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.
Humboldt County, Nevada, has about 17,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate). In Nevada the public criminal record is the court file, kept by the County Clerk; the statewide criminal history kept by the Nevada Department of Public Safety Records, Communications and Compliance Division 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 Humboldt 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 District Court for Humboldt County
In Nevada the public criminal record is the court file. Criminal cases from Humboldt County are heard by the District Court for Humboldt County, which hears felonies, civil cases over $15,000, divorces, probate and juvenile matters; the Justice Court takes misdemeanors, traffic cases, evictions and civil cases up to $15,000, and the file of each case is kept by the County Clerk.
For Humboldt County, SearchSystems opened and checked the court records page for the county at humboldtcountynv.gov/175/County-Clerk (page title: County Clerk | Humboldt County, NV), phone 775-623-6392, 50 W Fifth Street Winnemucca, NV 89445, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on October 11, 2026.
Nevada has no single public index of every trial court case; each court's records are looked up through that court.
The Nevada Criminal History and Your Own Copy
The statewide criminal history kept by the Nevada Department of Public Safety Records, Communications and Compliance Division is closed to the public in Nevada: 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 Records Bureau. The state page SearchSystems verified for it is at rccd.nv.gov/fees-forms/fees-information-fingerprints/frequently-ask....
Arrest Records Kept Locally in Humboldt County
The Humboldt County Sheriff's Office and the agency that reports for Winnemucca keep the arrest records in Humboldt 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.
Together, the two agencies in Humboldt County with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 777 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 Humboldt County arrest records.
The Crimes Behind the Records: Humboldt County in 2025
The two agencies in Humboldt County with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 70 violent and 180 property crimes to the FBI that year; the same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 250 crimes in 2025 against 268 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 Humboldt County public records guide.
The District Attorney for Humboldt County
The District Attorney decides which arrests in Humboldt County become charges and files them in the District Court for Humboldt County or the Justice Court; the office answers questions about pending prosecutions, and the case files themselves are court records.
The office's page SearchSystems verified is at humboldtcountynv.gov/178/District-Attorney (page title: District Attorney | Humboldt County, NV), phone 775-623-6360, 501 S Bridge Street Winnemucca, NV 89445, Monday - Friday 8 a.m. - 5 p.m., which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 24, 2026.
The Sex Offender Registry for Humboldt County
Registered sex offenders living in Humboldt County are listed on the Nevada Sex Offender Registry, run by the Nevada Department of Public Safety at sexoffenders.nv.gov/ConditionsOfUse.Aspx. 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 Humboldt 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 Nevada Public Records Act a county office must answer a request within 5 business days, and it may charge the actual cost of copying; staff time only for extraordinary requests. The county records request page SearchSystems verified is at humboldtgov.nextrequest.com/requests/new (page title: NextRequest | Modern FOIA & Public Records Request Software).
Frequently Asked Questions
Are criminal records public in Humboldt County?
The court files of criminal cases in the District Court for Humboldt County are public and can be looked up through the court. The statewide criminal history kept by the Nevada Department of Public Safety Records, Communications and Compliance Division is not public; you can get your own. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Nevada Public Records Act.
Can I search Humboldt County criminal cases online?
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county is at humboldtcountynv.gov/175/County-Clerk (page title: County Clerk | Humboldt County, NV).
How do I get my own Nevada criminal history?
Through a fingerprint-based request to the Records Bureau.
Who prosecutes crimes in Humboldt County?
The District Attorney, reached at 775-623-6360, which files its cases in the District Court for Humboldt County or the Justice Court.
Is this the official Humboldt 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.