Checking Criminal History in Long Beach
Start a Long Beach criminal records search with the document, not just a person's name. An incident report comes from Long Beach Police Department. A booking entry comes from Pacific County Jail Services. South Pacific District Court operates the Long Beach municipal docket, while Superior Court handles felony cases. Washington Courts offers an index, and WATCH offers a narrower statewide public conviction-history product.
Use this local-to-state sequence:
- Submit the Long Beach public records form for a city police report or related city record.
- Include the event date, location, report number if known, and a clear description of the police material sought.
- Use the statewide court index, then confirm the Long Beach municipal matter with South Pacific District Court.
- Check Pacific County Jail Services for a custodial booking, or the county clerk for a felony court file.
- Use WATCH for Washington's public conviction-history response, not as a substitute for the police report or complete court file.
Four Long Beach Records Channels
Long Beach accepts its citywide public-record form through four documented routes. A requester may email administrator@longbeachwa.gov, fax 360-642-8841, mail the form to PO Box 310, or drop it at City Hall. Those channels all reach the city process. They do not turn the city into custodian of a Pacific County court or jail file.
The city states that it will respond within five business days by producing or allowing inspection, acknowledging the request with an estimate, or denying it. That is an initial response window, not a promise that every Long Beach police file will be ready in five days. Review and redaction can take more time. Choose one submission route, keep a copy, and use a clear description so staff can identify the record set.
Note: The five-business-day rule governs the city's first response, not guaranteed production of every requested police record.
Long Beach Police Department Records
Long Beach Police Department operates at 212 Pacific Avenue South. The official directory identifies Chief Flint Wright, Deputy Chief Casey Meling, Administrative Assistant Jordan Allen, and phone 360-642-2911. Its files can include incident and arrest narratives, agency references, and other releasable police material. The city's public-record form is the formal route; no official person-name police report search was documented.
Long Beach police also serve Ilwaco through an interlocal agreement. That means the agency name matters as much as the city boundary. A report created by LBPD while serving Ilwaco is still an LBPD record, while the monthly activity report may keep Long Beach and Ilwaco totals apart. Ask for the event by date, location, and report number rather than assuming every LBPD file describes an event inside Long Beach.
Long Beach Police Department
212 Pacific Avenue South
Long Beach, WA 98631
360-642-2911
Official city directory
Long Beach Police Request Fields
The inspected first page of the Long Beach form shows what staff use to route a request. It asks for a description with titles and dates, then lets the requester choose inspection, copies after fees, or inspection followed by selected copies. It also contains a commercial-purpose certification for lists of individuals. Contact blanks cover date, name, mailing address, city, state, and ZIP. Email is explicitly optional.
| Records Description | Describe the record and add titles or dates that help staff locate it |
|---|---|
| Access Choice | Inspect free, copy after a fee, or inspect and then select copies |
| Certification | Certify that a requested list of individuals will not be used for a commercial purpose |
| Contact Details | Date, name, address, city, state, and ZIP appear as requester blanks |
| The form labels email as optional for contact or delivery |
The form refers to a fee schedule on a later page, but the research did not verify exact live copy fees. Confirm them before ordering copies. No visible first-page requirement established an ID or notary rule, so none should be assumed.
Long Beach Arrests and Bookings
Long Beach has no jail at its police facility. The official city plan says prisoners are transported to Pacific County Jail in South Bend. That produces two separate local records: LBPD keeps the report, and county Jail Services creates the booking and custody entry. The two offices may use the same event date but record different facts.
Check the Pacific County Jail roster for current custody and its booking views for recent intake. Then use the court named on the booking or citation. An initial jail charge can change after prosecutor review. A released person may also leave the live roster, while the police report and court file remain with their custodians. The full Pacific County arrest lookup explains countywide booking channels without turning a Long Beach city report into a county record.
Long Beach Bookings Reach South Bend
The trip from coastal Long Beach to the county jail can mislead a searcher who expects a city booking page. South Bend is the custody location, but it does not become the arresting city. LBPD remains the source for the narrative, evidence references, and officer report. Pacific County Jail Services owns the intake data created after transport.
Follow a current booking by matching the name and custody facts, then move to the named court. Do not treat a roster label as proof of guilt or as a final filed charge. If no entry appears, verify whether the person was cited and released, transferred, released from custody, or booked under a different agency reference. Each possibility points to a different Long Beach criminal record channel.
Municipal Court Records in Long Beach
Long Beach contracts its municipal court work to South Pacific District Court at 7013 Sandridge Road. Payment can be made at court, through the named online payment service, or by phone at 1-877-793-8935. Payment is not a case search. A payment page cannot establish the full docket, filed charge, disposition, or status of another Long Beach case.
| Court Operator | South Pacific District Court handles the Long Beach municipal contract docket |
|---|---|
| Local Address | 7013 Sandridge Road, Long Beach, WA 98631 |
| Case Types | Long Beach municipal matters assigned under the court contract |
| Lookup Route | Washington Courts or re:SearchWA for the index, followed by clerk confirmation |
| Official File | Ask the court for public docket entries, orders, disposition, and available copies |
South Pacific District Court lists weekday counter hours of 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., with a noon-to-1 p.m. closure. Confirm those hours before a visit. Its researched fee schedule applies to that court only and should not be carried over to LBPD or another Pacific County clerk.
Long Beach Court Search Limits
A person looking for Long Beach criminal court records should use the Washington Courts Case Search or the official limited-jurisdiction route at re:SearchWA. The state index can identify the court and cause number. It is not the complete court file, and state guidance warns that an index alone does not establish the case outcome.
Once the right Long Beach docket appears, confirm current information with the clerk. Court data generally update after staff enter it, so a very recent event may not appear at once. Copies, signed orders, and the full register of actions come from the court of record. City Hall's public-record form is for city agency material and cannot fulfill judicial records governed by court rules.
Where Long Beach Records Go
LBPD begins the local record chain with an incident or arrest report. A custodial arrest adds a Pacific County jail entry in South Bend. Prosecutor review may change the charge before it reaches the responsible court. The contract municipal docket, a district case, or a Superior Court felony file then records hearings and disposition. Qualifying reports flow to the Washington State Patrol repository.
Record flow: Long Beach PD › Pacific County Courts › Washington State Patrol
Each stop answers a different question. The city report explains the police event. The jail file shows custody. The court records what was filed and decided. WATCH returns the public statewide product allowed by dissemination law. A Long Beach name search is not positive identification, and a missing entry at one stage does not prove that no record exists at another.
Long Beach Police Activity Records
An official September 2025 LBPD report lists 757 incidents in Long Beach and 195 in Ilwaco. Long Beach categories included four assaults, one burglary, 27 disturbances, six thefts, six crashes, 37 tickets, 366 warnings, ten trespasses, four warrant contacts, 13 welfare checks, and 109 security checks. The report also counted follow-ups, lost or found property, harassment, missing persons, and suspicious calls.
Those totals are agency activity, not a crime rate and not a list of arrests. A warning, security check, welfare check, or follow-up may create an entry without creating a criminal charge. For a standardized agency and year comparison, use official Washington Association of Sheriffs and Police Chiefs crime reports. For one event, request the LBPD report. Mixing an activity count with a personal Long Beach criminal record would overstate what the source proves.
Note: Police activity totals count calls and work categories that are broader than arrests, filed crimes, or convictions.
Long Beach Police Report Library
The Long Beach document library provides text search plus department and category filters. Departments include Police, Municipal Court, Administration, Finance, Fire, and several public works units. Categories include reports, forms, minutes, packets, plans, budgets, and audits. Selecting Police and Reports can help locate monthly public activity material.
The library is not a person-record database. It is best for published reports, forms, and administrative context. A search for a person's name may miss an incident file that was never published there. Use the citywide request form for an identifiable police record. Use the contract court for judicial papers. That separation lets the library support a Long Beach records search without promising access it does not provide.
Public Access Rules in Long Beach
The Washington Public Records Act applies to Long Beach agency records, subject to lawful exemptions. Police material may require redaction for active investigations, juvenile information, victim or witness details, medical content, and protected identifiers. Judicial records follow General Rule 31 through the court, not the city request form. The city can release the nonexempt portion while withholding or masking protected facts.
State criminal-history law also limits dissemination of most nonconviction data. That makes a public WATCH result narrower than an LBPD or court file. Sealed records may not appear through ordinary public access. Verify a Long Beach police report with the city, a booking with Pacific County Jail Services, and a case result with the named clerk.
Key Statutes:
Washington Public Records Act governs requests for Long Beach city agency records and preserves exemptions.
RCW 10.97.050 governs public criminal-history dissemination and limits nonconviction information.
General Rule 31 routes judicial-record access through the court that maintains the file.
Long Beach Public Record Context
Long Beach's official plan traces Chinook and Lower Chehalis roots, Robert Gray's 1792 Columbia entry, Lewis and Clark in 1805, oyster, cranberry, and timber settlement in the 1850s, and later resort growth. Tinker's resort opened in 1880, and Tinkerville incorporated in 1922. That long civic record explains why historical study may begin with plans, minutes, reports, and archives rather than a modern police search.
City Hall itself dates to 1914, was moved in 1922, and was donated to Long Beach in 1947 with a no-dancing and no-card-playing condition. Those details belong to civic history, not criminal history. They illustrate a useful boundary: an archive answers how Long Beach developed, while police, jail, and court custodians answer what happened in a specific justice record. Use each source only for the claim it can support.