California, Alameda County
Where Emeryville's records are kept. Emeryville has its own city government and clerk's office; county and state offices keep its other public records.
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The cards below include Emeryville's own offices, along with State of California offices; the Alameda County offices are on our Alameda 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
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
The Judicial Branch of California runs Find Your Court: enter a five digit California zip code or a city name to see the court locations nearest to it.
Open official site Judicial Branch of California Find Your CourtVital 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
Census Bureau QuickFacts table for Emeryville city, California, a place of 12,905 people in the 2020 Census, with basic population, business and geography statistics.
Open official site U.S. Census Bureau QuickFactsCity records
Emeryville posts City Council agendas and minutes, the municipal code and election and candidate information, and has pages for the City Clerk, community development, police and concern reporting. City offices: 1333 Park Ave.
Open official site City of EmeryvilleCity records
Emeryville City Clerk, the office that keeps county filings and public records, with the copies and searches it publishes.
Open official site Emeryville City ClerkEverything else, organized
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Local record guide
Local profile
Emeryville, a place of 12,905 people, is in Alameda County, whose county seat is Oakland. Court and property records sit with Alameda County, and birth and death certificates come from the State of California. Emeryville's own offices are in the cards above, and our Alameda 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 Emeryville.
Deeds for property in Emeryville are recorded by the Alameda County Recorder, and the county office that assesses property keeps the tax values. Our Alameda 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.