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 October 2, 2026.
Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, in Hennepin County, has about 32,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate). In Minnesota the public criminal record is the court file, kept by the court administrator; the statewide criminal history kept by the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension is open to anyone who asks. This guide says where each record of a criminal case from Brooklyn Center 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: Brooklyn Center public records, Hennepin County criminal records, Brooklyn Center arrest records, Brooklyn Center warrants, Brooklyn Center inmate search, Brooklyn Center court records, Minnesota arrest records and Minnesota inmate search.
Criminal Cases in the Hennepin County District Court
In Minnesota the public criminal record is the court file. Criminal cases from Brooklyn Center are heard by the Hennepin County District Court, which hears every civil, criminal, family, probate and juvenile case, and the file of each case is kept by the court administrator.
For Hennepin County, SearchSystems opened and checked the court records page for the county at mncourts.gov/find-courts/hennepin/records-center-hennepin (page title: Records Center | Hennepin County District Court), a site that blocks automated checks (HTTP 403), so open it in a browser.
Statewide, Minnesota Court Records Online is the Minnesota Judicial Branch's free statewide case search.
The Minnesota Criminal History and Your Own Copy
Minnesota is one of the states that lets anyone look up another person's statewide criminal history: the public criminal history search online is free and shows 15 years of convictions, through the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. 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.
To see your own record, the route is a request to the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. The state page SearchSystems verified for it is at dps.mn.gov/divisions/bca/bca-divisions/criminal-justice-information....
Arrest Records Kept Locally in Brooklyn Center
The Hennepin County Sheriff's Office and the agency that reports for Brooklyn Center (filed by the FBI as Brooklyn Center Police Department) keep the arrest records in and around Brooklyn Center: 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 campus police department, three other agencies and one state police unit in Hennepin County (the arrest records guide names each one); each keeps the records of its own arrests.
The St. Anthony Police Department is listed by the FBI across two counties including Hennepin County, so its arrests are not broken out for Hennepin County here.
Together, the 29 agencies in Hennepin County with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 25,183 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 Brooklyn Center arrest records.
The Crimes Behind the Records: Brooklyn Center in 2025
The agency that reports for Brooklyn Center had 164 violent and 829 property crimes reported for 2025; each one is a report on file with it, and each arrest that follows is the start of a criminal record.
The County Attorney for Hennepin County
Charges in Hennepin County are filed by the County Attorney, which reviews the arrests of every agency in the county and brings the cases in the Hennepin County District Court.
The office's page SearchSystems verified is at hennepincounty.gov/sitecore/content/hcattorney (page title: Hennepin County Attorney), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 30, 2026.
The Sex Offender Registry for Brooklyn Center
Registered sex offenders living in Brooklyn Center are listed on the Minnesota Predatory Offender Registry, run by the Minnesota Department of Corrections at mn.gov. Only Level 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 Hennepin 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 Minnesota Government Data Practices Act a county office must answer a request promptly, within a reasonable time, and it may charge copying, and staff time for requests over 100 pages.
Frequently Asked Questions
Are criminal records public in Brooklyn Center?
The court files of criminal cases are public, and so is the statewide criminal history kept by the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension: the public criminal history search online is free and shows 15 years of convictions. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Minnesota Government Data Practices Act.
Can I search Brooklyn Center criminal cases online?
Minnesota Court Records Online is the Minnesota Judicial Branch's free statewide case search.
How do I get my own Minnesota criminal history?
Through a request to the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension.
Who prosecutes crimes in Brooklyn Center?
The County Attorney, which files its cases in the Hennepin County District Court.
Is this the official Brooklyn Center website?
No. SearchSystems.net is an independent public records guide, online since 1997. It links to the official city, county, court and state offices described above and does not hold records, charge for them or take requests.