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Richland County, South Carolina

Seat: Columbia

Essentials
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Total sources
9
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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 · Current risk signals

Check custody and registries

1 source

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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02 · 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
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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 Locator
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.
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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
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Cross-state coverage in one search. Run after the state-level registry to catch out-of-state moves.