California, Alameda County
Where Berkeley's records are kept. Berkeley has its own city government, clerk's office and police department; county and state offices keep its other public records.
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The cards below include Berkeley's own offices, along with State of California offices; the Alameda County offices are on our Alameda County page. Use the category buttons to narrow the list.
Property records
Oversees how California's 58 county assessors apply property tax law, audits their practices, certifies appraisers and itself assesses utility and railroad property and pipelines spanning two or more counties.
Open official site California State Board of Equalization Property Tax DepartmentState records
The Secretary of State's archives holds over 105,000 cubic feet of California government records, maps and photographs, described in its Minerva catalog, including court, legislative, land grant and family history collections.
Open official site California State Archives CollectionsCounty court
Sits in San Francisco, Oakland, Santa Rosa and San Jose and posts judges' and 341 meeting calendars, local rules, forms and guidance for people filing without an attorney.
Open official site U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of CaliforniaCounty court
Alameda County court portals: eCourt for civil, family law and probate records by name, calendar or case number, with free half page previews and credits for documents. Criminal cases are separate.
Open official site Superior Court of Alameda County Public PortalsVital records
Keeps California birth, death, fetal death, marriage and divorce records, issues certified copies and registers or amends records as the law allows. Accepted orders cannot be canceled or refunded.
Open official site California Department of Public Health Vital RecordsState records
The California Department of Justice unit that helps police locate missing people and identify unknown persons; its missing persons database, searchable by name, county and description, holds a subset of reported cases.
Open official site California DOJ Missing and Unidentified Persons SectionPolice & jail
FBI San Francisco Field Office posters for wanted fugitives, kidnapped and missing persons, cyber suspects and cases where agents ask the public for information; tips can be sent through tips.fbi.gov.
Open official site FBI San Francisco Wanted and Missing PersonsPolice & jail
California Department of Justice listing of registered sex offenders that state law allows it to disclose; some registrants are left out, and registrants who use the search face a fine or jail.
Open official site California Megan's Law WebsiteFederal
Census Bureau QuickFacts for Berkeley city, California lists 121,911 residents as of July 1, 2025 (124,321 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
Berkeley city offices at 2180 Milvia St, with birth and death certificates, domestic partnership filing, parking permits and tickets, trash and recycling, the permit service center and zoning lookup.
Open official site City of BerkeleyCity records
Public information and records 2180 Milvia Street (1st fl) Berkeley, CA 94704 phone: (510) 981-6900 fax: (510) 981-6901
Open official site Berkeley City ClerkPolice & jail
Law enforcement and public safety 2100 Martin Luther King, Jr. Way Berkeley, CA 94704 phone: (510) 981-5900 fax: (510) 9
Open official site Berkeley Police DepartmentEverything else, organized
11 more Berkeley sources not listed above.
Local record guide
Local profile
Berkeley, a place of 124,321 people, is in Alameda County, whose county seat is Oakland. Court and property records sit with Alameda County, and birth and death certificates come from the State of California. Berkeley's own offices are in the cards above, and our Alameda 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 9 mine sites inside the city or town limits: 3 past producers, now closed, 4 prospects or occurrences that were never worked, 2 sites with no status in the record. The minerals the records name are construction sand and gravel; Mercury; Sulfur-Pyrite, Copper, Lead.
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.
California 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.
Straight answers
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Voter registration in California is run by the California Secretary of State and local election officials. Its site lists the registration deadline, online voter registration, polling places and the local election office for Berkeley.
Deeds for property in Berkeley are recorded by the Alameda County Recorder, and the county office that assesses property keeps the tax values. Our Alameda County page lists the county offices.
Certified birth and death certificates for events in California come from the state vital records office, California Department of Public Health Vital Records. 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.