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Find Alabama criminal court records, understand Just One Look charges, and choose the right route for copies or a personal criminal history review.
Public court access and ALEA history review are separate
Use Alacourt ACCESS for Alabama state trial-court case information. Use ALEA’s CHRI instructions for the applicable criminal-history review request. The separate Alabama Background Check employer system is limited to qualifying employers; its existence does not make it a general public name-search portal.
Choose by the evidence you need
One prosecution
Court access identifies a case and its action summary. Use the holding clerk when the recipient requires a particular certified filing; a purchased online case detail is not automatically that document.
Your criminal-history review
ALEA specifies fingerprints, current photo identification, its CHRI form and payment for the applicant route. Read the application before arranging a submission.
An employer-required check
Get the employer’s authorized instructions. Do not use someone else’s access or present a personal-review response as the required employer check without confirmation.
Published charges by product
| Product | Listed charge | What the price covers |
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| Alacourt name search | $9.99 | One case detail included; each additional case detail $9.99. |
| Alacourt case-number search | $9.99 | One case detail. |
| Case monitoring | $19.99 district / $29.99 circuit | Monitoring for the life of that case, not a broader background search. |
| ALEA CHRI applicant request | $25 | Agency application route; each extra copy $5. |
Official product pages checked September 29, 2026. These are different services, not competing prices for an identical report; verify current charges before ordering.
Before submitting the CHRI packet
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Identification method
Arrange fingerprints and include the required current photo-ID copy. A typed name alone does not meet these instructions.
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Form and payment
Use the current ALEA application and its submission directions. The page lists money order or cashier’s check for this route.
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Receiving purpose
Confirm whether you need self-review, an employer-authorized result or a court-certified disposition. Each answers a different question.
Do not infer national coverage
Scope follows the issuing system
Alabama trial-court access and Alabama history review do not establish that all federal or other-state records were searched. When describing a result, identify the actual product rather than calling it a complete national background check.
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