California, Alameda County
Where Oakland's records are kept. Oakland 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 Oakland's own offices, along with State of California offices; the Alameda County offices are on our Alameda 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
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 GuideState 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 WebsitePolice & jail
The California Department of Justice sends people a copy of their own state criminal history to review: Live Scan or card fingerprints and a $25 fee are required, and third party requests are refused.
Open official site California DOJ Request Your Own Criminal RecordFederal
Population, housing, income and business statistics for Oakland city, California, published by the U.S. Census Bureau in QuickFacts from its population estimates, American Community Survey and economic programs.
Open official site U.S. Census Bureau QuickFactsProperty records
City of Oakland home page, based at 1 Frank H. Ogawa Plaza, with OAK 311 issue reports, permit applications, business tax renewals, parking ticket payment and council meeting information.
Open official site City of OaklandProperty records
City legal records and public files One Frank H. Ogawa Plaza First and Second Floors Oakland, CA 94612
Open official site Oakland City Clerk DepartmentPolice & jail
Law enforcement and public safety 455 Seventh St Oakland, CA 94607 Phone: (510) 777-3333
Open official site Oakland Police DepartmentEverything else, organized
15 more Oakland sources not listed above.
Local record guide
Local profile
Oakland, a place of 440,646 people, is the seat of Alameda County. Court and property records sit with Alameda County, and birth and death certificates come from the State of California. Oakland's own offices are in the cards above, and our Alameda 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 14 mine sites inside the city or town limits: 6 past producers, now closed, 1 prospect or occurrence that was never worked, 6 sites producing when the record was made, 1 processing plant, which is not a working; the old survey maps add 9 holes drawn inside the city or town limits, 3 of them shafts or tunnels. The minerals the records name are construction sand and gravel; Stone; Sulfur-Pyrite, Copper, Silver.
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.
California 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 278 investigations with a Oakland address since fiscal 2005 and recorded $6,440,851 in back wages agreed for 5,550 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc. | 10 | $1,791,205 | 1,711 |
| Alameda County Medical Center | 4 | $875,814 | 1,339 |
| Ecotality Inc | 2 | $854,242 | 88 |
| Alameda County Medcial Center | 1 | $283,692 | 661 |
| Peony Restaurant, LP | 1 | $233,370 | 87 |
| Bellaken Health GROUP, LLC | 1 | $169,224 | 102 |
| Side Bar & Associates/Security USA, Inc. | 5 | $148,897 | 133 |
| Athletics Investment Group | 2 | $138,250 | 87 |
| Calidad Industries, Inc. | 7 | $135,840 | 45 |
| American President Lines, LTD | 1 | $127,547 | 71 |
| Side Bar & Associates, Inc. | 5 | $111,877 | 129 |
| Alameda Contra Costa Transit | 1 | $103,000 | 20 |
| Hair Magic Beauty Supply | 1 | $96,541 | 7 |
| CGI Federal Inc. | 1 | $82,234 | 123 |
| Spettro Restaurant | 1 | $74,368 | 15 |
| Rosas Brothers Construction Inc. | 1 | $67,825 | 18 |
| Mastec North America, Inc. | 1 | $55,753 | 7 |
| Elevate U.S. Limited, LLC | 1 | $54,121 | 10 |
| Solnus & LLC | 1 | $53,051 | 24 |
| ABC Security Service | 1 | $52,931 | 19 |
| CMK Group, Inc. | 1 | $48,600 | 6 |
| New Horizons Home for the Aged, Inc. | 3 | $46,573 | 6 |
| APL Logistics Americas, Ltd. | 1 | $40,890 | 25 |
| 14th Street Chicken Corporation | 1 | $39,827 | 15 |
| Green Church's, Inc. | 1 | $39,432 | 40 |
The 25 employers with the most back wages agreed, of 200 whose address on the record is in Oakland; 71 employers have a page of their own and open from the table, the rest show their whole record here. The 175 more with smaller records are on the California wage theft records page, whose search answers for every employer in the state.
Straight answers
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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 Oakland.
Deeds for property in Oakland are recorded by the Alameda County Recorder, and the county office that assesses property keeps the tax values. Our Alameda 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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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.