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For personal research only — not for employment, credit, tenant screening, or any FCRA-regulated purpose. We store nothing.

16
Data sources
7
Live APIs
5
Categories
$0
Cost to you
What we search

16 databases. Five categories. One search.

Every category below is searched in parallel, with results grouped and cited back to the source.

Courts & Legal
2 sources
Court opinions, dockets, and the federal case index.
CourtListenerPACER Case Locator
Corporate & Financial
4 sources
Company filings, officers, federal spending, and political donations.
SEC EDGAROpenCorporatesOpenFEC DonationsUSAspending.gov
Federal & Enforcement
3 sources
Wanted persons, inmates, sanctions and global watchlists.
FBI Most WantedFederal Inmate LocatorOpenSanctions
Professional & Licenses
3 sources
Healthcare providers, pilots, and patent inventors.
NPI RegistryFAA AirmenUSPTO Patents
Public Records & Identity
4 sources
Voter records, nonprofits, notable-person profiles, and registries.
Voter RecordsWikidataNonprofit ExplorerSex Offender Registry
How it works

From a name to cited records in seconds

1

Enter who you're looking for

Search by person, phone, address, or business. The more you know (city, state), the sharper the results.

2

We query every source at once

Court records, SEC filings, political donations, federal registries and more — searched in parallel, live.

3

Review results, cited to the source

Findings are grouped by category. Every result links straight to the official record so you can verify it.

Why Open Record Scout

Everything they charge for. None of the cost.

Feature
Open Record Scout
BeenVerified
Monthly price
$0
~$22/mo
Account required
No
Yes
Cites the original source
Always
Rarely
Stores your searches
Never
Yes
Government & nonprofit sources
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Aggregated
Built to be trusted

Private by design, honest by default

We store nothing

No accounts, no logs, no search history. Your queries run in your browser and are never saved or sold.

Every result is cited

We never present data as our own. Each finding links directly to the government or nonprofit record it came from.

Not a background check

Open Record Scout is for personal research only — never for FCRA-regulated decisions. We make that boundary explicit.

Questions

Frequently asked

Is Open Record Scout really free?

Yes. Open Record Scout queries free public government and nonprofit databases directly. There's no account, no paywall, and no trial.

Where does the data come from?

Official sources only — CourtListener, SEC EDGAR, the FBI, ProPublica, the FEC, USAspending, the NPI Registry and more. Every result links back to its origin so you can verify it.

Can I use this for a background check?

No. Open Record Scout is not a Consumer Reporting Agency and may not be used for employment, credit, insurance, or tenant-screening decisions, or any other FCRA-regulated purpose.

Do you store my searches?

No. Searches run in your browser against public APIs. Nothing is logged, saved, or sold.

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