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.
Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania, in Snyder County, has about 5,500 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 Selinsgrove 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: Selinsgrove public records, Snyder County criminal records, Selinsgrove arrest records, Selinsgrove warrants, Selinsgrove inmate search, Selinsgrove court records, Pennsylvania arrest records and Pennsylvania inmate search.
Criminal Cases in the Snyder County Court of Common Pleas
A criminal case from Selinsgrove is filed in the Snyder County Court of Common Pleas or the Magisterial District Courts, which take traffic tickets, summary offenses, small claims and preliminary hearings; Philadelphia has the Municipal Court instead, and the court file, kept by the Prothonotary for civil cases and divorces and the Clerk of Courts for criminal cases, is the record of it that the public may see.
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county is at pacourts.us/courts/courts-of-common-pleas/individual-county-courts/... (page title: Snyder County | Individual County Courts | Courts of Common Pleas | Courts | Unified Judicial System of Pennsy), phone 570-837-4207, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 2026. That page belongs to a lower court, the Magisterial District Courts, not to the Snyder 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 Selinsgrove
The Snyder County Sheriff's Office and the agency that reports for Selinsgrove (filed by the FBI as Selinsgrove Police Department) keep the arrest records in and around Selinsgrove: 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 these agencies in Snyder County: the Snyder County State Police (state police); the Bureau of Forestry in Snyder County and the Office of Attorney General Region 2 in Snyder County (state agency); each keeps the records of its own arrests.
Together, the three agencies in Snyder County with all twelve months of 2024 on file reported 147 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 Selinsgrove arrest records.
The Crimes Behind the Records: Selinsgrove in 2025
The agency that reports for Selinsgrove had 3 violent and 3 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 Snyder County
Charges in Snyder County are filed by the District Attorney, which reviews the arrests of every agency in the county and brings the cases in the Snyder County Court of Common Pleas or the Magisterial District Courts.
The office's page SearchSystems verified is at snydercounty.org/departments/district-attorney (page title: District Attorney | Snyder County, PA Government), phone (570) 837-4233, Monday - Friday, 8:30 am - 4:00 pm, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 2026.
The Sex Offender Registry for Selinsgrove
Registered sex offenders living in Selinsgrove 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 Snyder 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 snydercounty.org/departments/sheriff/sheriff-right-to-know (page title: Right-to-Know | Snyder County, PA Government).
Frequently Asked Questions
Are criminal records public in Selinsgrove?
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 Selinsgrove criminal cases online?
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county is at pacourts.us (page title: Snyder County | Individual County Courts | Courts of Common Pleas | Courts | Unified Judicial System of Pennsy); it belongs to a lower court, not to the Snyder 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 Selinsgrove?
The District Attorney, reached at (570) 837-4233, which files its cases in the Snyder County Court of Common Pleas or the Magisterial District Courts.
Is this the official Selinsgrove 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.