There are tons of websites that you could go to online that claim to be able to give you detailed information about searching criminal records. Actually knowing which ones work is a big plus and will save you lots of time and headache.
The only proven way, How to access public records for free online would be to actually find your county governments website, then if that county actually lets you gain access to those records you could then search for all of the people that live in that county (not all states and counties will do this).
There are many websites that claim to let you search public records for free but in reality all they do (if they work at all) is simply give you incomplete information and to top it off many of these websites are simply NOT free and they also will slow your computer down with spyware and some even contain computer viruses.
Do not let yourself get tricked by these free scammers!
If you cannot go through your states website then more than likely you will have search public records and purchase the results. The good news is that the cost of an actual public record is minimal, and if most people knew how inexpensive public records actually were then the “free” scammers would not trick as many people as they do!
Many people have been tricked though, hopefully this information will leave you better prepared than the many others that have already made the mistake of trying one of those “free” record search, online scams.