Court records automation
Automate court records search across thousands of county, state, and federal portals. Komos logs in, runs each search, captures the page, parses the results, and returns structured data for your case file. Your researchers focus on adjudication, not portal navigation.
A researcher logging into 12 county sites per case
The United States has thousands of separate court record systems. Federal courts use PACER. State systems vary by jurisdiction. County clerks each operate their own portal, with their own search form, their own quirks, their own outage windows.
Researchers at consumer reporting agencies and legal due diligence teams open each portal one at a time. They type the subject's name, run the search, copy the results, take a screenshot for the audit trail, and move to the next jurisdiction. A single thorough background check can mean logging into eight to twelve different sites.
Multiplied across the daily case load, this is where most of the time goes. It is also where the most errors creep in: missed jurisdictions, wrong-name matches, screenshots that never made it to the file, portals that returned nothing because they were temporarily down.
What Komos does on every search
Built around the portals you already access today, not a new aggregator service.
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Pull subject identifiers
Komos pulls the subject's name, date of birth, prior aliases, and any known addresses from your case management or order intake system.
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Pick the right jurisdictions
Komos identifies which county, state, and federal court systems to search based on the subject's address history and your scope rules.
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Run the search on each portal
Komos navigates the actual court portal for each jurisdiction. PACER for federal. State e-filing systems. Hundreds of county clerk sites with their own search forms and quirks.
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Capture results and source pages
Records found, records not found, and the screenshot of the search page itself. The audit trail proves what was searched, where, and what the portal returned at that moment.
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Parse hits into structured data
Case number, case type, filing date, charges, disposition, sentence. Pulled from the result page into clean structured fields, ready for adjudication.
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Hand off exceptions to your researcher
Ambiguous matches, common-name conflicts, sealed records, and portal failures route to your team. The 90% that comes back clean clears without intervention.
CRAs and legal due diligence teams
Consumer Reporting Agencies (CRAs)
Background screening companies running thousands of court searches per day. Komos automates the portal work so researchers focus on adjudication, not data entry.
Background screening overview →Public records & verification teams
Screening operations running multi-jurisdiction record searches across county, state, and federal portals.
Background screening overview →Court records automation with Komos
Does Komos replace data aggregators?
No. Aggregators package indexed records from many jurisdictions into one query. Komos runs the actual portal search at the source so you get results from authoritative systems with full audit trails. Many teams use both.
How does Komos handle CAPTCHAs and login walls?
Komos uses your existing credentials and your existing access agreements with each court system. CAPTCHAs route to your team for resolution. The agent does not circumvent access controls.
What does the audit trail look like?
For every search: the subject identifiers used, the jurisdiction searched, the search form values, the screenshot of the result page, the timestamp, and the parsed structured fields. Replayable end to end on demand.
How does Komos handle common-name conflicts and weak matches?
Weak matches and common-name conflicts route to your researchers for adjudication, not to an automated decision. The platform is the data-collection layer; your team owns the call.
Does this fit FCRA-aware operations?
Yes. The audit trail and adjudication hand-off are specifically designed for FCRA-aware ops. When a record disqualifies a candidate, the workflow continues into FCRA adverse action automation.
Court records search at scale, with the audit trail to back it
See Komos run a multi-jurisdiction search on the actual portals you use today.