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LA Court Lost 147,000 Felony Records

admin · 2026-03-22T00:01:19.403Z

Background checks are built on an assumption most people never question — that the records feeding the system are actually complete. Turns out, for roughly four decades, Los Angeles County's courts weren't submitting felony convictions to the California DOJ. Not some of them. A lot of them. "The court has identified approximately 380,000 instances with convictions where the case's ADR was not successfully reported to the DOJ." That's not a glitch — that's the system not working for forty-pl...

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LA Court Lost 147,000 Felony Records

The Los Angeles County Superior Court failed to report roughly 147,000 felony convictions to the California DOJ over several decades, keeping them out of the NICS background check database. The convictions are being transmitted now, but no agency has announced plans to check whether any prohibited persons purchased firearms during the gap. The failure covers records from the 1980s through as recently as 2023.

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