Checking Criminal History in Daytona Beach
No single Daytona Beach search contains the police narrative, custody record, prosecution, and statewide repository history. Select the custodian by asking who created the record and what the result must prove. A same-name result is only a lead, so use report, booking, and case numbers whenever possible.
- Ask DBPD Records for the offense, arrest, crash, or miscellaneous-incident report.
- Submit a Daytona JustFOIA request for large files, photos, audio, video, personnel material, or crime grids.
- Check Volusia County Corrections for a recent Daytona Beach booking or current custody.
- Search Clerk Criminal Events Management for filed charges, docket events, and dispositions.
- Use FDLE CCHInet for publicly releasable statewide history, or Personal Review for your own fingerprint-matched record.
A DBPD report explains the agency event. A booking record reflects intake and the arresting officer's initial charges. The State Attorney can file different or fewer charges, and the Clerk file provides the judicial outcome. The statewide FDLE view is broader but does not replace a certified local judgment or the original report.
Requesting Daytona Beach Records Through JustFOIA
Daytona Beach uses a dedicated JustFOIA portal for public-record requests. DBPD asks requesters to supply the case number, date, location, and incident type when known. Those four details allow staff to find the right Daytona Beach event and distinguish it from another matter with a similar name or address.
Use the Daytona Beach JustFOIA portal for large volumes, photographs, audio or video, internal-affairs and personnel records, and crime-grid requests. Describe the existing records rather than asking staff to create an explanation. Delivery time depends on scope, review, exemptions, and necessary redactions.
The official Daytona Beach public-record request page is the source for the image below.
The city request page points Daytona Beach readers to the formal channel used when a simple Records Unit inquiry is not enough.
Daytona Beach Police Department Records
DBPD headquarters is at 129 Valor Boulevard, Daytona Beach, FL 32114. The Records Unit is open Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Its direct number is 386-671-5430; the department main number is 386-671-5100 and nonemergency service is 386-248-1777.
The unit maintains offense reports, supplemental reports, vehicular and marine accident reports, arrest reports, miscellaneous-incident reports, and tow slips. Each item remains an agency product. It does not become a complete court case merely because an arrest report names a charge, and it does not include every record held elsewhere in Florida.
The official Daytona Beach Police Department page supplied this view.
The headquarters image grounds the city channel at Valor Boulevard, where DBPD maintains its own local police records rather than sending them to VSO Records.
What Daytona Beach Police Records Include
An offense report records the agency's account of a reported event. Supplemental reports add later investigative material. An arrest report documents the officer's basis and stated charges, while an accident report serves a different traffic or marine function. Tow slips and miscellaneous-incident reports are distinct DBPD record types as well.
- Incident number
- The DBPD identifier that best narrows a city report request.
- Supplement
- A later addition to the original report, not a separate court disposition.
- Arrest charge
- The allegation recorded by the arresting officer before the prosecutor's filing decision.
- Disposition
- The court outcome found through the Clerk, such as dismissal, acquittal, withheld adjudication, or conviction.
Requesters should identify the report type instead of asking broadly for a person's complete history. A narrow request is easier to process and less likely to collect unrelated same-name material.
Daytona Beach Arrests and Bookings
A custodial arrest by DBPD does not remain in a Daytona Beach jail database. The person enters Volusia County Corrections, which creates a booking number, intake date and time, identifying descriptors, initial charges, bond entries, housing status, and later release information. Corrections, not DBPD, owns the booking record.
Recent jail information can appear before a Clerk case exists. Criminal charge information is available from Corrections at 386-254-1540 at all hours when the custody system is unclear. Once the State Attorney files, use the Clerk case to determine whether an arrest charge was changed, reduced, declined, dismissed, or resolved by judgment.
DBPD Report, Booking, and Clerk Case
These Daytona Beach records are connected but not interchangeable. The police report contains agency narrative and evidence metadata. The booking entry captures intake and custody. The court docket centers on the prosecution, with filed charges, hearings, motions, pleas, disposition, and sentence.
| Record | Best answer | Key limit |
|---|---|---|
| DBPD report | What officers reported or documented | Not the final court outcome |
| County booking | When intake occurred, initial charges, bond, custody | An arrest is not a conviction |
| Clerk case | What was filed and how each count ended | Does not reproduce the full police narrative |
| FDLE check | Publicly releasable Florida repository history | Name matches can require verification |
Daytona Beach Research and Copy Charges
DBPD publishes fees that depend on the product and work required. A traffic homicide report is $25. Extended-research copies are 15 cents for a single-sided page and 20 cents for a double-sided page. Certified copies cost $1 per page.
Research, redaction, and crime-grid search work is listed at $17.67 per hour plus copies. Media costs the actual production amount plus work beyond the first 30 minutes. These charges make precise dates, locations, incident types, and case numbers especially useful. Ask for an estimate when a Daytona Beach request could involve extensive footage or a broad range of reports.
Municipal Court Records in Daytona Beach
Daytona Beach has no municipal criminal court. Florida Rule 2.265 treats a municipal-court reference as County Court. Misdemeanor and criminal traffic records are handled through Volusia County Court, including the Daytona Beach Justice Center at 125 E. Orange Avenue. Felony matters route to the Seventh Judicial Circuit, with the S. James Foxman Justice Center serving east-side felony work.
| Court Name | Volusia County Court and Circuit Court of the Seventh Judicial Circuit |
|---|---|
| Case Types Heard | County Court misdemeanors and criminal traffic; Circuit Court felonies |
| Case Lookup Channel | Clerk Criminal Events Management, free Clerk terminals, or Criminal/Traffic record-search form |
| What the Docket Shows | Case number, division, filed counts, docket events, hearings, status, disposition, judgment, and sentence |
| Copies & Fees | $2 per year per name, $1 per page, and $2 per certified document |
Daytona Beach code enforcement proceedings remain city administrative matters. They should not be presented as municipal criminal cases. The official Municipal Code Enforcement Board page supplied the following image.
The city process image illustrates the distinction: local code adjudication exists, but Florida criminal prosecutions belong in County or Circuit Court.
Why Daytona Beach 911 Audio Goes to VSO
DBPD maintains its own incident and arrest reports, yet VSO handles 911 audio and log requests. A person may therefore need the city for the officer report and the Sheriff's Office for dispatch audio tied to the same Daytona Beach event. Sending both requests to one custodian can delay the missing part.
VSO accepts requests through GovQA, by telephone at 386-736-5962, at its DeLand Records counter, or by mail to P.O. Box 569, DeLand, FL 32721. Audio costs can depend on research and redaction time. State the Daytona Beach date, location, and incident number to help link the two custodians' files.
Where Daytona Beach Records Go
DBPD keeps the original agency report while a custodial arrest moves into county and state systems. Corrections creates the booking. The State Attorney decides whether and what to file. The Clerk maintains the case and later reports dispositions through Florida criminal-justice channels to FDLE.
Record flow: Daytona Beach Police Department › Volusia County Corrections and Courts › Florida Department of Law Enforcement
For a fresh Daytona Beach incident, contact DBPD first. For custody, use Corrections. For the court result, use the Clerk's criminal court case search. A $24 FDLE name check reaches statewide publicly releasable history, while FDLE Personal Review uses fingerprints for a person checking their own record.
Daytona Beach CompStat Is Not a Person Search
DBPD uses CompStat to map crime patterns and hot spots in real time for department decisions. It is not a public criminal-history search and does not establish that a named person committed an offense. A crime-grid request may provide geographic context, but it cannot replace an incident report or court disposition.
Historical statistics also require labels. FDLE's 2020 benchmark used a population of 70,235, reported 2,870 index offenses, and a 30.8 percent clearance figure. Those numbers describe an older reporting year, not current Daytona Beach conditions or an individual's record. Florida's UCR transition further limits casual year-to-year comparisons.
Public Access Rules in Daytona Beach
Florida law gives broad access to existing public records, but exemptions and redactions still apply. A custodian can withhold active investigative material, protected victim or juvenile information, confidential identifiers, sealed or expunged matters, and other material made nonpublic by law. Ask for the legal basis when part of a Daytona Beach record is withheld.
Key Statutes:
Florida Constitution, article I, section 24 creates the public right of inspection and copying subject to exemptions.
Florida Statutes section 119.07 governs access, copies, and authorized service charges.
Florida Statutes section 943.053 controls FDLE criminal-history dissemination.
Florida Rule 2.420 governs court-record access and confidentiality.
A public index is not a certified record. Verify identity, read every count's outcome, and order a certified document when the exact judgment matters. Do not infer guilt from a Daytona Beach arrest, activity entry, or charge that lacks a final disposition.