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Find the right office in Bernalillo County. Court cases, deeds and parcels, sheriff and jail records, vital records and county filings, each linked to the office that keeps them.
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The United States District Court for the District of New Mexico: federal civil and criminal cases filed in the state, with case records searched through PACER.
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The New Mexico Taxation and Revenue Department runs the state's unclaimed property program, where owners search for money held in their name and file a claim.
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Business entity search of active and inactive corporations, or LLC by name from the New Mexico Office of the Secretary of State.
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The Bernalillo County Clerk of Court keeps the case files of the courts that sit in the county, takes the filings and the fees and issues certified copies of the records.
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The Bernalillo County Sheriff's Office is the county's law enforcement agency and holds its arrest records, incident and accident reports and the roster of people held in the county jail.
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Request 3 year certified and non certified driving history records.
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Request a copy of a New Mexico State Police crash report, get fingerprint background checks, file a public records request, and find concealed carry license contacts and state crime reports.
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Verify professional and facility licenses issued by the State of New Mexico.
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Find info on alcohol and gaming licenses, private investigation regulations, financial institutions licensing status and more.
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Sheriff & Law Enforcement. Bernalillo County Sheriff's Office is responsible for law enforcement in the unincorporated areas of Bernalillo County.
Police Departments. Bernalillo County is served by multiple law enforcement agencies, including Bernalillo County Sheriff's Office and the Albuquerque Police Department.
Law Enforcement & Arrests. Bernalillo County Sheriff's Office (BCSO) is the primary law enforcement agency for unincorporated areas of Bernalillo County, with headquarters located at 400 Roma Avenue NW, Albuquerque, NM 87102. Bernalillo County Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC), located at 100 Deputy Dean Nyquist Drive, Albuquerque, NM 87106, houses inmates for Bernalillo County and can be contacted for Inmates can be searched through the online inmate lookup system available on the BCSO website, providing booking information, charges, bond amounts, and expected release dates. Within Bernalillo County, the Albuquerque Police Department (APD) is the largest municipal law enforcement agency, serving the city of Albuquerque with over 900 sworn officers. Arrest records in Bernalillo County are public records accessible under the New Mexico Inspection of Public Records Act (NMSA 1978, §§ 14-2-1 through 14-2-12).
Arrest Records. They are maintained by the arresting agency, primarily the County Sheriff's Office and municipal police departments.
You can search by the individual's name or booking number to find current inmates and their booking information. For further assistance, you may contact the detention center directly at (505) 839-8700.
Abandoned mine records
Where the workings are, and the office that holds the mine maps.
From the old mine records
The mine records hold 150 named mine sites inside the county, 31 of them worked out or abandoned; the old survey maps add 190 holes drawn inside the county, 12 of them shafts or tunnels. The minerals the records name are Fluorine-Fluorite; construction sand and gravel; Uranium.
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.
Rows taken off the old survey maps open the USGS record of what sits at that spot, because no single feature on those maps has a page of its own. Rows from the mine records open their own USGS page.
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.
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Booking photos are kept by the agency that made the arrest, such as the Bernalillo County Sheriff's Office or a city police department in Bernalillo County. Ask that agency for its record.
The New Mexico criminal history record comes from the New Mexico Department of Public Safety, Law Enforcement Records Bureau. Send a notarized DPS Authorization for Release of Information form with a money order or cashier's check payable to the Department of Public Safety to see your own arrest record (Section 29-10-6(A) of the Arrest Record Information Act). Fee: $15.00 per record check.
Search the New Mexico DPS Sex Offender Registry, or every state at once on the National Sex Offender Public Website run by the U.S. Department of Justice.
Register with the county clerk or through the New Mexico Secretary of State. You can also register online with the state online registration. Voter registration closes 28 days before an election (Section 1-4-8 NMSA 1978); same day registration is available in person at an early voting or Election Day polling location.
Deeds and other recorded land documents in Bernalillo County are kept by the Bernalillo County clerk. Property values are set by the county assessor, and tax bills come from the county treasurer. Source: official state page.
Certified birth and death certificates for New Mexico come from the New Mexico Department of Health, Bureau of Vital Records and Health Statistics. Many New Mexico Public Health Offices offer Vital Records services and can issue birth certificates; death certificates must be ordered through the Santa Fe office. By mail with a certified check or money order payable to New Mexico Vital Records to Post Office Box 26110, Santa Fe, NM 87502, or online or by phone through VitalChek, the authorized expediting service. Fee: $10 search fee per certified birth certificate; $5 per certified death certificate.
Business entity filings are searched with the New Mexico Secretary of State.
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