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Find the right office in Lafayette County. Court cases, deeds and parcels, sheriff and jail records, vital records and county filings, each linked to the office that keeps them.
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Court records
The Lafayette County Clerk of the Circuit Court keeps the county's court case files, takes the filings and the fees and issues certified copies of the records.
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Official death certificates from the county of Lafayette.
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Search for information for county businesses.
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Official birth certificates from the county of Lafayette.
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The Lafayette County Library, a department of the county commission, lists its hours, its catalogue, its events and its directions, with its line at (386) 294-1021.
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County profile
Sheriff & Law Enforcement. Lafayette County Sheriff's Office is the primary law enforcement agency in Lafayette County.
Police Departments. Lafayette County is primarily served by Lafayette County Sheriff's Office, which handles law enforcement duties across Lafayette County. In addition to the Sheriff's Office, the town of Mayo has its own municipal police department that focuses on local law enforcement within the town limits.
Law Enforcement & Arrests. Law enforcement in Lafayette County, Florida is primarily provided by Lafayette County Sheriff's Office, located at 120 NE Crawford Street, Mayo, FL 32066. Lafayette County Detention Center, operated by the Sheriff's Office at the same address, houses inmates arrested within Lafayette County. The Sheriff's Office website may provide limited online inmate lookup capabilities, though direct contact is often necessary for current booking information. Because Lafayette County's municipalities are unincorporated or very small, there are no separate municipal police departments; the Sheriff's Office provides full law enforcement coverage for the entire county including Mayo. Arrest records and booking information are public records in Florida under Florida Statute 119.071(2)(c), which governs criminal intelligence and investigative information. Lafayette County does not have tribal police jurisdiction, and all law enforcement matters fall under the Sheriff's Office authority or, for state-level offenses, the Florida Highway Patrol and Florida Department of Law Enforcement.
Arrest Records. They are maintained by the arresting agency, primarily the County Sheriff's Office and municipal police departments.
• Phone: (386) 294-1222
Abandoned mine records
Where the workings are, and the office that holds the mine maps.
From the old mine records
The mine records hold 9 named mine sites inside the county, 4 of them worked out or abandoned; the old survey maps add 5 holes drawn inside the county, 0 of them shafts or tunnels. The minerals the records name are Phosphorus-Phosphates; construction sand and gravel; crushed stone.
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. Florida sinkholes are karst, not mine subsidence.
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.
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Booking photos are kept by the agency that made the arrest, such as the Lafayette County Sheriff or a city police department in Lafayette County. Ask that agency for its record. Under section 901.43, Florida Statutes, anyone who publishes arrest booking photographs may not solicit or accept a fee to remove them, and must remove a photograph without charge within 10 calendar days after a written request sent by registered mail.
The Florida criminal history record comes from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, Criminal Justice Information Services. Online name based search of public Florida criminal history through the FDLE Instant Search (results are not certified), or a certified request; FDLE no longer takes mailed request forms. Fee: $24.00 per search, plus a $1.00 credit card processing fee.
Search the Florida Sexual Offenders and Predators (FDLE), or every state at once on the National Sex Offender Public Website run by the U.S. Department of Justice.
Register with the county Supervisor of Elections or through the Florida Division of Elections. You can also register online with the state online registration. The deadline to register to vote for an upcoming election is 29 days before the election.
Deeds and other recorded land documents in Lafayette County are kept by the Lafayette County Clerk of the Circuit Court, as county recorder. Property values are set by the county Property Appraiser, and tax bills come from the county Tax Collector. Source: official state page.
Certified birth and death certificates for Florida come from the Florida Department of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics. Local county health departments take mail in and walk in requests for Florida birth records from 1917 to the present; fees vary by county. By mail to Florida Department of Health, Vital Statistics, P.O. Box 210, Jacksonville, Fl 32231-0042, walk in at 1217 N Pearl St., Jacksonville, at a county health department, or online and by phone through VitalChek (877-550-7330), the only contracted vendor. Fee: $9 for the first computer generated birth certification (includes the $9 search fee); $4 for each additional copy.
Business entity filings are searched with the Florida Department of State, Division of Corporations (Sunbiz). Counties and cities may levy a local business tax and issue local business tax receipts under Chapter 205, Florida Statutes.
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