Why We Built This Site
Public access in Pennsylvania depends on who created and maintains a record. Mechanicsburg, Camp Hill, Carlisle, township departments, and Pennsylvania State Police retain their own police material. Cumberland County Prison handles county booking and custody files. Magisterial District Courts and the Clerk of Courts maintain judicial records, while the Pennsylvania State Police Central Repository operates PATCH. State custody belongs to the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, and registry information comes from the Pennsylvania State Police Megan's Law Website. This site organizes official contacts, fees, forms, and request paths so those separate responsibilities are easier to follow.
What You Will Find Here
- Court record guidance: ways to search and interpret Cumberland County criminal court cases
- Official check instructions: distinctions among PATCH name checks, subject-only Access and Review, and IdentoGO fingerprint channels
- Public office details: contacts for police departments, county booking, criminal courts, and Pennsylvania record systems
- Record relief information: Pennsylvania expungement, limited access, and Clean Slate routes and the offices involved
What We Cannot Do
This is a privately operated reference site, not part of a Pennsylvania court, police department, sheriff's office, county office, or state agency. Its role has firm limits:
- We do not retrieve criminal records or perform official checks for visitors
- We cannot submit an expungement petition, public-record request, or other filing for someone else
- We do not certify court papers, repository results, or any other government document
- We cannot provide legal advice about a charge, docket, eligibility question, or individual circumstances
- We cannot promise that an agency's address, hours, telephone number, or fee has not changed
An official record must come from its custodian, such as the creating police agency, the court, Cumberland County Prison, or the Pennsylvania State Police Central Repository.
Search Partners
Third-party companies operate search boxes that appear on some pages. Each provider controls its service, result content, and prices. A paid enrollment reached through one of those tools may generate a referral payment that supports free access to this reference. We neither set the provider's charges nor determine what its search returns.