How to Perform a Free California Warrant Search Online

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This article will tell you exactly how to perform a free California warrant search online. When your family is your top priority, you can never be too careful about the new people you let into your home. Wanting to check into the criminal history of a new boyfriend, teacher or neighbor is natural and it's your right. In the state of California you can perform a Free California Warrant Search online.

At the Attorney General and the Department of Justice provides a website for the public, The Wanted Persons System (WPS). WPS can help you perform a free California warrant search. There is an online form that only requires one field to be filled out. You can choose from sex; first, middle, last and nickname; hair and eye color; scars, marks or tattoos and offense.

San Diego provides free online warrant searches for San Diego County. To perform this free California warrant search online you must fill out one of four fields. Not as extensive a search as WPS, fill out the first, middle or last names or birth year. Partial names are accepted and the system searches but plus and minus three years from the given year. The free online warrant search for San Diego County is updated every 24 hours. The warrant information you get from this system is a police report. It may be full of police codes and police jargon you will have to look up online.

The famous Orange County Sheriff's Department provides a free California warrant search online. They also provide a way to search for who is currently in jail or who has been released within the last thirty days. These guys are thorough; you can also check the police blotter for the last thirty days. Names are made public of those arrested. To perform a free California warrant search for Orange County you need to provide the first and last names.

The California Courts website will let you perform a free California warrant search by county. There is a list here that links you a number of great resources. You can perform a free inmate search in the California counties of: Fresno, Kern, Los Angeles, Madera, Marin, Placer, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Joaquin, Shasta and Tehama. The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation provides a search but you must call (Inmate Identification Unit phone: (916) 445-6713) between 8am and 5pm.

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  • The famous Orange County Sheriff's Department provides free California warrant searches.
  • San Diego provides free online warrant searches for San Diego County
  • The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation provides an inmate search.
When your family is your top priority, you can never be to careful about the new people you let into your life.

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  • man11/14/2011

    The owner of this site is full of #$%$ I went to that wps site. Typed in a very common last name "jones" and there was nothing. in the whole state of california there is nobody with that last name who is wanted. So these people just like to hear themselves talk and have a website.

  • JR10/26/2010

    This page on the same site has all the state, county and law enforcement warrant pages throughout the USA - http://freeprf.com/warrants.html

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