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.
St. Clair County, Alabama, has about 97,000 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 St. Clair 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, directory links and common questions.
Related guides: St. Clair County public records, St. Clair County arrest records, St. Clair County warrants, St. Clair County inmate search, St. Clair County court records, Alabama arrest records and Alabama inmate search.
Criminal Cases in the St. Clair County Circuit Court
In Alabama the public criminal record is the court file. Criminal cases from St. Clair County are heard by the St. Clair 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 stclair.alacourt.gov (page title: St. Clair County | Thirtieth Circuit Court of Alabama), phone (205) 594-2184, 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 St. Clair County
The St. Clair County Sheriff's Office and the agencies that report for Pell City, Moody, Margaret, Odenville, Springville, Argo and four more cities keep the arrest records in St. Clair 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 Trussville Police Department and the Leeds Police Department are each listed by the FBI across several counties including St. Clair County, so their arrests are not broken out for St. Clair County here.
Together, the eight agencies in St. Clair County with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 2,853 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 St. Clair County arrest records.
The Crimes Behind the Records: St. Clair County in 2025
The ten agencies in St. Clair County with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 152 violent and 586 property crimes to the FBI that year; the same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 738 crimes in 2025 against 997 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 St. Clair County public records guide.
The District Attorney for St. Clair County
Charges in St. Clair County are filed by the District Attorney, which reviews the arrests of every agency in the county and brings the cases in the St. Clair County Circuit Court or the District Court.
The office's page SearchSystems verified is at stclairco.com/160/District-Attorney (page title: District Attorney | St. Clair County, AL), phone 205-338-9429, 1815 Cogswell Avenue Suite 221 Pell City, AL 35125, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 24, 2026.
The Sex Offender Registry for St. Clair County
Registered sex offenders living in St. Clair 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 St. Clair 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 stclairsheriff.org/public-records-request (page title: Public Records Request | St. Clair County Sheriff's Office).
More Official Criminal Records Pages for St. Clair County
The SearchSystems directory, online since 1997, lists the official pages for St. Clair County and Alabama. These criminal records pages from its St. Clair County listing were opened again on October 2, 2026 and each one still answers:
- National Sex Offender Registry (alea.gov)
Frequently Asked Questions
Are criminal records public in St. Clair County?
The court files of criminal cases in the St. Clair 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 St. Clair County criminal cases online?
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county is at stclair.alacourt.gov (page title: St. Clair County | Thirtieth 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 St. Clair County?
The District Attorney, reached at 205-338-9429, which files its cases in the St. Clair County Circuit Court or the District Court.
Is this the official St. Clair 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.