State Repository Fees: Criminal Records - Validity Screening Solutions

STATE	SOURCE	State Fee	SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS
AL	Alabama Criminal Justice Information Center	$30.00	None
AK	Alaska Department of Public Safety	$25.00	Request form required
AZ	Arizona Courts (Individual Counties Combined)	$16.00	The State of Arizona does not provide the Department of Public Safety the authority to process applicant fingerprints and release Arizona State Criminal History Record information to private companies for employment purposes. The researcher searches each county individually and compiles the results as a statewide search.
AR	Arkansas State Police	$30.00	Notarized request form and signed release required
CA	California Department of Justice	$37.00	The California Department of Justice only performs fingerprint-based background checks. There is no other statewide repository available.
CO	Colorado Bureau of Investigation	$11.85	None
CT	Connecticut State Police	$85.00	Request form required
DC	DC Metropolitan Police Department	$15.00	Letter must be notorized, release required
DE	Delaware State Bureau of Identification OR Delaware Courts	$57.50 (Fingerprint Search) $18.00 (Name Search)	The Delaware State Bureau of Identification only performs fingerprint-based background checks. The Delaware Courts statewide search consists of a search of all Common Pleas Courts and all Superior Courts combined.
FL	Florida Department of Law Enforcement	$29.00	None
GA	Georgia State Police	$8.50	Requires release which states the request is for a "criminal background"
HI	Hawaii Criminal Justice Data Center	$15.00	None
ID	Idaho State Police - Bureau of Criminal Identification	$25.00	Request form required
IL	Illinois State Police	$21.00	Request form required
IN	Indiana State Police	$21.32	None
IA	Iowa Department of Public Safety	$20.00	None
KS	Kansas Bureau of Investigation	$25.00	None
KY	Kentucky Court of Justice - Administrative Office of the Courts	$25.00	None
LA	Louisiana State Police	$31.00	None
ME	Maine State Police	$36.00	None
MD	Maryland Department of Public Safety & Correctional Services OR Maryland Judiciary	$23.00 (Fingerprint Search) $6.00 Maryland Judiciary	The Maryland Department of Public Safety & Correctional Services only performs fingerprint-based background checks. The Maryland Judiciary allows a name based search of all Circuit and District courts combined.
MA	Massachusetts Department of Public Safety & Correctional Services OR Massachusetts Superior Courts Search	$55.00 (DPS) $22.50 (Superior Court Only)	Massachusetts Department of Public Safety search does not include sealed, juvenile, non-incarcerable, or pending cases, non-convictions, misdemeanors in which the disposition and incarceration release date ocurred one or more year(s) prior to the search request, or felonies in which the disposition date and incarceration release date occurred two or more years prior to the search request. The Superior Court only search will only return felony information - no misdemeanor cases.
MI	Michigan State Police	$15.00	None
MN	Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension	$5.00	None
MS	Mississippi Department of Public Safety	$37.00	Requst form required
MO	Missouri State Highway Patrol	$17.00	None
MT	Montana Department of Justice - Division of Criminal Investigation	$23.00	None
NE	Nebraska State Patrol	$20.00	None
NV	Nevada Department of Public Safety	$45.00	Needs state-specific signed release
NH	New Hampshire State Police	$30.00	Notarized request form required
NJ	New Jersey Statewide (Not New Jersey State Police)	$10.00	Please review your requirements to determine which New Jersey search you require before ordering
NJ	New Jersey State Police	$23.00	Request form required
NM	New Mexico Department of Public Safety OR New Mexico Courts	$20.00 (Fingerprint Search) $9.00 (Name Search)	The New Mexico Department of Public Safety only performs fingerprint-based background checks. The New Mexico Courts search consists of a search of all District courts and all Magistrate courts combined.
NY	New York Unified Court System	$95.00	None
NC	North Carolina Department of Public Safety OR North Carolina Courts	$19.00 (Fingerprint Search) $13.00 (Name Search)	The North Carolina Department of Public Safety only performs fingerprint-based background checks. The North Carolina Courts search consists of a search of all District and Superior Courts combined.
ND	North Dakota Attorney General - Bureau of Criminal Investigation	$20.00	Request form required
OH	Ohio Office of Criminal Justice Services	$16.50	Requires SSN
OK	Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation	$20.00	None
OR	Oregon State Police	$15.00	None
PA	Pennylvania State Police	$27.00	None
RI	Rhode Island Bureau of Criminal Identification	$10.00	Notarized request form required
SC	South Carolina Law Enforcement Division	$30.00	None
SD	South Dakota Unified Judicial System	$25.00	None
TN	Tennessee Bureau of Investigation	$34.00	None
TX	Texas Department of Public Safety	$8.00	None
UT	Utah Department of Public Safety OR Utah Courts	$6.00 (Utah Courts) $20.00 (Utah Department of Public Safety)	The Utah Department of Public Safety only conducts fingerprint-based background checks (Third Party Release Form required). The Utah Courts Search contsists of a search of all District and Justice court information combined.
VT	Vermont Department of Public Safety	$35.00	None
VA	Virginia State Police	$25.00	None
WA	Washington State Patrol	$17.00	None
WV	West Virginia State Police	$37.50	The West Virginia State Police only conducts fingerprint-based background checks.
WI	Wisconsin Department of Justice	$12.00	State-specific release required
WY	Wyoming Criminal Justice Information Services	$20.00	Wyoming's Criminal Justice Information Services within the Division of Criminal Investigation only conducts fingerprint-based background checks.