Ohio, Hamilton County
Where Cincinnati's records are kept. Cincinnati has its own city government, police department and permit and planning office; county and state offices keep its other public records.
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The cards below include Cincinnati's own offices, along with State of Ohio offices; the Hamilton County offices are on our Hamilton County page. Use the category buttons to narrow the list.
City records
The City of Cincinnati site, with water and sewer bill payment, 311Cincy service requests, birth and death certificates, building permits, income tax, emergency alerts and public records.
Open official site City of CincinnatiPolice & jail
The Cincinnati Police Department serves 52 neighborhoods with about 1000 sworn officers in Patrol, Investigations and Support bureaus, and offers online reporting, camera registration and police records requests.
Open official site Cincinnati Police DepartmentPolice & jail
Cincinnati Police Records Section at 801 Linn Street takes and tracks records requests through an online system, or by email, phone, fax or U.S. mail, with answers to common questions.
Open official site Cincinnati Police RecordsCity records
The Cincinnati Law Department explains the Ohio Public Records Act and the city records policy, posts retention schedules and meeting notices, and links the GovQA records request system.
Open official site Cincinnati Law Department Public RecordsCity records
Cincinnati Buildings and Inspections at 805 Central Avenue, Suite 500, with permit applications and costs, electronic plan submission, rental registration, contractor search and permit and record lookups.
Open official site Cincinnati Buildings and InspectionsPolice & jail
FBI wanted posters, from the Ten Most Wanted list to fugitives, terrorism suspects, kidnapped and missing persons, bank robbers and seeking information cases; tips go to tips.fbi.gov.
Open official site FBI Most WantedPolice & jail
The Attorney General's Bureau of Criminal Investigation is Ohio's clearinghouse for missing person data: it keeps databases of missing children and adults, issues alerts and takes tips. Families should call local police first.
Open official site Ohio Attorney General Missing PersonsVital records
USAGov explains how to get certified copies of birth and death certificates, copies of marriage and divorce records, and replacements for lost or stolen government ID cards.
Open official site USAGov Guide to Copies of Vital Records and IDsCounty court
The federal judiciary's national index of district, bankruptcy and appellate court cases. Searching needs a free PACER account; pages cost $0.10, capped at $3 per document, with quarterly charges of $30 or less waived.
Open official site PACER Case LocatorFederal
USAGov sends you to your state's unclaimed property office, which holds most unclaimed money, and to federal searches for back wages, pensions, IRS refunds, savings bonds and deposits from failed banks.
Open official site USAGov Guide to Unclaimed MoneyVital records
The Social Security Administration explains survivor benefits, monthly payments to eligible relatives of workers who paid Social Security taxes before death, including who qualifies, possible amounts and when to report a death.
Open official site Social Security Survivor BenefitsPolice & jail
U.S. Department of Justice search of public sex offender registries from every state, territory and many tribes by name or ZIP code; address radius searches cover only states that send coordinates.
Open official site Dru Sjodin National Sex Offender Public WebsiteFederal
USAGov explains checking your registration through Can I Vote, which opens your state's election website, and advises doing it before the state deadline, which can be up to 30 days before an election.
Open official site USAGov Guide to Confirming Voter RegistrationCounty court
Federal judiciary guide to finding a case in PACER: search the court where it was filed for current data, or the nationwide PACER Case Locator, updated daily. A PACER account is required.
Open official site PACER Find a CaseState records
The Ohio History Connection research library in Columbus offers genealogy guides, its catalog and Ohio death certificates from 1908 to 1970; since July 2026 it opens Thursdays and Fridays, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Open official site Ohio History Connection Archives and LibraryCounty court
Courthouses in Cincinnati, Columbus and Dayton serve southern Ohio, open weekdays 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.; the court posts recent opinions and hearing calendars and takes copy requests and fee payments online.
Open official site United States Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of OhioCounty court
The Supreme Court of Ohio lists each county's common pleas, municipal and county courts, with links to every court's own website and local rules.
Open official site Supreme Court of Ohio Courts by CountyEverything else, organized
14 more Cincinnati sources not listed above.
Local record guide
Local profile
Cincinnati, a place of 309,317 people, is the seat of Hamilton County. Court and property records sit with Hamilton County, and birth and death certificates come from the State of Ohio. Cincinnati's own offices are in the cards above, and our Hamilton 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 3 mine sites inside the city or town limits: 1 past producer, now closed, 2 processing plants, which are not workings; the old survey maps add 3 holes drawn inside the city or town limits, 0 of them shafts or tunnels. The mineral the records name is construction sand and gravel.
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. Coverage is automatic in the 26 mandatory counties (Athens, Belmont, Carroll, Columbiana, Coshocton, Gallia, Guernsey, Harrison, Hocking, Holmes, Jackson, Jefferson, Lawrence, Mahoning, Meigs, Monroe, Morgan, Muskingum, Noble, Perry, Scioto, Stark, Trumbull, Tuscarawas, Vinton, Washington) and optional in 11 more.
Ohio 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 1,157 investigations with a Cincinnati address since fiscal 2005 and recorded $21,270,386 in back wages agreed for 38,072 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Kroger Co. | 16 | $7,878,293 | 19,417 |
| Sterling Medical Associates, Inc. | 14 | $1,618,639 | 506 |
| Champion Windows and Doors | 2 | $696,826 | 692 |
| Meda Care Transportation, Inc. | 3 | $610,025 | 174 |
| FirstGroup, Inc. | 1 | $420,429 | 189 |
| General Security Services Corporation | 8 | $406,943 | 473 |
| Halo MGT Productions LLC | 1 | $384,150 | 298 |
| T&T Enterprises of Ohio, Inc. | 17 | $297,842 | 204 |
| D& R Services Inc | 2 | $291,708 | 49 |
| Panel-Fab, Inc. | 1 | $249,826 | 151 |
| DECO, Inc. | 2 | $237,769 | 115 |
| Health Carousel, LLC | 2 | $198,400 | 95 |
| ABM Janitorial Services, Inc. | 1 | $181,662 | 21 |
| Millennium Nursing Agency LTD | 1 | $150,045 | 53 |
| Gall Construction of America Limited | 1 | $147,529 | 21 |
| Horseshoe Cincinnati Managment, LLC | 1 | $137,787 | 436 |
| Afinity Healthcare Solutions LLC | 1 | $126,884 | 57 |
| Metropark USA, Inc. | 1 | $118,389 | 800 |
| The Perfection Group, INC | 1 | $114,388 | 170 |
| Green Building Consulting LLC | 2 | $111,902 | 17 |
| Sigma Capital, Inc. | 1 | $111,455 | 13 |
| Winegardner & Hammons, Inc. | 1 | $110,885 | 658 |
| Belcan Engineering Group, Inc. | 1 | $97,923 | 49 |
| Trinity Couriers Inc. | 1 | $97,639 | 107 |
| James L. Deckebach, Ltd. | 3 | $97,152 | 268 |
The 25 employers with the most back wages agreed, of 948 whose address on the record is in Cincinnati; 301 employers have a page of their own and open from the table, the rest show their whole record here. The 923 more with smaller records are on the Ohio wage theft records page, whose search answers for every employer in the state.
Straight answers
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Voter registration in Ohio is run by the Ohio Secretary of State and local election officials. Its site lists the registration deadline, online voter registration, polling places and the local election office for Cincinnati.
Deeds for property in Cincinnati are recorded by the Hamilton County Recorder, and the county office that assesses property keeps the tax values. Our Hamilton County page lists the county offices.
Certified birth and death certificates for events in Ohio come from the state vital records office, Ohio Office of Vital Statistics. 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.