Search Faulkner County Criminal Court Dockets

Faulkner County Criminal Docket Searches

Search ARCourts is the free way to pull a Faulkner County criminal docket online. A case number works best when you have it. So does a citation number on a district matter. For a name search, type enough of the first and last name to cut down the results. Then open the advanced filters, pick Faulkner County, and select the court location you need. One or two letters force an exact-name match. Three or more can pull exact and partial matches plus aliases.

Check the caption, case number, court, filing date, case type, and status. Do that before you trust any entries. A close name proves nothing. Search ARCourts can show public document links. But it does not promise every Arkansas case or image. Public online coverage for Faulkner County Circuit Court reaches back to January 1, 2009. The clerk keeps deeper internal scans, with cases to 2000 and orders to 1997.

1. Open Search ARCourts and choose a participant or case search.
2. Enter the case number, citation number, or a well-narrowed participant name.
3. Set County Name to Faulkner and pick the correct court location when known.
4. Open the matching result and compare the court, number, type, status, and caption.
5. Contact the filing clerk for confirmation, an older file, or an official copy.

Faulkner Criminal Dockets by Court

The first question is not whether a case is criminal. It is which court holds the record. Circuit Court is the state's general-jurisdiction trial court. It hears felony cases on the merits. Faulkner County District Court departments in Conway, Greenbrier, Guy, Mayflower, and Vilonia take misdemeanors, traffic offenses, and preliminary felony matters. So a felony can show up on a district docket first. Then it moves to Circuit Court for the merits prosecution.

Appealing a district criminal case carries a published Circuit Clerk filing fee of $170, which includes the electronic filing fee. Arkansas Rule of Criminal Procedure 36 makes the certified district record central to Circuit Court jurisdiction. Note that paying a district charge is not the same as filing an appeal.

Criminal Dockets: What They Show

A Faulkner County criminal docket opens with identifying fields. Then it builds a timeline. In the public case view, the Case Summary, Participants, Offenses, Sentences, Case Events, and Docket Entries may sit on separate tabs. Entries can carry a filing date and time. A short description, docket detail, an associated party, and a document link may appear too, where an image is public. Events hold scheduled activity. An order or notice image may add the courtroom and time.

No single sample criminal case-number pattern is published for safe reuse, so the exact number shown on the case is the reliable code. Copy it with its punctuation unchanged. And remember what a docket is not: it is not a police report, an evidence file, or a transcript.

Faulkner Criminal Docket Codes

Arkansas attaches short statistical codes to docket entries. Read them beside the entry and charge, never alone. The official Statistical Docket Codes list gives the meanings. Context counts, since the same letters can do different work in another field. DE, for instance, can mark denial of a post-conviction petition, yet as a sentence code it means death.

G

Guilty disposition.

N

Not-guilty acquittal.

DN

Nolle prosequi, meaning the prosecution was discontinued.

DF

Deferred disposition.

RV

Revoked.

SEAL

Sealed, with public visibility controlled by access law and court orders.

More codes appear as you read. TD stands for transfer to drug court. TJUV means transfer to juvenile court, and TR means a transfer of jurisdiction. Every criminal charge needs a disposition before the matter counts as statistically closed. An open case status alone will not tell you which charge is still unresolved. Arkansas Judiciary's plain-language discussion of civil and criminal cases adds helpful background on the split.

The official page places a criminal docket within the trial process. It does not turn brief entries into claims about evidence or guilt.

Criminal Case Stages on the Docket

The order of a Faulkner County criminal docket varies by court and case. A circuit felony record can run from arrest or initial appearance, through a prosecutor's criminal information, arraignment and plea, discovery or motion filings, pretrial hearings, a reset, trial or a negotiated plea, judgment, sentence, and later revocation activity, into appeal entries. A district misdemeanor often takes a shorter path. Even so, the docket still records each official action.

Docket flow: Filing › Arraignment › Pretrial › Plea or Trial › Disposition › Sentencing

A continuance moves a setting; it does not dismiss the prosecution. Docket entries can pack a sentence into a few letters: DOC for a Department of Corrections sentence, J for local jail, FI for a fine, PRO for probation, and SIS for suspended imposition of sentence. When exact terms matter, read the signed judgment.

Note: Search ARCourts separates scheduled Case Events from filed Docket Entries, so check both tabs before deciding that a setting is missing.

Faulkner Criminal Docket Divisions

Five divisions of Circuit Court split the caseload across the Twentieth Judicial Circuit. Under the 2025 administrative plan, Divisions 2, 3, and 5 carry the routine criminal work. Division 5 takes domestic-battering criminal cases too, plus petitions for permanent protection orders. Reopened cases land back with the original judge where possible. Revocations return to the division that imposed the sentence. So two Faulkner County criminal cases can sit with different divisions, which is why one neighbor gets calls from one office and another hears from elsewhere.

The plan's matter figures are estimates, not filing totals for any year. Division 2 gets an estimate of 1,555 matters. Division 3 carries 7,671 across its mixed docket. Division 5 shows 1,565. Each figure folds in that division's civil and other case types, so adding them together tells you nothing about current criminal volume. For any court date question, trust the division printed on the docket or hearing notice.

Need a division directly? Division 1 answers at 501-450-4904, Division 2 at 501-450-4931, Division 3 at 501-450-4970, Division 4 at 501-328-4156, and Division 5 at 501-450-4925. For current judge assignments, the Arkansas judicial directory is the place to check.

Faulkner County Criminal Docket Courts

The Faulkner County Circuit Clerk holds the circuit criminal files. The counter sits at 724 Locust Avenue in Conway. Hours are 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday except holidays. Phone the office at 501-450-4911. Come here for a felony file, a clerk-issued copy, or an older circuit record. One exception matters: a transcript comes from the court reporter, not from the copy counter.

Misdemeanors filed in district court stay with the city department named on the case. Conway takes calls at 501-450-6112. Greenbrier's number is 501-679-0538. Guy uses 501-679-4585, Mayflower takes 501-470-0948, and Vilonia lists 501-796-2534. Geography does not control. The court location printed on the docket, citation, summons, or filed notice is what counts. Skip the nearest office and call the right one.

When a hearing looks confusing, start with the newest event and any filed order. Then phone the assigned court. AOC support helps with technical Search ARCourts trouble. Case questions go to the filing court. The Faulkner County docket search page walks through the name and number filters in greater depth.

Faulkner Specialty Criminal Dockets

Faulkner County runs two treatment dockets inside Division 3, per the Twentieth Circuit plan. Adult Drug Court dates to 2003. It serves qualifying nonviolent felony defendants. Veterans Court also holds Faulkner County sessions there. Division 2 carries Juvenile Drug Court for qualifying youth after adjudication. All of these live within the existing court structure. They create no separate public-record system.

A docket entry may show a transfer or a program-related court event. That does not open treatment details to the public. The plan also describes Faulkner Sobriety Court for qualifying second and third DWI cases. It has its own public docket and phased program. One caution: a schedule pulled from an administrative plan is not a current court date.

Missing Faulkner Criminal Docket Documents

A dead document link proves nothing. Search ARCourts shows images only when they are cleared for public display. Pop-up blockers can hide a linked image too. Safari is a common offender. Before concluding a filing is missing, check the Docket Entries and Case Events tabs, verify the court and case number, and allow pop-ups.

An entry may appear, but its image will not. Ask the record custodian for the named document. Give the clerk the case number, the document title, and the rough filing date. Say whether you need a plain or certified copy. Plain copies cost $0.50 per page; certified or authenticated copies run $5. The clerk does not say whether that $5 fee stacks on top of page charges. Confirm the estimate, payment method, delivery, and timing before sending anything.

Age explains some gaps as well. Public circuit access reaches back to 2009, while the court's internal scanning goes deeper. District coverage differs by department. The honest conclusion is simply that the public interface showed no image, and nothing beyond that.

Access Rules for Criminal Dockets

The doorway to public access is Arkansas Supreme Court Administrative Order 19. That order permits access. It withholds whatever federal law, Arkansas law, court rule, or court order protects. Social Security numbers, account and personal identification numbers, notes and drafts, and sealed or expunged material are all withheld from view. They stay out of the ordinary public record. The redaction burden falls on filers and court staff. Administrative Order 19.1 and Arkansas Rule of Civil Procedure 5(c)(2) say so.

Adult record sealing runs through the Comprehensive Criminal Record Sealing Act process. The statute is Ark. Code §§16-90-1401 et seq. Juvenile confidentiality and destruction rules sit in Ark. Code §9-27-309, as amended in 2025. A search that returns nothing can mean many things. It could be a spelling slip, the wrong court selected, the online date boundary, restricted access, sealing, or unavailable documents. It cannot tell you why a named person's case is absent.

Printouts from Search ARCourts carry an unofficial label. When you need proof of an entry or disposition, request the actual document from the Circuit Clerk or the district department that maintains it.