How to Find Alaska Court Records (2026)

In person. Alaska has no separate district-clerk and county-clerk offices — every courthouse has one clerk's office that keeps both Superior and District Court files for that location. Bring the case number if you have it, or the party names and an approximate year, and ask at the clerk's window. Most locations are open Monday–Friday, 8:00 a.m.–4:30 p.m., though many clerk's offices close for an hour one morning a week for internal processing — call ahead.

By mail. The Alaska Court System uses a standard records-request form (Form TF-311, "Instructions and Request for Records") available on the court system's website. Send it to the clerk's office for the courthouse that heard the case with:

• the case number, or the full names of the parties and the year filed;
• which documents you need;
• whether you need plain or certified copies; and
• payment by check or money order.

Online. CourtView shows the docket and case status for most non-confidential cases at no charge. Document images are more limited; a written or in-person request to the clerk is usually required to get copies of filed documents themselves.

Fees. Under the statewide fee schedule set by Administrative Rule 9, a plain copy is $5 for the first page and $3 for each additional page, and a certified copy is $10 for the first page and $3 for each additional page. These are set statewide, so they are the same at every courthouse in Alaska.

Alaska does not have a general expungement statute that erases a conviction from every record. Instead, it uses two narrower tools:

• Setting aside a conviction (AS 12.55.085). A court can suspend imposition of sentence and, if the person completes probation without violating it, "set aside" the conviction and issue a certificate to that effect. This removes some of the conviction's legal effects, but it does not seal or destroy the underlying criminal justice record, and it is not available for every offense.
• Sealing criminal justice information (AS 12.62.180). A person can ask the agency that holds a record — typically the Department of Public Safety — to seal information about an arrest, charge, or conviction, most commonly where it resulted from mistaken identity or a false accusation, or under other conditions set out in the statute. Sealed information is treated as confidential and generally is not disclosed outside specific listed exceptions (criminal-justice employment, research, court order, and similar uses), and the subject may lawfully deny its existence.
• Confidential case types. Juvenile delinquency, adoption, and mental- or alcohol-commitment cases are confidential by law and never appear on CourtView.
• Ineligible offenses. Serious violent felonies such as murder, sexual assault, and kidnapping cannot be sealed or set aside; those records remain public.

A set-aside or sealing order is entered by the court or agency that holds the record — there is no separate statewide court for these petitions. Confirm current eligibility and procedure with an attorney or the clerk's office, since these are narrow remedies, not a general "clean slate" law.