Michigan, Washtenaw County
Where Ann Arbor's records are kept. Ann Arbor 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 Ann Arbor's own offices, along with State of Michigan offices; the Washtenaw County offices are on our Washtenaw County page. Use the category buttons to narrow the list.
City records
The City of Ann Arbor site, based at 301 E. Huron St., with water and solid waste bills, construction permits, rental housing registration, voter registration, FOIA records requests and the 15th District Court.
Open official site City of Ann ArborPolice & jail
The Ann Arbor Police Department, a full service agency at 301 E. Huron St. with detective, traffic, K9, motorcycle and bicycle units, community engagement programs, a transparency dashboard and a tips line.
Open official site Ann Arbor Police DepartmentMunicipal court
The 15th Judicial District Court in the Ann Arbor Justice Center, 301 E. Huron Street, has civil, traffic and criminal, probation and administration divisions, with case search, online payments, daily calendars and MiFile.
Open official site 15th Judicial District CourtCity records
Ann Arbor FOIA requests go through the City Clerk on general or police request forms, with fee, deposit and appeal rules and links to open records like A2 Open Book and permit archives.
Open official site Ann Arbor Records Request (FOIA)City records
Building, Rental and Inspection Services at 301 E. Huron Street issues Ann Arbor construction permits through the STREAM website, with older applications in the A2Trak archive and a permit lookup.
Open official site Ann Arbor Building PermitsPolice & jail
The Offender Tracking Information System lists Michigan prisoners, parolees, probationers, absconders and discharged offenders, searchable by name, offender number, age, race and marks, scars or tattoos.
Open official site Michigan Department of Corrections OTIS Offender SearchPolice & jail
FBI national most wanted criminals, search for Ann Arbor area subjects.
Open official site FBI Most WantedVital 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 Library of Michigan holds city and county histories, newspaper clippings, vital records, cemetery transcripts and plat maps for use during library hours, plus county guides and FamilySearch affiliate access on site.
Open official site Library of Michigan Family HistoryCounty court
Its clerk's offices in Detroit, Flint and Bay City are open 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. weekdays, and people filing without a lawyer can upload documents electronically.
Open official site U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of MichiganCounty court
Site of Michigan's One Court of Justice: Supreme Court and Court of Appeals news, cases, opinions and orders, a trial court directory, court forms, MiFILE electronic filing and help for people representing themselves.
Open official site Michigan CourtsEverything else, organized
15 more Ann Arbor sources not listed above.
Local record guide
Local profile
Ann Arbor, a place of 123,851 people, is the seat of Washtenaw County. Court and property records sit with Washtenaw County, and birth and death certificates come from the State of Michigan. Ann Arbor's own offices are in the cards above, and our Washtenaw 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 2 mine sites inside the city or town limits: 1 site producing when the record was made, 1 processing plant, which is not a working; the old survey maps add 11 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. GeoWebFace shows historic mining sites as points; no agency page with underground workings outlines was found, and the OSMRE National Mine Map Repository holds Michigan maps.
Michigan 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 155 investigations with a Ann Arbor address since fiscal 2005 and recorded $2,381,628 in back wages agreed for 2,966 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Joak American Homes, Inc. | 4 | $540,474 | 193 |
| Regents of the University of Michigan | 6 | $191,507 | 1,067 |
| NetXert, Inc. | 2 | $132,767 | 11 |
| Min and Kim, Inc. | 1 | $116,703 | 27 |
| SSF, Inc. | 1 | $116,233 | 18 |
| Integrated Management Systems, Inc | 1 | $104,993 | 6 |
| Accu-Read Services, Inc. | 1 | $99,299 | 193 |
| Cascabel Ventures, L.L.C. | 1 | $98,266 | 20 |
| FF Acres, LLC | 1 | $70,809 | 53 |
| SRA2, LLC | 1 | $67,329 | 28 |
| HIPR Pacsoft Technologies Inc. | 1 | $66,629 | 126 |
| Sriak Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $54,052 | 2 |
| MicHoldings, Inc. | 3 | $53,614 | 54 |
| Con-Way Freight, Inc. | 1 | $53,575 | 27 |
| Michigan Rental ZA, LLC | 1 | $50,067 | 6 |
| Golden Meadow, LLC | 1 | $49,069 | 15 |
| Citigroup | 1 | $38,926 | 67 |
| Watson Home Health Care, Inc. | 1 | $32,366 | 7 |
| Kendzicky Florr Covering, Inc. | 1 | $30,768 | 17 |
| Kennedy Care Ann Arbor, LLC | 1 | $30,280 | 31 |
| Glacier Hills, Inc. | 1 | $29,551 | 70 |
| Palm Palace Pittsfield LLC | 1 | $25,077 | 33 |
| Z Squared, Inc. | 1 | $24,960 | 73 |
| Care Transport | 2 | $24,810 | 25 |
| Dynasty Buffet, LLC | 1 | $24,499 | 12 |
The 25 employers with the most back wages agreed, of 128 whose address on the record is in Ann Arbor; 45 employers have a page of their own and open from the table, the rest show their whole record here. The 103 more with smaller records are on the Michigan wage theft records page, whose search answers for every employer in the state.
Straight answers
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Voter registration in Michigan is run by the Michigan Bureau of Elections and local election officials. Its site lists the registration deadline, online voter registration, polling places and the local election office for Ann Arbor.
Deeds for property in Ann Arbor are recorded by the Washtenaw County Register of Deeds, and the city or town assessor keeps the tax values. Our Washtenaw County page lists the county offices.
Certified birth and death certificates for events in Michigan come from the state vital records office, Michigan Vital Records. 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.