New York, Tompkins County
Where Ithaca's records are kept. Ithaca 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 Ithaca's own offices, along with State of New York offices; the Tompkins County offices are on our Tompkins County page. Use the category buttons to narrow the list.
City records
City of Ithaca, New York, with City Hall at 108 E. Green Street: online bill, tax and parking ticket payments, building permits and dog licenses, agendas and minutes, and SIREN alert sign up.
Open official site City of IthacaPolice & jail
The Ithaca Police Department at 120 E. Clinton St. patrols about 10 square miles of the city and posts its incident log, general orders, year end reports and victim resources.
Open official site Ithaca Police DepartmentPolice & jail
Ithaca Police answers on records: most police reports are released through a Freedom of Information Law request, accident reports are sold online, and lost property goes through the IPD Records Division.
Open official site Ithaca Police Department FAQsCity records
The City Clerk, as Records Access Officer at 108 East Green Street, takes FOIL requests for City of Ithaca records through the new online portal or on paper; appeals go to the City Manager.
Open official site City of Ithaca Freedom of Information Law RequestsCity records
Ithaca's City Clerk keeps the official city records and cemetery records, supports Common Council, processes Freedom of Information Law requests and issues marriage and dog licenses and residential parking permits.
Open official site City of Ithaca City ClerkPolice & 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 WantedPolice & jail
Run by the state Division of Criminal Justice Services, the clearinghouse aids police with missing children, college students and vulnerable adults, posts active alerts and unsolved cases, and takes tips by form or hotline.
Open official site DCJS Missing Persons ClearinghouseVital 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 CaseProperty records
The state Tax Department's real property pages cover STAR credits with a property tax credit lookup, help for assessors, the RP-5217 transfer report and Sales Web, a searchable database of property sales.
Open official site New York State Tax Department Real PropertyCity records
The State Archives keeps executive, legislative and judicial records of New York government, with online finding aids, name indexes and digital collections, and provides copies to researchers who cannot visit in person.
Open official site New York State ArchivesCounty court
Northern New York's bankruptcy court keeps offices in Albany, Utica and Syracuse and posts court and 341 meeting calendars, motion dates, and its loss mitigation and mediation programs.
Open official site U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Northern District of New YorkEverything else, organized
16 more Ithaca sources not listed above.
Local record guide
Local profile
Ithaca, a place of 32,108 people, is the seat of Tompkins County. Court and property records sit with Tompkins County, and birth and death certificates come from the State of New York. Ithaca's own offices are in the cards above, and our Tompkins 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 5 mine sites inside the city or town limits: 4 past producers, now closed, 1 site producing when the record was made; the old survey maps add 2 holes drawn inside the city or town limits, 0 of them shafts or tunnels. The minerals the records name are construction sand and gravel; Salt.
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. New York has no coal AML program; the DEC database covers permitted mines, not historic underground workings.
New York 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 39 investigations with a Ithaca address since fiscal 2005 and recorded $485,644 in back wages agreed for 2,007 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cornell University | 2 | $193,591 | 1,460 |
| Reconstruction Home & Health Care Center, Inc | 1 | $68,900 | 94 |
| Lakeside Nursing Home, Inc. | 2 | $41,607 | 55 |
| Reconstruction Home, Inc. | 1 | $39,643 | 59 |
| LLENROC, Inc. | 1 | $25,341 | 109 |
| The Lightgauge Company, Inc. (David Staviski | 1 | $14,340 | 30 |
| Ursa Space Systems, Inc. | 1 | $13,590 | 6 |
| Pleasant Valley Electric, Inc. | 1 | $13,367 | 20 |
| Oak Hill Acquisition Company, LLC | 1 | $6,454 | 25 |
| Jon-Nel Cleaning & Servicing Inc. | 1 | $6,424 | 2 |
| Bridges AC INC. | 1 | $5,931 | 11 |
| Cayuga Medical Associates, P.C. | 1 | $4,874 | 1 |
| Cornell Laundry & Cleaning Center, Inc. | 1 | $4,400 | 6 |
| CNY Foodservice Group, LLC | 1 | $2,439 | 20 |
| Royal Court Restaurant, Inc. | 1 | $1,682 | 1 |
| Challenge Industries, Inc. | 2 | $808 | 67 |
| Franziska Racker Centers, Inc. | 2 | $533 | 3 |
| BTRNC, LLC | 1 | $49 | 2 |
| Fedex Kinko's Office and Print Services Inc. | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| Ithacare Center Service Company, Inc. | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| Marina Realty of Ithaca LLC | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| JA Carson Group | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| Cornell University Dept. of Horticulture | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| Avramis Real Estate | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| Burton S. Markowitz OD | 1 | $0 | 0 |
The 25 employers with the most back wages agreed, of 33 whose address on the record is in Ithaca; 11 employers have a page of their own and open from the table, the rest show their whole record here. The 8 more with smaller records are on the New York wage theft records page, whose search answers for every employer in the state.
Straight answers
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Voter registration in New York is run by the New York State Board of Elections and local election officials. Its site lists the registration deadline, online voter registration, polling places and the local election office for Ithaca.
Deeds for property in Ithaca are recorded by the Tompkins County Clerk, and the city or town assessor keeps the tax values. Our Tompkins County page lists the county offices.
Certified birth and death certificates for events in New York come from the state vital records office, New York State 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.