Kansas, Wyandotte County
Where Kansas City's records are kept. Kansas City has its own city government, police department, municipal court, clerk's office and utility office; county and state offices keep its other public records.
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The cards below include Kansas City's own offices, along with the Wyandotte County and State of Kansas offices that keep the rest of its public records. Use the category buttons to narrow the list.
City records
Home of the Unified Government of Wyandotte County and Kansas City, Kansas, based at City Hall, 701 N. 7th Street: online payments, the 311 Call Center, garbage collection, utilities, public works and treasury.
Open official site Unified Government of Wyandotte County and Kansas City, KansasPolice & jail
The Kansas City, Kansas Police Department, headquartered at 700 Minnesota Ave.: crime reporting, crime statistics and a community crime map, animal services, policies and body worn camera information.
Open official site Kansas City, Kansas Police DepartmentPolice & jail
Copies of criminal offense reports and accident reports come from the KCKPD Records Unit in the lobby of police headquarters, 700 Minnesota Ave., in person or through online request forms.
Open official site Kansas City, Kansas Police Department Records UnitMunicipal court
Kansas City, Kansas Municipal Court, on the second floor of City Hall at 701 N 7th St, hears adult misdemeanors and takes ticket payments, diversion applications and requests for certified records.
Open official site Kansas City, Kansas Municipal CourtCity records
Kansas Open Records Act requests for Unified Government records go to the Clerks Division, City Hall Suite 323, 701 N. 7th Street, through the NextRequest portal or a mailed request form.
Open official site Unified Government Clerk's OfficeCity records
BPU, the community owned electric and water utility serving Wyandotte County from 540 Minnesota Avenue: bill payment, account access, new or transferred service, outage maps and payment assistance.
Open official site Kansas City Board of Public UtilitiesPolice & jail
FBI national most wanted criminals, search for Kansas City area subjects.
Open official site FBI Most WantedState records
National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, with a 24 hour hotline at 1-800-843-5678, missing child posters, AMBER Alerts, the CyberTipline and a list of state missing person clearinghouses.
Open official site National Center for Missing & Exploited ChildrenVital 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 CaseVital records
The Unified Government of Wyandotte County and Kansas City explains how to order certified Kansas birth, death, marriage, divorce and stillbirth certificates, with a section on vital statistics.
Open official site Unified Government Life EventsState records
State agency based in Topeka that runs the State Archives research room, the Kansas Museum of History, the Kansas Memory online collection, Capitol tours and 16 state historic sites.
Open official site Kansas Historical SocietyCounty court
Federal bankruptcy court for Kansas with calendars and dockets, PACER case access, KSBFastFile for filing a proof of claim, an unclaimed funds locator, local rules, forms and the fee schedule.
Open official site United States Bankruptcy Court, District of KansasEverything else, organized
15 more Kansas City sources not listed above.
Local record guide
Local profile
Kansas City, a place of 156,607 people, is the seat of Wyandotte County. Court and property records sit with Wyandotte County, and birth and death certificates come from the State of Kansas. Kansas City's own offices are in the cards above, and our Wyandotte County page lists each county office.
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Voter registration in Kansas is run by the Kansas Secretary of State and local election officials. Its site lists the registration deadline, online voter registration, polling places and the local election office for Kansas City.
Deeds for property in Kansas City are recorded by the Wyandotte County Register of Deeds, and the county office that assesses property keeps the tax values. Our Wyandotte County page lists the county offices.
Certified birth and death certificates for events in Kansas come from the state vital records office, Kansas Office of Vital Statistics. 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.