California, Los Angeles County
Where Compton's records are kept. Compton has its own city government, clerk's office and fire department; county and state offices keep its other public records.
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The cards below include Compton's own offices, along with State of California offices; the Los Angeles County offices are on our Los Angeles 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
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 Compton 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
Compton's site offers a city hall and services directory, licenses and permits, planning and development, bids, public notices, press releases and elected officials. City Hall: 205 S Willowbrook Ave.
Open official site City of ComptonState records
Public records and information 205 S. Willowbrook Avenue Compton, California 90220 (310) 605-5530
Open official site Compton City ClerkCity records
Fire and emergency services 201 S. Acacia Avenue Compton, CA 90220 (310) 605-5670
Open official site Compton Fire DepartmentEverything else, organized
9 more Compton sources not listed above.
Local record guide
Local profile
Compton, a place of 95,740 people, is in Los Angeles County, whose county seat is City of Los Angeles. Court and property records sit with Los Angeles County, and birth and death certificates come from the State of California. Compton's own offices are in the cards above, and our Los Angeles 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 1 mine site inside the city or town limits: 1 past producer, now closed; the old survey maps add 2 holes drawn inside the city or town limits, 0 of them shafts or tunnels. The mineral the records name is Clay.
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.
Labor Department file
The U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division closed 99 investigations with a Compton address since fiscal 2005 and recorded $3,262,402 in back wages agreed for 1,615 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price Transfer, Inc. | 1 | $1,993,974 | 925 |
| FCL Logistics, LLC | 1 | $356,425 | 34 |
| Special Unit Security Inc | 1 | $170,000 | 204 |
| TAP Worldwide, LLC | 1 | $140,788 | 26 |
| Lu Mar Industrial Metals Co Ltd | 1 | $117,576 | 45 |
| Business Solutions Transport, Inc. | 2 | $59,080 | 39 |
| Compton Steel Co., Inc. | 2 | $56,352 | 30 |
| Color Ad Inc. | 2 | $42,139 | 99 |
| Pop's Chicken Compton, Inc | 1 | $26,068 | 5 |
| Steel Craft, Inc. | 1 | $23,268 | 4 |
| Chung's Shell Auto Care | 1 | $21,447 | 11 |
| eWarehouse USA, Inc. | 1 | $17,840 | 4 |
| Compton Unified School District | 2 | $8,949 | 2 |
| Roop Corporation Inc | 1 | $8,661 | 3 |
| Yamato Transport USA, Inc. | 1 | $6,409 | 29 |
| Drifter Industries, Inc. | 4 | $6,210 | 11 |
| AM Recycling, Inc. | 4 | $4,955 | 8 |
| California Pak International, Inc. | 1 | $4,823 | 6 |
| M & R Mattress Inc. | 1 | $1,963 | 2 |
| Kroger Dedicated Logistics CO. | 1 | $1,279 | 1 |
| Vino Temp International Corporation | 1 | $933 | 14 |
| AAA Plating & Inspection Inc | 1 | $690 | 1 |
| Tri-Cap International LLC | 1 | $689 | 2 |
| Ralph Grocery Company | 1 | $32 | 1 |
| Moa Moa, Inc. | 10 | $0 | 0 |
The 25 employers with the most back wages agreed, of 61 whose address on the record is in Compton; 20 employers have a page of their own and open from the table, the rest show their whole record here. The 36 more with smaller records are on the California wage theft records page, whose search answers for every employer in the state.
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 Compton.
Deeds for property in Compton are recorded by the Los Angeles County Recorder, and the county office that assesses property keeps the tax values. Our Los Angeles 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.
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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.