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Contra Costa County Criminal Records
Use Contra Costa’s CR-147 name-search request or CR-114 copy request, distinguish case lookup from filed documents, and confirm the current records route.
The Contra Costa portal is a locator, not the whole criminal file
Research the case online
Start with the Superior Court criminal records page and its Public Portal when the goal is to identify a docket, defendant, case number, or status.
Order the filing separately
The court states that minutes, case documents, and orders are not supplied online through that portal. If the wording of an order or disposition matters, request the actual record rather than relying on the index view.
Keep law-enforcement reports separate
The Sheriff Records & ID Unit is the repository for its police reports and out-of-custody inquiries. That is a different custody path from a Superior Court criminal file.
Convert the case locator into a copy request
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Capture the docket number
Write down the case number, defendant name, courthouse/location, and document title before leaving the portal.
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Choose plain or certified
A plain copy answers many research needs. If an agency or legal process requires certification, mark the certified option on the court request instead of assuming a web printout qualifies.
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Price the request correctly
The court’s CR-114 form lists $0.50 per page. Certification adds $40 for each document, and card payments add the published service fee per docket number.
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Send only the identifiers needed
The request form provides fields for name, docket number, DOB, and type of record. Narrowing the documents reduces avoidable copying.
Use the custodian that owns the record
| Need | Custodian | Important limit |
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| Case docket, order, disposition, court date | Contra Costa Superior Court. | Online research does not expose every document image. |
| Sheriff police report or out-of-custody inquiry | Sheriff Records & ID. | Sheriff report coverage follows the agency’s law-enforcement jurisdiction, not every police department in the county. |
| Your own California state criminal-history record | California DOJ record review. | State summary history has restricted dissemination and subject review is fingerprint based. |
Before treating any “no record” result as final, test the scope
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Was the case in Contra Costa Superior Court?
A different county or federal prosecution will not be supplied by the local court portal.
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Was the desired item a police report?
Court and Sheriff repositories answer different questions even when they concern the same event.
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Was a document image expected online?
The court expressly separates online case research from copies of minutes, documents, and orders.
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Was the request really for state criminal history?
California DOJ access rules are separate from public court access; do not infer eligibility from the existence of a local court case.
Certified disposition means the court document, not a renamed search result
Keep the provenance attached
If a recipient asks for a certified disposition, order the relevant court document with certification. A portal result, Sheriff report, and California DOJ subject record each have different evidentiary roles and should remain labeled by their actual source.