New Mexico Criminal Records - Where to Go When State Sites Are Down

New Mexico criminal records from the state law enforcement websites are devoted to data on sex offenders. This is because only the Department of Public Safety that was up and running as of this writing. Some NM websites that could yield criminal records have been down for as long as three months. So a searcher will have to track down convictions from federal judiciary websites.

New Mexico criminal records from the state government comes via the Department of Public Safety and primarily involves sex offenders. A site devoted to the purpose was developed to comply with the New Mexico State Statute, which orders that the public be informed of sex offenders residing in NM. However, New Mexico criminal records on sex offenders are limited to certain offenses committed on or after July 1995.

A sex offender whose conviction was handed down prior to July 1995 but was imprisoned or placed on parole by that time would have also been required to register and, if not an escapee or delinquent, would be on record.

Although some government agencies caution that only criminal records from law enforcement bodies are useful for background checks, it sometimes happens that the state police will not have an offender search, apart from the sex offender search required by federal law. Or the site could be under maintenance or not regularly updated.

When this happens, as in the case of NM Department of Corrections website (corrections.state.nm.us), or the state run case lookup (www.nmcourts.com) and DWI offender history (traffic.nmcourts.com) sites, your only recourse would be to use websites maintained by the federal judiciary PACER program.

Other Sources for NM Criminal Records

There are two websites that offer public access to US court dockets. One is the US Courts or Federal Judiciary website. To yield criminal records, you will have to track down convictions in the District Court or the Court of Appeals, for example.

You may also start your search by Circuit Court (e.g., Federal), or by State then County. Clicking on the state of NM will turn up a page with a click-able list of all the courts within the state (e.g., Albuquerque, Santa Fe, etc.), from district courts to pretrial offices.

Your second option is to use the Public Access to Court Electronic Records website. But since the NM Pacer Site is strictly for the state's Bankruptcy Court, the data you get may be useful only if you are conducting a background check, not necessarily confining your research to New Mexico criminal records.

Useful New Mexico Criminal Records Links:

NM Department of Public Safety Sex Offender Search
US Courts
NM Courts
PACER

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