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Riverside County is located on the southeast side of California, and it borders Arizona. Current population for the county is in excess of 2 million persons. The city of Riverside is the county seat, and well known resorts such as La Quinta, Palm Desert and Palm Springs stand within the county. The County of Riverside houses a widespread court system to govern disputes and lawsuits from Blythe, Temecula, Murrieta, Indo to Palm Springs and Riverside. Follow the steps below to search civil, small claims, family law, probate, criminal and traffic court records of Riverside County, California free online.

Riverside County, California provides online access to its court docket system and court records at http://public-access.riverside.courts.ca.gov/OpenAccess/

First click on the tab labeled civil, small claims, family, probate, or click on the tab labeled criminal and traffic.

Then, from the drop-down menu, select the court of Riverside County, California that you wish to search, from countywide to individual courts, such as Indo or Riverside.

Enter “GUEST” as the code to access the court records. You can then search by case number, a party name search, or a Riverside County, California court calendar search.

Once you access the records, it will provide the case number, category of dispute, such as breach of contract, and the date filed.

Click on the case number to view the history of the case. It will show the full docket history of hearings, court rulings and indicate whether the lawsuit is still pending or closed.

For criminal matters in Riverside County, California, you will simply conduct a case number search, party name search or calendar search.

On criminal matters, the docket history will show the violation date, penal code section violated, and the case status, such as whether the case is pending, whether the case was dismissed or whether the defendant was convicted.