Ohio, Summit County
Where Akron's records are kept. Akron has its own city government, police department, municipal court and permit and planning office; county and state offices keep its other public records.
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The cards below include Akron's own offices, along with State of Ohio offices; the Summit County offices are on our Summit County page. Use the category buttons to narrow the list.
City records
The City of Akron government site, based at 166 S. High St., with 3-1-1, permits and licenses, income tax, utility bill payment, city council, news releases and department pages.
Open official site City of AkronPolice & jail
Akron Police Department home on the city site: crime data, the transparency hub, zone command and subdivision pages, an online report portal, tip submission, complaint and compliment forms, and identity fraud help.
Open official site Akron Police DepartmentCity records
The Akron Law Department takes public records requests by email under Ohio Sunshine Laws, often for accident and crime reports, budget data and 911 calls; police records requests go to the police records room.
Open official site Akron Law Department Public Records RequestsMunicipal court
Akron Municipal Court at 172 S Broadway St hears criminal, traffic, parking, civil, landlord tenant and small claims cases, with a clerk of courts, probation office, fines and case search, and records requests.
Open official site Akron Municipal CourtCity records
Akron Plans and Permits, at 1030 E. Tallmadge Ave., runs the plan review and permits web portal, contractor registration, inspection scheduling and applications such as certificates of occupancy and sewer permits.
Open official site Akron Plans and PermitsPolice & 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
Besides PACER and e-filing links, the court sells hearing audio, $32 on CD or $2.40 per MP3 file through PACER, and accepts proofs of claim online without a login.
Open official site U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern 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 Akron sources not listed above.
Local record guide
Local profile
Akron, a place of 190,469 people, is the seat of Summit County. Court and property records sit with Summit County, and birth and death certificates come from the State of Ohio. Akron's own offices are in the cards above, and our Summit 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 7 mine sites inside the city or town limits: 5 past producers, now closed, 2 sites producing when the record was made; the old survey maps add 15 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.
Akron sits over the Appalachian Region coal field and the coal there is medium and high volatile bituminous, worked underground in many places. The two federal files record a shaft, an adit or a deposit where one was drawn on a survey sheet or catalogued as a site; neither file carries the outline of the workings, so the counts above are not the measure of what was mined under this town. The record that shows it is the mine map, held by ODNR Ohio Mines Locator (Mines of Ohio) and linked below.
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 224 investigations with a Akron address since fiscal 2005 and recorded $4,437,365 in back wages agreed for 21,064 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sterling Jewelers | 2 | $1,291,068 | 16,818 |
| FirstEnergy Corp. | 2 | $650,986 | 286 |
| P.S. Construction Group, L.LC. | 1 | $212,269 | 40 |
| Sakura Sushi Akron, Inc. | 1 | $113,707 | 34 |
| Azteca | 1 | $104,269 | 38 |
| Tech Centers Inc | 2 | $102,315 | 49 |
| American Made Bags, LLC. | 1 | $94,893 | 48 |
| Cabling Professionals | 1 | $93,760 | 11 |
| SACS Consulting & Training Center, Inc. | 2 | $83,739 | 39 |
| Akron Insulation and Supply, Inc. | 1 | $75,000 | 43 |
| Rey Azteca of Green, Inc. | 1 | $69,313 | 20 |
| McNeil & NRM, Inc. | 1 | $67,295 | 29 |
| Azteca Restaurante Mexicano, Inc. | 1 | $59,177 | 21 |
| Lockhart Concrete Company | 1 | $57,426 | 31 |
| Rey Azteca Restaurant Inc. | 1 | $56,206 | 20 |
| Red Fitness 24/7 LLC | 2 | $55,662 | 128 |
| Mariachi Locos, Inc. | 1 | $54,815 | 17 |
| Urban Ounce of Prevention Behavioral Health S | 1 | $50,806 | 23 |
| Mariachi Fiesta, Inc. | 2 | $42,127 | 13 |
| Corporate Electric Company, LLC | 3 | $41,576 | 23 |
| W3 Global Accounting | 1 | $37,697 | 14 |
| HPC Integrated Graphic Solutions, LLC | 1 | $34,831 | 41 |
| OFJA Group, LLC. | 1 | $34,614 | 15 |
| Action Link, LLC | 1 | $33,828 | 140 |
| Lighthouse Hospitality, LLC | 1 | $33,106 | 61 |
The 25 employers with the most back wages agreed, of 186 whose address on the record is in Akron; 67 employers have a page of their own and open from the table, the rest show their whole record here. The 161 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 Akron.
Businesses that operate in Akron register with the Ohio Secretary of State, which runs the state business entity search. A local business license, where Akron requires one, comes from the town or Summit County.
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.