Hampshire County Warrant Records Hampshire County Warrant Records

Start with the office that holds the record, not with the same question mailed to five agencies. In Hampshire County that usually means the clerk who keeps the docket at Hampshire Superior Court, Northampton District Court, or Eastern Hampshire District Court, and the Hampshire County Sheriff's Office for custody files and civil process papers. One office holds each piece. The issuing court is the only place that can speak to a charge, a bail amount, or a recall, so write or call there before anywhere else. The routes below send the common requests to the counter that can answer them.

This Is Not a Government or Law Enforcement Office. This site is a private reference resource. Nobody here can confirm that a warrant exists, clear or recall one, accept a payment toward bail or a fine, or arrange a surrender. Those steps belong to the sheriff's office and to the court that issued the process, and only they can speak to a live case.

Need Official Warrant Information?

Where a request lands depends on what the reader needs. The list below routes the questions people ask most often in Hampshire County to the office that can actually answer them.

  • Whether a warrant is open: the agency that serves process can confirm an outstanding warrant by name and date of birth, and the issuing court's clerk can read the docket
  • A default warrant from a missed date: the court that set the case keeps the warrant, which in Hampshire County is usually Northampton District Court or Eastern Hampshire District Court
  • Clearing or recalling a warrant: only the issuing judge can recall it, so speak with a Massachusetts attorney and the clerk about a recall motion, a payment, or bail
  • An arrest warrant tied to a charge: the court sets the charge and the bail, and the sheriff's office or the police department named on the process serves it

The Trial Court clerks are the right first call for case and warrant questions. Hampshire Superior Court sits at 15 Gothic Street in Northampton, and its Clerk's Office, led by Clerk Daniel R. Carey, answers at (413) 584-5810. Northampton District Court shares that Gothic Street address, where Clerk-Magistrate Darren Alston's office can be reached at (413) 584-7400. Eastern Hampshire District Court is at 205 State Street, Route 202, in Belchertown, with Clerk-Magistrate Scott Rathbun's office at (413) 213-7610. Family and support matters belong to Hampshire Probate and Family Court at 15 Atwood Drive, Northampton, (413) 586-8500. Juvenile questions go to Hadley Juvenile Court at (413) 584-7686 or Belchertown Juvenile Court at (413) 323-4056.

The Hampshire County Sheriff's Office runs the county jail at 205 Rocky Hill Road in Northampton, and its main line is (413) 584-5911. For records the office itself holds, the Public Information and Records Access Officer is Thomas Mitchell at (413) 582-7721. Documents that courts issue for service go through the Civil Process Division at 11 Village Hill Road, Unit 103A, Northampton, which answers at (413) 585-0618 on weekdays from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. A request to either office asks for a file that already exists. Neither office will certify that a person has no warrant, and a civil process record is not a criminal warrant check.