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 23, 2026 and October 9, 2026.
Plattsburgh, New York, in Clinton County, has about 20,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate). In New York the public criminal record is the court file, kept by the County Clerk; the statewide criminal history kept by the New York State Office of Court Administration is open to anyone who asks. This guide says where each record of a criminal case from Plattsburgh 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.
Related guides: Plattsburgh public records, Clinton County criminal records, Plattsburgh arrest records, Plattsburgh warrants, Plattsburgh inmate search, Plattsburgh court records, New York arrest records and New York inmate search.
Criminal Cases in the Clinton County Supreme and County Courts
A criminal case from Plattsburgh is filed in the Clinton County Supreme and County Courts or the city, town and village courts, which take misdemeanors, traffic cases and small claims, and the court file, kept by the County Clerk, is the record of it that the public may see.
For Clinton County, SearchSystems opened and checked the court records page for the county at clintoncountyny.gov/countyclerk (page title: Clinton County Clerk's Office | Clinton County New York), phone 518-565-4700, 137 Margaret Street Plattsburgh, NY 12901, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 2026.
Statewide, eCourts is the Unified Court System's free online case search (WebCivil, WebCrims and WebFamily).
The New York Criminal History and Your Own Copy
In New York the public route to a statewide criminal record is the court system's own search: the Office of Court Administration sells a statewide search of criminal court records by name and date of birth, at $95 a search. It covers cases that reached a court, not arrests that never did. The search is on the New York State Office of Court Administration site.
To see your own record, the route is a fingerprint-based Record Review through the Division of Criminal Justice Services. The state page SearchSystems verified for it is at criminaljustice.ny.gov/ojis/recordreview.htm.
Arrest Records Kept Locally in Plattsburgh
The Clinton County Sheriff's Office and the agency that reports for Plattsburgh (filed by the FBI as Plattsburgh City Police Department) keep the arrest records in and around Plattsburgh: 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 Clinton County: the Plattsburgh State University of New York Police (campus police); it keeps the records of its own arrests.
Together, the two agencies in Clinton County with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 965 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 Plattsburgh arrest records.
The Crimes Behind the Records: Plattsburgh in 2025
The agency that reports for Plattsburgh had 30 violent and 363 property crimes reported for 2025; each one is a report on file with it, and each arrest that follows is the start of a criminal record.
The District Attorney for Clinton County
Charges in Clinton County are filed by the District Attorney, which reviews the arrests of every agency in the county and brings the cases in the Clinton County Supreme and County Courts or the city, town and village courts.
The office's page SearchSystems verified is at clintoncountyny.gov/da (page title: Clinton County, NY | DA's Office), phone (518) 565-4770, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 2026.
The Sex Offender Registry for Plattsburgh
Registered sex offenders living in Plattsburgh are listed on the New York Sex Offender Registry, run by the Division of Criminal Justice Services at criminaljustice.ny.gov/nsor. Level 2 and Level 3 offenders are listed online; Level 1 offenders are not.
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 Clinton 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 Freedom of Information Law a county office must answer a request within 5 business days, at least with an acknowledgment and a date for the full answer, and it may charge copying at 25 cents a page.
Frequently Asked Questions
Are criminal records public in Plattsburgh?
The court files of criminal cases are public, and so is the statewide criminal history kept by the New York State Office of Court Administration: the Office of Court Administration sells a statewide search of criminal court records by name and date of birth, for $95. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Freedom of Information Law.
Can I search Plattsburgh criminal cases online?
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county is at clintoncountyny.gov/countyclerk (page title: Clinton County Clerk's Office | Clinton County New York). Statewide, eCourts is the Unified Court System's free online case search (WebCivil, WebCrims and WebFamily).
How do I get my own New York criminal history?
A fingerprint-based Record Review through the Division of Criminal Justice Services.
Who prosecutes crimes in Plattsburgh?
The District Attorney, reached at (518) 565-4770, which files its cases in the Clinton County Supreme and County Courts or the city, town and village courts.
Is this the official Plattsburgh 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.