Start with the systems most likely to change your read of a person. Then cross-check custody, registries, and paper-trail sources before you go wider.
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01 · The docket layer
Start with courts
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Run county and statewide court portals first. Civil, criminal, family, and lower-court systems are often separate, so this is where most missed records happen.
Cobb County Magistrate Court online docket search. Search by name, case number, or citation number. Covers small claims, civil warrants, dispossessory (eviction), and misdemeanor cases in Magistrate Court. Free public access.
Magistrate Court is where evictions (dispossessory proceedings) and civil warrants live in Georgia — exactly the records that surface financial instability and landlord-tenant history. Search by name. For Superior Court felony and civil cases, use re:SearchGA.
Tyler Technologies statewide eFiling case index for Georgia. Covers Superior Court and other participating courts across Georgia counties. Name-based case search. Free account registration required. Unofficial copy — clerk of court is official custodian.
Georgia's closest equivalent to a unified court portal. Covers eFiled cases statewide — Superior Court (felonies, civil, domestic), and other participating courts. Free to register and search, though court is the official record source. Not all counties or case types are fully populated — older cases pre-eFiling may not appear.
02 · Current risk signals
Check custody and registries
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Use jail, corrections, and registry systems to catch records that do not show up in a normal court search.
Georgia Department of Corrections online offender search. Searchable by name or GDC ID number. Returns current and historical information on offenders under GDC jurisdiction. Does not include county jail pretrial detainees.
For someone sentenced to state prison, start here. For pretrial county jail inmates, search the individual county sheriff sites. Georgia has 34 state prisons — this portal covers them all.
03 · Context and corroboration
Pull the paper trail
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Recorder, assessor, prosecutor, records-request, and licensing sources help verify addresses, liens, ownership, agency records, and local context.
Cobb County property tax assessments (Marietta area). Online search by owner name, address, or parcel. Returns ownership, assessed value, and tax history. Cobb County is one of Georgia's most educated and affluent counties.
Cobb assessor is on .GOV domain (cobbcounty.gov migration in progress). Property ownership search for Marietta, Smyrna, Kennesaw, Austell, Acworth area.
Cobb County real estate records — deeds, mortgages, and liens — maintained by the Clerk of Superior Court. Searchable via the GSCCCA statewide portal filtered to Cobb County. From 1990 online.
Georgia Superior Court Clerks' Cooperative Authority statewide real estate index. Name-based search across all 159 Georgia counties from 1/1/1990 to present. Covers deeds, mortgages, liens, plats, and other recorded instruments. Free name search; document images may require account or fee.
This is Georgia's most powerful property research tool — a single name search reaches recorded documents across every county in the state. In most states you search county by county; in Georgia, GSCCCA gives you statewide coverage from 1990 forward. Essential for tracing ownership history, liens, and encumbrances anywhere in GA. County clerk offices are the custodians; GSCCCA is the index layer.
04 · Outside the county
Run the federal backstop
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Federal court and incarceration systems sit outside local portals. Run them before you decide the search is clean.
Federal District, Appeals, and Bankruptcy courts. Over 1 billion documents filed. $0.10/page (capped at $3.00/document); free if quarterly charges under $30. Account required for search. Confirmed live 2026-05-03.
PACER catches federal cases the state DOC and state courts will not. Account required, small per-search fees. Worth using for white-collar, federal drug, immigration, and bankruptcy.
All federal prison inmates, current and historical from 1982. Search by name (with race/sex/age filters) or inmate number. Note: search backend showed intermittent error during 2026-05-03 verification — likely temporary. If main tool is down, try https://www.bop.gov/mobile/find_inmate/byname.jsp as fallback.
All 50 states aggregated, plus DC, US territories, and tribal nations. Search by name or location. DOJ-operated. Named after Dru Sjodin. Also links to abuse reporting resources. Confirmed live 2026-05-03.