Georgia, Hall County
Where Gainesville's records are kept. Gainesville has its own city government, police department, municipal court and permit and planning office; county and state offices keep its other public records.
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The cards below include Gainesville's own offices, along with State of Georgia offices; the Hall County offices are on our Hall County page. Use the category buttons to narrow the list.
Police & jail
Gainesville Police Department at 701 Queen City Parkway SW, with citation payment, special event permits, media inquiries, accident report access, Coleman-Baker Act requests and vacation home watch requests.
Open official site Gainesville Police DepartmentMunicipal court
Gainesville Municipal Court at 701 Queen City Parkway SW hears misdemeanor traffic violations and city code violations, and takes citation payments online, by phone, in person or by mail.
Open official site Gainesville Municipal CourtCity records
Gainesville's records specialist, reached through the City Manager's Office at 300 Henry Ward Way, Suite 303, takes Georgia Open Records Act requests by online form and replies within three business days.
Open official site City of Gainesville Open Records RequestCity records
Gainesville building permits, handled at 311 Henry Ward Way, cover additions, decks, demolition, electrical upgrades, fencing and new construction under the 2024 ICC codes and are filed through the Accela Citizen Access Portal.
Open official site Gainesville Building PermitPolice & jail
The GBI explains Georgia criminal history records: your own copy comes from most sheriff's offices or police departments, and another person's record needs that person's signed consent on a state form.
Open official site Georgia Bureau of Investigation Criminal History Record FAQPolice & jail
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation explains what a state criminal history record holds: identity, arrests, charges, court outcomes and prison custody. Get your own copy at most sheriff's offices or police departments.
Open official site Georgia Bureau of Investigation Criminal HistoryState records
Part of the University System of Georgia, the archives has collected the state's historical records since 1918; browse its Virtual Vault online or research in Morrow, Tuesday to Saturday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Open official site Georgia ArchivesCounty court
Covering north Georgia from Atlanta, Gainesville, Newnan and Rome, the court lists available hearing dates and offers a pro se assistance center, electronic claims filing and the PACER case locator.
Open official site United States Bankruptcy Court, Northern District of GeorgiaCounty court
The Judicial Council of Georgia's Administrative Office of the Courts runs this gateway to ticket payment, the child support calculator, court record searches, directories and forms; some features need a login.
Open official site Georgia Judicial GatewayVital records
The Department of Public Health office that registers, preserves, amends and certifies Georgia vital records; order certificates online from listed vendors, by mail, or at a vital records office near you.
Open official site Georgia Department of Public Health Vital RecordsPolice & jail
After a usage agreement, the Georgia Department of Corrections search finds current and former inmates by name, alias, physical description, offense or GDC ID, and shows photos when available.
Open official site Georgia Department of Corrections Find an OffenderPolice & jail
Missing person cases posted by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation show race, height, weight, sex and last seen date for each; tips reach the bureau by phone or its online form.
Open official site Georgia Bureau of Investigation Missing PersonsPolice & jail
In one list sortable by case date or posting date, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation shows its unsolved homicides, missing persons, unidentified remains and robberies.
Open official site Georgia Bureau of Investigation Unsolved CasesPolice & jail
By state law the Georgia Bureau of Investigation keeps the sex offender registry, fed by other agencies and changing often, with links to the offender search, a bimonthly report and a data download.
Open official site Georgia Sex Offender RegistryFederal
The Census Bureau's QuickFacts tool for Gainesville city, Georgia, home to 42,296 people at the 2020 Census, gives basic statistics on its people, businesses and geography.
Open official site U.S. Census Bureau QuickFactsCity records
Gainesville's city site for water service and bill pay, building permits, business tax and licensing, citations, property taxes, code enforcement, open records requests, City Council and the WeGo rideshare.
Open official site City of GainesvilleEverything else, organized
9 more Gainesville sources not listed above.
Local record guide
Local profile
Gainesville, a place of 42,296 people, is the seat of Hall County. Court and property records sit with Hall County, and birth and death certificates come from the State of Georgia. Gainesville's own offices are in the cards above, and our Hall 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 9 mine sites inside the city or town limits: 3 past producers, now closed, 6 prospects or occurrences that were never worked; the old survey maps add 1 hole drawn inside the city or town limits, 0 of them shafts or tunnels. The mineral the records name is Gold.
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. Georgia publishes no abandoned mine inventory; the Dahlonega gold mines are not mapped by the state online.
Georgia 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 118 investigations with a Gainesville address since fiscal 2005 and recorded $1,256,292 in back wages agreed for 1,843 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conditioned Air Systems, Inc. | 6 | $627,299 | 79 |
| Walters Management Company, Inc. | 4 | $193,071 | 251 |
| Supermercado Los 3 Hermanos Inc | 1 | $187,721 | 24 |
| North Georgia Linen Service Inc | 1 | $128,468 | 28 |
| Mar-Jac Poultry, Inc. | 1 | $120,679 | 748 |
| Usps | 9 | $57,066 | 12 |
| Gainesville Heart and Vascular Group, P.C. | 1 | $48,817 | 0 |
| Bill Worley Plumbing Company, Inc. | 2 | $42,746 | 39 |
| Yong Feng, Inc. | 1 | $42,291 | 18 |
| North Georgia Linen Services Inc. | 1 | $33,613 | 26 |
| Extreme Car Wash, LLC | 2 | $31,201 | 6 |
| Denova Inc. | 1 | $29,815 | 8 |
| J & J Foods, Inc. | 2 | $27,046 | 20 |
| World Recycling, Inc | 1 | $26,328 | 31 |
| Flores, Inc | 2 | $25,352 | 23 |
| Hudgins Steel Company | 1 | $23,801 | 8 |
| El Sombrero Mexican Restaurant #5, Inc. | 1 | $21,740 | 7 |
| Shivan of Gainesville Inc. | 1 | $20,819 | 5 |
| South of the Border Enterprises inc | 2 | $20,375 | 36 |
| A & A Mechanical | 1 | $19,743 | 4 |
| Savitaben Inc. | 3 | $18,700 | 7 |
| Chattahoochee Country Club Inc. | 1 | $16,726 | 44 |
| St Luke Medical Center, Inc | 1 | $16,685 | 5 |
| Davani International, Inc | 1 | $15,366 | 22 |
| Food Service Inc. of Gainesville | 2 | $14,608 | 94 |
The 25 employers with the most back wages agreed, of 103 whose address on the record is in Gainesville; 39 employers have a page of their own and open from the table, the rest show their whole record here. The 78 more with smaller records are on the Georgia wage theft records page, whose search answers for every employer in the state.
Straight answers
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Voter registration in Georgia is run by the Georgia Secretary of State and local election officials. Its site lists the registration deadline, online voter registration, polling places and the local election office for Gainesville.
Deeds for property in Gainesville are recorded by the Hall County Clerk of Superior Court, and the county office that assesses property keeps the tax values. Our Hall County page lists the county offices.
Certified birth and death certificates for events in Georgia come from the state vital records office, Georgia State Office of 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.