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 23, 2026.
Pima County, Arizona, has about 1.1 million residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate). In Arizona the public criminal record is the court file, kept by the Clerk of the Superior Court; the statewide criminal history kept by the Arizona Department of Public Safety 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 Pima 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 and common questions.
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Criminal Cases in the Pima County Superior Court
In Arizona the public criminal record is the court file. Criminal cases from Pima County are heard by the Pima County Superior Court, which hears felonies, civil cases over $10,000, divorces, probate and juvenile matters; the Justice Courts take misdemeanors, traffic cases, civil cases up to $10,000 and evictions, and the file of each case is kept by the Clerk of the Superior Court.
For Pima County, SearchSystems opened and checked the court records page for the county at jp.pima.gov/CaseSearch (page title: Case Search), phone (520) 724-3171, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 2026. That page belongs to a lower court, the Justice Courts, not to the Pima County Superior Court.
Statewide, Public Access to Court Information is the Arizona Judicial Branch's free statewide case search; the Maricopa and Pima county courts run their own.
The Arizona Criminal History and Your Own Copy
The statewide criminal history kept by the Arizona Department of Public Safety is closed to the public in Arizona: 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 Record Review Packet, fingerprint-based, from the Department of Public Safety. The state page SearchSystems verified for it is at azdps.gov/services/public-services-portal/records-request.
Arrest Records Kept Locally in Pima County
The Pima County Sheriff's Office and the agencies that report for Tucson, Marana, Oro Valley, Sahuarita and South Tucson keep the arrest records in Pima 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 these agencies in Pima County: the Tucson Airport Authority (other agency); the University of Arizona and Pima Community College (campus police); each keeps the records of its own arrests.
Together, the six agencies in Pima County with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 26,917 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 Pima County arrest records.
The Crimes Behind the Records: Pima County in 2025
The six agencies in Pima County with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 2,993 violent and 20,230 property crimes to the FBI that year; the five of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 9,703 crimes in 2025 against 10,343 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 Pima County public records guide.
The Sex Offender Registry for Pima County
Registered sex offenders living in Pima County are listed on the Arizona Sex Offender Information Center, run by the Arizona Department of Public Safety at azdps.gov/content/basic-page/106. Level 2 and Level 3 offenders are listed; Level 1 offenders are not shown 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 Pima 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 Arizona Public Records Law a county office must answer a request promptly, with no fixed number of days in the statute, and it may charge the cost of copies, and more for commercial requests. The county records request page SearchSystems verified is at sc.pima.gov/services/public-and-media-relations/public-records-requ... (page title: Public Records Requests).
Frequently Asked Questions
Are criminal records public in Pima County?
The court files of criminal cases in the Pima County Superior Court are public and can be looked up through the court. The statewide criminal history kept by the Arizona Department of Public Safety is not public; you can get your own. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Arizona Public Records Law.
Can I search Pima County criminal cases online?
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county is at jp.pima.gov/CaseSearch (page title: Case Search); it belongs to a lower court, not to the Pima County Superior Court. Statewide, Public Access to Court Information is the Arizona Judicial Branch's free statewide case search; the Maricopa and Pima county courts run their own.
How do I get my own Arizona criminal history?
Through a Record Review Packet, fingerprint-based, from the Department of Public Safety.
Is this the official Pima 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.