Riverside County People Records

Riverside County people search covers about 2.4 million residents spread across one of the largest counties in California by land area. The Riverside Superior Court, County Clerk-Recorder, Assessor, and Sheriff all run public search tools that let you find people records online. You can look up court cases, pull vital documents, search property ownership, and check inmate data from Riverside County offices. Some tools are free while others charge a small fee per search. This page shows you every main way to find people records in Riverside County.

Riverside County Court People Search

The Riverside Superior Court runs its online case search through the ePublic Access portal at epublic-access.riverside.courts.ca.gov. This is the main tool for court-based people search in Riverside County. You can look up any person by name to see if they have civil, criminal, family, probate, or small claims cases on file. The search results show case numbers, filing dates, parties involved, and case status.

The Riverside County court ePublic Access portal for people search is shown here.

Riverside County uses a credit system for court searches. One name search costs $1. You can buy 5 credits for $3.50 or 10 credits for $5. If you do a lot of people search in Riverside County courts, the unlimited plan costs $250 for 30 days. Document copies cost $1 per page for the first 5 pages and $0.50 for each page after that. A records search request is $15 per search. These fees apply to the online system only.

The credit system makes Riverside County one of the more affordable places to search court records in California. Even a single $1 credit lets you run a full name search and see all cases tied to that person in Riverside County. That is cheaper than many other counties charge for people search through their courts.

Find People in Riverside County Jail

The Riverside County Sheriff runs an inmate search tool at jimspub.riversidesheriff.org. You can look up who is held in Riverside County jails right now. The search shows booking info, charges, bail amounts, and facility locations. This is a free people search tool. It updates as inmates are booked in or released.

Here is the Riverside County Sheriff inmate locator for people search.

For people who have been transferred to state prison from Riverside County, use the California CDCR inmate search at ciris.mt.cdcr.ca.gov. That covers all state facilities. The Riverside County Sheriff handles only local jail custody, not state prison. If someone was sentenced in Riverside County but moved to a state facility, the CDCR tool is where you will find them.

Riverside County Vital Records Search

The Riverside County Clerk-Recorder handles birth, death, and marriage records. You can search and order vital records online through the portal at vitalsonline.asrclkrec.com. These records are helpful for people search because they show full names, dates of events, and locations. Vital records connect people to life events in Riverside County.

The Riverside County vital records online portal for people search is shown below.

As of January 1, 2026, Riverside County vital records fees are set at these rates: birth certificates cost $34, death certificates cost $26, and marriage certificates cost $19. A public marriage license costs $111. These fees went up under AB 64. Call the Riverside County Clerk-Recorder at (800) 696-9144 or (951) 486-7000 with questions about vital records and people search.

Under Health and Safety Code Section 103526, certified birth certificates are limited to authorized persons. But informational copies are open to the public and work fine for most people search tasks in Riverside County. They show the same data minus the state seal.

Note: Allow at least 3 weeks after a birth, death, or marriage for Riverside County to process the vital record before requesting it.

Riverside County Property People Lookup

Property records are a strong tool for people search in Riverside County. The county assessor and recorder maintain ownership data for every parcel. You can search by owner name to find where a person owns property. The public access portal at ca-riverside-acr.publicaccessnow.com lets you search recorded documents like deeds, liens, and other filings that list people by name.

The Riverside County property records search for people is shown here.

The Riverside County Assessor can be reached at (800) 746-1544 or (951) 955-6200. Property records in Riverside County are public under the California Public Records Act (Government Code Section 7920.000). Anyone can search them. Deeds show buyer and seller names, sale prices, and dates. Grant deeds and quitclaim deeds are especially useful for tracking people through property transfers in Riverside County.

How Riverside County Records Work

Riverside County is big. It stretches from the edges of the Los Angeles metro area all the way to the Arizona border. The court system has locations in Riverside, Indio, Murrieta, Banning, and other cities across the county. But for people search, it does not matter which courthouse handles the case. All records feed into the same ePublic Access system online. One search covers all Riverside County courthouses.

The Clerk-Recorder office handles both vital records and recorded documents. That means you can get birth certificates and deed copies from the same office. For people search in Riverside County, this is convenient. You can ask about multiple record types in one visit or phone call. The main office is in downtown Riverside, but there are branch offices in other parts of the county too.

People Search in Riverside County Cities

Riverside County has 28 incorporated cities. All of them use the Riverside County Superior Court and Clerk-Recorder for people records. The cities with dedicated search pages on this site are listed below.

Nearby Counties

These counties border Riverside County. Since Riverside County is so large, people near the edges may have records filed in a neighboring county. Check the county where the person lives or where the event took place.