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Separate LA Arrest, Custody and Court Sources

If LASD custody is involved, Sheriff’s Department inmate information can provide booking and arrest-related custody details. Criminal case information is handled by the Los Angeles Superior Court, which allows public case searches by case number and offers a defendant-name route when the case number is unknown. Copies of a police or arrest report must be requested from the law-enforcement agency that maintains that report, subject to its access rules.

Record lifecycle

A DUI arrest can leave records at several stages

Following the event from arrest to disposition shows why one website cannot replace every custodian.

01 Arrest
02 Booking / custody
03 Agency report
04 Court case
05 Disposition
Agency responsibility

Where each LA County record stage lives

Use the stage you are trying to verify to choose the custodian.

Stage / record Likely custodian What it can answer Useful identifier
Booking / custody Los Angeles County Sheriff when LASD custody is involved Booking/custody status and arrest-related custody details made available by LASD Full name; booking or arrest details when known
Police / arrest report The arresting or investigating law-enforcement agency The agency report for the incident/arrest, subject to that agency’s access rules Report/incident number, date, location, involved name
Criminal court case Los Angeles Superior Court Filed criminal case information, court dates and disposition Case number; defendant name when case number is unknown
Final case result Los Angeles Superior Court case record How the filed criminal case ended Case number or defendant search route
Practical next steps

Move from the arrest event to the record you need

Start with the best identifier you have rather than repeating the same name across unrelated systems.

  1. 01
    Check custody/booking only if that is the question

    Use LASD inmate/booking information when LASD custody is relevant; it does not replace the court disposition.

  2. 02
    Locate the criminal case

    Use Los Angeles Superior Court. If the case number is unknown, use the available defendant-name route.

    Each Criminal Defendant Index name search carries a public-access fee; it is not a free substitute for a known case number. The court also lists a $15 charge for indexing requests taking more than 10 minutes. Review the name-search charge before submitting.

    For an official disposition or certified court copy, contact the appropriate criminal office at the courthouse handling the case with the case number and document requested. Ask it to confirm availability, copy/certification fees and delivery instructions; index access does not buy a certified record.

  3. 03
    Request the agency report from the agency that maintains it

    A sheriff, police department or other arresting/investigating agency controls its own report-access process.

    For an LASD-held report only, call (562) 345-4441 to request it and schedule pickup; LASD checks legal authority to receive it. Have your name, birth date, identification details, incident date/location and report number ready. Drop-off requests are not accepted. Mail requests go to Records and Identification Bureau, Attn: Records Inquiry Non-Law Enforcement Section, 12440 East Imperial Highway, Suite 400 West, Norwalk, CA 90650, with required fees/documents, name, birth date, return address, signature and valid notarized identification.

    LASD’s linked schedule limits crime-report release to eligible recipients and says crime reports are not released to suspects or their representatives; collision reports have separate legal eligibility. An eligible report request with a file/booking number costs $25 when a record is found or was purged; without that number, the search fee is $35 and can return no reportable record, a purged record or another agency’s jurisdiction. Additional records/copies can cost extra. These LASD rules and fees do not apply to LAPD, CHP or other agencies.

Putting the records together

Arrest history and case outcome answer different questions

An arrest is an event; booking is a custody record; the agency report documents the law-enforcement incident; the court case tracks charges and judicial action. A user researching a DUI arrest often needs at least the court case to understand the disposition.

When names are common or records are old, use case numbers, booking/report identifiers, dates and agency/court jurisdiction to avoid combining unrelated records.

An arrest record is not the same as a conviction
Use the court case and disposition to determine how a filed criminal case ended. Booking or arrest information should not be read as a final judicial outcome.

Related Record Guides

Sources

LA County sheriff and court sources

Official county source

LASD - Record Requests

Sheriff record-request routing for law-enforcement/custody-related records.

Sheriff route
Official source

Los Angeles Superior Court - Online Services FAQ

Official-copy follow-through to the appropriate court office and separate copy fees.

Contact appropriate case-type office at handling courthouse for official copies and separate copy/certification fee schedule
Official source

LASD - Fees for Reports and Services

Current FAQ-linked fee schedule; report-request fee and eligibility rows, not other agencies.

Report-request fee row and eligibility only