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Michigan Criminal Record Lookup
Use Michigan ICHAT for public criminal history, recognize records outside its coverage, and choose court files or personal review when a result is incomplete.
Choose the Michigan product before typing a name
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Public statewide repository check
Use Michigan State Police ICHAT when the task is a public name-based Michigan criminal-history lookup.
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Your own fuller record review
Use the fingerprint-based personal review described by Michigan State Police when you need identity-linked public and nonpublic information associated with your fingerprints.
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Specific case proof
If a case entry matters, use the court of conviction for the judgment, register of actions, or other filed document.
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Corrections status only
Use OTIS for MDOC custody/supervision context, not as a substitute for a criminal-history report.
ICHAT is useful because its coverage is defined — and limited
Included reporting
Michigan says felonies and serious misdemeanors punishable by more than 93 days are required to be reported to the state repository by agencies, prosecutors, and courts across all 83 counties.
Not in ICHAT
The MSP coverage page excludes suppressed records and warrants, plus federal, tribal, traffic, juvenile, local-misdemeanor, and other-state history.
A no-result has a scope
A clean ICHAT result means no public match within that repository’s covered data under the search criteria; it is not a nationwide no-record certificate.
Match cost and identity strength to the task
| Michigan route | Published cost | Identity / output meaning |
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| ICHAT name search | $10 per search | Name-based public Michigan criminal-history information. |
| Personal fingerprint record review | $30 processing | Fingerprint-linked review including public and nonpublic information associated with the prints. |
| Court of conviction | Court-specific | Underlying judicial file; use when exact charge/disposition/document wording matters. |
| MDOC OTIS | Public web search | Corrections/supervision context; not criminal-history proof or identity proof. |
Use OTIS for a different question than ICHAT
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Ask whether the person was under MDOC supervision
OTIS covers prisoners, parolees, probationers and other people within MDOC jurisdiction/supervision rules.
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Search with a strong identifier
An MDOC number is unique in OTIS and is more reliable than a common-name match.
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Read the disclaimer with the result
OTIS warns that status/location may need verification and that the database should not be used as employment verification or criminal history.
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Verify the underlying conviction elsewhere
For a court outcome or public criminal-history record, use the sentencing court or MSP ICHAT as the relevant source.
If the Michigan record is wrong, correct the segment that supplied it
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Arrest segment error
The MSP correction guidance routes an arrest-segment error to the arresting law-enforcement agency named in the record.
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Charge segment error
Contact the prosecuting attorney’s office identified for the charge.
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Judicial segment error
Contact the court shown in the record.
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Repository update
MSP explains that it must receive or verify the change from the reporting agency before updating the state criminal-history record.
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Federal entry
Michigan directs FBI-record correction to the agency that furnished the information to the FBI and the FBI challenge process.
Save enough context to reproduce the lookup
Record the product, not just the result
Keep the search date, name/identifiers used, whether the result came from ICHAT, fingerprint review, a court file, or OTIS, and any case/MDOC numbers. These sources overlap around the same person but answer different questions.