Yes, they are available to everyone. They do cost money, however.
Criminal records in Kentucky are available for the public. They go back for at least the last 5 years.
Criminal records are open and available to the public. You can search for criminal records at courts.ky.gov.
Yes, the initial incident or criminal complaint report is a public record. However, any subsequent police report on a criminal complaint (such as the record of the investigation, interviews, evidence, and any leads or suspects), are not public record unless/until the information comes out in open court as part of testimony.
Call the jail where the person was held. These are often available online, and an open records request is unnecessary. If it is, the jail personnel can direct you to whom your request should go.
For about the last one hundred years in the US for everyone who dies there has been a death certificate recorded in the county courthouse of the county where that person died. In some states these are in the land records office, in others they are in the clerk of court's office. The coroner is a public official and his records as such are public records and ought to be open to inspection, except in unresolved criminal cases.
Criminal records are a matter of Public Record and can be accessed through the individual courts where conviction was made. If the individual in question was in the custody of the state's Department of Corrections (prison), then each state maintains record of all inmates, and these records are often available on line. Military records are more private. The public may access some information, but most information is held confidential and is available only to the service member and the immediate family of deceased service members.
MOST US states do NOT have a requirement to register firearms. Those that do, the records are not open to the public.
All trials, both criminal and civil, are open to the public. All witnesses and their testimony is included in the official trial records which are also public records. If you wish to have your identity protected you need to contact the prosecutor who may, at his discretion, approach the judge and request your confidentiality.
No. While arrest and court records are open records and available to the public, the court generally does not take affirmative steps to notify anyone of anything.
Service records of separated soldiers are in the public domain, and are available by filing a Freedom of Information Act request with the National Personnel Records Center in St. Louis.
The sunshine law requires public governmental bodies to open meetings and records to the public.
Juvenile Petition. A legal proceeding involving a person under 18 years of age. A juvenile petition is in many ways the minor's version of a criminal complaint in adult cases. A juvenile record is usually not open to the public.