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 24, 2026.
Bear Lake County, Idaho, has about 6,800 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate). In Idaho the public criminal record is the court file, kept by the Clerk of the District Court; the statewide criminal history kept by the Idaho State Police Bureau of Criminal Identification is open to anyone who asks. This guide says where each record of a criminal case from Bear Lake 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.
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Criminal Cases in the Bear Lake County District Court
In Idaho the public criminal record is the court file. Criminal cases from Bear Lake County are heard by the Bear Lake County District Court, which hears felonies, civil cases over $10,000 and appeals from the magistrate division; the Magistrate Division takes misdemeanors, traffic cases, small claims, probate and divorces, and the file of each case is kept by the Clerk of the District Court.
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county is at bearlakecounty.info/courts.html (page title: Bear Lake County Magistrate Court | BEAR LAKE COUNTY IDAHO), phone (208) 945-2155, 30 N Main St., P.O. Box 190 Paris, ID 83261, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 24, 2026. That page belongs to a lower court, the Magistrate Division, not to the Bear Lake County District Court.
Statewide, iCourt Portal is the Idaho courts' free statewide case search.
The Idaho Criminal History and Your Own Copy
Idaho is one of the states that lets anyone look up another person's statewide criminal history: name-based conviction checks are open to the public, through the Idaho State Police Bureau of Criminal Identification. 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.
To see your own record, the route is a fingerprint-based request to the Bureau of Criminal Identification. The state page SearchSystems verified for it is at isp.idaho.gov/bci/criminal-history.
Arrest Records Kept Locally in Bear Lake County
The Bear Lake County Sheriff's Office and the agency that reports for Montpelier keep the arrest records in Bear Lake 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.
Together, the two agencies in Bear Lake County with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 54 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 Bear Lake County arrest records.
The Crimes Behind the Records: Bear Lake County in 2025
The two agencies in Bear Lake County with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 4 violent and 17 property crimes to the FBI that year; the same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 21 crimes in 2025 against 28 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 Bear Lake County public records guide.
The Prosecuting Attorney for Bear Lake County
The Prosecuting Attorney decides which arrests in Bear Lake County become charges and files them in the Bear Lake County District Court or the Magistrate Division; the office answers questions about pending prosecutions, and the case files themselves are court records.
The office's page SearchSystems verified is at bearlakecounty.info/prosecuting-attorney.html (page title: Bear Lake County Prosecuting Attorney | BEAR LAKE COUNTY IDAHO), phone (208) 945-2155, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 24, 2026.
The Sex Offender Registry for Bear Lake County
Registered sex offenders living in Bear Lake County are listed on the Idaho Sex Offender Registry, run by the Idaho State Police at apps.isp.idaho.gov/sor_id/search_regnam.html. 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 Bear Lake 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 Idaho Public Records Act a county office must answer a request within 3 working days, or 10 when more time is needed, and it may charge copying after the first 100 pages and labor after the first two hours.
Frequently Asked Questions
Are criminal records public in Bear Lake County?
The court files of criminal cases are public, and so is the statewide criminal history kept by the Idaho State Police Bureau of Criminal Identification: name-based conviction checks are open to the public. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Idaho Public Records Act.
Can I search Bear Lake County criminal cases online?
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county is at bearlakecounty.info/courts.html (page title: Bear Lake County Magistrate Court | BEAR LAKE COUNTY IDAHO); it belongs to a lower court, not to the Bear Lake County District Court. Statewide, iCourt Portal is the Idaho courts' free statewide case search.
How do I get my own Idaho criminal history?
Through a fingerprint-based request to the Bureau of Criminal Identification.
Who prosecutes crimes in Bear Lake County?
The Prosecuting Attorney, reached at (208) 945-2155, which files its cases in the Bear Lake County District Court or the Magistrate Division.
Is this the official Bear Lake 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.