California, Santa Barbara County
Where Carpinteria's records are kept. Carpinteria has its own city government and clerk's office; county and state offices keep its other public records.
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The cards below include Carpinteria's own offices, along with State of California offices; the Santa Barbara County offices are on our Santa Barbara County page. Use the category buttons to narrow the list.
Property records
Treasurer-Tax Collector section for Santa Barbara County property taxes: view and pay bills, payment options, exemptions, and secured, supplemental, unsecured and delinquent taxes.
Open official site Santa Barbara County Property TaxesState 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
Bankruptcy court for California's Central District, offering PACER lookup, online petitions, live chat with court staff and self help desks with pro bono help in each of its five divisions.
Open official site U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of CaliforniaCounty court
Judicial Branch guide to looking up a California case: county courts keep the records, so start on the court's website or with its clerk; juvenile and adoption files are confidential.
Open official site California Courts Self Help GuideVital 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
Wanted and missing person posters from the FBI Los Angeles Field Office, including Ten Most Wanted fugitives, Most Wanted Fraudsters and cases where agents seek information; tips go to tips.fbi.gov.
Open official site FBI Los Angeles 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
U.S. Census Bureau fact table for Carpinteria city, California: current population estimates plus age, sex, housing, income and business figures drawn from the 2020 Census, American Community Survey and Economic Census.
Open official site U.S. Census Bureau QuickFactsCity records
Carpinteria City Hall at 5775 Carpinteria Avenue, phone (805) 684-5405, with the city clerk and election information, business licenses, transient occupancy tax, short-term rental rules, agendas and the municipal code.
Open official site City of CarpinteriaCity records
Carpinteria City Clerk, the office that keeps the minutes, ordinances, licences and vital records filed with the local government.
Open official site Carpinteria City ClerkPolice & jail
Sheriff's Carpinteria Station at 5775 Carpinteria Ave, policing the City of Carpinteria by contract plus Montecito, Summerland and the Carpinteria Valley. Phone (805) 568-3399.
Open official site Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Coastal BureauEverything else, organized
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Local record guide
Local profile
Carpinteria, a place of 13,264 people, is in Santa Barbara County, whose county seat is Santa Barbara. Court and property records sit with Santa Barbara County, and birth and death certificates come from the State of California. Carpinteria's own offices are in the cards above, and our Santa Barbara County page lists each county office.
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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 Carpinteria.
Deeds for property in Carpinteria are recorded by the Santa Barbara County Recorder, and the county office that assesses property keeps the tax values. Our Santa Barbara 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.