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.
Yavapai County, Arizona, has about 252,000 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 Yavapai 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: Yavapai County public records, Yavapai County arrest records, Yavapai County warrants, Yavapai County inmate search, Yavapai County court records, Arizona arrest records and Arizona inmate search.
Criminal Cases in the Yavapai County Superior Court
In Arizona the public criminal record is the court file. Criminal cases from Yavapai County are heard by the Yavapai 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 Yavapai County, SearchSystems opened and checked the court records page for the county at courts.yavapaiaz.gov/Home/Top-Tasks/Case-Lookup (page title: Case Lookup | Yavapai County Government), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 2026.
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
Arizona does not let the public search another person's statewide criminal history. The record kept by the Arizona Department of Public Safety goes to the person it belongs to and to employers and agencies the law authorizes; for everyone else the court file in the Yavapai County Superior Court is the public record.
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 Yavapai County
The Yavapai County Sheriff's Office and the agencies that report for Prescott Valley, Prescott, Chino Valley, Cottonwood, Camp Verde, Sedona and two more cities keep the arrest records in Yavapai 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 Yavapai County: Yavapai College (campus police); it keeps the records of its own arrests.
The Wickenburg Police Department is listed by the FBI across two counties including Yavapai County, so its arrests are not broken out for Yavapai County here.
Together, the eight agencies in Yavapai County with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 6,423 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 Yavapai County arrest records.
The Crimes Behind the Records: Yavapai County in 2025
The eight agencies in Yavapai County with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 702 violent and 1,645 property crimes to the FBI that year; the same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 2,347 crimes in 2025 against 2,375 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 Yavapai County public records guide.
The County Attorney for Yavapai County
Charges in Yavapai County are filed by the County Attorney, which reviews the arrests of every agency in the county and brings the cases in the Yavapai County Superior Court or the Justice Courts.
The office's page SearchSystems verified is at yavapaiaz.gov/Resident-Services/Law-and-Justice/County-Attorney (page title: County Attorney | Yavapai, AZ), phone (928) 771-3344, 3110 Prescott 255 East Gurley Street Prescott, AZ 86301, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 2026.
The Sex Offender Registry for Yavapai County
Registered sex offenders living in Yavapai 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 Yavapai 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 ycsoaz.gov/I-Want-To/Services/Request-Public-Records (page title: Request Public Records YCSOAZ.gov).
Frequently Asked Questions
Are criminal records public in Yavapai County?
The court files of criminal cases in the Yavapai 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 Yavapai County criminal cases online?
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county is at courts.yavapaiaz.gov (page title: Case Lookup | Yavapai County Government). 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.
Who prosecutes crimes in Yavapai County?
The County Attorney, reached at (928) 771-3344, which files its cases in the Yavapai County Superior Court or the Justice Courts.
Is this the official Yavapai 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.