California, Sonoma County
Where Cotati's records are kept. Cotati 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 Cotati's own offices, along with State of California offices; the Sonoma County offices are on our Sonoma 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
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
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
Federal statistics table for Cotati city, California, from the U.S. Census Bureau, giving basic population, business and geography facts; an information icon beside each row names the survey behind it.
Open official site U.S. Census Bureau QuickFactsCity records
Cotati City Hall at 201 West Sierra Avenue, with council and commission meetings, resident and business services, refuse collection and recycling, housing information and projects in process.
Open official site City of CotatiState records
Cotati City Manager/City Clerk, the office that keeps county filings and public records, with the copies and searches it publishes.
Open official site Cotati City Manager/City ClerkPolice & jail
Police and community safety services 203 West Sierra Avenue Cotati, CA 94931 Phone: (707) 792-4611 Fax: (707) 795-0168
Open official site Cotati Police DepartmentEverything else, organized
11 more Cotati sources not listed above.
Local record guide
Local profile
Cotati, a place of 7,584 people, is in Sonoma County, whose county seat is Santa Rosa. Court and property records sit with Sonoma County, and birth and death certificates come from the State of California. Cotati's own offices are in the cards above, and our Sonoma 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 Cotati.
Deeds for property in Cotati are recorded by the Sonoma County Recorder, and the county office that assesses property keeps the tax values. Our Sonoma 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.