Civilian

Judicial & Legal

Everything the courts and the police have on this character, as the paperwork they actually issued: arrest reports, citations, written warnings, investigations and warrants.

The summary

Four figures across the top:

The totals count multiplicities. Three counts of the same offence is one line on the paperwork with a fine and a sentence per count, and these tiles multiply that out — so the number here is what you actually owe, not the number of lines.

Your records

Under Records sit the papers themselves — real renders of the documents, stacked by the month they were issued. Click one to read it in full.

The filters narrow the stack by kind of document — ALL first, then one tab per report type your community uses, and WARRANTS last. Each carries a count, so a tab with nothing behind it is visible rather than missing.

Only published reports appear here. An officer writing a report keeps it as a draft until they file it; drafts stay inside the department, and you never see one. A record showing up in your file means it has been filed for real.

Why a particular paper is in your file

Two things have to be true before a document reaches this page.

You have to be named in it, in a role that type shares. Everyone on a report is listed with a role — the suspect, a victim, a witness, someone else involved — and your community's admins decide, per kind of report, which of those roles gets to read it. Out of the box that is only the suspect: an arrest report, a citation or a warning reaches the person it was written against and nobody else named on it.

So not every paper with your name on it lands here, and that is deliberate:

• An open investigation reaches nobody, not even the person it is about. A case still being worked does not tell the people in it that it exists.
• A trespass notice or a protection order reaches both sides — the person it restricts and the person it protects — because a standing order is no use if only one of them can show it.

Your community can widen this. If your admins have decided that witnesses to a trespass notice should be able to produce it, you will see one here even though you are not its subject. Nothing about it says you are accused of anything; the role you are listed under is what it is.

It never works backwards. A document arriving in your file does not mean anyone told police to put it there, and a document not arriving does not mean it does not exist. If you think something should be on your record and is not, that is a question for your community's staff, not a fault on this page.

Being asked about something is not the same as being on file for it: police questions to the public live under Inquiries, are answered anonymously, and never touch this page.

An empty stack reads "This character has a clean judicial record."

Removing a record

Whether you can delete a record an officer filed is up to your community. When they allow it, a delete button appears on the paper; when they keep records once filed, there is no button. What you filed yourself, such as a backstory record, you can always remove.

Warrants

Active Warrants lists what is outstanding. A warrant past its expiry date drops off by itself — expiry is worked out from the date, not set by anyone. With nothing outstanding the section is not shown at all; the count in the summary tile already says so.

You can also add a warrant on your own character, with Add warrant — next to the Records heading when nothing is outstanding, or in the Active Warrants heading when something is. That is not a mistake in the permissions: it exists so a court order your community plays out can be put on the record without an officer having to type it. The form asks for:

• Warrant Type — Arrest, Search or Bench.
• Issued and, optionally, Expires.
• Charges — searched from the penal code, each with a count.
• Reason — the grounds. Required.

Use it for what your community has actually decided in character. A warrant you put on yourself reads exactly like one a judge issued, and the officers who act on it cannot tell the difference.

Warrants that police and courts issue against you appear here the same way. Whether you can remove one of those depends on your community, as with records above. A warrant you added yourself you can always remove.

A lawyer

Legal representation is arranged on this page. When a lawyer is on duty, a slim banner at the top says so; click it to see who is on duty and Grant one of them access to your legal file. The access stays until you Revoke it — also while that lawyer is off duty, although they can only read your file while on duty — so once you have given anyone access, the banner stays to let you manage it. With nobody on duty and nobody given access, there is no banner.

Worth doing before you need it. A lawyer who cannot see your file is a lawyer reading it out to them over the phone.

Your lawyer sees more than you do, on purpose. Reports an officer has not published yet appear in their copy of your file, marked Draft. You do not see those here — an unfinished report is not a record yet — but a lawyer preparing a case has a reason to know one is being written. The badge is there so they can tell the two apart: a draft can still change.