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). Every warrant for Kings County comes from a judge of the Kings County Supreme and County Courts or the city, town and village courts, is served by whichever agency finds the person, and is recorded in the court file of the case it was issued in. This guide says who issues and serves warrants here, where a person arrested on one is held, how to check for one and how one is cleared.
This guide covers who issues warrants, who serves warrants, after a warrant arrest, checking for a warrant, clearing a warrant and common questions.
Related guides: Kings County public records, Kings County arrest records, Kings County inmate search, Kings County criminal records, Kings County court records, New York arrest records and New York inmate search.
Who Issues Warrants in Kings County
In New York an arrest warrant is signed by a judge. For Kings County that means 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, which take misdemeanors, traffic cases and small claims, issue their own warrants on the cases before them.
When a defendant misses a court date the judge issues a bench warrant, and either kind of warrant lives in the court file of the case, kept by the County Clerk.
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county is 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).
Who Serves Warrants 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 serves warrants on its own ground.
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.
A warrant issued in Kings County is good anywhere in New York, so it is served by whichever agency finds the person, in a traffic stop as often as at the door.
Each agency and what it reported is in Kings County arrest records.
Where a Person Arrested on a Warrant from Kings County Is Held
A person arrested on a warrant and kept in custody is held by the New York City Department of Correction, which runs the city's jails for all five boroughs; there is no county jail. The page of the sheriff's office SearchSystems verified is at inmatelocator.countyofkings.com.
A person arrested in Kings County on a warrant from another county is held at the same jail until that county takes custody.
How to Check for a Warrant in Kings County
Whether a warrant is out from Kings County shows in two places:
- ECourts, the Unified Court System's free online case search (WebCivil, WebCrims and WebFamily), for a case whose register of actions shows a warrant.
- The custody page of the sheriff's office at inmatelocator.countyofkings.com, which shows people already arrested and booked, not open warrants.
The one Kings County page SearchSystems verified, the sheriff's, is not a list of open warrants.
Clearing a Warrant from Kings County
Only the judge who issued a warrant can recall it. For a case from Kings County that means appearing before the Kings County Supreme and County Courts or the city, town and village courts, with the case put back on the calendar through the County Clerk.
A missed date in a case before the city, town and village courts is handled by that court, not by the Kings County Supreme and County Courts.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can I check for a warrant online in Kings County?
Not from the Kings County pages SearchSystems verified; none of them is a warrant list. eCourts is the Unified Court System's free online case search (WebCivil, WebCrims and WebFamily), and a case whose register of actions shows a warrant is the record of it. The court that issued it keeps the record; ask the County Clerk.
Who serves warrants in Kings County?
The police agency that finds the person; an New York warrant is valid anywhere in the state.
Where is a person arrested on a warrant in Kings County held?
In the New York City jail system, run by the New York City Department of Correction for all five boroughs.
How is a warrant from Kings County cleared?
By appearing before the court that issued it; the judge recalls the warrant in court. The case is put back on the calendar through the County Clerk.
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.