City, Level Plains, Newton, Pinckard and two more cities keep the arrest records in Dale County: 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 Enterprise Police Department and the Dothan Police Department are each listed by the FBI across several counties including Dale County, so their arrests are not broken out for Dale County here.
Together, the seven agencies in Dale County with all twelve months of 2024 on file reported 1,669 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 Dale County arrest records.
The Crimes Behind the Records: Dale County in 2025
The six agencies in Dale County with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 126 violent and 582 property crimes to the FBI that year; the same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 708 crimes in 2025 against 846 in 2024. Each reported crime is a report on file with the agency that took it, and each arrest that follows is the start of a criminal record.
The full crime section, agency by agency, is on the Dale County public records guide.
The District Attorney for Dale County
Charges in Dale County are filed by the District Attorney, which reviews the arrests of every agency in the county and brings the cases in the Dale County Circuit Court or the District Court.
The office's page SearchSystems verified is at government-county.org/company-dale-county-district-attorney-in-ozar... (page title: Dale County District Attorney | Ozark | Alabama | GOVERNMENT COUNTY), phone (334) 774-9500, 100 East Court Square, Ozark, AL 36360, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 28, 2026.
The Sex Offender Registry for Dale County
Registered sex offenders living in Dale County 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 Dale 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. The county records request page SearchSystems verified is at dalecountyal.gov/CountyCommission/OpenRecordsRequest.aspx (page title: Dale County Alabama > County Commission > Open Records Request).
Frequently Asked Questions
Are criminal records public in Dale County?
The court files of criminal cases in the Dale 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 Dale County criminal cases online?
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county is at dale.alacourt.gov (page title: Dale County | Thirty-Third 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 Dale County?
The District Attorney, reached at (334) 774-9500, which files its cases in the Dale County Circuit Court or the District Court.
Is this the official Dale County website?
No. SearchSystems.net is an independent public records guide, online since 1997. It links to the official county, court and state offices described above and does not hold records, charge for them or take requests.