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 23, 2026.
Huntington County, Indiana, has about 37,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate). In Indiana the public criminal record is the court file, kept by the Clerk of the Circuit Court; the statewide criminal history kept by the Indiana State Police is open to anyone who asks. This guide says where each record of a criminal case from Huntington 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: Huntington County public records, Huntington County arrest records, Huntington County warrants, Huntington County inmate search, Huntington County court records, Indiana arrest records and Indiana inmate search.
Criminal Cases in the Huntington Circuit and Superior Courts
A criminal case from Huntington County is filed in the Huntington Circuit and Superior Courts, and the court file, kept by the Clerk of the Circuit Court, is the record of it that the public may see.
For Huntington County, SearchSystems opened and checked the court records page for the county at huntington.in.us/county/department/index.php?structureid=9 (page title: Circuit Court | Huntington County, Indiana), phone (260) 358-4814, 201 N Jefferson St Third Floor Huntington, IN 46750, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 2026.
Statewide, mycase.IN.gov is the Indiana courts' free statewide case search.
The Indiana Criminal History and Your Own Copy
Indiana is one of the states that lets anyone look up another person's statewide criminal history: the Limited Criminal History search is open to anyone online, through the Indiana State Police. 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 Huntington County
The Huntington County Sheriff's Office and the agencies that report for Huntington, Warren and Markle keep the arrest records in Huntington 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 four agencies in Huntington County with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 2,127 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 Huntington County arrest records.
The Crimes Behind the Records: Huntington County in 2025
The three agencies in Huntington County with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 24 violent and 107 property crimes to the FBI that year; the two of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 120 crimes in 2025 against 75 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 Huntington County public records guide.
The Prosecuting Attorney for Huntington County
The Prosecuting Attorney decides which arrests in Huntington County become charges and files them in the Huntington Circuit and Superior Courts; the office answers questions about pending prosecutions, and the case files themselves are court records.
The office's page SearchSystems verified is at huntington.in.us/county/department/index.php?structureid=35 (page title: Prosecuting Attorney | Huntington County, Indiana), phone (260) 358-4846, 201 N Jefferson St Room 417 Huntington, IN 46750, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 2026.
The Sex Offender Registry for Huntington County
Registered sex offenders living in Huntington County are listed on the Indiana Sex and Violent Offender Registry, run by the Indiana Department of Correction with the county sheriffs at in.gov. The registry is public and can be searched online; the county sheriff maintains the local entries.
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 Huntington 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 Indiana Access to Public Records Act a county office must answer a request within 24 hours for a request made in person and 7 days for one sent by mail or email, and it may charge a copy fee set by the agency, within statutory limits. The county records request page SearchSystems verified is at huntington.in.us/county/topic/index.php?topicid=254&structureid=15 (page title: Public Records Request | Huntington County, Indiana).
Frequently Asked Questions
Are criminal records public in Huntington County?
The court files of criminal cases are public, and so is the statewide criminal history kept by the Indiana State Police: the Limited Criminal History search is open to anyone online. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Indiana Access to Public Records Act.
Can I search Huntington County criminal cases online?
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county is at huntington.in.us (page title: Circuit Court | Huntington County, Indiana). Statewide, mycase.IN.gov is the Indiana courts' free statewide case search.
How do I get my own Indiana criminal history?
Through the same limited criminal history search, run on yourself.
Who prosecutes crimes in Huntington County?
The Prosecuting Attorney, reached at (260) 358-4846, which files its cases in the Huntington Circuit and Superior Courts.
Is this the official Huntington 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.