California, San Diego County
Where Oceanside's records are kept. Oceanside has its own city government; county and state offices keep its other public records.
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The cards below include Oceanside's own offices, along with State of California offices; the San Diego County offices are on our San Diego County page. Use the category buttons to narrow the list.
Police & 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 RecordProperty 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
San Diego and Imperial counties' bankruptcy court is housed in the Jacob Weinberger U.S. Courthouse, 325 West F Street, open 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., and offers an unclaimed funds search and self help center.
Open official site U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Southern 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 Diego Field Office list of fugitives, terrorism suspects, kidnapping and missing person cases, and cases where agents are seeking information. Results can be filtered by year and sorted by name.
Open official site FBI San Diego 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 QuickFacts table for Oceanside city, California: population estimates, age, race and Hispanic origin, housing, households, education, income and poverty, drawn from census counts and survey data.
Open official site U.S. Census Bureau QuickFactsCity records
Oceanside city government home page: City Hall at 300 North Coast Hwy, (760) 435-4500, council agendas, eTRAKiT online permits, business licenses, utility bill payment and a GIS data hub.
Open official site City of OceansideCity records
Oceanside City Clerk at 300 North Coast Hwy handles elections and campaign filings, boards and commissions, the lobbyist program, the municipal code and public records requests.
Open official site Oceanside City ClerkEverything else, organized
10 more Oceanside sources not listed above.
Local record guide
Local profile
Oceanside, a place of 174,068 people, is in San Diego County, whose county seat is San Diego. Court and property records sit with San Diego County, and birth and death certificates come from the State of California. Oceanside's own offices are in the cards above, and our San Diego 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 USGS mineral file records 16 named mine sites inside the city or town limits, 14 of them worked out or abandoned; the USGS topographic mine features add 6 features mapped inside the city or town limits, 0 of them shafts, adits or tunnels, digitised from the old survey sheets. The minerals the records name are construction sand and gravel; crushed stone; Clay.
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.
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 Oceanside.
Deeds for property in Oceanside are recorded by the San Diego County Recorder, and the county office that assesses property keeps the tax values. Our San Diego 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.