Reviewed and updated October 9, 2026 by the SearchSystems.net editorial team. The arrest 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 October 9, 2026.
Delray Beach, Florida, in Palm Beach County, has about 70,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate). In Florida the public criminal record is the court file, kept by the Clerk of the Circuit Court and Comptroller; the statewide criminal history kept by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement is open to anyone who asks. This guide says where each record of a criminal case from Delray Beach is kept and how it is seen.
This guide covers the court file, the statewide record, local arrest records, the prosecutor, sex offender registry, records requests and common questions.
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Criminal Cases in the Palm Beach County Circuit Court
A criminal case from Delray Beach is filed in the Palm Beach County Circuit Court or the County Court, which takes misdemeanors, traffic cases, small claims and civil cases up to $50,000, and the court file, kept by the Clerk of the Circuit Court and Comptroller, is the record of it that the public may see.
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county is at mypalmbeachclerk.com/records/court-records (page title: Court Records | Clerk of the Circuit Court & Comptroller, Palm Beach County), phone (561) 355-2996, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 2026.
Florida has no single public index of every trial court case; each court's records are looked up through that court.
The Florida Criminal History and Your Own Copy
Florida is one of the states that lets anyone look up another person's statewide criminal history: anyone can run a name-based criminal history search online for $24, for $24 a search, through the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. The result is the repository record, what agencies reported to the state, which is wider than one county's court index but can lag it. The search is on the Florida Department of Law Enforcement site.
Arrest Records Kept Locally in Delray Beach
The Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office and the agency that reports for Delray Beach (filed by the FBI as Delray Beach Police Department) keep the arrest records in and around Delray Beach: 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 campus police department, one other agency, six state agencies and one state police unit in Palm Beach County (the arrest records guide names each one); each keeps the records of its own arrests.
Together, the 11 agencies in Palm Beach County with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 5,769 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 Delray Beach arrest records.
The State Attorney for Palm Beach County
The State Attorney decides which arrests in Palm Beach County become charges and files them in the Palm Beach County Circuit Court or the County Court; the office answers questions about pending prosecutions, and the case files themselves are court records.
The office's page SearchSystems verified is at sa15.org (page title: Office of State Attorney 15th Judicial Circuit | Serving Palm Beach County Florida), phone 561-355-7100, 401 North Dixie Highway West Palm Beach, FL 33401, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on October 9, 2026.
The Sex Offender Registry for Delray Beach
Registered sex offenders living in Delray Beach are listed on the Florida Sexual Offenders and Predators Registry, run by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement at offender.fdle.state.fl.us. 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 Palm Beach 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 Florida Public Records Act (Chapter 119) a county office must answer a request promptly and in good faith; the statute sets no number of days, and it may charge the copy fees set by statute, plus a special service charge for large requests. The county records request page SearchSystems verified is at pbcpao.gov/public-records-requests.htm (page title: Public Records Requests).
Frequently Asked Questions
Are criminal records public in Delray Beach?
The court files of criminal cases are public, and so is the statewide criminal history kept by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement: anyone can run a name-based criminal history search online for $24, for $24. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Florida Public Records Act (Chapter 119).
Can I search Delray Beach criminal cases online?
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county is at mypalmbeachclerk.com/records/court-records (page title: Court Records | Clerk of the Circuit Court & Comptroller, Palm Beach County).
How do I get my own Florida criminal history?
Through the same search, run on yourself.
Who prosecutes crimes in Delray Beach?
The State Attorney, reached at 561-355-7100, which files its cases in the Palm Beach County Circuit Court or the County Court.
Is this the official Delray Beach website?
No. SearchSystems.net is an independent public records guide, online since 1997. It links to the official city, county, court and state offices described above and does not hold records, charge for them or take requests.