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.
Kennebec County, Maine, has about 128,000 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 Kennebec 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, sex offender registry, records requests and common questions.
Related guides: Kennebec County public records, Kennebec County arrest records, Kennebec County warrants, Kennebec County inmate search, Kennebec County court records, Maine arrest records and Maine inmate search.
Criminal Cases in the Kennebec County Superior Court
A criminal case from Kennebec County is filed in the Kennebec 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.
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county is at courts.maine.gov/courts/superior/kennebec-sc.html (page title: Kennebec Court Superior Court: State of Maine Judicial Branch), phone (207) 213-2800, Monday through Friday 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., 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 Kennebec County
The Kennebec County Sheriff's Office and the agencies that report for Augusta, Waterville, Gardiner and Hallowell keep the arrest records in Kennebec 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 Kennebec County: the Bureau of Capitol Police (state agency); it keeps the records of its own arrests.
Together, the nine agencies in Kennebec County with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 2,995 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 Kennebec County arrest records.
The Crimes Behind the Records: Kennebec County in 2025
The ten agencies in Kennebec County with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 102 violent and 1,584 property crimes to the FBI that year; the same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 1,686 crimes in 2025 against 1,958 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 Kennebec County public records guide.
The Sex Offender Registry for Kennebec County
Registered sex offenders living in Kennebec 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 Kennebec 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.
Frequently Asked Questions
Are criminal records public in Kennebec 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 Kennebec County criminal cases online?
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county is at courts.maine.gov (page title: Kennebec Court Superior Court: State of Maine Judicial Branch).
How do I get my own Maine criminal history?
Through the same record request, run on yourself.
Is this the official Kennebec 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.