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 30, 2026 and October 2, 2026.
New York County, New York, has about 1.7 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 New York 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, directory links and common questions.
Related guides: New York County public records, New York County arrest records, New York County warrants, New York County inmate search, New York County court records, New York arrest records and New York inmate search.
Criminal Cases in the New York County Supreme and County Courts
A criminal case from New York County is filed in the New York 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.
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county is at nycourts.gov/help/representing-yourself-court/getting-court-records... (page title: Getting Court Records & Case Information | New York Courts), a site that blocks automated checks (HTTP 403), so open it in a browser.
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 New York County
The FBI's agency list also places one more agency in New York County: the Optometry 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, New York County among them, and reports its arrests to the FBI as one agency, so they are not broken out for New York County here.
The agencies and their counts, year by year, are in New York County arrest records.
The Sex Offender Registry for New York County
Registered sex offenders living in New York 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 New York 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.
More Official Criminal Records Pages for New York County
The SearchSystems directory, online since 1997, lists the official pages for New York County and New York. These criminal records pages from its New York County listing were opened again on October 2, 2026 and each one still answers:
- Wanted, Missing (nyc.gov)
Frequently Asked Questions
Are criminal records public in New York 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 New York 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 New York 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.