Michigan, Ingham County
Where East Lansing's records are kept. East Lansing has its own city government, police department, municipal court and clerk's office; county and state offices keep its other public records.
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The cards below include East Lansing's own offices, along with State of Michigan offices; the Ingham County offices are on our Ingham County page. Use the category buttons to narrow the list.
City records
City of East Lansing, Michigan, with City Hall at 410 Abbot Road, city news and events and links to the City Council, recycling, yard waste collection, an online comment form and employment.
Open official site City of East LansingPolice & jail
East Lansing Police Department at 409 Park Lane lists its nonemergency number and links to crime mapping and reports, safety tips, police records and department news.
Open official site East Lansing Police DepartmentPolice & jail
East Lansing Police Records at 409 Park Lane processes police and accident reports, sex offender registrations and gun permits and takes FOIA requests for reports through an online form.
Open official site Police RecordsMunicipal court
The East Lansing district court at 101 Linden Street offers a virtual counter, Zoom hearing information, landlord and tenant resources and guidance for visiting the court in person.
Open official site 54-B District CourtCity records
The East Lansing City Clerk at 410 Abbot Road, Room 100, runs elections, preserves official city documents, records City Council minutes, processes business licenses and coordinates FOIA requests.
Open official site City ClerkCity records
East Lansing explains the Michigan Freedom of Information Act and gives separate request routes for general city records, police department records and fire department records.
Open official site Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)Police & jail
FBI national most wanted criminals, search for East Lansing area subjects.
Open official site FBI Most WantedPolice & jail
The Offender Tracking Information System lists Michigan prisoners, parolees, probationers, absconders and discharged offenders, searchable by name, offender number, age, race and marks, scars or tattoos.
Open official site Michigan Department of Corrections OTIS Offender SearchVital records
USAGov explains how to get certified copies of birth and death certificates, copies of marriage and divorce records, and replacements for lost or stolen government ID cards.
Open official site USAGov Guide to Copies of Vital Records and IDsCounty court
The federal judiciary's national index of district, bankruptcy and appellate court cases. Searching needs a free PACER account; pages cost $0.10, capped at $3 per document, with quarterly charges of $30 or less waived.
Open official site PACER Case LocatorFederal
USAGov sends you to your state's unclaimed property office, which holds most unclaimed money, and to federal searches for back wages, pensions, IRS refunds, savings bonds and deposits from failed banks.
Open official site USAGov Guide to Unclaimed MoneyVital records
The Social Security Administration explains survivor benefits, monthly payments to eligible relatives of workers who paid Social Security taxes before death, including who qualifies, possible amounts and when to report a death.
Open official site Social Security Survivor BenefitsPolice & jail
U.S. Department of Justice search of public sex offender registries from every state, territory and many tribes by name or ZIP code; address radius searches cover only states that send coordinates.
Open official site Dru Sjodin National Sex Offender Public WebsiteFederal
USAGov explains checking your registration through Can I Vote, which opens your state's election website, and advises doing it before the state deadline, which can be up to 30 days before an election.
Open official site USAGov Guide to Confirming Voter RegistrationCounty court
Federal judiciary guide to finding a case in PACER: search the court where it was filed for current data, or the nationwide PACER Case Locator, updated daily. A PACER account is required.
Open official site PACER Find a CaseState records
The Library of Michigan holds city and county histories, newspaper clippings, vital records, cemetery transcripts and plat maps for use during library hours, plus county guides and FamilySearch affiliate access on site.
Open official site Library of Michigan Family HistoryCounty court
Federal bankruptcy court with locations in Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo, Lansing, Marquette and Traverse City; it offers court calendars, opinions, copies of documents, a phone case information line and PACER access.
Open official site United States Bankruptcy Court, Western District of MichiganCounty court
Site of Michigan's One Court of Justice: Supreme Court and Court of Appeals news, cases, opinions and orders, a trial court directory, court forms, MiFILE electronic filing and help for people representing themselves.
Open official site Michigan CourtsEverything else, organized
14 more East Lansing sources not listed above.
Local record guide
Local profile
East Lansing, a place of 47,741 people, is in Ingham County, whose county seat is Mason. Court and property records sit with Ingham County, and birth and death certificates come from the State of Michigan. East Lansing's own offices are in the cards above, and our Ingham County page lists each county office.
Abandoned mine records
What the records show here, and the office that holds the mine maps.
East Lansing sits over the Northern Region and the coal there is medium and high volatile bituminous, worked underground in many places. The USGS coal fields map is drawn at a small scale, so it shows the ground, not a parcel.
Nothing at all is on record inside the town limits: no mine, no shaft, no adit and no pit. That is what the files say, and it is not a clearance. Those files record a working only where one was catalogued or drawn on a survey sheet, and on coal ground the sheets are thin: the maps that show the rooms and the pillars are held by EGLE GeoWebFace and that office is where to ask for them.
Michigan 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 52 investigations with a East Lansing address since fiscal 2005 and recorded $627,780 in back wages agreed for 516 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| E.L.A Food Service LLC | 1 | $148,567 | 85 |
| SplendTek, Inc. | 1 | $78,714 | 5 |
| Kalkidan FC Corp. | 1 | $74,990 | 2 |
| Knm INC | 1 | $67,666 | 40 |
| Catering Needs, Inc. | 1 | $49,292 | 38 |
| Global Orange Development, LLC | 1 | $39,551 | 24 |
| Sansu Corporation | 1 | $31,792 | 35 |
| Michigan State University | 2 | $21,457 | 46 |
| Ali And Companies LLC | 1 | $18,264 | 13 |
| New Dynasty Buffet, LLC | 1 | $15,467 | 10 |
| AdvisaCare Healthcare Solution, Inc. | 1 | $13,148 | 8 |
| Irish Development, LLC | 1 | $9,152 | 6 |
| MRD Conventional, LLC | 1 | $9,128 | 16 |
| Westpac Campus Communities, LLC | 2 | $8,222 | 29 |
| Cypress Home Care, LLC | 1 | $5,597 | 5 |
| SNS America, LLC | 2 | $5,267 | 26 |
| MI Space, Inc | 1 | $5,065 | 6 |
| Harbrinel, Inc. | 1 | $3,715 | 17 |
| Divine Manor | 1 | $3,373 | 1 |
| Leos Coney Island MSU, Inc. | 1 | $3,331 | 6 |
| Fluke Hearing Instruments, LLC | 1 | $3,075 | 2 |
| Community Mental Health Authority | 1 | $2,915 | 20 |
| EC Crunch Inc. | 1 | $1,737 | 9 |
| VS Timber Ridge Services LLC | 1 | $1,707 | 17 |
| 7C Enterprises, LLC | 1 | $1,498 | 7 |
The 25 employers with the most back wages agreed, of 50 whose address on the record is in East Lansing; 14 employers have a page of their own and open from the table, the rest show their whole record here. The 25 more with smaller records are on the Michigan wage theft records page, whose search answers for every employer in the state.
Straight answers
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Voter registration in Michigan is run by the Michigan Bureau of Elections and local election officials. Its site lists the registration deadline, online voter registration, polling places and the local election office for East Lansing.
Deeds for property in East Lansing are recorded by the Ingham County Register of Deeds, and the city or town assessor keeps the tax values. Our Ingham County page lists the county offices.
Certified birth and death certificates for events in Michigan come from the state vital records office, Michigan 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.