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 October 2, 2026.
Rawlins, Wyoming, in Carbon County, has about 8,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate). In Wyoming the public criminal record is the court file, kept by the Clerk of District Court; the statewide criminal history kept by the Wyoming Division of Criminal Investigation 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 Rawlins 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: Rawlins public records, Carbon County criminal records, Rawlins arrest records, Rawlins warrants, Rawlins inmate search, Rawlins court records, Wyoming arrest records and Wyoming inmate search.
Criminal Cases in the District Court for Carbon County
A criminal case from Rawlins is filed in the District Court for Carbon County or the Circuit Court, which takes misdemeanors, traffic cases, small claims and civil cases up to $50,000, and the court file, kept by the Clerk of District Court, is the record of it that the public may see.
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county is at wyocomet.wyo.gov/repositories/2/resources/2096 (page title: Collection: Guide to the Carbon County District Court Records | ArchivesSpace Public Interface), phone (307) 777-7826, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 24, 2026.
Wyoming has no single public index of every trial court case; each court's records are looked up through that court.
The Wyoming Criminal History and Your Own Copy
The statewide criminal history kept by the Wyoming Division of Criminal Investigation is closed to the public in Wyoming: 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 Division of Criminal Investigation. The state page SearchSystems verified for it is at wyomingdci.wyo.gov/criminal-justice-information-services-cjis/crimi....
Arrest Records Kept Locally in Rawlins
The Carbon County Sheriff's Office and the agency that reports for Rawlins (filed by the FBI as Rawlins Police Department) keep the arrest records in and around Rawlins: 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.
Together, the three agencies in Carbon County with all twelve months of 2020 on file reported 1,137 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 Rawlins arrest records.
The Crimes Behind the Records: Rawlins in 2025
The agency that reports for Rawlins had 9 violent and 69 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 County Attorney for Carbon County
The County Attorney decides which arrests in Carbon County become charges and files them in the District Court for Carbon County or the Circuit Court; the office answers questions about pending prosecutions, and the case files themselves are court records.
The office's page SearchSystems verified is at carboncountywy.gov/937/County-Attorney (page title: County Attorney | Carbon County, WY), phone 307-328-2700, Monday through Friday 8 am to 5 pm, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 24, 2026.
The Sex Offender Registry for Rawlins
Registered sex offenders living in Rawlins are listed on the Wyoming Sex Offender Registry, run by the Wyoming Division of Criminal Investigation at wyomingdci.wyo.gov. The registry is public and can be searched online; the county sheriff registers them.
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 Carbon 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 Wyoming Public Records Act a county office must answer a request within 30 days at most, and it may charge the actual cost of copying. The county records request page SearchSystems verified is at carbonwy.govqa.us/WEBAPP/_rs/(S(pr2toxotby1ojytzc031vkbn))/supporth... (page title: Public Records Request Portal | Carbon County, WY).
Frequently Asked Questions
Are criminal records public in Rawlins?
The court files of criminal cases in the District Court for Carbon County are public and can be looked up through the court. The statewide criminal history kept by the Wyoming Division of Criminal Investigation is not public; you can get your own. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Wyoming Public Records Act.
Can I search Rawlins criminal cases online?
The court records page SearchSystems verified for the county is at wyocomet.wyo.gov (page title: Collection: Guide to the Carbon County District Court Records | ArchivesSpace Public Interface).
How do I get my own Wyoming criminal history?
Through a fingerprint-based request to the Division of Criminal Investigation.
Who prosecutes crimes in Rawlins?
The County Attorney, reached at 307-328-2700, which files its cases in the District Court for Carbon County or the Circuit Court.
Is this the official Rawlins 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.