California, Orange County
Where Placentia's records are kept. Placentia has its own city government; county and state offices keep its other public records.
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The cards below include Placentia'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.
County court
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
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 RecordsPolice & jail
California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation inmate search for Placentia.
Open official site Placentia California Inmate SearchState 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 SectionFederal
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 WebsiteVital records
Census data for Placentia city, California in QuickFacts form: population estimates, age and race, housing, families and living arrangements, computer and internet use, education, health, economy and geography.
Open official site U.S. Census Bureau QuickFactsCity records
Placentia city government site: City Hall at 401 E Chapman Avenue, (714) 993-8117, plus meetings and agendas, a transparency page, the municipal code, police and fire pages, street sweeping maps and the iPlacentia app.
Open official site City of PlacentiaEverything else, organized
11 more Placentia sources not listed above.
Local record guide
Useful local context without burying the official record links above.
Local profile
Placentia, a place of 51,824 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. Placentia's own offices are in the cards above, and our Orange 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 registration where California offers it, polling places and the local election office for Placentia.
Deeds for property in Placentia 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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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.