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Direct answer

Identify the Agency Holding Your Police Report

To find a police report involving you, identify the law-enforcement agency that took the report and request the record from that agency under its local access rules. A police report is not the same as an FBI Identity History Summary or a court case. If you do not know the agency, start from the incident location and date.

Process

A step-by-step route for police report against me

  1. 01
    Identify the incident

    Write down date, location, report/incident number, and agency if known.

  2. 02
    Request from the creating agency

    Use that police or sheriff records unit and its official request process.

  3. 03
    Separate other records

    Use the court for the case file and FBI CJIS only when the task is your FBI Identity History Summary.

Interpretation
Access can be limited
A report may be redacted or restricted under the law and policy that applies to the maintaining agency. Check that agency’s current rules rather than assuming every report is public in full.
Context

How to interpret police report against me results

DOJ guidance states that state/local records such as local police or court records must be requested from the state/local government maintaining them.

The FBI Identity History Summary is a fingerprint-based personal history product; it should not be presented as a copy of a local police incident report.

Prepare

What to have ready for police report against me

  • ✓
    Incident/report number

    Use if you have it.

  • ✓
    Incident location

    Helps identify the responsible agency.

  • ✓
    Approximate date

    Narrows the agency search.

  • ✓
    Your identification

    Follow the agency’s requirements for records involving you.

Research method

Record clues that can move the search forward

Incident/report number

Use if you have it.

Incident location

Helps identify the responsible agency.

Approximate date

Narrows the agency search.

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