San Bernardino Criminal Records Search

Search the Superior Court’s criminal case information

For San Bernardino, California criminal court records, use the Superior Court’s criminal division page and its Criminal/Traffic Court Case Information link to the Court Access Portal, or CAP. The Superior Court handles misdemeanor and felony charges. This search concerns court cases; a sheriff’s custody entry, police report and California DOJ history are different products. Civil document-sales instructions alone do not establish which criminal filings you can see remotely.

If you have a court case number, begin with that identifier and compare the defendant and court in the result. Preserve the full number and the relevant charge or event date. The portal warns that its information is supplied as a public service and is not the official court record. Use a clerk-issued document when a formal disposition or proof of an order is required.

Prepare a registered name search with dates

CAP’s Name Search FAQ requires a user login. It also requires Filing Date From and Filing Date To, entered as month/day/year, with the starting date earlier than the ending date. Use a broader filing range if the exact date is unknown; the incident date may differ from the court filing date. Middle name is optional and can narrow a common-name search.

The FAQ says name search does not support date-of-birth, driver’s-license or alias-name searches. Advanced Search can filter case type, and a name search returns up to 200 records. Narrow an oversized result by relevant dates and case type, but do not remove plausible matches merely to make a list shorter. These limits mean a name-only result is not conclusive identity verification.

The court eliminated CAP name-search charges effective December 1, 2023. Older notices selling search credits or monthly packages should not be used as current pricing. Free online searching does not remove the separate fees for clerk research, paper copies or certification.

Registration does not unlock every document

All CAP users, including attorneys and litigants, must register to view minute orders and purchase available documents. Sealed, confidential and certain minor-related records are not publicly viewable; an account does not override those rules. The portal’s current indexed announcement says payments are unavailable, so do not depend on online purchasing for a deadline. If purchasing cannot proceed, request the copy through the clerk.

Read the disposition for each charge rather than treating an arrest, arraignment or preliminary hearing as a conviction. For a missing sentence or unclear result, identify the relevant minute order or judgment and ask the court holding the file for it. A blank image link can be a document-access issue even when the case itself is visible.

Order copies using the court’s form and actual fee units

Use court form 13-01465-360, Copy Request Form. Identify the branch, case number, parties and the exact copies or certified copies you want; name the document and filing date when known. For mail or drop-box requests, include a self-addressed envelope with sufficient postage. The form requires a copy of valid photo ID for confidential-case requests through those routes, but providing ID does not itself establish legal access.

The current form lists $0.50 per printed side, $40 certification per document, $50 exemplification and a $15 records-search charge when a search takes longer than ten minutes, plus applicable postage. Include a check payable to Clerk of the Court with a mailed copy request and confirm the needed total if page count is unknown. Cash and credit/debit cards are for in-person visits only; the form expressly says not to write credit-card details on it.

Take older files and case questions to the clerk

The court’s criminal/traffic notice warns that data for cases filed before 1998 is limited and directs users to the appropriate Court District. Supply the approximate filing year, courthouse and any known case number, and ask whether staff must consult an older index or stored file. No fixed copy-delivery period is established by the reviewed instructions; confirm timing before assuming an archived order can be produced immediately.

For questions about the case, an apparent record error or access to a particular filing, call or visit the clerk for that court location. For a CAP technical fault, send a brief description and the displayed error to [email protected]; the portal says case-related questions sent there will not receive a reply. Keep no matching result, unable to access and clerk-confirmed record status separate in any summary of the search.