NO FCRA USE. Carter County Criminal History is private and has no government affiliation. The website and its advertising partners do not provide information for credit, employment, insurance, tenant, or any other Fair Credit Reporting Act decision. The resource only helps visitors locate Carter County and Kentucky public-record channels. It is not a consumer reporting agency or private investigation service.
1. What This Website Is
This privately operated reference website is independent of Carter County, the Commonwealth of Kentucky, and every government agency. It neither houses official criminal records nor has authority to retrieve records, conduct official checks, or submit filings for a visitor.
Published material directs readers to the sheriff, local police, detention center, courts, Kentucky State Police, Department of Corrections, and Kentucky State Police Sex Offender Registry. The Kentucky Open Records Act governs eligible public-agency records, while KRS 17.140 and 17.151 address state criminal-history functions and dissemination. Those laws do not make this website an official custodian.
2. Rules for Using This Site
As a condition of access, a visitor must not:
- Use the website in violation of federal, Kentucky, or local law
- Rely on its information to threaten, stalk, intimidate, or harass another person
- Apply site content to a hiring, housing, credit, lending, or insurance decision
- Attempt to bypass security or enter a system without authorization
- Deploy a bot, scraper, crawler, or other automated collection method
- Interfere with site operation or another visitor's access
3. No Harassment, Stalking, or Discrimination
Content obtained here or through a linked service may not be used for harassment, stalking, threats, intimidation, unlawful discrimination, or vigilantism. Kentucky imposes penalties for criminal misuse of sex offender registry information. Public registry access exists for safety and community awareness, not private punishment or a prohibited eligibility decision.
4. We Are Not a Consumer Reporting Agency
Carter County Criminal History is not a consumer reporting agency under the FCRA and does not create credit reports, background reports, or other consumer reports. Its advertising partners are not presented as services for evaluating applicants, renters, borrowers, insured persons, or consumers. Information from this website or a linked tool must not be used to:
- Make an employment or termination decision
- Evaluate a renter, lease applicant, or other housing applicant
- Assess credit, lending terms, or insurance eligibility and pricing
- Decide eligibility for a license, permit, or government benefit
- Carry out any additional purpose regulated by the FCRA
A regulated use requires an authorized Kentucky State Police process or a consumer reporting agency that complies with all applicable law.
5. No Legal Advice
Nothing published here creates legal advice or an attorney-client relationship. Questions about the effect of a charge, conviction, warrant, sealing rule, or expungement law should be addressed to a licensed Kentucky attorney.
6. No Warranties
All content and services are offered "as is" and "as available." No warranty is made that:
- Any item is accurate, complete, or up to date
- Access will always be available or uninterrupted
- The website contains no error, defect, or security weakness
- A partner's search result is complete, current, or correctly matched
Criminal-record status can change when charges are filed, amended, dismissed, sealed, or expunged. Publication delays and gaps may occur. Site content must never be treated as an official statement or certified record from a court, sheriff, police department, or Kentucky agency.
7. Third-Party Services and Links
Links may direct a visitor to a sheriff, court portal, Kentucky agency, legal resource, or independent search provider. Those destinations are controlled by their own operators. We are not responsible for an outside site's content, availability, fees, results, security, or data practices. Review the destination's terms before using it.
8. Intellectual Property
Unless otherwise stated, the website's text, graphics, logos, and code are owned by Carter County Criminal History or the applicable content partner. Copying, modifying, adapting, or distributing protected material requires prior written permission.
9. Limits on Our Liability
To the maximum extent permitted by law, Carter County Criminal History is not liable for loss or damage arising from use of the website, inability to access it, or reliance on content obtained here or from a linked provider.
10. Indemnification
A visitor agrees to defend, indemnify, and hold the website harmless from claims, demands, proceedings, liabilities, and reasonable legal costs arising from that visitor's use of the service or violation of these terms.
11. Governing Law
These terms are governed by Kentucky law, without regard to conflict-of-law principles. Any proceeding concerning website use must be filed in a court with proper jurisdiction in Kentucky.
12. Changes to These Terms
We may revise these terms when services, practices, or legal requirements change. A revision becomes effective when the updated terms are posted here.
13. Cutting Off Access
Access may be suspended, limited, or terminated at any time, with or without advance notice, when we determine that action is appropriate.
14. Severability
If a court finds one provision invalid or unenforceable, all remaining provisions continue in effect. The affected language will be limited or modified only to the extent required for enforceability.
15. Questions
Questions concerning these terms may be submitted through the Contact page.