Data You Give Us Directly
Search queries. When you enter a name, a case number, or a date of birth into a search box on this site, the query goes to the outside company that runs the search. That company processes it and returns results. We do not keep or log the terms you type.
Messages and contact submissions. If you send us an email, we keep the message so we can answer it. Your message stays with our team, and we do not pass it to anyone outside our organization unless the law requires it.
Data We Gather Automatically
When a page on this site loads, our servers record technical details about the visit. The set is ordinary for a website:
- The browser you used and its version
- The IP address assigned to your device
- Your device type and operating system
- The pages you viewed and how long each one stayed open
- Timestamps for each page view
- The site that referred you here, when there is one
Cookies and analytics. We use cookies, which are small files stored on your device, to see how visitors move through the site and which pages are useful. Analytics services help us summarize that traffic. You can block cookies in your browser, and some parts of the site may behave differently if you do.
What We Do With This Data
- Routing your search requests to the right partner service
- Keeping the site available and loading quickly
- Learning which pages readers find useful and which need work
- Finding and fixing technical problems
- Showing advertising that may relate to your interests
No Warrant Data on File
We do not host, compile, maintain, or sell any database of warrants or personal warrant information. What we publish is general guidance about where Hennepin County warrant records are kept and how to check them through the Fourth Judicial District, the Sheriff's Warrant Office, MCRO, and the county's data request process. We are not a consumer reporting agency under the Fair Credit Reporting Act, and nothing we collect about visitors is assembled into consumer reports or into files about other people.
Third-Party Search Partners
The search boxes on this site are run by outside companies. Anything you type into one of those tools is handled under that company's privacy policy rather than this one. Those partners decide their own retention and sharing practices, and we cannot control them. Read the partner's policy before you submit a search.
Links to Other Websites
We link to Minnesota court pages, the Hennepin County Sheriff's Office, state statutes, and other resources. Following one of those links takes you off this site, and the privacy policy of the site you land on governs that visit. Read it before you share personal details.
Some advertising partners track activity across sites in order to show targeted ads. That tracking runs on their systems, not ours.
Who Might See Your Data
We do not sell personal data. Limited information can reach the following parties:
- Search partners that process a query you run here
- Analytics services that measure traffic and performance
- Advertising networks that place ads on our pages
- Law enforcement or a government body when a valid legal order requires it
How We Protect Your Data
We follow standard security practices for the information we collect. No internet service can promise perfect safety, so we protect what we hold and cannot guarantee 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 information with us, contact us and we will remove it.
Your Data Rights
Minnesota law gives people rights over data that a government entity holds about them, and the main statute is the Minnesota Government Data Practices Act, Minn. Stat. ch. 13. That law applies to the court and Sheriff records this site points to, not to our own website data. Under Minn. Stat. § 13.03, most government data are public, while Minn. Stat. § 13.82 lets a law enforcement agency keep some data confidential, including warrant indices before service.
For our own site data, you can ask us for a copy of what we hold about you, ask us to correct information that is wrong, ask us to erase your data, and opt out of certain kinds of processing.
Updates to This Policy
We may update this policy. When we do, the new version appears on this page with a new effective date. Check back if you want to follow how we handle visitor information.
Effective date: September 15, 2026