Michigan, Kent County
Where Grand Rapids's records are kept. Grand Rapids has its own city government, police department and clerk's office; county and state offices keep its other public records.
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The cards below include Grand Rapids's own offices, along with State of Michigan offices; the Kent County offices are on our Kent County page. Use the category buttons to narrow the list.
Police & 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 SearchState 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 CourtsVital records
Michigan Department of Health and Human Services page for birth, stillbirth, death, marriage and divorce records and affidavits of parentage: order a certified copy, correct or amend a record, or register one.
Open official site Michigan MDHHS Vital RecordsPolice & jail
Michigan State Police steps to take when someone goes missing, from checking with friends and family to filing a missing person report with the local police agency.
Open official site Michigan State Police Missing PersonsPolice & jail
Public registry kept by the Michigan State Police under the Sex Offenders Registration Act, MCL 28.721, listing convicted sex offenders who must register in Michigan.
Open official site Michigan Public Sex Offender RegistryPolice & jail
Michigan State Police checks by name through ICHAT, covering felonies and misdemeanors punishable by more than 93 days from all 83 counties, or by fingerprints where a law requires it.
Open official site Michigan State Police Criminal History Checks (ICHAT)Federal
Census Bureau QuickFacts table for Grand Rapids city, Michigan, a place of 198,917 people in the 2020 Census, with basic population, business and geography statistics.
Open official site U.S. Census Bureau QuickFactsCity records
The City of Grand Rapids website covers 311 customer service, elections, payments, city taxes, permits, water and sewer service and inspections and code enforcement. City Hall: 300 Monroe Avenue NW, 616.456.3000.
Open official site City of Grand RapidsPolice & jail
Grand Rapids Michigan Police Department, with the incident reports, record requests and contacts the department publishes.
Open official site Grand Rapids Michigan Police DepartmentState records
Contact and search Grand Rapids clerk office official city records 300 Monroe Avenue NW, 2nd Floor Grand Rapids, MI 4950
Open official site Grand Rapids Michigan City ClerkEverything else, organized
18 more Grand Rapids sources not listed above.
Local record guide
Local profile
Grand Rapids, a place of 198,917 people, is the seat of Kent County. Court and property records sit with Kent County, and birth and death certificates come from the State of Michigan. Grand Rapids's own offices are in the cards above, and our Kent 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 4 mine sites inside the city or town limits: 2 past producers, now closed, 1 site producing when the record was made, 1 site with no status in the record; the old survey maps add 13 holes drawn inside the city or town limits, 3 of them shafts or tunnels. The mineral the records name is Gypsum-Anhydrite.
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. GeoWebFace shows historic mining sites as points; no agency page with underground workings outlines was found, and the OSMRE National Mine Map Repository holds Michigan maps.
Rows taken off the old survey maps open the USGS record of what sits at that spot, because no single feature on those maps has a page of its own. Rows from the mine records open their own USGS page.
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 598 investigations with a Grand Rapids address since fiscal 2005 and recorded $4,277,801 in back wages agreed for 6,663 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Corporate Security Solutions, Inc. | 4 | $431,407 | 764 |
| Dematic Corp. | 3 | $249,423 | 64 |
| Access Mortgage and Financial Corporation | 3 | $181,608 | 127 |
| Pearson Foods Corporation | 2 | $150,634 | 204 |
| Consolidated Drywall, Inc. | 2 | $132,589 | 33 |
| Roth Trucking, Inc. | 6 | $125,796 | 100 |
| D & D Building Inc. | 1 | $98,385 | 70 |
| Rockford Construction Inc. | 7 | $98,068 | 62 |
| Triad Service Center, Inc. | 3 | $91,439 | 82 |
| Andy J. Egan Co., Inc. | 2 | $76,744 | 38 |
| Kamminga & Roodvoets, Inc. | 1 | $68,077 | 188 |
| Riverside Integrated Systems, Inc | 2 | $63,837 | 15 |
| Renaissance Recovery Solutions, Inc. | 1 | $61,760 | 121 |
| JU Enterprises LLC | 2 | $59,835 | 15 |
| Avalon Financial Corporation | 1 | $58,412 | 62 |
| Hearthside Food Solutions, LLC | 4 | $53,568 | 270 |
| The Saucy Crab Grand Rapids Inc | 1 | $52,500 | 28 |
| Dignified Living Services, LLC | 2 | $51,409 | 6 |
| Paul J. Sommerdyke Plumbing, Inc. | 1 | $50,174 | 3 |
| Tian Li Restaurant, Inc. | 1 | $45,423 | 12 |
| Kevin Brown Drywall | 2 | $45,176 | 11 |
| Same Day Delivery | 1 | $44,180 | 14 |
| Sun Bros., Inc. | 1 | $41,821 | 27 |
| Supreme Buffet Inc | 2 | $39,750 | 23 |
| DuHadway, Kendall, & Associates, Inc. | 3 | $35,393 | 58 |
The 25 employers with the most back wages agreed, of 490 whose address on the record is in Grand Rapids; 170 employers have a page of their own and open from the table, the rest show their whole record here. The 465 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 Grand Rapids.
Deeds for property in Grand Rapids are recorded by the Kent County Register of Deeds, and the city or town assessor keeps the tax values. Our Kent 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.
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.