Get Receipts
Preview

SD is visible for preview, but its sources are still being verified and are not used for guided recommendations yet.

Profiling in progress

South Dakota’s sources are still being verified, one by one. Leave an email and you’ll get a single note when SD opens — nothing else, no list.

← All statesPublic Record · Open
File · County · Open

Harding County, South Dakota

Seat: Buffalo

Essentials
4
Total sources
9
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.

Case file · 46063
0 of 4 essentials reviewed
0% open
Deeper directory: 0/5 reviewed
01 · The docket layer

Start with courts

1 source

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
1 entry
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
3 entries
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 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.
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.