STATECourt
Montana Courts — Statewide Portal HubHub for all Montana courts; District Court case search available via DC Portal; CLJ portal covers limited/justice courts
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Valley County, Montana
Seat: Glasgow
Essentials
9
Total sources
14
Guided record check
Run this in order.
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
2 sources
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.
Start with courts
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STATECourt
Montana Courts — statewide case searchCivil and criminal case records via Montana statewide court system
02 · Current risk signals
Check custody and registries
2 sources
Use jail, corrections, and registry systems to catch records that do not show up in a normal court search.
Check custody and registries
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STATECorrections
Montana DOC — Correctional Offender Network SearchSearch convicted felons in Montana correctional system by name or DOC ID
STATERegistry
Montana DOJ — Sexual & Violent Offender RegistryStatewide registry for sexual and violent offenders; interactive map and name search via SVOR portal
03 · Context and corroboration
Pull the paper trail
2 sources
Recorder, assessor, prosecutor, records-request, and licensing sources help verify addresses, liens, ownership, agency records, and local context.
Pull the paper trail
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STATEAssessor
Montana DOR — Statewide Property Assessment SearchStatewide property assessment portal: search by property number, assessment code, name, or address; covers all Montana counties
STATEBusiness
Montana SOS — Business Entity SearchBusiness entities registered with the Montana Secretary of State; may prompt CAPTCHA
04 · Outside the county
Run the federal backstop
3 sources
Federal court and incarceration systems sit outside local portals. Run them before you decide the search is clean.
Run the federal backstop
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FEDERALCourt
PACER (Public Access to Court Electronic Records)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.
Per-page fee, often waived under $30/quarter
Open ↗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.
FEDERALCorrections
Federal Bureau of Prisons Inmate LocatorAll 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.
Free
Open ↗Free, fast, includes alias search. Use whenever the state DOC comes up empty and you suspect federal involvement.
FEDERALRegistry
National Sex Offender Public Website (NSOPW)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.
Free
Open ↗Cross-state coverage in one search. Run after the state-level registry to catch out-of-state moves.