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 September 30, 2026.
Garrett County, Maryland, has about 28,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate). In Maryland the public criminal record is the court file, kept by the Clerk of the Circuit Court; the statewide criminal history kept by the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services, Criminal Justice Information System is released only to its subject and to the employers and agencies the law allows. This guide says where each record of a criminal case from Garrett 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, directory links and common questions.
Related guides: Garrett County public records, Garrett County arrest records, Garrett County warrants, Garrett County inmate search, Garrett County court records, Maryland arrest records and Maryland inmate search.
Criminal Cases in the Circuit Court for Garrett County
A criminal case from Garrett County is filed in the Circuit Court for Garrett County or the District Court of Maryland, which takes misdemeanors, traffic cases, landlord-tenant cases and civil claims up to $30,000, and the court file, kept by the Clerk of the Circuit Court, is the record of it that the public may see.
For Garrett County, SearchSystems opened and checked the court records page for the county at mdcourts.gov/courtsdirectory/garrett (page title: Garrett County | Maryland Courts), phone 301-334-1937, 203 S. 4th Street, Room 109 P.O. Box 447 Oakland, MD 21550, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 30, 2026.
Statewide, Maryland Judiciary Case Search is the free statewide case search of every Maryland court.
The Maryland Criminal History and Your Own Copy
Maryland does not let the public search another person's statewide criminal history. The record kept by the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services, Criminal Justice Information System goes to the person it belongs to and to employers and agencies the law authorizes; for everyone else the court file in the Circuit Court for Garrett County is the public record.
To see your own record, the route is a fingerprint-based request to the CJIS Central Repository. The state page SearchSystems verified for it is at dpscs.maryland.gov/publicservs/bgchecks.shtml.
Arrest Records Kept Locally in Garrett County
The Garrett County Sheriff's Office and the agency that reports for Oakland keep the arrest records in Garrett 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 Garrett County: the Garrett County State Police (state police); it keeps the records of its own arrests.
The Garrett County Sheriff's Office reported 610 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 Garrett County arrest records.
The Crimes Behind the Records: Garrett County in 2025
The two agencies in Garrett County with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 6 violent and 144 property crimes to the FBI that year; the same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 150 crimes in 2025 against 145 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 Garrett County public records guide.
The State's Attorney for Garrett County
The State's Attorney decides which arrests in Garrett County become charges and files them in the Circuit Court for Garrett County or the District Court of Maryland; the office answers questions about pending prosecutions, and the case files themselves are court records.
The office's page SearchSystems verified is at garrettcountymd.gov/states-attorney (page title: State's Attorney | Garrett County Government), phone 301-334-5012, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 2026.
The Sex Offender Registry for Garrett County
Registered sex offenders living in Garrett County are listed on the Maryland Sex Offender Registry, run by the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services at dpscs.maryland.gov. 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 Garrett 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 Maryland Public Information Act a county office must answer a request within 30 days, with a denial due within 10 working days, and it may charge staff time after the first two hours, plus copying. The county records request page SearchSystems verified is at garrettcountymd.gov/commissioners/request-public-information (page title: Request for Public Information | Garrett County Government).
More Official Criminal Records Pages for Garrett County
The SearchSystems directory, online since 1997, lists the official pages for Garrett County and Maryland. These criminal records pages from its Garrett County listing were opened again on October 2, 2026 and each one still answers:
- Arrest Log, Sheriff's Office of Garrett County, Maryland (sheriff.garrettcountymd.gov)
Frequently Asked Questions
Are criminal records public in Garrett County?
The court files of criminal cases in the Circuit Court for Garrett County are public and can be looked up through the court. The statewide criminal history kept by the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services, Criminal Justice Information System is not public; you can get your own. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Maryland Public Information Act.
Can I search Garrett County criminal cases online?
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county is at mdcourts.gov/courtsdirectory/garrett (page title: Garrett County | Maryland Courts). Statewide, Maryland Judiciary Case Search is the free statewide case search of every Maryland court.
How do I get my own Maryland criminal history?
Through a fingerprint-based request to the CJIS Central Repository.
Who prosecutes crimes in Garrett County?
The State's Attorney, reached at 301-334-5012, which files its cases in the Circuit Court for Garrett County or the District Court of Maryland.
Is this the official Garrett 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.