SearchSystems Editorial

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 30, 2026.

About this guide

Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, has about 145,000 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 Lebanon 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, sex offender registry, records requests and common questions.

Related guides: Lebanon County public records, Lebanon County arrest records, Lebanon County warrants, Lebanon County inmate search, Lebanon County court records, Pennsylvania arrest records and Pennsylvania inmate search.

Criminal Cases in the Lebanon County Court of Common Pleas

In Pennsylvania the public criminal record is the court file. Criminal cases from Lebanon County are heard by the Lebanon 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 Lebanon County, SearchSystems opened and checked the court records page for the county at ujsportal.pacourts.us/casesearch (page title: Case Search), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 30, 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 Lebanon County

The Lebanon County - Sheriff's Office and the agencies that report for Lebanon, Lebanon, Cornwall and Cleona keep the arrest records in Lebanon 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 three other agencies, one campus police department, three state agencies and one state police unit in Lebanon County (the arrest records guide names each one); each keeps the records of its own arrests.

Together, the nine agencies in Lebanon County with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 1,463 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 Lebanon County arrest records.

The Crimes Behind the Records: Lebanon County in 2025

The nine agencies in Lebanon County with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 79 violent and 867 property crimes to the FBI that year; the seven of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 548 crimes in 2025 against 470 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 Lebanon County public records guide.

The Sex Offender Registry for Lebanon County

Registered sex offenders living in Lebanon County 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 Lebanon 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 Lebanon County?

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 Lebanon County criminal cases online?

The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county is at ujsportal.pacourts.us/casesearch (page title: Case Search). 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.

Is this the official Lebanon 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.