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Gwinnett County Criminal Records
Choose Gwinnett’s Georgia criminal-history report or the court clerk’s case records, understand identification requirements, and avoid the wrong request portal.
Choose the Gwinnett record product before entering a name
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Local Georgia criminal-history report
Use Gwinnett County Police if the requested product is the department’s Georgia criminal-history report. It has its own waiver, identity fields and fee.
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Court case or disposition
Use Gwinnett Courts for Superior, State, Magistrate or related court-case information and documents.
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Georgia felony-conviction search
Use Georgia Felon Search when the task specifically calls for the state’s public felony-conviction product.
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Police incident or accident report
Treat incident and accident reports as event records. They can document a response or allegation without supplying a complete criminal-history or final court outcome.
Gwinnett Police criminal history has a defined Georgia-only workflow
| Requirement | Published rule | Why it changes the search |
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| Consent | GCPD gives the visitor a waiver to sign before reviewing criminal-history files. | This is not an anonymous public name-search workflow. |
| Identification | Valid government-issued ID plus a Social Security number are requested. | The department is resolving an identified subject, not just matching a name. |
| Fee | $20 for the criminal-history report. | Budget for the official service instead of assuming a free court lookup is the same product. |
| Geographic scope | The police page says the review is for Georgia and directs other-state criminal-history requests to the FBI. | Do not describe the result as nationwide. |
Court records live with the courts, not the general county records portal
Wrong route to avoid
The Gwinnett County open-records page says records from the Superior, State and Magistrate Court Clerk are not obtained through the county online open-records portal.
Search route
The Gwinnett Courts site links its case-search portal for Superior, State, Magistrate and Probate Estate matters, with Recorder’s Court handled separately.
When a docket is not enough
Gwinnett Courts also points to re:SearchGA for document purchasing. If the question turns on the exact wording of an order, accusation or disposition, obtain the filed document rather than paraphrasing a docket label.
Read Georgia Felon Search as a felony product, not a universal background check
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Coverage
Georgia.gov describes the service as a way to verify Georgia felony convictions.
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Exclusions
The state says the result does not return misdemeanors, sealed or expunged information, or juvenile felony history.
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Cost
The state lists $15 per search and explains that multiple possible records can produce additional charges for records selected for access.
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Identity caveat
The search is name based. Georgia expressly notes that an exact identity match can only be confirmed by fingerprint comparison.
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No-match meaning
A “no record” result in this product should not be rewritten as “the person has no criminal record”; the product has stated category and disclosure limits.
One person can legitimately produce different official outputs
Police history ≠ court docket ≠ felony-only search
Gwinnett Police reviews its published Georgia criminal-history product, the court clerk maintains prosecution records and documents, and Georgia Felon Search has a statewide felony-conviction focus. Differences between those outputs can reflect scope, timing, identity resolution or legal access rules rather than an error by one source.
Use event records only when the event itself is the question
Incident report
A police incident report answers what the agency documented about a specific call or investigation. Gwinnett Police publishes separate report-request procedures and page-level fees.
Arrest versus disposition
An event record can precede charging decisions and later court action. Follow the case number into the court system when the user needs the adjudicated result.
Document the source
Keep the agency, date checked and record type in your notes. That makes it clear whether a statement came from police files, the court clerk, or Georgia’s felony-search service.
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