United Reporting

Name

United Reporting

Legal name

United Reporting Publishing Corporation

Website

https://unitedreporting.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1995

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Public Records Data Services

NAICS

Newspaper Publishers (513110)

SIC

Newspapers: Publishing Or Publishing & Printing (2711)

akta.pro primary industry

Local & Regional Newspapers (Print & Digital) (MPAJADAB)

akta.pro secondary industries

Data Journalism & News Intelligence Publishers (Indexes, Election/Market Data) (MPAJADAK), News & Public Affairs Syndication (MPABAMAF)

Keywords

• Arrest news reporting
• Criminal records search
• Law enforcement data
• Public records access
• Crime news syndication

Headquarters

HQ city

Folsom

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Arrest News Subscription Service: Monthly subscription-based service delivering customized arrest news reports. Pricing is determined by a per-arrest rate based on volume. Subscriptions are month-to-month with no long-term commitment. Customers can customize by geographic location, crime type, gender, and ethnicity.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

United Reporting operates a subscription-based arrest news service that delivers customized daily reports of California arrests to licensed professionals via email Monday through Friday between 1-2pm. Subscribers configure parameters including cities/counties, crime types, gender, and ethnicity, and the company charges a per-arrest rate based on monthly volume on a month-to-month basis. The company complements this with free consumer-facing arrest websites, newspaper syndication services, and a California criminal record search product.

Product overview

United Reporting Publishing Corporation operates a portfolio of related web properties focused on California arrest news and crime reporting. The core offering is UR Arrest News, a subscription-based service that delivers customized daily arrest reports via email to licensed professionals. Supporting the subscription service are several consumer-facing brands: Local Crime News and Crime Voice provide free public access to arrest listings and crime stories, while Get Arrest Logs serves newspaper syndication partners. California Crime News targets law enforcement agencies, and ClearCheckCA offers criminal record search capabilities. The company reports on over 800,000 arrests annually through relationships with over 350 California law enforcement agencies.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Local Crime News: Providing a daily list of arrests in your city. Search for arrests in your city.
• Crime Voice
• Get Arrest Logs
• California Crime News
• UR Arrest News
• Jail Mail
• ClearCheckCA

Products and services

• UR Arrest News Subscription-based daily arrest news service delivering customized arrest reports via email to licensed professionals (attorneys, insurance agents, law enforcement, rehab facilities, researchers, and licensed private investigators), filtered by cities/counties, crime type, gender, and ethnicity, delivered Monday-Friday by 2pm as .txt documents
• Local Crime News

Quantifiable outcome

• 800,000+ arrests reported annually
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers7 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature2 records

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered minor and core.

• California Newspaper Publishers AssociationminorOthersAllied member of the California Newspaper Publishers Association (CNPA), a trade organization representing California newspapers.
• American River MessengerminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorLocal newspaper syndication partner receiving arrest news content for publication.
• Sacramento BeeminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorMajor newspaper syndication partner receiving arrest news content for publication on their crime page.
• Local Law Enforcement Agencies (CHP, PD, SD)coreOthersMaintains quality relationships with over 350 California law enforcement agencies including California Highway Patrol, Police Departments, and Sheriff's Departments for data access.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Instant Checkmate: Instant Checkmate is a subscription background-check service that surfaces arrest, criminal, and other public records to consumers and SMBs. Comparable to United Reporting in product model (recurring subscription on top of public records data) and overlapping customer use cases such as personal research and due diligence.
• PeopleFinders: PeopleFinders is a subscription people-search and public-records platform covering criminal and arrest records. Comparable to United Reporting in product model (recurring public-records subscription) and in the licensed-investigator/consumer overlap, though broader in record types than arrests alone.
• TruthFinder: TruthFinder offers subscription access to aggregated public records including arrest and criminal history. Comparable to United Reporting in building a paid subscription layer on top of public arrest data, with similar target use cases around people search and personal research.
• BeenVerified: BeenVerified operates a consumer subscription service that aggregates public records including arrest and criminal data into background reports. Comparable to United Reporting in monetizing public arrest/criminal records via subscription to consumers and small businesses, with overlap in the "public records search" category.
• CrimeMapping.com (Public Engines / TriTech): CrimeMapping.com publishes interactive maps of incident and arrest data from local law enforcement agencies for public and professional consumption. Directly comparable to United Reporting as a public-facing arrest/crime data publisher monetizing local law enforcement feeds, though focused on visualization rather than a B2B subscription product.

Broad incumbents

• LexisNexis Risk Solutions: LexisNexis Risk Solutions aggregates public records — including arrest, criminal, and court records — and licenses them to insurance, legal, government, and financial customers. Comparable to United Reporting as a public-records data provider serving the same licensed-professional customer base, but at much greater scale and breadth.
• Thomson Reuters: Thomson Reuters provides legal, regulatory, and risk information to attorneys, insurance, and government customers globally. Comparable to United Reporting as a subscription information provider serving attorneys and investigators, though at vastly greater scale and with broader content than arrest-specific data.
• Appriss Insights (Equifax Workforce Solutions): Appriss Insights, now part of Equifax, is one of the largest aggregators of arrest and incarceration data in the U.S., selling to law enforcement, corrections, and commercial customers. It is comparable to United Reporting as a fellow arrest-data compiler, but operates as a broad incumbent across many states and customer segments rather than as a single-state news syndicator.
• Tyler Technologies (Odyssey / court records): Tyler Technologies operates Odyssey and other public-records platforms that publish court and case data to attorneys and the public. Comparable to United Reporting as a publisher of justice-system records to legal professionals and consumers, but across courts nationwide rather than California arrests specifically.

Emerging players

• Checkr: Checkr is a modern, API-first background-check platform focused on gig and enterprise hiring. Comparable to United Reporting in handling arrest/criminal record data for permissible purposes, but positioned as a tech-forward FCRA-compliant enterprise platform rather than a news publisher.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/united-reporting---crime-beat-news

Compliance3 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Subsidiaries7 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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