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.
White Pine County, Nevada, has about 8,500 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 White Pine 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, directory links and common questions.
Related guides: White Pine County public records, White Pine County arrest records, White Pine County warrants, White Pine County inmate search, White Pine County court records, Nevada arrest records and Nevada inmate search.
Criminal Cases in the District Court for White Pine County
A criminal case from White Pine County is filed in the District Court for White Pine County or the Justice Court, which takes misdemeanors, traffic cases, evictions and civil cases up to $15,000, and the court file, kept by the County Clerk, is the record of it that the public may see.
For White Pine County, SearchSystems opened and checked the court records page for the county at nvcourts.gov/find_a_court/district_courts/white_pine_county_distric... (page title: White Pine County District Court | Nevada Judiciary), phone (775) 293-6509, 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
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 White Pine County
The White Pine County Sheriff's Office keeps the arrest records in White Pine 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 White Pine County Sheriff's Office reported 216 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 White Pine County arrest records.
The Crimes Behind the Records: White Pine County in 2025
The one agency in White Pine County with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 24 violent and 50 property crimes to the FBI that year. 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 White Pine County public records guide.
The District Attorney for White Pine County
The District Attorney decides which arrests in White Pine County become charges and files them in the District Court for White Pine 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 whitepinecounty.net/220/District-Attorney (page title: District Attorney | White Pine County, NV), phone 775-293-6565, 1786 Great Basin Blvd. Suite 4 Ely, NV 89301, Monday through Friday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 24, 2026.
The Sex Offender Registry for White Pine County
Registered sex offenders living in White Pine 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 White Pine 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.
More Official Criminal Records Pages for White Pine County
The SearchSystems directory, online since 1997, lists the official pages for White Pine County and Nevada. These criminal records pages from its White Pine County listing were opened again on October 2, 2026 and each one still answers:
- Nevada Sex Offender Registry (sexoffenders.nv.gov)
Frequently Asked Questions
Are criminal records public in White Pine County?
The court files of criminal cases in the District Court for White Pine 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.
Who prosecutes crimes in White Pine County?
The District Attorney, reached at 775-293-6565, which files its cases in the District Court for White Pine County or the Justice Court.
Is this the official White Pine 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.