Minnesota official directory

MCRO is one statewide district-court system. The terms, revised April 2026, say the information is not the official court record and is not certified. Name, case number, citation number, and attorney tabs were visible after accepting the terms. Person search requires last name and first name, with an optional middle name, Sounds Like, and additional options for date of birth, date filed, case category, case status, and court location. Court location defaults to statewide, with a control to select specific county court locations. County names were not enumerated. Criminal, civil, family, and probate or mental health categories were checked. Pending criminal, traffic, and petty misdemeanor cases with no conviction do not return in name or hearing results; the terms say they return by case number. The searcher is not notified when public data is withheld for the listed reasons. No name or case number was submitted.

• Not the official certified record
• Domestic abuse and harassment restraining order case types are not on MCRO
• Child protection and juvenile delinquency felony 16 case types are not on MCRO
• Public documents in civil commitment cases are not on MCRO

Checked 2026-10-01

The locator page states its population in that sentence. It also says newly sentenced people may take several business days to appear. Search methods shown are name and a six-digit MNDOC offender ID. Name help says results include names that begin with the letters entered and names associated with the person's convictions. The page does not say whether county jails are included, so county jail is unresolved. Search was not run. Minnesota Haven is named for custody notifications for people sentenced to the Department of Corrections. A separate county-jail notification service was not opened.

• Not established as a county-jail roster
• Discharged people are outside the still-under-jurisdiction wording
• Not a criminal-history check

Checked 2026-10-01

The August 2025 handbook is for friends and families of people in Minnesota state correctional facilities. It says contact can be by telephone, mail, JPay, or approved visits, and that each has rules. It gives the central office at 1450 Energy Park Drive, Suite 200, St. Paul, 651-361-7200, and points facility contacts to the handbook's facility section and to https://mn.gov/doc/contact/doc-directory/. Visiting schedules were not copied. A direct request for https://mn.gov/doc/facilities/ returned HTTP 403 and was not repeated. The handbook links a county-jail pamphlet for the first days of incarceration. That pamphlet was not opened, so county-jail rules are not taken from this handbook. The handbook says an offender ID is needed and points to a search page that was not opened in this pass.

• Not county-jail visiting or deposit rules
• Visiting hours were not copied
• JPay steps and fees were not opened
• Not a person locator

Checked 2026-10-01

The Office of the Revisor of Statutes publishes Rule 6. Rule 6.02 says release on recognizance or an unsecured bond is the starting point unless the court makes that determination, and then the court must impose the first listed condition that will reasonably assure appearance, or a combination. Those conditions include supervision, limits on travel or residence, an appearance bond or cash deposit or other security, or other conditions necessary to assure appearance. The court must also set money bail without other conditions. The rule does not state a dollar amount. An amendment note, Amended effective October 1, 2016, sits immediately after Rule 6.02, subdivision 4. Rule 6.01 citation release has its own amendment notes for January 1, 2012 and July 1, 2015. The rule says it does not cover appeal of the release decision or release after conviction.

• No statewide dollar schedule was on this page
• Does not decide a person's release
• Release after conviction is a different rule
• Local bail schedules were not collected

Checked 2026-10-01

The access page says MCRO provides online access to many public district-court records and that courthouse terminals provide the most complete electronic access. It says the Supreme Court and Court of Appeals offer opinions and case records through the public view of P-MACS. The P-MACS application URL was not successfully opened: a direct fetch returned a script challenge rather than the welcome text. Appellate search fields are therefore unresolved. Local court administration remains the fallback for certified copies.

• Not a substitute for the MCRO form that was observed
• P-MACS fields were not observed
• Not a jail locator

Checked 2026-10-01

DOJ index of state courts, laws and agencies. Individual linked statutes and legal rules were not substantively reviewed here; check the current primary text before explaining a rule.

• Batch 50 research did not grant independent approval or Production publication.
• A readable guide is not a verified search transaction.
• Official legal-reference entry point only. Not legal advice and not a certification of current law.
• Individual statutes and rules linked from this page were not substantively verified here.

Checked 2026-10-28