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.
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.
Gwinnett County Clerk of Superior Court. Handles court records for Gwinnett Superior Court (felonies, civil, domestic) and real estate deed recording. Criminal and civil case search available online via re:SearchGA statewide portal. Real estate records via GSCCCA.
Gwinnett is Georgia's second-largest county by population. Use re:SearchGA for case index (see search_url) — the statewide portal covers Gwinnett Superior Court eFiled cases. For real estate documents, use GSCCCA filtered to Gwinnett County.
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.
Gwinnett County Sheriff's Office online inmate search. Name-based search for individuals in custody at the Gwinnett County Detention Center (Lawrenceville). Note: older URL (gwinnettcountysheriff.com) has redirected to gwinnettcountysheriff.org.
Gwinnett County Detention Center is one of the largest in metro Atlanta. Note the URL migration: old .com redirected to .org — use the .org URL. Search by name for current detainees.
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.
Gwinnett County property tax assessments. Ownership, valuation, and parcel data. Online property search available. Note: Gwinnett also provides a downloadable quarterly ownership database in xlsx format for bulk property research.
Gwinnett assessor online search covers ownership and assessments. For a bulk ownership lookup or research across many properties, Gwinnett also offers a quarterly downloadable ownership database at no cost — unusual and useful for pattern research.
Gwinnett County real estate records — deeds, mortgages, liens — maintained by the Clerk of Superior Court. Searchable via the statewide GSCCCA portal (search_url) filtered to Gwinnett County. Records from 1990 online.
Georgia's Clerk of Superior Court = Recorder. For Gwinnett deed and lien research, use the GSCCCA portal filtered to Gwinnett. The Clerk's office site confirms local recording but GSCCCA is the index for name searches.
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.