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 24, 2026 and September 28, 2026.
Mason County, West Virginia, has about 25,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate). In West Virginia the public criminal record is the court file, kept by the Circuit Clerk; the statewide criminal history kept by the West Virginia State Police is released only to its subject and to the employers and agencies the law allows. This guide says where each record of a criminal case from Mason 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: Mason County public records, Mason County arrest records, Mason County warrants, Mason County inmate search, Mason County court records, West Virginia arrest records and West Virginia inmate search.
Criminal Cases in the Mason County Circuit Court
A criminal case from Mason County is filed in the Mason County Circuit Court or the Magistrate Court, which takes misdemeanors, traffic cases and civil cases up to $10,000, and the court file, kept by the Circuit Clerk, is the record of it that the public may see.
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county is at courtswv.gov/public-resources/court-information-county/mason_county (page title: Mason County Information | West Virginia Judiciary), phone 304-927-2372, 200 Main Street Spencer, WV 25276, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 24, 2026.
West Virginia has no single public index of every trial court case; each court's records are looked up through that court.
The West Virginia Criminal History and Your Own Copy
The statewide criminal history kept by the West Virginia State Police is closed to the public in West Virginia: it is released to its subject and to authorized employers and licensing agencies, and a member of the public uses the court's own case index instead.
To see your own record, the route is a fingerprint-based request to the State Police Criminal Identification Bureau.
Arrest Records Kept Locally in Mason County
The Mason County Sheriff's Office and the agencies that report for Point Pleasant, New Haven and Mason keep the arrest records in Mason 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 these agencies in Mason County: the State Fire Marshal in Mason County and the Department of Natural Resources in Mason County (state agency); the Point Pleasant State Police (state police); each keeps the records of its own arrests.
Together, the three agencies in Mason County with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 1,183 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 Mason County arrest records.
The Crimes Behind the Records: Mason County in 2025
The three agencies in Mason County with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 12 violent and 91 property crimes to the FBI that year; the one of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 34 crimes in 2025 against 63 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 Mason County public records guide.
The Prosecuting Attorney for Mason County
Charges in Mason County are filed by the Prosecuting Attorney, which reviews the arrests of every agency in the county and brings the cases in the Mason County Circuit Court or the Magistrate Court.
The office's page SearchSystems verified is at masoncountywv.gov/government/mason-county-prosecuting-attorney (page title: Mason County Prosecuting Attorney | Mason County), phone 304-675-5734, 200 Sixth Street Point Pleasant, WV 25550, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 24, 2026.
The Sex Offender Registry for Mason County
Registered sex offenders living in Mason County are listed on the West Virginia Sex Offender Registry, run by the West Virginia State Police at apps.wv.gov. 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 Mason 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 West Virginia Freedom of Information Act a county office must answer a request within 5 business days, and it may charge the actual cost of copying.
Frequently Asked Questions
Are criminal records public in Mason County?
The court files of criminal cases in the Mason County Circuit Court are public and can be looked up through the court. The statewide criminal history kept by the West Virginia State Police is not public; you can get your own. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the West Virginia Freedom of Information Act.
Can I search Mason County criminal cases online?
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county is at courtswv.gov (page title: Mason County Information | West Virginia Judiciary).
How do I get my own West Virginia criminal history?
Through a fingerprint-based request to the State Police Criminal Identification Bureau.
Who prosecutes crimes in Mason County?
The Prosecuting Attorney, reached at 304-675-5734, which files its cases in the Mason County Circuit Court or the Magistrate Court.
Is this the official Mason 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.