California, Kern County
Where Bakersfield's records are kept. Bakersfield has its own city government; county and state offices keep its other public records.
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The cards below include Bakersfield's own offices, along with State of California offices; the Kern County offices are on our Kern County page. Use the category buttons to narrow the list.
Police & jail
The California Department of Justice sends people a copy of their own state criminal history to review: Live Scan or card fingerprints and a $25 fee are required, and third party requests are refused.
Open official site California DOJ Request Your Own Criminal RecordProperty records
Oversees how California's 58 county assessors apply property tax law, audits their practices, certifies appraisers and itself assesses utility and railroad property and pipelines spanning two or more counties.
Open official site California State Board of Equalization Property Tax DepartmentState records
The Secretary of State's archives holds over 105,000 cubic feet of California government records, maps and photographs, described in its Minerva catalog, including court, legislative, land grant and family history collections.
Open official site California State Archives CollectionsCounty court
In California's Eastern District, debtors without a lawyer can use the court's pro se clinic, drop box and free eSR service to prepare and submit Chapter 7 and 13 forms online.
Open official site U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of CaliforniaCounty court
Judicial Branch guide to looking up a California case: county courts keep the records, so start on the court's website or with its clerk; juvenile and adoption files are confidential.
Open official site California Courts Self Help GuideVital records
CDPH Vital Records explains how to order certified copies of California birth, death, marriage and divorce records, with forms, fees and processing times.
Open official site California Department of Public Health Vital RecordsPolice & jail
Kern County Sheriff's Office search of people in county custody. Enter at least three characters, then sort or filter results by field and date range.
Open official site Kern County Sheriff's Office Inmate SearchState records
The California Department of Justice unit that helps police locate missing people and identify unknown persons; its missing persons database, searchable by name, county and description, holds a subset of reported cases.
Open official site California DOJ Missing and Unidentified Persons SectionPolice & jail
The FBI Sacramento Field Office posts the people it is seeking in murder, violent crime, white collar and crimes against children cases, plus kidnapped and missing persons, many with FBI rewards for information.
Open official site FBI Sacramento Field Office Most WantedPolice & jail
California Department of Justice listing of registered sex offenders that state law allows it to disclose; some registrants are left out, and registrants who use the search face a fine or jail.
Open official site California Megan's Law WebsiteFederal
Census Bureau QuickFacts for Bakersfield city, California lists 422,165 residents as of July 1, 2025 (403,455 in 2020), plus rent and home values, household income, poverty, travel time to work and land area.
Open official site U.S. Census Bureau QuickFactsCity records
Bakersfield city government at 1600 Truxtun Avenue, phone 661-326-3000, open 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays except holidays, with sections on government, departments, doing business and city news.
Open official site City of BakersfieldEverything else, organized
12 more Bakersfield sources not listed above.
Local record guide
Local profile
Bakersfield, a place of 403,455 people, is the seat of Kern County. Court and property records sit with Kern County, and birth and death certificates come from the State of California. Bakersfield's own offices are in the cards above, and our Kern County page lists each county office.
Abandoned mine records
Where the workings are, and the office that holds the mine maps.
From the old mine records
The mine records hold 13 mine sites inside the city or town limits: 7 past producers, now closed, 2 prospects or occurrences that were never worked, 4 sites producing when the record was made; the old survey maps add 20 holes drawn inside the city or town limits, 0 of them shafts or tunnels. The minerals the records name are construction sand and gravel; Silica.
A point in either file is a location, not a property line: the sheet shows the opening on the surface, not the rooms under it. The record that shows what runs under a parcel is the mine map. The OSMRE National Mine Map Repository holds scanned underground mine maps and answers requests for a named mine or an area.
California abandoned mine maps ranks every county and town in the state by the workings recorded inside it, names the office that holds the mine maps, and says what to do if the ground moves.
Disclaimer: The mine information here is for general information only. Old mine records can be incomplete, outdated or wrong, and finding nothing here does not mean there is nothing there. Check with the mine map office named here before you rely on it, and have a qualified engineer look at any ground you are worried about. PublicRecordCenter.com assumes no responsibility or liability for any errors, omissions, or consequences arising from the use of this information.
Labor Department file
The U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division closed 293 investigations with a Bakersfield address since fiscal 2005 and recorded $1,660,818 in back wages agreed for 2,325 workers. Snapshot of April 22, 2026; a case here is a finding by the Division, not a court judgment, and the city is the one written on the employer's record.
| Employer | Cases | Back wages | Workers |
|---|---|---|---|
| County of Kern, CA | 2 | $290,463 | 243 |
| Sweaney, Inc. | 3 | $208,078 | 85 |
| CHI Employment Services Company | 1 | $126,613 | 147 |
| Nankil Enterprises, Inc. | 2 | $122,643 | 39 |
| Universal Welding and Construction, Inc. | 1 | $85,004 | 74 |
| SEAIR Transportation Services, Inc. | 1 | $70,116 | 25 |
| Jin Sushi Corporation | 1 | $59,270 | 21 |
| Cherokee Cable Contractors, Inc. | 1 | $55,699 | 78 |
| Esparza Enterprises, Inc | 14 | $45,151 | 462 |
| Premier Insurance Services, Inc. | 15 | $43,298 | 90 |
| Holder's Air Conditioning & Heating, Inc. | 1 | $32,395 | 14 |
| Grant Construction, Inc. | 1 | $31,804 | 70 |
| Don Perico Mexican Restaurant | 1 | $31,399 | 5 |
| Count of Kern | 1 | $27,669 | 19 |
| George A. Bics Plumbing, Inc. | 1 | $26,475 | 3 |
| Construction Speciality Services, Inc | 1 | $25,591 | 4 |
| Broadband Integrators, Inc. | 1 | $23,647 | 50 |
| Jim's Towing Service, Inc. | 1 | $23,511 | 14 |
| Roland Santos Montemayor | 1 | $22,252 | 13 |
| Bakersfield Family Physicians Medical Center | 1 | $21,815 | 2 |
| O'Connor & Sons Inc. | 1 | $19,031 | 35 |
| Albert and Janice Elizalde, Inc. | 1 | $15,566 | 3 |
| Blue Star Gourmet Inc. | 1 | $14,846 | 1 |
| A & B Harvesting, Inc. | 2 | $14,449 | 58 |
| Tacos Las Salsas | 1 | $14,012 | 9 |
The 25 employers with the most back wages agreed, of 208 whose address on the record is in Bakersfield; 79 employers have a page of their own and open from the table, the rest show their whole record here. The 183 more with smaller records are on the California wage theft records page, whose search answers for every employer in the state.
Straight answers
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Voter registration in California is run by the California Secretary of State and local election officials. Its site lists the registration deadline, online voter registration, polling places and the local election office for Bakersfield.
Deeds for property in Bakersfield are recorded by the Kern County Recorder, and the county office that assesses property keeps the tax values. Our Kern County page lists the county offices.
Certified birth and death certificates for events in California come from the state vital records office, California Department of Public Health Vital Records. Its site lists who may order a copy, the fee and how to order.
Same county
Use the city page when a record was created by a municipal police department or city office; use the county page for courts, deeds, vital records and jail custody.