New Mexico, Bernalillo County
Where Albuquerque's records are kept. Albuquerque has its own city government, police department, clerk's office and permit and planning office; county and state offices keep its other public records.
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The cards below include Albuquerque's own offices, along with State of New Mexico offices; the Bernalillo County offices are on our Bernalillo County page. Use the category buttons to narrow the list.
City records
The City of Albuquerque government site, with the 311 Community Contact Center, bill payment, business licenses, residential building permits, police area commands, public records and the department listing.
Open official site City of AlbuquerquePolice & jail
Albuquerque Police Department pages on the city site: online police report filing and other web services, area command details, published public reports and contact numbers for the department and the chief.
Open official site Albuquerque Police DepartmentPolice & jail
The APD Records Division supplies copies of Albuquerque police reports and background checks in person on weekdays or by phone and mail, with crash reports online and some requests routed to the City Clerk.
Open official site Albuquerque Police Department Records DivisionCity records
ABQ Records, from the Office of the City Clerk, takes Inspection of Public Records Act requests through its portal, by mail or in person, and points to records online and EMS and fire reports.
Open official site ABQ Records, Office of the City ClerkCity records
The Building Safety Division at Plaza Del Sol handles Albuquerque building permits and plan review, building, electrical, plumbing and mechanical inspections and trade permits, with applications and status checks in the ABQ-Plan portal.
Open official site Albuquerque Building Safety Division 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
NMCD lookup of people in state prison or on probation or parole, searched by first or last name or NMCD number. County and city jails are not covered; prison data updates nightly.
Open official site New Mexico Corrections Department Offender SearchVital 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 State Records Center and Archives in Santa Fe, 1205 Camino Carlos Rey, helps about 400 researchers a month, most of them beginning genealogists; open weekdays 10:00 a.m. to 4:45 p.m., with a pathfinder guide.
Open official site New Mexico State Records Center and Archives GenealogyCounty court
Based at the Pete V. Domenici U.S. Courthouse, 333 Lomas Blvd. in Albuquerque, open 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. weekdays, with case files on PACER and an online self representation tool.
Open official site U.S. Bankruptcy Court, District of New MexicoCounty court
New Mexico State Judiciary lookup of individual electronic court records. Bulk downloads and uses other than viewing single records are barred; report errors to the court where the case was heard.
Open official site New Mexico Courts Case LookupEverything else, organized
16 more Albuquerque sources not listed above.
Local record guide
Local profile
Albuquerque, a place of 564,559 people, is the seat of Bernalillo County. Court and property records sit with Bernalillo County, and birth and death certificates come from the State of New Mexico. Albuquerque's own offices are in the cards above, and our Bernalillo 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 40 mine sites inside the city or town limits: 1 past producer, now closed, 2 prospects or occurrences that were never worked, 11 sites producing when the record was made, 8 processing plants, which are not workings, 18 sites with no status in the record; the old survey maps add 94 holes drawn inside the city or town limits, 0 of them shafts or tunnels. The minerals the records name are Volcanic Materials; construction sand and gravel; Magnesite.
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.
New Mexico 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 1,778 investigations with a Albuquerque address since fiscal 2005 and recorded $19,104,299 in back wages agreed for 20,459 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Southwest Valley Constructors | 1 | $4,240,000 | 505 |
| ADC, LTD | 4 | $741,870 | 506 |
| Molina Healthcare of New Mexico, Inc | 1 | $701,856 | 409 |
| B&D Industries, Inc. | 3 | $697,649 | 796 |
| Lynx Electric Company, Inc | 3 | $653,277 | 160 |
| Isleta Casino & Resort | 1 | $476,341 | 1,520 |
| City of Albuquerque | 9 | $368,858 | 209 |
| StrongBuilt LLC | 1 | $331,443 | 178 |
| Burgos Group, LLC | 1 | $328,807 | 88 |
| Pappas Restaurants | 2 | $284,220 | 163 |
| Il Vicion International, LLC. | 1 | $234,964 | 167 |
| Laurel Healthcare Providers | 2 | $226,634 | 442 |
| Convergys Customer Managment Group Inc. | 1 | $200,735 | 1,723 |
| A Classic Painting | 1 | $195,691 | 131 |
| Supreme Contracting, Inc. | 1 | $178,876 | 111 |
| M.R. Tafoya Construction, Inc | 2 | $170,035 | 25 |
| Good Samaritan Society HCBS-Heritage, LLC | 1 | $166,311 | 311 |
| Smyrna Enterprises Inc | 1 | $164,003 | 100 |
| Alliance Fire Protection, INC. | 1 | $157,923 | 14 |
| Adc LTD Nm | 4 | $139,350 | 150 |
| X.M. Investment LLC | 1 | $126,818 | 19 |
| JP&D Digital Satellite Systems, Inc. | 1 | $117,728 | 60 |
| International Strategic Partners, LLC. | 1 | $117,511 | 39 |
| El Mezquite Meat Market, LLC | 5 | $113,715 | 445 |
| Chavez Lath & Plaster Inc. | 2 | $108,569 | 422 |
The 25 employers with the most back wages agreed, of 1,481 whose address on the record is in Albuquerque; 414 employers have a page of their own and open from the table, the rest show their whole record here. The 1,456 more with smaller records are on the New Mexico wage theft records page, whose search answers for every employer in the state.
Straight answers
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Voter registration in New Mexico is run by the New Mexico Secretary of State and local election officials. Its site lists the registration deadline, online voter registration, polling places and the local election office for Albuquerque.
Deeds for property in Albuquerque are recorded by the Bernalillo County Clerk, and the county office that assesses property keeps the tax values. Our Bernalillo County page lists the county offices.
Certified birth and death certificates for events in New Mexico come from the state vital records office, New Mexico Bureau of Vital Records and Health Statistics. Its site lists who may order a copy, the fee and how to order.
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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.