California, Orange County
Where La Palma's records are kept. La Palma has its own city government, clerk's office and police department; county and state offices keep its other public records.
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The cards below include La Palma's own offices, along with State of California offices; the Orange County offices are on our Orange County page. Use the category buttons to narrow the list.
Property records
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.
Open official site California State Board of Equalization Property Tax DepartmentState records
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.
Open official site California State Archives CollectionsCounty court
Bankruptcy court for California's Central District, offering PACER lookup, online petitions, live chat with court staff and self help desks with pro bono help in each of its five divisions.
Open official site U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of CaliforniaCounty court
Judicial Branch guide to looking up a California case: county courts keep the records, so start on the court's website or with its clerk; juvenile and adoption files are confidential.
Open official site California Courts Self Help GuideVital 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.
Open official site California Department of Public Health Vital RecordsState records
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.
Open official site California DOJ Missing and Unidentified Persons SectionPolice & jail
Wanted and missing person posters from the FBI Los Angeles Field Office, including Ten Most Wanted fugitives, Most Wanted Fraudsters and cases where agents seek information; tips go to tips.fbi.gov.
Open official site FBI Los Angeles Wanted and Missing PersonsPolice & jail
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.
Open official site California Megan's Law WebsiteFederal
Latest Census Bureau numbers for the city of La Palma, California in QuickFacts, from its 2020 Census total of 15,581 to estimates of age, sex, housing, income and business counts, shown without margins of error.
Open official site U.S. Census Bureau QuickFactsCity records
Official City of La Palma website with budgets, records and laws, water and trash utilities, online payments, the city clerk, community development and police and fire services. City Hall: 7822 Walker Street.
Open official site City of La PalmaCity records
City records management 7822 Walker St. La Palma, CA 90623 Ph: (714) 690-3334 Fx: (714) 523-2141
Open official site La Palma City ClerkPolice & jail
Law enforcement services 7792 Walker Street La Palma, CA 90623 Ph: (714) 690-3370 Fx: (714) 523-7351
Open official site La Palma Police DepartmentEverything else, organized
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Local record guide
Local profile
La Palma, a place of 15,581 people, is in Orange County, whose county seat is Santa Ana. Court and property records sit with Orange County, and birth and death certificates come from the State of California. La Palma's own offices are in the cards above, and our Orange County page lists each county office.
Labor Department file
The U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division closed 10 investigations with a La Palma address since fiscal 2005 and recorded $338,762 in back wages agreed for 404 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hand-in-Hand Homecare, Inc. | 1 | $242,326 | 266 |
| Friendly Maintenance, LLC | 1 | $32,416 | 33 |
| AppleCare Medical Management, LLC | 2 | $30,810 | 11 |
| Tidy Enterprise of CR, Inc | 1 | $19,888 | 77 |
| Tiny Planet, Inc. | 1 | $12,496 | 2 |
| Arco Facility No. 5912 | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| LMC Security Solutions, Inc. | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| Friendly Franchise Corporation | 1 | $0 | 0 |
Every employer whose address on the record is in La Palma, by back wages agreed; 5 employers have a page of their own and open from the table, the rest show their whole record in this row. The California wage theft records page ranks the whole state.
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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 La Palma.
Deeds for property in La Palma are recorded by the Orange County Recorder, and the county office that assesses property keeps the tax values. Our Orange County page lists the county offices.
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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