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Questions about official Virginia Beach City criminal records belong with the agency that created or keeps the record. The contacts below route court files, police reports, sheriff booking material, statewide histories, and record-relief filings to the proper public office. This private reference site cannot retrieve or change a government record.

This Is Not a Government Office. We run a private reference site. We cannot pull criminal records, run official background checks, remove or correct a record, or accept expungement filings for anyone. For any of those, you need to reach the right government office directly.

Need an Official Record?

Use the custodian that holds the Virginia Beach City record:

  • Circuit criminal files: Virginia Beach Circuit Court Criminal Department, 2425 Nimmo Parkway, Building 10 & 10B, third floor, Virginia Beach, VA 23456-9017; 757-385-4187 or 757-385-4188; 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.
  • General District criminal files: 2425 Nimmo Parkway, Virginia Beach, VA 23456-9057; 757-385-8531; clerk hours 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
  • Booking and jail records: VBSO administration, 2501 James Madison Blvd., Virginia Beach, VA 23456; main line 757-385-4555; inmate information 757-385-7692.
  • Sheriff public-record requests: Capt. Lois Thompson, pso@vbso.net, 757-385-1971, fax 757-385-1798, at the VBSO administration address.
  • Police and local record checks: VBPD, 2405 Courthouse Drive, Virginia Beach, VA 23456; 757-385-4141; non-emergency 757-385-5000.
  • State histories: order through the Virginia Department of State Police SP-167 process.

Virginia Beach has no separate county records counter. Match the request to VBPD, VBSO, General District Court, Circuit Court, or Virginia Department of State Police. Expungement and sealing petitions for eligible Virginia Beach cases begin with the Virginia Beach Circuit Court under current Virginia law.