NO FCRA USE. This privately operated website has no affiliation with a local, West Virginia, or federal government body. Neither the website nor its advertising partners provides a service intended for credit, employment, insurance, housing, or another use regulated by the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA). Its purpose is to help readers locate McDowell County, West Virginia record resources. It is neither a private-investigation firm nor a consumer reporting agency.
1. What This Website Is
This is a private reference site, independent of every government office. We do not keep official criminal files, obtain certified copies, perform an official check, or file a petition for a visitor.
The material identifies sources such as McDowell court clerks, local police agencies, the West Virginia State Police Criminal Identification Bureau, WVDCR, and the West Virginia State Police Sex Offender Registry. It may also connect a visitor with an outside search tool. Under W. Va. Code §15-2-24(d), a private request for WVSP criminal-history dissemination requires the subject's signed and acknowledged authorization.
2. Rules for Using This Site
As a condition of use, you agree not to:
- Use content for a credit, employment, housing, insurance, or other FCRA-regulated decision
- Threaten, stalk, intimidate, or harass another person
- Violate a federal, West Virginia, or local law
- Use a bot, scraper, or automated process against the pages
- Attempt unauthorized access to systems or data
- Interfere with website operation or another visitor's access
3. No Harassment, Stalking, or Discrimination
Information found here or through a linked service may not be used to harass, stalk, threaten, intimidate, or unlawfully discriminate. Misuse may be criminal. West Virginia's Sex Offender Registration Act supports community safety and lawful notice, not confrontation or vigilantism. Registry information may not be used for prohibited screening or discriminatory action.
4. We Are Not a Consumer Reporting Agency
We are not a consumer reporting agency under the FCRA and produce no consumer report, credit report, or screening report. Advertising partners are not presented as providers for any regulated decision. You agree not to use website or linked-tool data to:
- Make an employment decision
- Evaluate a housing application
- Set insurance terms or judge creditworthiness
- Determine eligibility for a license, benefit, or government program
- Carry out any other FCRA-regulated purpose
A legally regulated check must come from an authorized, compliant source. WVSP directs authorized fingerprint-based West Virginia checks through IdentoGO.
5. No Legal Advice
The material is not legal advice and creates no attorney-client relationship. It cannot determine how a charge, conviction, warrant, or expungement law applies to a specific matter. Seek advice from a lawyer licensed in West Virginia.
6. No Warranties
All services and content are supplied "as is" and "as available." We make no promise that:
- A partner result will be complete, current, or correctly matched
- Every published detail will remain accurate
- The service will operate without delay or interruption
- The pages will contain no error, defect, or security weakness
Charges, dispositions, restrictions, and custody entries change. Published guidance can lag those changes. Nothing here is an official statement from a McDowell County court, police agency, WVSP, or WVDCR.
7. Third-Party Services and Links
Links lead to courts, police agencies, West Virginia portals, statutes, legal resources, and outside services. A destination controls its own content, data practices, price, terms, and availability. We are not responsible for those matters. Review the destination's rules before using it.
8. Intellectual Property
McDowell County Criminal History or its content partners own the website's text, graphics, logos, and code. You may not reproduce, modify, distribute, or create derivative work from that material without prior written permission.
9. Limits on Our Liability
To the fullest extent permitted by law, we are not liable for a loss or damage arising from website use, inability to use it, or reliance on content supplied here or by a linked service.
10. Indemnification
You agree to defend and hold us harmless from a claim, demand, or action arising from your use of the website or a breach of these terms, including reasonable legal costs where allowed.
11. Governing Law
West Virginia law governs these terms. Government-record access follows the West Virginia Freedom of Information Act, and private dissemination of a WVSP criminal history is limited by W. Va. Code §15-2-24(d). Any dispute connected to website use must be brought in a court located in West Virginia.
12. Changes to These Terms
We may revise these conditions. A revision becomes effective when the updated terms are posted on this page.
13. Cutting Off Access
Access may be suspended or ended at any time, with or without notice, to the extent the law permits.
14. Severability
If a court finds one provision invalid or unenforceable, the other provisions remain in effect. The affected language will be narrowed only as much as needed to make it enforceable.
15. Questions
Questions about these conditions may be directed through the Contact page.