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 2, 2026.
Cumberland County, Maine, has about 314,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate). In Maine the public criminal record is the court file, kept by the clerk of each court; the statewide criminal history kept by the Maine State Police State Bureau of Identification is open to anyone who asks. This guide says where each record of a criminal case from Cumberland 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: Cumberland County public records, Cumberland County arrest records, Cumberland County warrants, Cumberland County inmate search, Cumberland County court records, Maine arrest records and Maine inmate search.
Criminal Cases in the Cumberland County Superior Court
In Maine the public criminal record is the court file. Criminal cases from Cumberland County are heard by the Cumberland County Superior Court, which hears felonies with jury trials and civil cases; the District Court takes misdemeanors, traffic violations, small claims, divorces and family matters, and the file of each case is kept by the clerk of each court.
For Cumberland County, SearchSystems opened and checked the court records page for the county at courts.maine.gov/ecourts/access.html (page title: Accessing Electronic Court Records: State of Maine Judicial Branch), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 24, 2026.
Maine has no single public index of every trial court case; each court's records are looked up through that court.
The Maine Criminal History and Your Own Copy
Maine is one of the states that lets anyone look up another person's statewide criminal history: conviction records are public and can be requested on anyone by name, through the Maine State Police State Bureau of 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.
Arrest Records Kept Locally in Cumberland County
The Cumberland County Sheriff's Office and the agencies that report for Portland, South Portland and Westbrook keep the arrest records in Cumberland 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 Cumberland County: the University of Southern Maine (campus police); it keeps the records of its own arrests.
Together, the 12 agencies in Cumberland County with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 5,392 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 Cumberland County arrest records.
The Crimes Behind the Records: Cumberland County in 2025
The 13 agencies in Cumberland County with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 305 violent and 2,781 property crimes to the FBI that year; the same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 3,086 crimes in 2025 against 4,013 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 Cumberland County public records guide.
The District Attorney for Cumberland County
Charges in Cumberland County are filed by the District Attorney, which reviews the arrests of every agency in the county and brings the cases in the Cumberland County Superior Court or the District Court.
The office's page SearchSystems verified is at gorhammaine.gov/police-department/faq/how-do-i-contact-district-att... (page title: How do I contact the District Attorney’s office? | Town of Gorham ME), a site that blocks automated checks (HTTP 403), so open it in a browser.
The Sex Offender Registry for Cumberland County
Registered sex offenders living in Cumberland County are listed on the Maine Sex Offender Registry, run by the Maine State Police at apps.web.maine.gov/cgi-bin/sor/index.pl. Registrants under the 1999 and 2013 laws are listed.
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 Cumberland 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 Maine Freedom of Access Act a county office must answer a request within a reasonable time, after acknowledging the request within 5 working days, and it may charge staff time after the first two hours, plus copying. The county records request page SearchSystems verified is at cumberlandcountyme.gov/departments/executive/request_records.php (page title: Welcome to Cumberland County ME).
More Official Criminal Records Pages for Cumberland County
The SearchSystems directory, online since 1997, lists the official pages for Cumberland County and Maine. These criminal records pages from its Cumberland County listing were opened again on October 2, 2026 and each one still answers:
- Cumberland County Arrest Logs (cumberlandso.org)
Frequently Asked Questions
Are criminal records public in Cumberland County?
The court files of criminal cases are public, and so is the statewide criminal history kept by the Maine State Police State Bureau of Identification: conviction records are public and can be requested on anyone by name. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Maine Freedom of Access Act.
Can I search Cumberland County criminal cases online?
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county is at courts.maine.gov/ecourts/access.html (page title: Accessing Electronic Court Records: State of Maine Judicial Branch).
How do I get my own Maine criminal history?
Through the same record request, run on yourself.
Who prosecutes crimes in Cumberland County?
The District Attorney, which files its cases in the Cumberland County Superior Court or the District Court.
Is this the official Cumberland 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.