Court Records Blog

 www.Courtreference.com was developed with the intent of providing our users with a means to discover where court records can be found in any given state or county.  But just providing links to court sites isn’t enough.   The number of courts offering online access to court records is increasing every day, and that’s great.  But, there are thousands of courts that don’t offer any online presence and people still need to get at the records.  So, we’ve tried to at least provide contact information for every court system.

 What we have not seen an improvement in is the information provided by the courts with respect to what types of cases are included in the search offered, how far back the database goes, and what other courts in the jurisdiction might also have records of the type sought.  A great many courts offering online searching seem to be wrongly assuming quite a bit of knowledge on the part of their online users.

We have tried to help out with the descriptions of the court types in each state and by connecting our online resource links only to the courts, court types, counties, or states where they are relevant.  I had intended that we would also include data coverage date ranges in our link descriptions but the task proved to be beyond our resources, for now.

I’d like to encourage our users to provide feedback on the site and to offer advice to us and other users  about thier local courts.