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 24, 2026 and October 4, 2026.
Maui County, Hawaii, has about 164,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate). In Hawaii the public criminal record is the court file, kept by the Legal Documents Branch of each circuit; the statewide criminal history kept by the Hawaii Criminal Justice Data Center is open to anyone who asks. This guide says where each record of a criminal case from Maui 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.
Related guides: Maui County public records, Maui County arrest records, Maui County warrants, Maui County inmate search, Maui County court records, Hawaii arrest records and Hawaii inmate search.
Criminal Cases in the Circuit Court for Maui County
A criminal case from Maui County is filed in the Circuit Court for Maui County or the District Court, which takes misdemeanors, traffic cases, small claims and civil cases up to $40,000, and the court file, kept by the Legal Documents Branch of each circuit, is the record of it that the public may see.
For Maui County, SearchSystems opened and checked the court records page for the county at courts.state.hi.us/legal_references/records/jims_system_availability (page title: Judiciary | eCourt Kōkua *), phone 808-539-4909, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 24, 2026.
Statewide, eCourt Kokua is the Hawaii State Judiciary's free statewide case search.
The Hawaii Criminal History and Your Own Copy
Hawaii is one of the states that lets anyone look up another person's statewide criminal history: the eCrim system lets anyone search adult conviction records online by name, through the Hawaii Criminal Justice Data Center. 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.
Arrest Records Kept Locally in Maui County
The Maui Police Department keeps the arrest records in Maui 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 Maui County: the Department of Law Enforcement at Maui (state agency); it keeps the records of its own arrests.
The Maui Police Department reported 4,832 arrests to the FBI for 2025; 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 Maui County arrest records.
The Crimes Behind the Records: Maui County in 2025
The one agency in Maui County with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 499 violent and 4,208 property crimes to the FBI that year; the same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 4,707 crimes in 2025 against 5,198 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 Maui County public records guide.
The Sex Offender Registry for Maui County
Registered sex offenders living in Maui County are listed on the Hawaii Sex Offender and Other Covered Offender Registry, run by the Hawaii Criminal Justice Data Center at sexoffenders.ehawaii.gov/coveredoffender. The registry is public and searchable by name and location.
Registration itself is done in person with the local agency where the registrant lives: the county police department, which covers the whole county.
Asking an Agency in Maui 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 Uniform Information Practices Act a county office must answer a request within 10 business days, and it may charge for search, review and copying, with the first $30 of search and review free. The county records request page SearchSystems verified is at mauicounty.gov/2771/UIPA-Public-Records-Request (page title: UIPA Public Records Request | Maui County, HI).
Frequently Asked Questions
Are criminal records public in Maui County?
The court files of criminal cases are public, and so is the statewide criminal history kept by the Hawaii Criminal Justice Data Center: the eCrim system lets anyone search adult conviction records online by name. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Uniform Information Practices Act.
Can I search Maui County criminal cases online?
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county is at courts.state.hi.us (page title: Judiciary | eCourt Kōkua *). Statewide, eCourt Kokua is the Hawaii State Judiciary's free statewide case search.
How do I get my own Hawaii criminal history?
Through the same eCrim search, run on yourself.
Is this the official Maui 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.