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Bucks County Clerk of Courts Office

The Bucks County Clerk of Courts maintains criminal records and supports criminal court processing for the Court of Common Pleas. The office names Eileen Hartnett Albillar, MSW as Clerk of Courts and states that the criminal division is custodian of criminal court records and juvenile delinquency/dependency court records. This is the secondary clerk page in Bucks County's split-clerk structure. Civil, divorce, custody, PFA, liens, judgments, and other civil-family filings belong to the Prothonotary.

The Clerk of Courts office is located at the Bucks County Justice Center. It assesses, collects, and disburses criminal restitution, court costs, fines, and fees. Its work continues after a case is docketed because sentencing and payment obligations can remain active long after the plea, trial, or disposition. The office also supports forms, fee schedules, criminal copies, payment programs, and contact channels for people trying to resolve outstanding balances.

The county source is shown in the image from the Bucks County Clerk of Courts page.

That office page is the main county source for criminal-record custody, forms, fee links, and payment-program information.

Bucks County Criminal Clerk Duties

The Clerk of Courts handles the criminal side of Common Pleas recordkeeping. Its responsibilities include maintaining criminal dockets, supporting court record transfer through statewide systems, managing juvenile delinquency and dependency custody records subject to access limits, and accounting for money imposed in criminal cases. A person looking for charges, pleas, sentence, costs, restitution, or payment status should distinguish the criminal docket from the civil case file kept by the Prothonotary.

The office is also the right local contact when a public UJS docket does not answer a criminal record question. UJS may show the docket sheet, but the Clerk of Courts can address certified copies, criminal financial ledgers, payment-plan status, restitution disbursement, and office-held criminal records. If the case began in a Magisterial District Court, the UJS docket and CPCMS transfer can help connect the preliminary stage to the Common Pleas docket.

• Criminal Court of Common Pleas case records and docket matters.
• Juvenile delinquency and dependency court records, with public access restrictions.
• Restitution, court costs, criminal fines, fees, and disbursements.
• CPCMS record transfer among Magisterial District Courts, Common Pleas, and Pennsylvania State Police.
• Payment plans, resets, and delinquent cost collection through the DRiP program.

Bucks County CPCMS Records

Bucks County uses CPCMS, the Common Pleas Case Management System. The county explains that CPCMS transfers information among Magisterial District Courts, the Court of Common Pleas, and Pennsylvania State Police, and that all Pennsylvania counties use CPCMS. Public users usually encounter the public side of these records through Pennsylvania UJS Case Search, which provides criminal docket sheets, Magisterial District Court cases, citation searches, docket number searches, OTN searches, participant searches, and related search types.

Criminal docket sheets can show charges, offense dates, arresting agency, bail, docket entries, hearing events, disposition, sentence, and financial assessments. They do not replace restricted juvenile files or internal Clerk of Courts accounting records.

Bucks County Fines and Restitution

The Clerk of Courts assesses, collects, and disburses restitution, court costs, fines, and fees. Bucks County reports that in 2025 the Clerk disbursed $2,799,703.59 in restitution to crime victims, $1,606,446.54 to the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue, and $5,507,368.16 to Bucks County. Those figures show why criminal records questions often include a payment component, especially after sentencing.

Bucks County DRiP Payment Plans

The Delinquency Recovery Program, known as DRiP, started in 2020 to help collect unpaid court costs, fines, fees, and restitution. The county's research notes that the program passed $3 million in recovered outstanding court-related debt as of March 10, 2026. People who need to set up or reset a payment plan can use the dedicated DRiP and payment-plan phone line at 215-340-8037.

1. Locate the criminal docket number or identifying case information before calling.
2. Call 215-340-8037 to ask about a new payment plan or reset.
3. Confirm whether the balance includes restitution, costs, fines, or fees.
4. Ask how payments affect any delinquency status or court compliance issue.
5. Keep written confirmation of payment-plan terms and any updated balance.

Bucks County Juvenile Court Records

The Clerk of Courts page states that the criminal division is custodian of juvenile delinquency/dependency court records. That does not make juvenile records ordinary public records. Access is restricted by law and court policy, and public docket tools should not be expected to display juvenile case details the same way they display adult criminal dockets. Parties, attorneys, and authorized persons may need to work directly with the office or the court.

Dependency and delinquency are also different case types. Delinquency involves allegations against a juvenile that would be criminal if committed by an adult. Dependency relates to a child's care, custody, or protection. Both can contain sensitive child, family, victim, medical, and service information. If a user has a case role, the safest path is to call the Clerk of Courts and ask what proof of identity, case role, or court order is required.

Request Bucks County Criminal Copies

For public criminal docket sheets, start with UJS Case Search. For certified copies, fee questions, financial ledgers, juvenile custody records, or documents not available online, use the Clerk of Courts. Bench warrant certifications appear in the captured 2024 fee schedule at $23, but the research flags that the 2026 fee bill should be verified before publishing that as a current fee. Use the current Clerk of Courts fee schedule for any paid criminal record service.

Bucks County Criminal Record Help

Criminal record access sometimes overlaps with expungement, pardons, or limited access. Bucks County's Public Defender page includes an Expungement/Pardons section and an application process, but representation requires eligibility screening. The office is not the Clerk of Courts and does not act as the record custodian. It can still be relevant when a person is reviewing a public docket, checking eligibility, or preparing to seek relief from public access.

The local defense-resource source is shown in the image from the Bucks County Public Defender page.

For official criminal record copies and balances, the Clerk of Courts remains the custodian. For legal help with eligibility or relief, the Public Defender screening path may be relevant.

Expungement and limited-access questions should not be treated as ordinary copy requests. The requester needs the docket number, disposition, and the specific type of relief being considered under Pennsylvania law. After an order is granted or automatic limited access applies, public search results may change, but authorized law-enforcement, licensing, or court access can still exist under statutory exceptions.

For warrant-related criminal records, use the docket and the correct warrant office together. A docket may show bench-warrant activity, but the Sheriff's Criminal Warrants Division, Domestic Relations Warrant Unit, MDJ court, or Clerk of Courts may control different pieces of the status. Ask which office issued or recalled the warrant before using a docket entry as proof that the matter is resolved.