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If someone you care about may have been arrested, the most useful first step is to confirm the basic facts rather than assume the worst. You can search this site by full name and narrow the results to a single state and county, which matters because the same name can appear in many jurisdictions.
Treat what you find as a starting point, not a conclusion. A listed charge is an allegation, not proof of guilt, and the situation can change within hours as a person posts bond or is released. To learn whether someone is still in custody, contact the county jail or the clerk of court directly.
Tip: If you can't find a record, it may simply not be published online yet, or the name may be spelled differently than you searched.
Many people first land here after searching their own name and finding a booking entry they did not expect. If the information is wrong, the case is old, or it was sealed, dropped, or never belonged to you in the first place, our team will take another look. Submitting a request costs nothing and a real person reviews each one.
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America's Top Mugshot is not a Consumer Reporting Agency, and these records may not be used for employment, housing, credit, or tenant screening under the FCRA. Beyond the legal limit, there is a practical one. A booking record captures a single moment, an arrest, and says nothing about how the case was resolved.
Charges are routinely reduced, dropped, or dismissed, and an arrest with no conviction is common. Acting on a booking photo alone risks penalizing someone for an allegation that a court never upheld. The responsible approach is to verify the current status of any record against primary government sources before drawing a conclusion.
A booking record is not a conviction. Every person shown on this site is presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. An arrest documents an allegation only, and a large share of cases end without any conviction at all.
This site publishes public records for informational purposes. It should never be used as a basis for judgment about a person's character, guilt, or fitness.
Before acting on any record you find here, take these steps to confirm its current status
Look up the case in the county’s court system. The District Clerk or Circuit Clerk keeps the file that shows live charges, hearings, and outcomes.
For custody status, bond amounts, and release dates, call the county jail or sheriff’s office directly. Online rosters may lag behind.
Many arrests end in reduced charges, dismissals, or acquittals. The booking record is a snapshot; the court record tells you what actually happened.
Two ways to find what you're looking for
Start with a map of states, open a state to reveal its counties, and land on a county page that gathers the booking records published for that area. This mirrors how records are actually maintained: locally, by the sheriff's office or jail in each county.
Browsing by location is often the quickest way when you know where an arrest happened but not the exact name or date.
Browse the Directory →A charge is simply the offense an arresting officer wrote down at the moment of booking, recorded before a prosecutor has reviewed the file. Terms like “possession,” “battery,” or “failure to appear” carry technical meanings that differ from everyday speech.
Between an arrest and its resolution, a great deal can change. The booking record is the opening of a question, not its answer.
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The rules governing mugshots and arrest records are changing quickly. A growing number of states have passed laws restricting how booking photos can be published, and the consequences of permanent online records are now widely studied.
Our blog covers these themes in depth, from the ethics of public databases to how online arrest records affect real people and their families.
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Run a detailed search by name, state, county, and date. Browse a curated map of states and counties. View the most-discussed public records. Each is a different door into the same underlying public information.
There's also Mugshot Match, a game built around one lesson: you cannot tell what someone was charged with by looking at a photograph.
Start Searching →Common questions about using this site and understanding public records
If you know the person’s name, the search page is the quickest route, and you can narrow it by state, county, and date. If you only know roughly where the arrest happened, start in the Browse section and drill down from the state to the county. And if your real question is whether someone is in custody right now or when they are due in court, call the county jail or the clerk of court directly; this site shows published records, not live custody status.
No. Each profile is a public booking record, which documents only that an arrest took place. An arrest is an allegation, and everyone is presumed innocent until a court decides otherwise. A large share of these cases end without any conviction at all, which is why a record here should never be treated as a judgment about a person.
Yes to both. Searching and browsing public records on America’s Top Mugshot costs nothing, and asking us to review or remove a record is also free. You do not need to pay anyone or hire an attorney to submit a request. You can send one yourself from our Contact page.
No. America’s Top Mugshot is not a Consumer Reporting Agency, and its records are not consumer reports under the Fair Credit Reporting Act. That is a legal line, not a suggestion: it is improper to use anything found here to decide whether to hire, rent to, lend to, or insure a person. Anyone who needs background information for those purposes should use a properly regulated screening provider.
Not every county publishes booking records online, and the ones that do update on their own schedules, so a record may be missing, delayed, or already taken down. Records are also snapshots: a release, a reduced charge, or a dismissal that happened after the entry was posted will not appear automatically. The county jail roster and the court clerk hold the current picture.
They come from publicly available government sources, primarily county sheriff and jail booking rosters, along with other open records released by the agencies that carried out each arrest. Those agencies remain the authoritative source for the status of any record you see here.
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All information is sourced from publicly available government records. An arrest does not imply guilt; all individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. This site is not a Consumer Reporting Agency as defined by the FCRA.
