Data You Give Us Directly
Search Queries
When you type a name or date of birth into one of the search tools here, that input travels straight to the outside provider that runs the search. The provider processes it and returns the results. We do not log or keep the terms you enter.
Messages and Contact Submissions
If you email us, we keep the message so we can write back. Your note stays with our team, and we will not pass it to anyone outside the organization unless a legal obligation requires it.
Data We Gather Automatically
Each time a page loads, our servers record a few technical details about the visit:
- The IP address assigned to your device
- The browser you are using and its version
- Your device type and operating system
- The pages you opened and how long each one stayed on screen
- The referring site, when one sent you here
- A timestamp for every page view
Cookies and Analytics
This site uses cookies, the small files stored on your device that show us how visitors move through the pages. Analytics services help us add that traffic up. Your browser settings let you block cookies at any time, though some parts of the site may behave differently if you do.
What We Do With This Data
The data we collect has a short list of uses, and none of them involve building a file on a third party:
- Keeping the site online and loading quickly
- Routing your search request to the right partner service
- Seeing which pages help readers and which need work
- Fixing technical problems when they appear
- Displaying ads that may match your interests
No Warrant Data on File
This site does not host, compile, maintain, or sell databases of warrants or personal warrant information. We publish general guidance about where Montgomery County warrant records are held and how to ask for them through the sheriff's warrant section, the Maryland courts, and county police. We are not a consumer reporting agency under the Fair Credit Reporting Act, and nothing we collect about visitors is turned into a consumer report or a file about a third party.
Third-Party Search Partners
The search boxes on this site belong to outside companies. Whatever you type into one of them is handled under that partner's privacy policy rather than this one. Those partners set their own retention and sharing rules, and we have no control over them. Read the partner's policy before you submit a search.
Links to Other Websites
We link out to Maryland court pages, sheriff and police department sites, legal aid organizations, and third-party search tools. Following any of those links takes you off this site, and the privacy policy of the destination governs from that point. Read it before you hand over personal details.
Some advertising partners track activity across sites to target ads. That tracking runs on their systems, not ours.
Who Might See Your Data
We do not sell personal data. Some information may reach:
- Ad networks that place ads on these pages
- Analytics services we use to measure traffic and performance
- Search partners that handle the queries you run here
- Law enforcement or government bodies when a valid legal order requires it
How We Protect Your Data
We follow standard security practices to protect the data we collect. Nothing connected to the internet is bulletproof, though. We do what we can to keep your information secure, and we cannot promise that a breach will never happen.
Users Under 18
This site is written for adults. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 18. If you believe a minor has shared data with us, get in touch and we will delete it.
Your Data Rights
Depending on where you live, state law may give you more say over your data. In Maryland, records held by public agencies are released under the Maryland Public Information Act, General Provisions §4-101 et seq., which is the standard we point readers to when they ask how official records are released. For data we hold, you can at a minimum:
- Request that we erase your data
- Ask for a copy of what we hold about you
- Have us correct information that is wrong
- Opt out of certain kinds of processing
Updates to This Policy
We may revise this privacy policy later. When we do, the new version appears on this page with a fresh effective date. Come back if you want to follow how we handle visitor information.
Effective date: September 15, 2026