Reviewed and updated October 11, 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 11, 2026.
Belknap County, New Hampshire, has about 65,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate). In New Hampshire the public criminal record is the court file, kept by the clerk of each court; the statewide criminal history kept by the New Hampshire State Police Criminal Records Unit is released only to its subject and to the employers and agencies the law allows. This guide says where each record of a criminal case from Belknap 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.
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Criminal Cases in the Belknap County Superior Court
In New Hampshire the public criminal record is the court file. Criminal cases from Belknap County are heard by the Belknap County Superior Court, which hears felonies, civil cases tried to a jury, and appeals; the Circuit Court takes misdemeanors, traffic cases and small claims in the District Division; divorces and family matters in the Family Division; estates in the Probate Division, and the file of each case is kept by the clerk of each court.
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county is at belknapcounty.gov/m/directory/department?did=12 (page title: Staff Directory, Restorative Justice | Court Diversion), phone 603-527-5493, 64 Court Street Laconia, NH 03246, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on October 11, 2026.
New Hampshire has no single public index of every trial court case; each court's records are looked up through that court.
The New Hampshire Criminal History and Your Own Copy
New Hampshire does not let the public search another person's statewide criminal history. The record kept by the New Hampshire State Police Criminal Records Unit goes to the person it belongs to and to employers and agencies the law authorizes; for everyone else the court file in the Belknap County Superior Court is the public record.
To see your own record, the route is a notarized request to the Criminal Records Unit. The state page SearchSystems verified for it is at nhsp.dos.nh.gov/our-services/criminal-records/criminal-history-reco....
Arrest Records Kept Locally in Belknap County
The Belknap County Sheriff's Office and the agency that reports for Laconia keep the arrest records in Belknap 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 Belknap County: the Belknap County State Police (state police); it keeps the records of its own arrests.
Together, the 12 agencies in Belknap County with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 3,111 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 Belknap County arrest records.
The Crimes Behind the Records: Belknap County in 2025
The 12 agencies in Belknap County with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 85 violent and 860 property crimes to the FBI that year; the 11 of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 766 crimes in 2025 against 804 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 Belknap County public records guide.
The County Attorney for Belknap County
The County Attorney decides which arrests in Belknap County become charges and files them in the Belknap County Superior Court or the Circuit Court; the office answers questions about pending prosecutions, and the case files themselves are court records.
The office's page SearchSystems verified is at belknapcounty.gov/221/County-Attorney (page title: County Attorney | Belknap County, NH), phone 603-527-5440, 64 Court St Laconia, NH 03246, Monday through Friday 8 am to 4 pm, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on October 2, 2026.
The Sex Offender Registry for Belknap County
Registered sex offenders living in Belknap County are listed on the New Hampshire Sex Offender Registry, run by the New Hampshire Department of Safety at business.nh.gov/nsor. 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 Belknap 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 New Hampshire Right-to-Know Law a county office must answer a request within 5 business days, and it may charge the actual cost of copying.
Frequently Asked Questions
Are criminal records public in Belknap County?
The court files of criminal cases in the Belknap County Superior Court are public and can be looked up through the court. The statewide criminal history kept by the New Hampshire State Police Criminal Records Unit is not public; you can get your own. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the New Hampshire Right-to-Know Law.
Can I search Belknap County criminal cases online?
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county is at belknapcounty.gov (page title: Staff Directory, Restorative Justice | Court Diversion).
How do I get my own New Hampshire criminal history?
Through a notarized request to the Criminal Records Unit.
Who prosecutes crimes in Belknap County?
The County Attorney, reached at 603-527-5440, which files its cases in the Belknap County Superior Court or the Circuit Court.
Is this the official Belknap 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.