| Doing a California inmate search can be more difficult | | | | documents that you need to download onto your |
| than you would at first think. The problem is that the | | | | computer before you can search them. |
| inmate record and arrest records in California are | | | | Most of the sites offer information sorted by date, |
| broken down by County and in some cases by city. | | | | which means that you need to download many |
| To do an inmate search across the entirety of | | | | different documents and search each one of them to |
| California means that you need to look through all of | | | | try and find records concerning one particular person. |
| these different websites to find the information you | | | | Now consider that the records for federal inmates are |
| need. | | | | stored completely differently and on a different |
| To make things worse, each one of these websites | | | | website, you can see that it becomes extremely |
| present its information in a different way, meaning | | | | complicated just to do just a California inmate search. |
| there is no one simple method for searching for | | | | Now let's consider the fact that you'll probably need to |
| inmates. | | | | search in different states because a particular inmate |
| For instance, in Alameda County, there is a web | | | | may have been moved to a prison in a different state, |
| search feature where you can type a person's first | | | | and you'll find out that this is an extremely |
| and last name to find the information you are looking | | | | time-consuming process. |
| for. However, in Chico, the information is provided as a | | | | Luckily there is a new website which makes it possible |
| PDF file which is updated weekly. | | | | for you to do all your research in one place. It gathers |
| In Chula Vista, the information is presented as a | | | | information from all the different inmate search |
| drop-down list of names which need to click on to | | | | services across the Internet, as well as court records, |
| access the records of the person you're interested in. | | | | police records and jail records to make sure that you |
| Also, they only present last week's information. | | | | get all the information you need. All you need to do is |
| In Glenn County, the inmate search information is | | | | go to one website into a simple search and you'll get |
| presented as a list of different Microsoft Word | | | | an answer without any effort. |