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 September 30, 2026.
Tulsa County, Oklahoma, has about 694,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate). In Oklahoma the public criminal record is the court file, kept by the Court Clerk; the statewide criminal history kept by the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation is open to anyone who asks. This guide says where each record of a criminal case from Tulsa 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 and common questions.
Related guides: Tulsa County public records, Tulsa County arrest records, Tulsa County warrants, Tulsa County inmate search, Tulsa County court records, Oklahoma arrest records and Oklahoma inmate search.
Criminal Cases in the Tulsa County District Court
In Oklahoma the public criminal record is the court file. Criminal cases from Tulsa County are heard by the Tulsa County District Court, which hears every civil, criminal, family, probate and juvenile case, and the file of each case is kept by the Court Clerk.
For Tulsa County, SearchSystems opened and checked the court records page for the county at courtclerk.tulsacounty.org (page title: Don Newberry, Tulsa County Court Clerk), phone 918-596-5420, Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m., which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 28, 2026. That page belongs to a lower court, not to the Tulsa County District Court.
Statewide, OSCN and ODCR are the free online dockets of every Oklahoma district court.
The Oklahoma Criminal History and Your Own Copy
Oklahoma is one of the states that lets anyone look up another person's statewide criminal history: anyone can order a name-based criminal history search online, for $15 a search, through the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation. The result is the repository record, what agencies reported to the state, which is wider than one county's court index but can lag it. The search is on the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation site.
Arrest Records Kept Locally in Tulsa County
The Tulsa County Sheriff's Office and the agencies that report for Tulsa, Broken Arrow, Owasso, Bixby, Jenks, Sand Springs and three more cities keep the arrest records in Tulsa 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 FBI's agency list also places two campus police departments and three other agencies in Tulsa County (the arrest records guide names each one); each keeps the records of its own arrests.
The Sapulpa Police Department, the Skiatook Police Department and the Mannford Police Department are each listed by the FBI across several counties including Tulsa County, so their arrests are not broken out for Tulsa County here.
Together, the ten agencies in Tulsa County with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 19,329 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 Tulsa County arrest records.
The Crimes Behind the Records: Tulsa County in 2025
The ten agencies in Tulsa County with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 4,046 violent and 17,712 property crimes to the FBI that year; the same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 21,758 crimes in 2025 against 23,720 in 2024. 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 Tulsa County public records guide.
The District Attorney for Tulsa County
Charges in Tulsa County are filed by the District Attorney, which reviews the arrests of every agency in the county and brings the cases in the Tulsa County District Court.
The office's page SearchSystems verified is at www2.tulsacounty.org/districtattorney/about (page title: About | District Attorney), phone 918-596-4805, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 30, 2026.
The Sex Offender Registry for Tulsa County
Registered sex offenders living in Tulsa County are listed on the Oklahoma Sex Offender Registry, run by the Oklahoma Department of Corrections at sors.doc.ok.gov. The registry is public and can be searched 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 Tulsa 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 Oklahoma Open Records Act a county office must answer a request promptly; the statute sets no number of days, and it may charge copying at no more than 25 cents a page. The county records request page SearchSystems verified is at tcso.org/resources/public-records-requests (page title: Open Records Requests | Tulsa County Sheriff's Office).
Frequently Asked Questions
Are criminal records public in Tulsa County?
The court files of criminal cases are public, and so is the statewide criminal history kept by the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation: anyone can order a name-based criminal history search online, for $15. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Oklahoma Open Records Act.
Can I search Tulsa County criminal cases online?
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county is at courtclerk.tulsacounty.org (page title: Don Newberry, Tulsa County Court Clerk); it belongs to a lower court, not to the Tulsa County District Court. Statewide, OSCN and ODCR is the free online dockets of every Oklahoma district court.
How do I get my own Oklahoma criminal history?
Through the same name-based search, run on yourself.
Who prosecutes crimes in Tulsa County?
The District Attorney, reached at 918-596-4805, which files its cases in the Tulsa County District Court.
Is this the official Tulsa 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.