Tuolumne County, California Criminal Records

When a company, business, or other organization is preparing to hire a person for employment, they will almost always check that individual’s background by searching any available public records, and also research that person’s criminal history, if they have one. This is what is known as a standard background check. The types of information that a hiring company can turn up on someone when doing a background check on them can vary. For instance, a drunken driving conviction or domestic assault charges are examples of the kind of information found in criminal records, while that person’s involvement in a lawsuit can be revealed in court records. Criminal records will also detail whether that individual has ever been under the management of any corrections departments. In addition, any background check that reveals a prior felony for a sex offense will almost always disqualify that job candidate from further consideration.

Court Records

If you wish to conduct an efficient and thorough background check on an individual living in Tuolumne County, California, the first set of public records you should search are court records. The Tuolumne County Superior Court has two distinct locations, both of which deal in criminal matters:

Branch Location
60 North Washington Street, Sonora CA 95370

Phone: 209-533-5563

Historic Courthouse

41 West Yaney Avenue, Sonora CA 95370

Phone: 209-533-6984

Each court location has the same operating hours of 8:00am - 4:00pm, Monday through Friday, excluding designated court holidays. The court’s e-mail’s address is supcrt2@tuolumne.courts.ca.gov. If you want to visit the courthouse’s county webpage for more information, you may do so by clicking on the following link: http://www.tuolumne.courts.ca.gov.

Public Records

Almost every county sheriff’s office in the state of California houses a repository of public records containing county individual’s criminal histories. If you need criminal history information from the Tuolumne County Sheriff’s Office, you can visit the sheriff at this address: 28 North Lower Sunset Drive, Sonora, California 95370. If you need additional information call the sheriff’s office at 209-533-5855, or fax the office at 209-533-5831. You also have the option of using the sheriff’s webpage to find links for OffenderWatch and local sex offenders by clicking this link: http://portal.co.tuolumne.ca.us/psp/ps/TUP_SHERIFF/ENTP/h/?tab=DEFAULT.

Online Resources

To ensure that the target individual of a background check has not been recently paroled by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, you have the option of using their online offender search query. The DOC offender search is located at the following link: http://www.cdcr.ca.gov/Reports_Research/Inmate_Locator.html.

The California Department of Justice provides residents of California counties the option to go online to the DOJ webpage and order their own background check. You will have to pay $25.00 for your background however, and results can take an average of 72 hours. You can find more details at the DOJ webpage: http://ag.ca.gov/fingerprints/security.php.

Foreign adoptions in the state of California are one of many official designations that require a fingerprint-based background check from the California DOJ. Web users can find additional info at this webpage: http://ag.ca.gov/fingerprints/.

To use the California DOJ-based Megan’s Law sex offender registry online, simply click the following link to bring up the search tool: http://www.meganslaw.ca.gov/.