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 on September 24, 2026.
Marengo County, Alabama, has about 19,000 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 Marengo 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, sex offender registry, records requests, directory links and common questions.
Related guides: Marengo County public records, Marengo County arrest records, Marengo County warrants, Marengo County inmate search, Marengo County court records, Alabama arrest records and Alabama inmate search.
Criminal Cases in the Marengo County Circuit Court
A criminal case from Marengo County is filed in the Marengo 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 marengo.alacourt.gov (page title: Marengo County | Seventeenth Circuit Court of Alabama), phone (334) 295-2224, 101 E Coats Ave, Linden, AL 36748, 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 Marengo County
The Marengo County Sheriff's Office and the agencies that report for Demopolis, Linden, Thomaston, Sweet Water and Faunsdale keep the arrest records in Marengo 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 FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Marengo County: 17th Judicial Circuit Drug Task Force (other agency); it keeps the records of its own arrests.
Together, the three agencies in Marengo County with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 625 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 Marengo County arrest records.
The Crimes Behind the Records: Marengo County in 2025
The three agencies in Marengo County with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 73 violent and 339 property crimes to the FBI that year; the two of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 384 crimes in 2025 against 309 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 Marengo County public records guide.
The Sex Offender Registry for Marengo County
Registered sex offenders living in Marengo 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 Marengo 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.
More Official Criminal Records Pages for Marengo County
The SearchSystems directory, online since 1997, lists the official pages for Marengo County and Alabama. These criminal records pages from its Marengo County listing were opened again on October 2, 2026 and each one still answers:
- Sex Offender Registry (alea.gov)
Frequently Asked Questions
Are criminal records public in Marengo County?
The court files of criminal cases in the Marengo 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 Marengo County criminal cases online?
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county is at marengo.alacourt.gov (page title: Marengo County | Seventeenth 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.
Is this the official Marengo 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.