California, Imperial County
Where El Centro's records are kept. El Centro has its own city government and police department; county and state offices keep its other public records.
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The cards below include El Centro's own offices, along with State of California offices; the Imperial County offices are on our Imperial County page. Use the category buttons to narrow the list.
Police & jail
The California Department of Justice sends people a copy of their own state criminal history to review: Live Scan or card fingerprints and a $25 fee are required, and third party requests are refused.
Open official site California DOJ Request Your Own Criminal RecordProperty 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
San Diego and Imperial counties' bankruptcy court is housed in the Jacob Weinberger U.S. Courthouse, 325 West F Street, open 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., and offers an unclaimed funds search and self help center.
Open official site U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Southern 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 Diego Field Office list of fugitives, terrorism suspects, kidnapping and missing person cases, and cases where agents are seeking information. Results can be filtered by year and sorted by name.
Open official site FBI San Diego 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 El Centro 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
El Centro city government at 1275 W. Main Street, with agendas and minutes, the Fix It request tool, bill payment, a department directory, council meeting recordings, job openings and public safety news.
Open official site City of El CentroPolice & jail
Law enforcement services 150 North 11th Street El Centro, California 92243 Phone: (760) 337-4528
Open official site El Centro Police DepartmentEverything else, organized
9 more El Centro sources not listed above.
Local record guide
Local profile
El Centro, a place of 44,322 people, is the seat of Imperial County. Court and property records sit with Imperial County, and birth and death certificates come from the State of California. El Centro's own offices are in the cards above, and our Imperial 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 prospect or occurrence that was never worked. 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 78 investigations with a El Centro address since fiscal 2005 and recorded $963,226 in back wages agreed for 837 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ARC Imperial Valley | 5 | $605,225 | 466 |
| N Your Home Healthcare | 1 | $144,080 | 36 |
| Manzano's Harvesting, Inc. | 3 | $50,984 | 64 |
| Bull Enterprises Inc. | 1 | $50,503 | 24 |
| Fortune Garden, Inc. | 1 | $35,462 | 7 |
| 8-A Packing LLC | 2 | $25,412 | 103 |
| Rogar Manufactoring Inc | 2 | $19,026 | 17 |
| New Fortune House | 1 | $9,858 | 6 |
| Imperial County Work Training Center Inc. | 3 | $8,713 | 11 |
| 8A Packing LLC. | 2 | $3,188 | 60 |
| Locke Air Conditioning & Custom Sheet Metal | 1 | $2,863 | 1 |
| Panda City | 1 | $2,641 | 1 |
| V.D.C. Group Inc. | 1 | $2,268 | 17 |
| Roman Zhou Inc. | 1 | $2,005 | 13 |
| Joel R Ocampo | 1 | $550 | 5 |
| Heart and Hand, Inc | 2 | $278 | 1 |
| AGRO Packing LLC | 1 | $90 | 3 |
| Garcia Food | 2 | $49 | 1 |
| DDO-CAL, Inc. | 1 | $31 | 1 |
| Joel Hureta Ocampo | 2 | $0 | 0 |
| Joe Heger Farms, LLC | 2 | $0 | 0 |
| Ye Lam Incorporated | 2 | $0 | 0 |
| I.V. Harvest | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| Juan Munoz Farm Labor | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| Navy Region Southwest | 1 | $0 | 0 |
The 25 employers with the most back wages agreed, of 57 whose address on the record is in El Centro; 20 employers have a page of their own and open from the table, the rest show their whole record here. The 32 more with smaller records are on the California wage theft records page, whose search answers for every employer in the state.
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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 El Centro.
Deeds for property in El Centro are recorded by the Imperial County Recorder, and the county office that assesses property keeps the tax values. Our Imperial 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.