Missouri, Jackson County
Where Independence's records are kept. Independence has its own city government, police department, municipal court, clerk's office and permit and planning office; county and state offices keep its other public records.
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The cards below include Independence's own offices, along with State of Missouri offices; the Jackson County offices are on our Jackson County page. Use the category buttons to narrow the list.
City records
The City of Independence, Missouri, whose city offices are at 20201 E. Jackson Drive, posts news and updates and menus to pay, report, request, apply for and renew city services.
Open official site City of IndependencePolice & jail
Independence Police Department, 17221 E. 23rd St. South, a suburban force east of Kansas City with 230 sworn officers: its annual report, police records, victim resources and commendation or complaint forms.
Open official site Independence Police DepartmentPolice & jail
The Police Records Unit at 17221 E. 23rd Street South answers Sunshine Law requests for police reports, body camera footage and 911 calls, and handles criminal history requests and ride along permits.
Open official site Independence Police Records UnitMunicipal court
Independence Municipal Court at 223 N. Memorial Drive hears city ordinance violations; it offers an online court date search and ticket payment, the Traffic Violation Bureau and a youth court.
Open official site Independence Municipal CourtCity records
The City Clerk is custodian of records for Independence and takes written Sunshine Law requests, fire reports included, while council, charter, permit and vendor payment records are posted online.
Open official site Independence City Clerk, Access to City RecordsCity records
Part of Independence Community Development, the Building Inspections Division inspects new residential and commercial construction and issues plumbing, electrical and construction permits, with online permit applications, inspection requests and contractor licensing.
Open official site Independence Building Inspections DivisionPolice & jail
FBI wanted posters, from the Ten Most Wanted list to fugitives, terrorism suspects, kidnapped and missing persons, bank robbers and seeking information cases; tips go to tips.fbi.gov.
Open official site FBI Most WantedCounty court
Missouri Case.net, run by the state judiciary, searches public court cases by litigant name, case number or filing date; its entries are a service, not the official court record.
Open official site Missouri Case.netVital records
Department of Health and Senior Services bureau issuing certified copies of Missouri births and deaths recorded since 1910, with a marriage and divorce registry since 1948 and 115 local offices that serve visitors in person.
Open official site Missouri Bureau of Vital RecordsVital records
USAGov explains how to get certified copies of birth and death certificates, copies of marriage and divorce records, and replacements for lost or stolen government ID cards.
Open official site USAGov Guide to Copies of Vital Records and IDsCounty court
The federal judiciary's national index of district, bankruptcy and appellate court cases. Searching needs a free PACER account; pages cost $0.10, capped at $3 per document, with quarterly charges of $30 or less waived.
Open official site PACER Case LocatorFederal
USAGov sends you to your state's unclaimed property office, which holds most unclaimed money, and to federal searches for back wages, pensions, IRS refunds, savings bonds and deposits from failed banks.
Open official site USAGov Guide to Unclaimed MoneyVital records
The Social Security Administration explains survivor benefits, monthly payments to eligible relatives of workers who paid Social Security taxes before death, including who qualifies, possible amounts and when to report a death.
Open official site Social Security Survivor BenefitsPolice & jail
U.S. Department of Justice search of public sex offender registries from every state, territory and many tribes by name or ZIP code; address radius searches cover only states that send coordinates.
Open official site Dru Sjodin National Sex Offender Public WebsiteFederal
USAGov explains checking your registration through Can I Vote, which opens your state's election website, and advises doing it before the state deadline, which can be up to 30 days before an election.
Open official site USAGov Guide to Confirming Voter RegistrationCounty court
Federal judiciary guide to finding a case in PACER: search the court where it was filed for current data, or the nationwide PACER Case Locator, updated daily. A PACER account is required.
Open official site PACER Find a CaseState records
The Secretary of State's archives holds over 336 million pages of records, with online databases for births and deaths before 1910, death certificates from 1910 to 1975, naturalizations and soldiers' records.
Open official site Missouri State Archives ResearchCounty court
Bankruptcy section of the Western District of Missouri court site, with hearing calendars and docket dates, judges, forms, local rules and opinions, plus free discharge copies sent by email as a PDF.
Open official site United States Bankruptcy Court, Western District of MissouriEverything else, organized
15 more Independence sources not listed above.
Local record guide
Local profile
Independence, a place of 123,011 people, is in Jackson County, whose county seat is Kansas City. Court and property records sit with Jackson County, and birth and death certificates come from the State of Missouri. Independence's own offices are in the cards above, and our Jackson 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 20 mine sites inside the city or town limits: 20 past producers, now closed; the old survey maps add 32 holes drawn inside the city or town limits, 6 of them shafts or tunnels. The minerals the records name are crushed stone; 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.
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.
Independence sits over the Western Region coal field and the coal there is medium and high volatile bituminous, worked underground in many places. The two federal files record a shaft, an adit or a deposit where one was drawn on a survey sheet or catalogued as a site; neither file carries the outline of the workings, so the counts above are not the measure of what was mined under this town. The record that shows it is the mine map, held by Missouri Mine Map Repository (Missouri Geological Survey) and linked below.
Missouri 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 157 investigations with a Independence address since fiscal 2005 and recorded $1,427,115 in back wages agreed for 3,146 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Riuma, LLC | 1 | $171,479 | 29 |
| JYR's El Maguey Corporation, Inc. | 2 | $128,682 | 54 |
| First Call Staffing Solutions, Inc. | 1 | $105,645 | 57 |
| N & R of Independence, LLC | 1 | $101,889 | 1,206 |
| Polar Aire Heating and Cooling Service, Inc. | 4 | $74,331 | 31 |
| Schwope Brothers Tree Farms, LLC | 1 | $50,315 | 55 |
| Four Horizons, Incorporated | 1 | $49,090 | 21 |
| Green Field Energy Grooup, Inc | 1 | $47,690 | 22 |
| El Jinete, LLC | 1 | $45,625 | 20 |
| Express Transportation of Kansas City, LLC | 1 | $34,884 | 22 |
| Care by Cassie Inc | 1 | $34,182 | 175 |
| Lan-Tel Communication Services, Inc | 2 | $33,996 | 39 |
| BW Independence Venture, LLC | 1 | $28,794 | 66 |
| Stealth Garments LLC | 1 | $27,807 | 26 |
| Alliant Techsystems Inc | 2 | $24,241 | 42 |
| Bethel Home Health Care LLC | 1 | $21,812 | 8 |
| Community Access | 1 | $21,176 | 35 |
| Jai Ganesh, LLC | 1 | $20,643 | 7 |
| Truck Trailer & Hitch Center of Independence | 1 | $15,506 | 5 |
| Bear communications | 1 | $14,603 | 5 |
| Silver Star Electric, LLC | 1 | $14,523 | 3 |
| Leidos, Inc. | 1 | $13,939 | 3 |
| Wackenhut Services, Inc. | 1 | $13,694 | 52 |
| Independence Hotel Properties, Inc. | 1 | $13,633 | 4 |
| RPR Enterprises, Incorporated | 2 | $12,351 | 8 |
The 25 employers with the most back wages agreed, of 140 whose address on the record is in Independence; 40 employers have a page of their own and open from the table, the rest show their whole record here. The 115 more with smaller records are on the Missouri wage theft records page, whose search answers for every employer in the state.
Straight answers
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Voter registration in Missouri is run by the Missouri Secretary of State and local election officials. Its site lists the registration deadline, online voter registration, polling places and the local election office for Independence.
Deeds for property in Independence are recorded by the Jackson County Recorder of Deeds, and the county office that assesses property keeps the tax values. Our Jackson County page lists the county offices.
Certified birth and death certificates for events in Missouri come from the state vital records office, Missouri Bureau of 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.