California, Marin County
Where Mill Valley's records are kept. Mill Valley has its own city government and clerk's office; county and state offices keep its other public records.
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The cards below include Mill Valley's own offices, along with State of California offices; the Marin County offices are on our Marin County page. Use the category buttons to narrow the list.
Police & jail
California Department of Justice fingerprint background checks for employment, licensing, certification, foreign adoption or visa and immigration needs. It says 80 percent of electronic checks finish within three business days.
Open official site California DOJ Applicant Background ChecksProperty 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
Sits in San Francisco, Oakland, Santa Rosa and San Jose and posts judges' and 341 meeting calendars, local rules, forms and guidance for people filing without an attorney.
Open official site U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern 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
FBI San Francisco Field Office posters for wanted fugitives, kidnapped and missing persons, cyber suspects and cases where agents ask the public for information; tips can be sent through tips.fbi.gov.
Open official site FBI San Francisco 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
Census Bureau summary of the city of Mill Valley, California drawn from the 2020 Census (14,231 people), population estimates and the American Community Survey, with demographic, housing, economic and geographic statistics.
Open official site U.S. Census Bureau QuickFactsCity records
City of Mill Valley pages for meetings and agendas, building services and forms, business licenses, road closure updates, issue reports, the municipal code and library events. City Hall: 26 Corte Madera Avenue, 415-388-4033.
Open official site City of Mill ValleyProperty records
Mill Valley's City Clerk prepares council agendas and packets, records meetings, codifies the municipal code, runs municipal elections and campaign filings and maintains legislative records. 26 Corte Madera Avenue; 415-384-4838.
Open official site Mill Valley City ClerkEverything else, organized
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Local record guide
Local profile
Mill Valley, a place of 14,231 people, is in Marin County, whose county seat is San Rafael. Court and property records sit with Marin County, and birth and death certificates come from the State of California. Mill Valley's own offices are in the cards above, and our Marin County page lists each county office.
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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 Mill Valley.
Deeds for property in Mill Valley are recorded by the Marin County Recorder, and the county office that assesses property keeps the tax values. Our Marin 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.
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.