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 September 30, 2026.
Hancock County, Maine, has about 57,000 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 Hancock 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: Hancock County public records, Hancock County arrest records, Hancock County warrants, Hancock County inmate search, Hancock County court records, Maine arrest records and Maine inmate search.
Criminal Cases in the Hancock County Superior Court
A criminal case from Hancock County is filed in the Hancock County Superior Court or the District Court, which takes misdemeanors, traffic violations, small claims, divorces and family matters, and the court file, kept by the clerk of each court, is the record of it that the public may see.
For Hancock 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 Hancock County
The Hancock County Sheriff's Office and the agency that reports for Ellsworth keep the arrest records in Hancock 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 seven agencies in Hancock County with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 779 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 Hancock County arrest records.
The Crimes Behind the Records: Hancock County in 2025
The seven agencies in Hancock County with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 14 violent and 351 property crimes to the FBI that year; the same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 365 crimes in 2025 against 401 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 Hancock County public records guide.
The District Attorney for Hancock County
Charges in Hancock County are filed by the District Attorney, which reviews the arrests of every agency in the county and brings the cases in the Hancock County Superior Court or the District Court.
The office's page SearchSystems verified is at hancockcountymaine.gov/district-attorneys-office (page title: District Attorney's Office), phone 207-667-4621, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 24, 2026.
The Sex Offender Registry for Hancock County
Registered sex offenders living in Hancock 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 Hancock 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 hancockcountymaine.gov/contact/freedom-of-access-act-requests (page title: Freedom of Access Act Requests | Hancock County, Maine).
Frequently Asked Questions
Are criminal records public in Hancock 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 Hancock 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 Hancock County?
The District Attorney, reached at 207-667-4621, which files its cases in the Hancock County Superior Court or the District Court.
Is this the official Hancock 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.