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 23, 2026 and September 28, 2026.
Yuma County, Arizona, has about 220,000 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 Yuma 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: Yuma County public records, Yuma County arrest records, Yuma County warrants, Yuma County inmate search, Yuma County court records, Arizona arrest records and Arizona inmate search.
Criminal Cases in the Yuma County Superior Court
A criminal case from Yuma County is filed in the Yuma County Superior Court or the Justice Courts, which take misdemeanors, traffic cases, civil cases up to $10,000 and evictions, and the court file, kept by the Clerk of the Superior Court, is the record of it that the public may see.
For Yuma County, SearchSystems opened and checked the court records page for the county at yumacountyaz.gov/government/courts (page title: Welcome to Yuma County Courts | Yuma County), phone (928) 817-4083, 250 W. 2nd Street Suite E Yuma, AZ 85364, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 2026. That page belongs to a lower court, the Justice Courts, not to the Yuma 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 Yuma County
The Yuma County Sheriff's Office and the agencies that report for Yuma, San Luis, Somerton and Wellton keep the arrest records in Yuma 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 Yuma County: Arizona Western College (campus police); it keeps the records of its own arrests.
Together, the five agencies in Yuma County with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 3,982 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 Yuma County arrest records.
The Crimes Behind the Records: Yuma County in 2025
The five agencies in Yuma County with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 583 violent and 2,095 property crimes to the FBI that year; the same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 2,678 crimes in 2025 against 2,959 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 Yuma County public records guide.
The County Attorney for Yuma County
The County Attorney decides which arrests in Yuma County become charges and files them in the Yuma County Superior Court or the Justice Courts; the office answers questions about pending prosecutions, and the case files themselves are court records.
The office's page SearchSystems verified is at yumacountyaz.gov/government/county-attorney (page title: County Attorney | Yuma County), phone (928) 817-4300, 250 W 2nd St. Suite G Yuma, AZ 85364, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 2026.
The Sex Offender Registry for Yuma County
Registered sex offenders living in Yuma 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 Yuma 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.
Frequently Asked Questions
Are criminal records public in Yuma County?
The court files of criminal cases in the Yuma 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 Yuma County criminal cases online?
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county is at yumacountyaz.gov/government/courts (page title: Welcome to Yuma County Courts | Yuma County); it belongs to a lower court, not to the Yuma 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.
Who prosecutes crimes in Yuma County?
The County Attorney, reached at (928) 817-4300, which files its cases in the Yuma County Superior Court or the Justice Courts.
Is this the official Yuma 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.