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 25, 2026 and October 2, 2026.
Johnstown, Pennsylvania, in Cambria County, has about 18,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate). In Pennsylvania the public criminal record is the court file, kept by the Prothonotary for civil cases and divorces and the Clerk of Courts for criminal cases; the statewide criminal history kept by the Pennsylvania State Police is open to anyone who asks. This guide says where each record of a criminal case from Johnstown 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.
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Criminal Cases in the Cambria County Court of Common Pleas
In Pennsylvania the public criminal record is the court file. Criminal cases from Johnstown are heard by the Cambria County Court of Common Pleas, which hears felonies, civil cases, divorces, estates and juvenile matters; the Magisterial District Courts take traffic tickets, summary offenses, small claims and preliminary hearings; Philadelphia has the Municipal Court instead, and the file of each case is kept by the Prothonotary for civil cases and divorces and the Clerk of Courts for criminal cases.
For Cambria County, SearchSystems opened and checked the court records page for the county at pacourts.us/courts/courts-of-common-pleas/individual-county-courts/... (page title: Cambria County | Individual County Courts | Courts of Common Pleas | Courts | Unified Judicial System of Penns), phone 814-472-5440, 200 South Center Street Ebensburg, PA 15931, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 28, 2026. That page belongs to a lower court, the Magisterial District Courts, not to the Cambria County Court of Common Pleas.
Statewide, UJS Web Portal is the Pennsylvania courts' free statewide docket search.
The Pennsylvania Criminal History and Your Own Copy
Pennsylvania is one of the states that lets anyone look up another person's statewide criminal history: PATCH lets anyone request a criminal record check by name online, for $22 a search, through the Pennsylvania State Police. 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 Pennsylvania State Police site.
Arrest Records Kept Locally in Johnstown
The Cambria County Sheriff's Office and the agency that reports for Johnstown (filed by the FBI as Johnstown Police Department) keep the arrest records in and around Johnstown: 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 three other agencies, two campus police departments, four state agencies and one state police unit in Cambria County (the arrest records guide names each one); each keeps the records of its own arrests.
Together, the 24 agencies in Cambria County with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 1,608 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 Johnstown arrest records.
The Crimes Behind the Records: Johnstown in 2025
The agency that reports for Johnstown had 118 violent and 415 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 Cambria County
The District Attorney decides which arrests in Cambria County become charges and files them in the Cambria County Court of Common Pleas or the Magisterial District Courts; the office answers questions about pending prosecutions, and the case files themselves are court records.
The office's page SearchSystems verified is at cambriacountypa.gov/district-attorney-office (page title: District Attorney's Office | Cambria County, PA), 200 South Center Street Ebensburg, PA 15931, Monday - Friday 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., a site that blocks automated checks (HTTP 403), so open it in a browser.
The Sex Offender Registry for Johnstown
Registered sex offenders living in Johnstown are listed on the Pennsylvania Megan's Law website, run by the Pennsylvania State Police at meganslaw.psp.pa.gov/Home/TermsAndConditions. 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 Cambria 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 Right-to-Know Law a county office must answer a request within 5 business days, with a 30-day extension, and it may charge copying at 25 cents a page.
Frequently Asked Questions
Are criminal records public in Johnstown?
The court files of criminal cases are public, and so is the statewide criminal history kept by the Pennsylvania State Police: PATCH lets anyone request a criminal record check by name online, for $22. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Right-to-Know Law.
Can I search Johnstown criminal cases online?
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county is at pacourts.us (page title: Cambria County | Individual County Courts | Courts of Common Pleas | Courts | Unified Judicial System of Penns); it belongs to a lower court, not to the Cambria County Court of Common Pleas. Statewide, UJS Web Portal is the Pennsylvania courts' free statewide docket search.
How do I get my own Pennsylvania criminal history?
Through the same PATCH request, run on yourself.
Who prosecutes crimes in Johnstown?
The District Attorney, which files its cases in the Cambria County Court of Common Pleas or the Magisterial District Courts.
Is this the official Johnstown 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.