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.
Oakland County, Michigan, has about 1.3 million residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate). In Michigan the public criminal record is the court file, kept by the County Clerk; the statewide criminal history kept by the Michigan State Police is open to anyone who asks. This guide says where each record of a criminal case from Oakland 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: Oakland County public records, Oakland County arrest records, Oakland County warrants, Oakland County inmate search, Oakland County court records, Michigan arrest records and Michigan inmate search.
Criminal Cases in the Oakland County Circuit Court
A criminal case from Oakland County is filed in the Oakland County Circuit Court or the District Court, which takes misdemeanors, traffic cases, small claims and civil cases up to $25,000, and the court file, kept by the County Clerk, is the record of it that the public may see.
For Oakland County, SearchSystems opened and checked the court records page for the county at oaklandcountymi.gov/government/clerk-register-of-deeds/court-record... (page title: Court Explorer | Oakland County, MI), phone 248-858-0582, 1200 North Telegraph Road Dept 413 Pontiac, MI 48341, Monday - Friday 8:30am - 4:30pm, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 2026.
Statewide, MiCOURT Case Search is the Michigan courts' statewide case search; not every court has joined.
The Michigan Criminal History and Your Own Copy
Michigan is one of the states that lets anyone look up another person's statewide criminal history: ICHAT lets anyone search public criminal history by name, for $10 a search, through the Michigan 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. The search is on the Michigan State Police site.
Arrest Records Kept Locally in Oakland County
The Oakland County Sheriff's Office and the agencies that report for Troy, Farmington Hills, Rochester Hills, Southfield, Novi, Pontiac and 31 more cities keep the arrest records in Oakland 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 two campus police departments, one state police unit and one other agency in Oakland County (the arrest records guide names each one); each keeps the records of its own arrests.
The Fenton Police Department is listed by the FBI across two counties including Oakland County, so its arrests are not broken out for Oakland County here.
Together, the 51 agencies in Oakland County with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 17,547 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 Oakland County arrest records.
The Crimes Behind the Records: Oakland County in 2025
The 50 agencies in Oakland County with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 2,298 violent and 10,236 property crimes to the FBI that year; the same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 12,534 crimes in 2025 against 13,488 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 Oakland County public records guide.
The Prosecuting Attorney for Oakland County
The Prosecuting Attorney decides which arrests in Oakland County become charges and files them in the Oakland County Circuit Court or the District Court; the office answers questions about pending prosecutions, and the case files themselves are court records.
The office's page SearchSystems verified is at oaklandcountymi.gov/government/prosecutor/about-the-prosecutor-s-of... (page title: About the Oakland County Prosecutor's Office | Oakland County, MI), phone 248-858-0656, 1200 N. Telegraph Rd West Wing - Building 14E Pontiac, MI 48341, Monday - Friday 8:30am - 5:00pm, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 30, 2026.
The Sex Offender Registry for Oakland County
Registered sex offenders living in Oakland County are listed on the Michigan Public Sex Offender Registry, run by the Michigan State Police at michigan.gov/msp/services/sex-offender-reg. Tier 2 and Tier 3 offenders are listed 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 Oakland 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 Michigan Freedom of Information Act a county office must answer a request within 5 business days, with a 10-day extension, and it may charge labor and copying, at rates the law caps. The county records request page SearchSystems verified is at oaklandcountymi.gov/government/foia (page title: Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) | Oakland County, MI).
Frequently Asked Questions
Are criminal records public in Oakland County?
The court files of criminal cases are public, and so is the statewide criminal history kept by the Michigan State Police: ICHAT lets anyone search public criminal history by name, for $10. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Michigan Freedom of Information Act.
Can I search Oakland County criminal cases online?
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county is at oaklandcountymi.gov (page title: Court Explorer | Oakland County, MI). Statewide, MiCOURT Case Search is the Michigan courts' statewide case search; not every court has joined.
How do I get my own Michigan criminal history?
Through the same ICHAT search, run on yourself.
Who prosecutes crimes in Oakland County?
The Prosecuting Attorney, reached at 248-858-0656, which files its cases in the Oakland County Circuit Court or the District Court.
Is this the official Oakland 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.