NO FCRA USE. This privately operated website is not affiliated with a local, state, or federal government agency and is not a consumer reporting agency. Neither the site nor its advertising partners offers a service for credit, employment, insurance, tenant-screening, or another purpose governed by the Fair Credit Reporting Act. Its purpose is to route readers to criminal-record resources in Montgomery County, Iowa.
1. What This Website Is
Montgomery County Criminal History is an independent reference site. It does not store official court, sheriff, jail, DCI, corrections, or registry records. It cannot retrieve a file, perform an official background check, or submit forms for a visitor.
The site identifies offices and systems that hold Montgomery County records, including the sheriff, Iowa District Court, the Iowa Department of Public Safety, Division of Criminal Investigation, and the Iowa Sex Offender Registry. It may also connect visitors with outside search providers.
2. Rules for Using This Site
Every visitor agrees not to:
- Use the site in violation of federal, Iowa, or local law
- Stalk, threaten, harass, or harm another person with information found here
- Use site content for a decision governed by the FCRA
- Attempt unauthorized access to the site or its systems
- Run bots, scrapers, or other automated collection tools against these pages
- Interfere with site operation or another visitor's access
3. No Harassment, Stalking, or Discrimination
Information from this site or a linked tool may not be used to intimidate, stalk, threaten, harass, discriminate against, or harm anyone. Registry information is published for lawful public-safety awareness, not confrontation or vigilantism. The Iowa registry agreement warns that vandalism, threats, assault, and other acts against registrants, relatives, or employers can lead to arrest and prosecution under the law that governs the conduct. Chapter 692A does not create one general registry-misuse offense.
4. We Are Not a Consumer Reporting Agency
This site is not a consumer reporting agency under the FCRA and does not create consumer reports, credit reports, or screening products. Visitors may not use this site or a linked tool to:
- Make a hiring or employment decision
- Evaluate a rental or housing application
- Set insurance eligibility, coverage, or pricing
- Judge creditworthiness or make a lending decision
- Make any other decision regulated by the FCRA
A legally compliant report for a regulated purpose must come through an appropriate official or FCRA-compliant provider, not from this reference site.
5. No Legal Advice
Site content is general information, not legal advice. It cannot determine how an Iowa charge, warrant, sentence, or expungement law applies to one person. A licensed Iowa attorney should address case-specific legal questions.
6. No Warranties
The site and its content are provided "as is." There is no warranty that:
- Every fact, fee, address, procedure, or link is current and complete
- The site will operate without interruption
- The pages will be free from defects or security risks
- An outside search provider will return accurate or complete matches
Criminal records can be filed, corrected, sealed, restricted, or expunged after information is published. Verify any material fact with the Montgomery County or Iowa office that maintains the original record.
7. Third-Party Services and Links
Links may lead to government portals, courts, legal resources, advertisers, or outside search services. Those sites control their own terms, prices, availability, content, and data handling. Montgomery County Criminal History does not assume responsibility for an external service merely because a link appears here.
8. Intellectual Property
Unless otherwise identified, site text, graphics, logos, and code belong to Montgomery County Criminal History or its content partners. They may not be copied, changed, redistributed, or used to create another work without prior written permission.
9. Limits on Our Liability
To the fullest extent permitted by law, the site and its operators are not liable for loss or damage arising from use of these pages, reliance on their content, or use of a linked service.
10. Indemnification
A visitor agrees to defend and hold the site and its operators harmless from claims, demands, actions, costs, and legal fees caused by that visitor's misuse of the site or violation of these terms.
11. Governing Law
Iowa law governs these terms. A dispute connected to site use must be brought in a court with proper jurisdiction in the State of Iowa.
12. Changes to These Terms
These terms may be revised. A new version takes effect when it is posted on this page.
13. Cutting Off Access
The site may suspend, limit, or block access at any time and without advance notice.
14. Severability
If a court finds one provision invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions continue in effect. The affected provision will be limited only as much as needed to make it enforceable.
15. Questions
Questions about these terms may be directed through the Contact page.