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 October 2, 2026.
Flagler County, Florida, has about 137,000 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 Flagler 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: Flagler County public records, Flagler County arrest records, Flagler County warrants, Flagler County inmate search, Flagler County court records, Florida arrest records and Florida inmate search.
Criminal Cases in the Flagler County Circuit Court
A criminal case from Flagler County is filed in the Flagler 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.
For Flagler County, SearchSystems opened and checked the court records page for the county at flaglerclerk.gov/records/court-records (page title: Court Records | Clerk & Comptroller, Flagler County, FL), a site that blocks automated checks (HTTP 403), so open it in a browser.
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 Flagler County
The Flagler County Sheriff's Office and the agencies that report for Flagler Beach and Bunnell keep the arrest records in Flagler 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 state police unit and five state agencies in Flagler County (the arrest records guide names each one); each keeps the records of its own arrests.
Together, the two agencies in Flagler County with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 2,320 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 Flagler County arrest records.
The Crimes Behind the Records: Flagler County in 2025
The two agencies in Flagler County with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 151 violent and 671 property crimes to the FBI that year; the same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 822 crimes in 2025 against 944 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 Flagler County public records guide.
The State Attorney for Flagler County
Charges in Flagler County are filed by the State Attorney, which reviews the arrests of every agency in the county and brings the cases in the Flagler County Circuit Court or the County Court.
The office's page SearchSystems verified is at flaglercounty.gov/Government/Departments/Attorney (page title: Attorney Flagler County), phone 386-313-4300, 1769 E. Moody Blvd., Building 2, 3rd Floor Bunnell, FL 32110, Monday - Friday 8 a.m. - 5 p.m., which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 2026.
The Sex Offender Registry for Flagler County
Registered sex offenders living in Flagler County 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 Flagler 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 flaglercounty.gov/County-Services/Public-Records-Request (page title: Public Records Request Flagler County).
Frequently Asked Questions
Are criminal records public in Flagler County?
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).
How do I get my own Florida criminal history?
Through the same search, run on yourself.
Who prosecutes crimes in Flagler County?
The State Attorney, reached at 386-313-4300, which files its cases in the Flagler County Circuit Court or the County Court.
Is this the official Flagler 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.