Comanche County, Oklahoma Public Records

Investigations closed

300

Back wages agreed

$2,585,058

Workers due back wages

4,313

Civil money penalties

$175,765

Employers on the record

212

The 25 employers with the most back wages agreed, of 212 on the Comanche County record; 84 employers have a page of their own and open from the table, the rest show their whole record here. The 187 more with smaller records are on the Oklahoma wage theft records page, whose search answers for every employer in the state.

Comanche County records by clerk, department and document

Locate the correct courthouse records office

Comanche County distinguishes the County Clerk, which preserves land and administrative records, from the Court Clerk, which maintains District Court proceedings. Within the courthouse, the Court Clerk divides services among Civil in Room 207, Criminal in Room 504 and Small Claims in Room 205. Civil handles matters such as divorce, custody, probate and guardianship; Criminal handles felony, misdemeanor and traffic matters. The Small Claims office also lists protective-order, adoption and juvenile work, although access depends on the file. Take the case number and document title to the appropriate counter rather than treating the courthouse as a single record collection under the Court Clerk's office organization.

Identify the document before mailing payment

The court's general records-request procedure expressly excludes marriage licenses and divorce decrees, which have separate instructions. For other documents it lists $1 for the first page and fifty cents for each additional page. Call for a page count and cost before mailing the form, payment and a stamped return envelope. Mailed requests require a cashier's check or money order; personal checks and cash are not accepted. The clerk recommends obtaining case numbers and document titles through OSCN, and notes that an older record may not be available the same day. Follow the general court-copy procedure for the chosen document.

Use the criminal-record request procedure

The criminal office publishes its own request terms, including a $10 record-search charge, $1.50 for the first page and fifty cents for subsequent pages. It requires a letter identifying the subject and case and accepts the request in person or by mail, with the stated cashier's-check or money-order payment. It specifically says criminal-record requests, including background checks, are not accepted by email. This is a county court-file service; its price should not be substituted for an Oklahoma statewide criminal-history product. Ask the criminal office about the exact filing sought through the Comanche criminal-record instructions.

Resolve the marriage-copy product with the clerk

An existing marriage-license copy and an application for a new license follow different procedures. The Court Clerk provides a separate marriage-record request section and directs counter customers to the designated marriage office. Its mailed-copy instructions contain conflicting payment figures and a reference to a divorce decree within the marriage section, so obtain the current total for the selected marriage product before sending payment. Provide the parties' names at marriage and the marriage date, and state whether a certified copy is required. A general court-copy form alone does not resolve the product or price; consult the Court Clerk's marriage-record service.

Search the instrument and the plat separately

The County Clerk's land-record guidance distinguishes real-estate instruments, recorded liens, tax liens and plats. A plat shows divisions of land into blocks or lots and can provide a different route into the record than a party-name search. Preserve the subdivision name, lot and block, or the fuller legal description when requesting a document. A mineral-interest instrument, mortgage and release may all concern the same parcel but represent separate transactions. The county identifies its authorized land-record search and electronic-recording providers through the land office. Use that office route to connect a search result with the recorded document or plat collection.

Calculate recording and copy services independently

The County Clerk lists $18 for the first page of a conforming deed, mortgage or covered instrument, $2 for each additional page and a separate $5 preservation charge per recorded instrument. Nonconforming instruments have a different schedule. Photographic or printed-record copies are listed at $1 per page, with certification separately priced at $1 per page. An electronic copy, a bonded abstractor's microfilm copy and a recording submission are not interchangeable products. Describe the instrument and desired output before applying a rate, and request a complete quote when certification or an unusual document is involved under the County Clerk fee schedule.

Use assessment records to identify the property

The Assessor maintains taxable real- and personal-property records and determines valuation, including information associated with homes, businesses and other taxable property. Its office can address valuation questions, assessment-roll matters and exemption applications, while the County Clerk preserves the recorded instruments. Start with the property location and owner information to identify the assessment record, then carry the legal description into the deed search. A property-value result is not a certified title history, and a mailed tax notice can differ from the names on an older deed. For rural addressing and assessment questions, use the Comanche Assessor's stated services.

Distinguish county administration from a police report

Comanche's open-records instructions explicitly send marriage licenses, divorce decrees and other court records to the Court Clerk; the County Clerk's administrative form will not produce those documents. Describe the county department and existing records needed for an administrative request. Lawton Police maintains its own Records Section for city reports, while county detention information is separately listed with the Detention Center. Do not assume that a Sheriff's inquiry also searches every city or military installation file. Name the agency, date and document so the request can be routed under the county's open-records instructions and exclusions.

Keep state birth records outside courthouse searches

The Oklahoma Department of Health issues state birth certificates and provides online, telephone and mail instructions. It states that its lobby is not open for ordinary walk-in orders; a planned will-call pickup follows the ordering procedure and designated locations. A Comanche courthouse case may contain a reference to a birth, but that reference is not the state certificate. Prepare the identity and eligibility documentation for the certificate order and retain original supporting documents unless instructed otherwise. The state asks for complete applications and legible copies through its birth-certificate service.