Home › Terms of Use

Terms of Use

These terms govern every visit, search, and use of Klickitat County Criminal History. Accessing the site means that you accept them. If you disagree with any condition, do not continue using the service.

NO FCRA USE. This privately operated website has no government affiliation. It and its advertising partners do not provide services for credit, employment, tenant, insurance, or other decisions regulated by the Fair Credit Reporting Act. The resource points to criminal-record sources in Klickitat County and Washington. It is neither a private-investigation service nor a consumer reporting agency.

1. What This Website Is

This is a private reference site with no connection to a public agency. It does not store government criminal records, issue official checks, retrieve documents, or submit filings.

Its function is to identify record custodians, including the Klickitat County Sheriff's Office, county courts, Washington State Patrol, and Washington Sex Offender Public Registry, and to offer links to outside research tools.

2. Rules for Using This Site

As a condition of use, you must not:

  • Use the service in violation of local, state, or federal law
  • Harass, stalk, threaten, or intimidate anyone with information found here
  • Use site content for credit, employment, tenant, or insurance decisions
  • Attempt unauthorized entry into any system or account
  • Deploy bots, scrapers, or other automated collection tools
  • Interfere with performance or another visitor's access

3. No Harassment, Stalking, or Discrimination

Information from this site or a linked tool may not be used to stalk, harass, threaten, intimidate, or unlawfully discriminate. Misuse may also be criminal. Washington's public-notification framework in RCW 4.24.550 authorizes sex-offender registry disclosure for public safety, not vigilantism or unlawful action against a listed person or household.

4. We Are Not a Consumer Reporting Agency

We are not a consumer reporting agency under the FCRA and do not create consumer reports, credit reports, or official background checks. Neither the site nor its advertising partners offers a service designed for an FCRA-regulated decision. You may not use information from the site or any linked tool to:

  • Make a creditworthiness or insurance decision
  • Evaluate a job applicant or worker
  • Screen a renter or housing applicant
  • Determine eligibility for a license, permit, or public program
  • Carry out any other use regulated by the FCRA

A lawful regulated check must come from an appropriate official source or an FCRA-compliant consumer reporting agency.

5. No Legal Advice

Site content is general information, not legal advice. Only a licensed Washington attorney can advise how a charge, conviction, warrant, vacation, or sealing rule applies to a specific matter.

6. No Warranties

All content is provided "as is." We make no promise that:

  • Outside search results will be complete or correctly matched
  • The service will remain continuously available
  • Every page will be free from defects or security weaknesses
  • Information will always be current, complete, and accurate

Criminal records change when charges, dispositions, sealing orders, or vacation orders are entered. Gaps and delay are possible. Site content is not an official statement from a Klickitat County court, the sheriff, Washington State Patrol, or any other agency.

7. Third-Party Services and Links

Links may lead to official agencies, court systems, legal resources, or outside search services. Those destinations are independently operated. We do not control their availability, content, fees, privacy practices, or results. Review their own terms before use.

8. Intellectual Property

Text, code, graphics, and logos belong to Klickitat County Criminal History or its content partners. Written permission is required to copy, distribute, adapt, or build upon protected site material.

9. Limits on Our Liability

To the maximum extent allowed by law, we are not liable for loss or damage arising from site use, including reliance on information from this service or a linked provider.

10. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify and hold us harmless from claims or demands caused by your site use or violation of these terms, including related legal costs and fees.

11. Governing Law

Washington law governs these terms. Any dispute arising from site use must be brought in a court located in Washington. Government record access remains governed by laws such as the Washington Public Records Act, chapter 42.56 RCW, and criminal-history dissemination by chapter 10.97 RCW.

12. Changes to These Terms

We may revise these terms. A revised version takes effect when it is posted on this page.

13. Cutting Off Access

We may suspend or terminate access at any time and without advance notice.

14. Severability

If one provision is held invalid or unenforceable, all remaining provisions continue in effect. The affected term will be narrowed only as needed to make it enforceable.

15. Questions

Questions about these terms may be directed through the Contact page.