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 October 9, 2026.
Monroe County, Pennsylvania, has about 167,000 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 Monroe 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: Monroe County public records, Monroe County arrest records, Monroe County warrants, Monroe County inmate search, Monroe County court records, Pennsylvania arrest records and Pennsylvania inmate search.
Criminal Cases in the Monroe County Court of Common Pleas
A criminal case from Monroe County is filed in the Monroe 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.
For Monroe County, SearchSystems opened and checked the court records page for the county at monroecountypa.gov/departments/prothonotary/resources/c-tracksearch (page title: Monroe County | C-TrackSearch), 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 Monroe County
The Monroe County Sheriff's Office and the agency that reports for Delaware Water Gap keep the arrest records in Monroe 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 one other agency, one state police unit, four state agencies and one campus police department in Monroe County (the arrest records guide names each one); each keeps the records of its own arrests.
Together, the four agencies in Monroe County with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 1,597 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 Monroe County arrest records.
The Crimes Behind the Records: Monroe County in 2025
The five agencies in Monroe County with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 126 violent and 1,045 property crimes to the FBI that year; the same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 1,171 crimes in 2025 against 1,513 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 Monroe County public records guide.
The District Attorney for Monroe County
Charges in Monroe County are filed by the District Attorney, which reviews the arrests of every agency in the county and brings the cases in the Monroe County Court of Common Pleas or the Magisterial District Courts.
The office's page SearchSystems verified is at monroecountypa.gov/departments/district-attorney (page title: Monroe County | District Attorney), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 2026.
The Sex Offender Registry for Monroe County
Registered sex offenders living in Monroe 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 Monroe 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 monroecountypa.gov/departments/open-records (page title: Monroe County | Open Records).
Frequently Asked Questions
Are criminal records public in Monroe 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 Monroe County criminal cases online?
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county is at monroecountypa.gov (page title: Monroe County | C-TrackSearch). 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 Monroe County?
The District Attorney, which files its cases in the Monroe County Court of Common Pleas or the Magisterial District Courts.
Is this the official Monroe 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.