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 23, 2026 and September 28, 2026.
Lansdale, Pennsylvania, in Montgomery County, has about 19,000 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 Lansdale 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, directory links and common questions.
Related guides: Lansdale public records, Montgomery County criminal records, Lansdale arrest records, Lansdale warrants, Lansdale inmate search, Lansdale court records, Pennsylvania arrest records and Pennsylvania inmate search.
Criminal Cases in the Montgomery County Court of Common Pleas
In Pennsylvania the public criminal record is the court file. Criminal cases from Lansdale are heard by the Montgomery 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 Montgomery County, SearchSystems opened and checked the court records page for the county at montgomerycountypa.gov/departments/clerk-courts/clerk-courts-court-... (page title: Clerk of Courts Court Records and Filings | Montgomery County, PA), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 2026.
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 Lansdale
The Montgomery County Sheriff's Office and the agency that reports for Lansdale (filed by the FBI as Lansdale Police Department) keep the arrest records in and around Lansdale: 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 four state agencies, one campus police department, two other agencies and one state police unit in Montgomery County (the arrest records guide names each one); each keeps the records of its own arrests.
Together, the 39 agencies in Montgomery County with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 11,275 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 Lansdale arrest records.
The Crimes Behind the Records: Lansdale in 2025
The agency that reports for Lansdale had 20 violent and 151 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 Montgomery County
The District Attorney decides which arrests in Montgomery County become charges and files them in the Montgomery 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 montgomerycountypa.gov/departments/district-attorney (page title: District Attorney | Montgomery County, PA), phone 610-278-3090, Monday - Friday 8:30 a.m. - 4:15 p.m., which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 2026.
The Sex Offender Registry for Lansdale
Registered sex offenders living in Lansdale 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 Montgomery 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. The county records request page SearchSystems verified is at montgomerycountypa.gov/departments/district-attorney/records-requests (page title: Records Requests | Montgomery County, PA).
More Official Criminal Records Pages for Montgomery County
The SearchSystems directory, online since 1997, lists the official pages for Montgomery County and Pennsylvania. These criminal records pages from its Montgomery County listing were opened again on October 2, 2026 and each one still answers:
- District Attorney's Wanted (montgomerycountypa.gov)
Frequently Asked Questions
Are criminal records public in Lansdale?
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 Lansdale criminal cases online?
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county is at montgomerycountypa.gov (page title: Clerk of Courts Court Records and Filings | Montgomery County, PA). 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 Lansdale?
The District Attorney, reached at 610-278-3090, which files its cases in the Montgomery County Court of Common Pleas or the Magisterial District Courts.
Is this the official Lansdale 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.