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 24, 2026 and October 2, 2026.
Mineral County, Nevada, has about 4,500 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 Mineral 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, sex offender registry, records requests and common questions.
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Criminal Cases in the District Court for Mineral County
In Nevada the public criminal record is the court file. Criminal cases from Mineral County are heard by the District Court for Mineral 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.
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county is at nvcourts.gov/find_a_court/district_courts/mineral_county_clerk_s_of... (page title: Mineral County Clerk's Office | Nevada Judiciary), phone (775) 273-2410, a site that blocks automated checks (HTTP 403), so open it in a browser.
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
Nevada does not let the public search another person's statewide criminal history. The record kept by the Nevada Department of Public Safety Records, Communications and Compliance Division goes to the person it belongs to and to employers and agencies the law authorizes; for everyone else the court file in the District Court for Mineral County is the public record.
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 Mineral County
The Mineral County Sheriff's Office keeps the arrest records in Mineral 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 Mineral County Sheriff's Office reported 165 arrests to the FBI for 2025; 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 Mineral County arrest records.
The Crimes Behind the Records: Mineral County in 2025
The one agency in Mineral County with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 10 violent and 11 property crimes to the FBI that year; the same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 21 crimes in 2025 against 57 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 Mineral County public records guide.
The Sex Offender Registry for Mineral County
Registered sex offenders living in Mineral 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 Mineral 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.
Frequently Asked Questions
Are criminal records public in Mineral County?
The court files of criminal cases in the District Court for Mineral 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.
How do I get my own Nevada criminal history?
Through a fingerprint-based request to the Records Bureau.
Is this the official Mineral 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.