Why We Built This Site
Kentucky provides several ways to reach public criminal-history information, yet each office answers a different question. The Union County Sheriff holds sheriff-created reports and serves as a local law-enforcement contact. Jo Sheridan's Circuit Court Clerk office maintains Union County trial-court files. The Kentucky State Police Records Branch operates the central repository, while the Kentucky Department of Corrections and Kentucky State Police Sex Offender Registry publish distinct corrections and registration information. We organize verified contacts, request steps, search links, and researched costs so readers can start with the custodian most likely to hold the record.
What You Will Find Here
The material is organized around the record holder and the task a reader needs to complete:
- Agency contacts: where to reach the Union County Sheriff, the Circuit Court Clerk, and Kentucky's statewide record systems
- Official check instructions: how Kentucky State Police name-based requests and authorized IdentoGO fingerprint checks differ
- Record explanations: how court files, arrest reports, corrections entries, and registry profiles answer different questions
- Record relief information: where Kentucky expungement certifications and Union County petitions are filed
What We Cannot Do
This is a privately run reference site, not an office of Union County or the Commonwealth of Kentucky. We are not connected with the sheriff, a police department, a court, or any state agency. Those limits matter:
- We do not issue certified court documents, rap sheets, or official criminal records
- We cannot submit an expungement petition, open-records request, or other filing for a visitor
- We do not run official background checks or retrieve a person's record
- We cannot interpret a charge, warrant, conviction, or case as legal advice
- We cannot promise that an agency's address, fee, hours, or procedure has not changed
An official record must come from its custodian, such as the Union County Sheriff, the Circuit Court Clerk, or the Kentucky State Police Records Branch.
Search Partners
Outside providers power search boxes that appear on some pages. Each provider controls its own results, terms, and prices. We may receive a referral fee if use of one of those tools leads to a paid signup, which helps fund access to this resource. We do not set a partner's fees, choose the data it returns, or guarantee that its result is complete or correctly matched.