Albany County Criminal Records

An Albany County request needs a state and a product

Albany County, New York and Albany County, Wyoming have different courts and different criminal-record routes. First decide whether you need the filed order in a particular case, a certified disposition, a statewide court-name search or your own fingerprint-based history. An online county index can have a completely different purpose, so confirm its contents before interpreting a matching name.

New York: go to the court that actually handled the case

Albany County Court is at 6 Lodge Street, Room 113, Albany, NY 12207; telephone 518-285-8777. Use that office for a case it holds, but do not assume a city, town or village criminal matter is filed there. Read the court name and docket number on the case papers and request the identified judgment, dismissal or sentencing document from that court.

Albany County Clerk’s Online Records Search describes deeds and mortgages, plus recorded judgments, liens, assumed-business-name documents, UCCs and other instruments. It is not described as an all-courts criminal-history service. A “warrant” or “judgment” in a recorded-document index should not automatically be treated as a criminal arrest warrant or criminal conviction.

New York’s $95 CHRS is a statewide court search

The Office of Court Administration charges $95 for a Criminal History Record Search (CHRS), using an exact name and date-of-birth match. A name or birth-date variation is a separate search, and aliases add searches. Submit through Direct Access or the linked CHRS application. Results are not certified, and the product is neither a nationwide search nor an FBI check.

CHRS covers reportable pending and conviction information from New York criminal courts, subject to sealing, non-disclosure policies and historical gaps. It excludes civil, family and federal cases. Town/village disposition data are unavailable for May 1991–2002 and limited for 2002–2007. Read the current CHRS limitations before ordering; an exact-name no-match does not establish that every record under another name or a restricted category is absent.

For mail, send the application to OCA’s CHRS Unit, 25 Beaver Street, Room 940, New York, NY 10004, with a check or money order payable to N.Y.S. Office of Court Administration. Include an email address or a stamped return envelope. The office describes next-business-day processing after receipt; there is no in-person CHRS service there. General questions go to 212-428-2943.

A Certificate of Disposition proves the case outcome

A Certificate of Disposition is issued by the court of original jurisdiction and carries its seal. Contact the court that sentenced you with photo identification and each case’s docket number; staff may need further identifiers. The statewide guidance lists $5–$10 per certificate and says people on public assistance who cannot afford it may qualify for a fee waiver. Confirm that court’s payment method.

For a sealed case, the defendant needs photo identification and may need a notarized statement. Someone acting for the defendant must bring the defendant’s notarized permission to release the sealed information. Do not substitute an uncertified CHRS printout when the recipient specifically asks for the original court’s Certificate of Disposition.

Reviewing your own New York fingerprint record is different

DCJS maintains New York’s official fingerprint-based criminal history and allows personal Record Review; you cannot use that service to request another person’s rap sheet. Choose a suppressed response, which excludes sealed or suppressed material, or an unsuppressed response that includes it. A separate request is required if you need both. This is different from OCA’s name-and-birth-date court search.

For the in-state personal-review process, use the IdentoGO route linked by DCJS or call 877-472-6915. The published service codes are 15464Z for suppressed and 15465F for unsuppressed records. Bring acceptable identification and the $17.50 processing fee listed as of February 2, 2026. DCJS describes a mailed response within three to four weeks after receiving the request, including instructions for challenging inaccurate information. Fee-waiver requests go to [email protected].

Wyoming: District Court and Circuit Court are separate

For Albany County District Court documents, contact the Clerk of District Court at 307-721-2508, 525 Grand Avenue, Suite 305, Laramie, WY 82070. District courts hear felony criminal matters. The county clerk’s description offers help researching public cases and access to unrestricted files, while expressly excluding confidential information and legal advice.

Wyoming Circuit Courts handle misdemeanor cases. Albany County Circuit Court is at 525 Grand Avenue, Room 400, Laramie, WY 82070; telephone 307-742-5747 and email [email protected]. Use that court when it appears on the case papers. A municipal proceeding belongs with the municipal court concerned, not automatically with either of these two offices.

Wyoming does not currently offer remote public access to District or Circuit Court filings through its e-filing system. Nonconfidential filed documents can be viewed free at designated courthouse public-access terminals and the Wyoming State Law Library. Call the relevant clerk before visiting if you need an older file, a particular document or a copy format that cannot be obtained from the terminal.

Wyoming record checks, copies and a usable request

District Court rules require a written request for a staff-performed record check and set a $10 charge, with reasonable spelling variations covered together but dissimilar aliases charged separately. Copies are additional. That rule does not charge for personally examining nonconfidential records or indexes. The response is due as soon as practicable; it is not a fixed same-day or statewide-history guarantee.

For District Court copies, the incorporated statute sets $1 for the first page and $0.50 per additional page. The current District Court rule charges $1 per page to transmit by email or fax, subject to its stated indigency or appointed-counsel exception. Circuit Court’s current copy rule instead charges $1 for each page, including electronic copies. Both court fee rules list $5 for exemplification; confirm the complete format-specific charge with the issuing clerk.

Identify the case number, named parties, relevant charge, exact document title and approximate filing date, and say whether certification is needed. A judgment request and a hearing-recording request are different: Circuit Court rules list $5 per proceeding for a copy of recorded proceedings. If a file cannot be released or the person cannot be matched, retain that limitation rather than describe an unverified conviction or a clean record. Label a court copy with its issuing court and date, and a history search with the product actually used.