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About New Hanover County Criminal History

New Hanover County criminal records are divided among the sheriff, the unified District and Superior Courts, the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation, the North Carolina Department of Adult Correction, and the North Carolina Sex Offender and Public Protection Registry. This private reference resource is meant to make that division easier to understand and help readers reach the correct official portal, counter, or phone line.

Why We Built This Site

North Carolina uses several systems for information that is often called a criminal history. The New Hanover County sheriff maintains county booking and detention data. The Clerk of Superior Court holds District and Superior Court charge, hearing, and disposition files. SBI keeps the fingerprint-linked statewide repository, while NCDAC covers state custody and supervision. The state registry is another distinct record. Bringing the verified contacts, fees, portal fields, and request routes together helps readers avoid asking one office for a record held by another.

What You Will Find Here

  • Agency contacts: the New Hanover County sheriff, clerk, and statewide offices that maintain each record
  • Record guides: how to search and read criminal court cases filed in New Hanover County
  • Personal-review routes: how the SBI fingerprint process differs from a court name search
  • Record relief: where North Carolina expunction petitions begin and why the case-specific form matters

What We Cannot Do

This is a privately run reference site with no connection to a North Carolina court, law-enforcement agency, or state office. Its role has clear limits:

  • We cannot issue a certified court file, rap sheet, or booking record
  • We cannot submit an expunction petition or public-records request for a visitor
  • We cannot provide legal advice about a charge, warrant, or case outcome
  • We cannot perform an official background check or retrieve a record for someone
  • We cannot promise that an agency's fee, address, phone, or procedure has not changed

An official copy must come from the New Hanover County sheriff, the court clerk, SBI, or whichever government office created the record.

Search Partners

Outside providers power search boxes found on some pages. Each provider controls its service, results, and price. A paid signup reached through one of those tools may produce a referral fee that supports this resource. We neither set those charges nor decide what the provider returns, and its result is not an official New Hanover County or North Carolina record.