Georgia, Dougherty County
Where Albany's records are kept. Albany has its own city government; county and state offices keep its other public records.
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The cards below include Albany's own offices, along with State of Georgia offices; the Dougherty County offices are on our Dougherty County page. Use the category buttons to narrow the list.
Police & jail
The GBI explains Georgia criminal history records: your own copy comes from most sheriff's offices or police departments, and another person's record needs that person's signed consent on a state form.
Open official site Georgia Bureau of Investigation Criminal History Record FAQPolice & jail
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation explains what a state criminal history record holds: identity, arrests, charges, court outcomes and prison custody. Get your own copy at most sheriff's offices or police departments.
Open official site Georgia Bureau of Investigation Criminal HistoryState records
Part of the University System of Georgia, the archives has collected the state's historical records since 1918; browse its Virtual Vault online or research in Morrow, Tuesday to Saturday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Open official site Georgia ArchivesCounty court
Offices in Macon at 433 Cherry Street and in Columbus at One Arsenal Place, open 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.; the court posts dial in and virtual hearing details, opinions, forms and online payment.
Open official site U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Middle District of GeorgiaCounty court
The Judicial Council of Georgia's Administrative Office of the Courts runs this gateway to ticket payment, the child support calculator, court record searches, directories and forms; some features need a login.
Open official site Georgia Judicial GatewayVital records
The Department of Public Health office that registers, preserves, amends and certifies Georgia vital records; order certificates online from listed vendors, by mail, or at a vital records office near you.
Open official site Georgia Department of Public Health Vital RecordsPolice & jail
After a usage agreement, the Georgia Department of Corrections search finds current and former inmates by name, alias, physical description, offense or GDC ID, and shows photos when available.
Open official site Georgia Department of Corrections Find an OffenderPolice & jail
Missing person cases posted by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation show race, height, weight, sex and last seen date for each; tips reach the bureau by phone or its online form.
Open official site Georgia Bureau of Investigation Missing PersonsPolice & jail
In one list sortable by case date or posting date, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation shows its unsolved homicides, missing persons, unidentified remains and robberies.
Open official site Georgia Bureau of Investigation Unsolved CasesPolice & jail
By state law the Georgia Bureau of Investigation keeps the sex offender registry, fed by other agencies and changing often, with links to the offender search, a bimonthly report and a data download.
Open official site Georgia Sex Offender RegistryFederal
Census Bureau QuickFacts for Albany city, Georgia lists 66,907 residents as of July 1, 2025 (69,647 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
City of Albany, Georgia government at 401 Pine Avenue, (229) 883-8330, with public notices on city redevelopment projects, the weatherization program, city departments, the City Commission and city news.
Open official site City of AlbanyEverything else, organized
10 more Albany sources not listed above.
Local record guide
Local profile
Albany, a place of 69,647 people, is the seat of Dougherty County. Court and property records sit with Dougherty County, and birth and death certificates come from the State of Georgia. Albany's own offices are in the cards above, and our Dougherty 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 1 mine site inside the city or town limits: 1 site producing when the record was made; the old survey maps add 16 holes drawn inside the city or town limits, 0 of them shafts or tunnels.
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. Georgia publishes no abandoned mine inventory; the Dahlonega gold mines are not mapped by the state online.
Georgia 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 133 investigations with a Albany address since fiscal 2005 and recorded $950,503 in back wages agreed for 1,358 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| City of Albany | 1 | $426,338 | 316 |
| E & I Helping Hands Personal Care Home, Inc | 1 | $73,434 | 43 |
| AECOM Government Services, Inc. | 1 | $52,857 | 42 |
| HH & A's, LLC | 1 | $33,609 | 9 |
| Bailey Healthcare Inc | 1 | $31,944 | 52 |
| Pines Personal Care, Inc. | 1 | $22,793 | 38 |
| R. Lane Enterprises, Inc. | 1 | $21,172 | 9 |
| AG-HORT, LLC | 1 | $20,924 | 9 |
| Kim & Kim Enterprises LLC. | 1 | $20,038 | 38 |
| Coastal Plain Champ | 1 | $15,948 | 40 |
| Shamrock Ranch LLC | 1 | $14,488 | 59 |
| City of Albany, GA, Human Resources Departmen | 1 | $14,350 | 16 |
| Cafe 5.0 LLC | 1 | $13,046 | 33 |
| Modern Gas Co., Inc | 1 | $12,378 | 30 |
| Mid-Georgia Courier, Inc. | 2 | $9,841 | 21 |
| F & W Forestry Services, Inc. | 1 | $9,638 | 4 |
| Wynfield Plantation, LLC | 1 | $9,119 | 8 |
| Harikrishna Corp | 1 | $8,238 | 5 |
| Albany Advocacy Resource Center, Inc. | 2 | $6,869 | 26 |
| Higinio Reyes Espinoza | 1 | $6,381 | 88 |
| Beauchamp & Associates, LLC | 1 | $6,230 | 3 |
| Infinityt Health Systems, Inc | 1 | $6,005 | 7 |
| J & E Rebar Unlimited Steel Inc. | 1 | $5,890 | 3 |
| Drs. Dockery, Williams, Odom, & Deriso LLP | 1 | $5,475 | 10 |
| Thomas V.H. Vail Wiregrass Plantation | 1 | $5,194 | 3 |
The 25 employers with the most back wages agreed, of 118 whose address on the record is in Albany; 25 employers have a page of their own and open from the table, the rest show their whole record here. The 93 more with smaller records are on the Georgia wage theft records page, whose search answers for every employer in the state.
Straight answers
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Voter registration in Georgia is run by the Georgia Secretary of State and local election officials. Its site lists the registration deadline, online voter registration, polling places and the local election office for Albany.
Deeds for property in Albany are recorded by the Dougherty County Clerk of Superior Court, and the county office that assesses property keeps the tax values. Our Dougherty County page lists the county offices.
Certified birth and death certificates for events in Georgia come from the state vital records office, Georgia State Office of Vital Records. Its site lists who may order a copy, the fee and how to order.
Businesses that operate in Albany register with the Georgia Corporations Division, which runs the state business entity search. A business in the City of Albany or Dougherty County needs an Occupational Tax Certificate from the City of Albany Treasury Division.
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.