Reviewed and updated October 9, 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 23, 2026 and October 2, 2026.
Kings County, New York, has about 2.6 million 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 Kings County is kept and how it is seen.
This guide covers the court file, the statewide record, local arrest records, sex offender registry, records requests and common questions.
Related guides: Kings County public records, Kings County arrest records, Kings County warrants, Kings County inmate search, Kings County court records, New York arrest records and New York inmate search.
Criminal Cases in the Kings County Supreme and County Courts
In New York the public criminal record is the court file. Criminal cases from Kings County are heard by the Kings County Supreme and County Courts, which hear divorces and major civil cases in the Supreme Court, felonies in the County Court; the city, town and village courts take misdemeanors, traffic cases and small claims, and the file of each case is kept by the County Clerk.
For Kings County, SearchSystems opened and checked the court records page for the county at iapps.courts.state.ny.us/webccos/kingscc (page title: Kings County Court Records | NY iApps), a site that blocks automated checks (HTTP 403), so open it in a browser. That page belongs to a lower court, the city, town and village courts, not to the Kings County Supreme and County Courts.
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 Kings County
The FBI's agency list also places one more agency in Kings County: the Downstate Medical State University of New York Police (campus police); it keeps the records of its own arrests.
The New York City Police Department polices all five boroughs of New York City, Kings County among them, and reports its arrests to the FBI as one agency, so they are not broken out for Kings County here.
The agencies and their counts, year by year, are in Kings County arrest records.
The Sex Offender Registry for Kings County
Registered sex offenders living in Kings County 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 Kings 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 Kings County?
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 Kings County criminal cases online?
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.
Is this the official Kings 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.