Last reviewed: October 28, 2026. California58 is developing a free public-safety information service for its statewide newspaper, all 58 county newsrooms and every local community edition. Our goal is to make verified data easy to find without confusing police calls, crime reports, arrests and convictions or making an area look safer or less safe than the evidence supports.
Search recent reports near your community
Some law-enforcement agencies share recent, selected crime incidents through public maps. The following services are free for readers; coverage depends on each participating agency.
- CrimeMapping.com — search by location or agency. Shows participating agencies’ reported incidents and offers optional localized alerts. Some agencies update daily; dates, classifications and coverage vary.
- LexisNexis Community Crime Map. Search available law-enforcement incident data by address or community. Its free public service does not include every California police or sheriff department.
- FBI Crime Data Explorer. Agency-level and statewide reporting, downloadable datasets and historical comparisons. The available time period depends on the submission and release.
- California DOJ OpenJustice. Official agency, county and statewide crime statistics and multi-year trends. This is not a live neighborhood incident feed.
Start with your county and local police jurisdiction
For countywide figures, select the county in the California DOJ county statistics map. For recent neighborhood incidents, enter the city or area and inspect the list of participating agencies on the free mapping services above. A named location may fall within a city police department, an unincorporated sheriff patrol area, university or tribal jurisdiction, or another agency. One city agency’s numbers should not automatically be called county totals. If a map shows no incidents, that may mean no published data or no participating agency, not zero crimes.
Monterey County: official local records
The Monterey County Sheriff’s Daily Patrol Log displays at most the most recent three days during specified hours. It is a short-window record and may be temporarily unavailable; it does not provide an audited seven-day count of burglary, homicide, theft or vandalism. The sheriff’s Public Records Act information page provides a way to request statistical information and notes that city police departments maintain their own case records for incidents they investigate. The Salinas Police Department statistics page provides police crime-statistics information, although the publicly listed PDF archive there is historical, not a verified current weekly feed. For actual emergencies call 911. For Monterey County Sheriff non-emergency service, see the department’s official contact directory.
Read the local data guide: Monterey County Crime & Public Safety Data.
How we will report weekly statistics
Where an official agency publishes a usable incident-level feed or verified weekly table, California58 can summarize reported incidents by clear date range and geographical coverage. A trustworthy weekly summary must identify:
- Reporting period: the exact seven calendar dates in Pacific time and whether they represent occurrence date, report date or upload date.
- Jurisdiction: which police or sheriff agency supplied the records and which communities or boundaries are covered.
- Definitions: the exact offense categories and whether counts refer to incidents, offenses, calls for service, arrests or cases.
- Completeness: missing records, withheld sensitive events, late reports, geographic uncertainty and any dates without source coverage.
- Revision history: when data were retrieved and when an agency later corrected a report or reclassified an incident.
We will not turn seven-day search results into an implied statewide census. If official current figures do not exist for a small community, the page should say “Weekly figures not available from a verified public feed” and link to the best official reporting source. An absent category must never be displayed as zero without a confirmed complete dataset.
Privacy and responsible reporting
Location pins are often deliberately approximate to protect victims and witnesses. California58 will not publish residential addresses or personally identifying details from sensitive incident maps simply because a raw data field is technically accessible. A report of an offense is not a criminal conviction. Geographic crime statistics should not be presented as the attributes of local residents, demographic groups or specific properties.
Transparency and corrections
Our data service prioritizes official government datasets, public dashboards and links that an ordinary reader can open without paying. We will not circumvent access controls, scrape commercial crime maps against their usage terms or invent weekly crime counts to fill community newspapers. If a source changes, we will correct the existing canonical page and label significant updates. For a source suggestion or correction, email california58com@gmail.com. See our Editorial Standards and Privacy Policy.