Reviewed and updated October 11, 2026 by the SearchSystems.net editorial team. The arrest 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.
Silver City, New Mexico, in Grant County, has about 9,400 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate). In New Mexico the public criminal record is the court file, kept by the Clerk of the District Court; the statewide criminal history kept by the New Mexico Department of Public Safety 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 Silver City is kept and how it is seen.
This guide covers the court file, the statewide record, local arrest records, the prosecutor, sex offender registry, records requests and common questions.
Related guides: Silver City public records, Grant County criminal records, Silver City arrest records, Silver City warrants, Silver City inmate search, Silver City court records, New Mexico arrest records and New Mexico inmate search.
Criminal Cases in the District Court for Grant County
A criminal case from Silver City is filed in the District Court for Grant County or the Magistrate Court, which takes misdemeanors, traffic cases and civil cases up to $10,000; Bernalillo County has the Metropolitan Court instead, and the court file, kept by the Clerk of the District Court, is the record of it that the public may see.
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county is at grantcountynm.gov/m/directory/department?did=31 (page title: Staff Directory, Magistrate Court Division II), 701 Central Ave Bayard, NM 88203, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on October 11, 2026. That page belongs to a lower court, the Magistrate Court, not to the District Court for Grant County.
Statewide, New Mexico Courts Case Lookup is the New Mexico Judiciary's free statewide case search.
The New Mexico Criminal History and Your Own Copy
The statewide criminal history kept by the New Mexico Department of Public Safety is closed to the public in New Mexico: it is released to its subject and to authorized employers and licensing agencies, and a member of the public uses the court's own case index instead.
To see your own record, the route is a fingerprint-based request to the Department of Public Safety. The state page SearchSystems verified for it is at dps.nm.gov/law-enforcement-records-bureau.
Arrest Records Kept Locally in Silver City
The Grant County Sheriff's Office and the agency that reports for Silver City (filed by the FBI as Silver City Police Department) keep the arrest records in and around Silver City: 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 Grant County: Western New Mexico University (campus police); it keeps the records of its own arrests.
Together, the three agencies in Grant County with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 136 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 Silver City arrest records.
The District Attorney for Grant County
Charges in Grant County are filed by the District Attorney, which reviews the arrests of every agency in the county and brings the cases in the District Court for Grant County or the Magistrate Court.
The office's page SearchSystems verified is at 6thda.com/meet-the-d-a-s-office (page title: Meet The D.A.'s Office | Sixth Judicial District Attorney's Office of New Mexico), phone (575) 388-1941, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 24, 2026.
The Sex Offender Registry for Silver City
Registered sex offenders living in Silver City are listed on the New Mexico Sex Offender Registry, run by the New Mexico Department of Public Safety at offenderwatch.com/network/new-mexico. The registry is public and can be searched online; the county sheriff registers them.
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 Grant 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 Inspection of Public Records Act a county office must answer a request within 15 calendar days, after acknowledging the request within 3 business days, and it may charge copying at no more than $1 a page. The county records request page SearchSystems verified is at grantcountynm.nextrequest.com (page title: Inspection of Public RecordsNextRequest | Modern FOIA & Public Records Request Software).
Frequently Asked Questions
Are criminal records public in Silver City?
The court files of criminal cases in the District Court for Grant County are public and can be looked up through the court. The statewide criminal history kept by the New Mexico Department of Public Safety is not public; you can get your own. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Inspection of Public Records Act.
Can I search Silver City criminal cases online?
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county is at grantcountynm.gov (page title: Staff Directory, Magistrate Court Division II); it belongs to a lower court, not to the District Court for Grant County. Statewide, New Mexico Courts Case Lookup is the New Mexico Judiciary's free statewide case search.
How do I get my own New Mexico criminal history?
Through a fingerprint-based request to the Department of Public Safety.
Who prosecutes crimes in Silver City?
The District Attorney, reached at (575) 388-1941, which files its cases in the District Court for Grant County or the Magistrate Court.
Is this the official Silver City 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.