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Questions about official Bates County criminal records belong with the government office that keeps the original. Court filings and certified judgments go through the Circuit Clerk in Butler. Sheriff reports, jail bookings, custody details, and warrant-service records go through the Bates County Sheriff. City police departments retain their own incident reports, while the Missouri State Highway Patrol CJIS Central Repository handles statewide criminal history checks. The contacts below separate those routes because no single Bates County counter can provide every record.

This Is Not a Government Office. This private reference site cannot retrieve or correct a criminal record, conduct an official check, issue certified copies, or accept an expungement petition. The responsible government custodian must handle each request.

Need an Official Record?

Use the following Bates County and Missouri contacts for the record involved:

  • Court case files and certified copies: Bates County Circuit Clerk, 1 North Delaware Street, second floor, Butler, MO 64730; 660-386-7776, option 2
  • Arrest, booking, jail, and sheriff reports: Bates County Sheriff’s Office, 6 West Fort Scott Street, Butler, MO 64730; 660-679-3232
  • Missouri criminal history and rap sheets: Missouri State Highway Patrol CJIS Division Central Repository and the MACHS request channels
  • Official name or fingerprint checks: MACHS Name Search or MACHS Fingerprint registration through IDEMIA/IdentoGO; registration help is 844-543-9712
  • City police incident reports: the department that created the report, including Butler Police at 309 North Fulton Street, Butler, MO 64730; 660-679-6131
  • Expungement: the Missouri municipal, associate circuit, or circuit court that handled the case, with the Bates Circuit Clerk as the contact for its cases

For county law-enforcement records, begin with the Bates County Sheriff’s Office, 6 West Fort Scott Street, Butler, MO 64730, 660-679-3232. The official county pages do not publish fixed records-counter hours, so call before visiting. Court records use the separate Circuit Clerk counter at 1 North Delaware Street.