Can You Search Free Arrest Warrants on the Internet?

When police have evidence to make an arrest, the courts will often issue arrest warrants. If you need to learn if you or someone you know has been issued an arrest warrant, there are a handful of ways to get this done.

The good news is that there is a way to search free arrest warrants, if you know the sheriff's department or courthouse that has issued the warrant. If you know this information, your first step should be to go to that website and see if a warrant search feature is available. Many police departments, sheriff's offices and local courthouses now have sites that allow you to input data - such as the person's last name or birth date - and get back results regarding open warrants for arrest.

Although this is certainly a free way to search arrest warrant records, it may not be the best for your situation. For example, let's say you have an employee or prospective employee and you want to see if he or she has outstanding warrants issued before making a hiring decision, this technique may not be suitable. This is simply because you would have to go courthouse by courthouse, police department by police department searching databases. This could take a lot of time and manpower and you would never be completely sure that you covered your bases.

In this case, you may want to use a service which tracks this data on a national (and sometimes international) scale. Many online services currently exist where you can input data on a person and find arrest records, criminal records, court records and much more all from your computer station. The prices are actually very reasonable too. To run a simple background check with arrest warrants will run you less than $30. The good news is many sites offer preliminary searches where you can see if any data exists on an individual before you shell out any cash.

If you like the idea of outsourcing this project even more, a private investigator or an online investigation firm might be your best bet. A complete background check performed by a private investigator will cost you a few hundred dollars.

In closing, you can now see that there are both free and paid ways to search for open arrest warrants using your computer with an Internet connection. Depending on the scale of your search, you may very well be able to get the data you need without spending a penny!