Greenville County Criminal Records

Find the General Sessions case, then the filing

For Greenville County, South Carolina, start with the county’s Public Index to identify a General Sessions criminal case. The clerk’s online-copy guidance says criminal searches show file information, while most Common Pleas civil images can be printed online. A criminal docket listing is therefore not the requested document. Note the court, defendant, arrest-warrant or indictment number, and the title of the disposition or other filing you need.

On the Public Index, the arrest-warrant number is called the case number. Use that identifier to distinguish cases involving similar names and to specify the exact charge or filing. Read the final outcome rather than assuming an indictment means conviction. If an employer or other recipient asks for proof of disposition, ask it to identify the document and authentication it will accept.

Send a precise request to Criminal Records

Request General Sessions copies in person at Suite 228, Greenville County Courthouse, 305 East North Street, Greenville, SC, or email [email protected]. Include the arrest-warrant and/or indictment number and a specific document list. The clerk lists 864-467-8551 and weekday hours of 8:30 a.m.–5 p.m., excluding county holidays.

Account for pages, certification and preparation

General Sessions copies cost $0.25 per page; certification is $10 per certification and exemplification is $10. Preparation exceeding 15 minutes carries a published $18 hourly research/redaction charge, prorated in 15-minute increments. Payment is due when copies are made, using cash, money order or cashier’s check. Ask how to pay and receive an emailed request before assuming remote card payment or delivery is available.

Allow for processing and the clerk’s limits

The clerk asks requesters to allow 2–3 business days after adjudication before requesting newly decided case documents; its online records go back to 1984. Sealed or legally exempt records are excluded, and released copies may be redacted. It does not hold Magistrate/Municipal Court, State Grand Jury, outside-agency or individual attorney files. Its staff cannot choose filings or interpret their contents for you.

If an expected paper is absent, distinguish an unprocessed recent filing from an older offline file or a record held by another court. The online list can help you identify what to request, but it does not convert police or attorney material into a clerk-held filing. Describe the missing document precisely and ask which office holds it; do not treat absence of an image as proof that the event did not occur.

Choose the local background product deliberately

The county’s separate local background search includes fingerprinted charges from the Greenville County Sheriff’s Office and Greenville City Police that are pending or ended in conviction. It excludes dismissed, nolle-prossed and not-guilty matters, traffic charges and civil offenses. Thus a blank local check can coexist with a known court case. It is not a complete South Carolina history or a substitute for the final court document.

Requests can be made online, by mail or in person, with the subject’s full name and birth date and identification from the requester. The service offers five-year, ten-year, fifteen-year, complete and customized periods. Contact the office if you need an embossed county seal, notarization or customization; “complete” still means this local product’s coverage.

Price the local lookback and added information

The Public Records schedule lists $5 for a five-year local search, $10 for ten years and $15 for a search beyond ten years, each per record search. Second and additional certified copies are listed at $1; additional arrest data costs $3 per five charges. Confirm a customized search total with that office. These charges belong to the local background service, not the General Sessions copy desk.

Use SLED for a South Carolina history

SLED CATCH offers a name-based South Carolina criminal-history search that can be viewed and printed. Its base standard fee is a nonrefundable $25. The current banner announces a $1.43 service fee per $25 online report from July 1, 2026, while older text on the same page still says $1 convenience fee. Use the dated notice and inspect the checkout total; do not assume the older $26 total is current.

CATCH is a state product, and a name/birth-date mismatch or alias can produce a false positive or negative. Questions about a result go to SLED’s Public Dissemination Unit at 803-896-1443, weekdays 9 a.m.–4:30 p.m., or [email protected]. Keep the report and case disposition together when asking about an erroneous entry.

Check that the delivered record answers your question

Match the returned document to the court, case number, person and requested filing. Retain certification and any later amended order. If the discrepancy is in the clerk’s copy, describe it to Criminal Records; if it is in a local background or SLED response, contact that service and identify the source case. Different inclusion rules can explain a difference without either product being a complete account of every event.