No Public Active Warrant List for St. Louis City
Start with a fact that surprises many people. The City of St. Louis does not publish a single public list of active warrants. There is no one page where you type a name and see every open warrant. That means a St. Louis City warrant search pulls from several sources at once.
You check the court case portal for warrant docket entries. You check the jail roster if a person has been arrested on a warrant. And you call the bond and warrant lines to confirm an amount. Each source shows a piece of the picture. Together they tell you whether a warrant exists and what it will take to clear it.
Warrants tie back to court cases, so the broader case history sits on the St. Louis City court records page. Arrest and booking detail sits on the arrest records page.
Searching Case.net for St. Louis City Warrants
The main court search tool is Missouri Case.net. It is free and public. A warrant usually appears as a docket entry inside a case, not as a standalone warrant record. So you search the case and read the docket. For city matters, pick the right court and narrow with the municipal filters.
Choose "City of St. Louis - 22nd Judicial Circuit" in the dropdown. For municipal warrants, set Location to "St. Louis City Municipal" and Case Type to "Traffic/Municipal." You can search by case number or by litigant name, and a date of birth helps narrow a common name.
The official Missouri Case.net portal is where these searches run. The fields below show what each search needs.
| Field Label | Type | Required | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Search method | tab/link | Yes | Case Number Search or Litigant Name Search. |
| Search for cases in | dropdown | Yes | City of St. Louis - 22nd Judicial Circuit. |
| Last Name | text | Yes for name search | Exact legal spelling recommended. |
| First Name | text | Yes / optional | Use with date of birth to narrow. |
| Date of Birth | date | Optional | MM/DD/YYYY format. |
| Location | dropdown | Optional | St. Louis City Municipal for municipal warrants. |
| Case Type | dropdown | Optional | Traffic/Municipal for municipal citations. |
| Case Number | text | Required for case-number search | Use the citation or case number if known. |
Note: Case.net is a public service and not a certified record, so confirm any warrant detail with the court or the bond line before acting on it.
What a St. Louis City Warrant Record Shows
A warrant does not stand alone in the public search. It shows up through the case docket and, after an arrest, through the jail roster. The fields you are likely to see come from both sources combined. They give the case, the charge, the bond, and the next date.
- Case number - the court case tied to the warrant.
- Defendant name - the person the warrant names.
- Charge or citation - the offense behind the warrant.
- Court location - municipal division or the 22nd Circuit.
- Warrant docket entry - a line such as failure to appear.
- Bond amount and type - what it takes to secure release.
- Next court date and status - the scheduled hearing and case state.
After an arrest on a warrant, the related charge table appears on the jail roster. The St. Louis City inmate records page covers that roster and its fields in full.
Tap-In Help for St. Louis City Warrants
You do not have to face a warrant alone. The St. Louis Circuit Court runs pretrial services and community programs that help people with open warrants. A weekly tap-in center for warrants started in early 2025, and Court Resource Day connects people with service providers. These local resources are built for people who have a warrant, a pretrial need, or a barrier to clearing a case.
The goal is simple. Help a person walk in, deal with the warrant, and get on a court track instead of waiting for an arrest. Pretrial Services lists release options and connects people to the right help. For low-income residents, free legal aid groups can step in too.
- ArchCity Defenders - municipal court debt, warrants, housing, and civil rights advocacy.
- Legal Services of Eastern Missouri - civil legal aid for low-income residents.
- Circuit Court Pretrial Services - release options and service connections.
- STL Tap-In Center - weekly help for people with warrants.
These groups can help a person sort a warrant before it leads to an arrest, then track the next court date in Case.net.
Municipal Bench Warrants
Most city warrants are bench warrants. A bench warrant is issued by a judge, often when a person misses a court date. In the Municipal Division, these warrants come from failure to appear, failure to pay, unresolved traffic or ordinance matters, and other court-order noncompliance.
The Municipal Court paused bench warrants for a time after a tornado, then resumed issuing them for failure to appear on Monday, August 4, 2025. So missing a city court date can again lead to a warrant. The Municipal Court window is at 1520 Market Street, Suite 1120, and the phone is 314-622-3231.
Because bench warrants tie to specific tickets, traffic and ordinance cases on the St. Louis City traffic court records page often explain why a warrant was issued in the first place.
City vs State Bond and Warrant Calls
Before you do anything else, find out who holds the warrant. City charges and state charges run on different phone lines and different bond windows. Calling the wrong line wastes time. The two numbers below are the starting point for any St. Louis City warrant search by phone.
| Charge Type | Bond / Warrant Line | What to Provide |
|---|---|---|
| City municipal charges | 314-622-3231 | First name, last name, date of birth |
| State criminal charges | 314-641-8214 | First name, last name, date of birth |
| Police custody question | 314-241-8339 | SLMPD Prisoner Processing |
The right line tells you the bond amount and whether a warrant is active. From there, the path to clear it depends on the charge type and how long a person has been in custody.
Posting Bond on a St. Louis City Warrant
Bond is the money or condition that lets a person go while a case moves on. To post bond on a warrant, first sort out whether the charge is city or state, then go to the matching window. The location changes with custody time and case type, so confirm before you travel.
For arrestees in police custody 24 hours or less, bond may be posted around the clock at the first floor of the City Justice Center, 200 S. Tucker. State bond for people held under 24 hours may be posted at the Carnahan Courthouse, Room 108, on weekdays, or on the 2nd floor of the jail during set evening and weekend hours. For people confined more than 24 hours, municipal traffic warrants may be posted at the Municipal Courthouse, 1520 Market, Suite 1120.
The official Making Bond page lays out the exact windows, hours, and rules for city and state charges.
The page makes clear that in-person bond is cash only and that release after posting can take several hours.
Traffic Warrants in St. Louis City
Traffic tickets that go unresolved can turn into warrants. A missed court date or unpaid fine on a city traffic citation can lead the judge to issue a bench warrant. These traffic warrants run through the Municipal Division, the same place that handles the underlying ticket.
The Court Bond Window at the Municipal Courthouse accepts traffic warrants. To find a traffic warrant, search the citation in Case.net under the municipal filters, then read the docket for a failure-to-appear entry. The citation number sits in the upper right corner of the ticket.
To handle the ticket behind the warrant, the traffic court records page covers how to pay or contest a St. Louis City citation.
Fugitive and State Criminal Warrants
Some warrants reach beyond the city. State criminal warrants tie to Circuit Court cases, bond settings, and criminal dockets prosecuted by the Circuit Attorney. Fugitive warrants apply to people wanted in another jurisdiction.
The Police Bond Window accepts St. Louis City ordinance warrants and fugitive warrants up to a misdemeanor. State criminal warrants connect to the 22nd Judicial Circuit, where bond is set by the court. For state charges, the bond and warrant line is 314-641-8214, and many of these cases appear in Case.net as circuit cases rather than municipal ones.
The Circuit Attorney runs a Warrant Office as one of its units, since state charges begin with a charging decision before a warrant issues. So a state warrant ties to a real criminal case, not just a missed date. That is why a state matter often needs an attorney, while a simple city ticket may not. Search the circuit case in Case.net, confirm the bond on the state line, and plan the next step from there.
Note: A warrant tied to a state felony or a fugitive matter is handled differently from a city ticket, so confirm the charge type before you choose a window.
How to Resolve an Outstanding Warrant
Clearing a warrant follows a clear order. Move through these steps so you go to the right place with the right information. Acting fast keeps a small matter from growing into a bigger one.
- Identify whether the warrant is municipal, state criminal, fugitive, or traffic.
- Search Case.net using the municipal case-search filters for city matters.
- Call the correct bond line: city charges 314-622-3231; state charges 314-641-8214.
- If you have not been arrested, contact the court or an attorney before you appear.
- If posting bond for someone arrested, use the correct window based on custody time and case type.
- Bring cash if posting in person, since bond payment is cash only.
- Keep the receipt and expect release processing to take several hours.
- Confirm the next court date in Case.net, because missing it can create another warrant.
For free legal help with municipal warrants and court debt, the city's weekly tap-in resources and groups like ArchCity Defenders connect people to advocates. Custody questions on a held person route back to the arrest records page and the jail bond lines.