Where Gilroy's records are kept. Gilroy 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 Gilroy's own offices, along with State of California offices; the Santa Clara County offices are on our Santa Clara County page. Use the category buttons to narrow the list.
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Police & jail
California DOJ Request Your Own Criminal Record
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.
California State Board of Equalization Property Tax Department
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.
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.
U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of California
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.
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.
California Department of Public Health Vital 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.
California DOJ Missing and Unidentified Persons Section
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.
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.
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.
QuickFacts from the U.S. Census Bureau for Gilroy city, California: frequently requested figures on population, business and geography; the 2020 Census counted 59,520 residents.
Gilroy's city website with the Open Gilroy public records portal, a public records request center, building permits and inspections and the staff directory. City Hall: 7351 Rosanna Street.
Gilroy, a place of 59,520 people, is in Santa Clara County, whose county seat is San Jose. Court and property records sit with Santa Clara County, and birth and death certificates come from the State of California. Gilroy's own offices are in the cards above, and our Santa Clara County page lists each county office.
Abandoned mine records
Old mine workings in Gilroy
Where the workings are, and the office that holds the mine maps.
From the old mine records
What is on record in Gilroy
Old mine sites
3
Sites with no status in the records
2
Past producers, now closed
2
Prospects and occurrences, never worked
1
Processing plants, not workings
2
Main minerals
construction sand and gravel
Holes drawn on the old survey maps
4
Shafts and tunnels
0
What they are
gravel pit
Maps surveyed
1955 to 1993
Records behind them
13 records for 11 sites, the rest are the same working written down more than once
The mine records hold 7 mine sites inside the city or town limits: 2 past producers, now closed, 1 prospect or occurrence that was never worked, 2 processing plants, which are not workings, 2 sites with no status in the record; the old survey maps add 4 holes drawn inside the city or town limits, 0 of them shafts or tunnels. The mineral the records name is construction sand and gravel.
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.
Gilroy: the boundary from the Census Bureau, and one dot for each old mine or hole on record inside it. The purple dots come off the old survey maps and the darkest of those are shafts and tunnels; the red, green and orange ones are mine records. The pale shapes with a name around it are the neighbouring places, from the Census Bureau. Hover a dot for its name.California mine map and abandoned mine records
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
Wage and hour cases in Gilroy, California
The U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division closed 56 investigations with a Gilroy address since fiscal 2005 and recorded $393,752 in back wages agreed for 199 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.
The 25 employers with the most back wages agreed, of 44 whose address on the record is in Gilroy; 12 employers have a page of their own and open from the table, the rest show their whole record here. The 19 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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Gilroy public-records FAQs
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How do I register to vote in Gilroy, California?
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 Gilroy.
How do I look up property records in Gilroy, California?
Deeds for property in Gilroy are recorded by the Santa Clara County Recorder, and the county office that assesses property keeps the tax values. Our Santa Clara County page lists the county offices.
How do I get a birth or death certificate in Gilroy, California?
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.
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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.