California, Orange County
Where Santa Ana's records are kept. Santa Ana has its own city government, clerk's office, police department and permit and planning office; county and state offices keep its other public records.
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The cards below include Santa Ana'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.
City records
The Santa Ana City Clerk at 20 Civic Center Plaza, M-30, posts City Council agendas and minutes and handles claims, subpoenas, public records requests, elections and lobbyist registration.
Open official site Santa Ana City Clerk's OfficeCity records
Santa Ana hosts council agendas, minutes, contracts, ordinances and resolutions on its Laserfiche WebLink portal and takes public records requests for anything not posted there.
Open official site Santa Ana Public Records RequestsPolice & jail
The Santa Ana Police Department at 60 Civic Center Plaza lists its bureaus, transparency reports, online police reporting, the Family Justice Center and Police Oversight Commission meetings.
Open official site Santa Ana Police DepartmentPolice & jail
The Santa Ana Police Records Division covers police records, evidence and public records, providing police reports, audio and video, and clearance letters to the public.
Open official site Santa Ana Police Records DivisionCity records
Santa Ana's Building Safety Division in the Ross Annex at 20 Civic Center Plaza schedules inspections, runs same day express permits and lets you search plan check status and permit history.
Open official site Santa Ana Building Safety DivisionProperty 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 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
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 WebsiteFederal
QuickFacts table for Santa Ana city, California with a July 1, 2025 population estimate of 315,586, a 2020 to 2024 median household income of $93,999, and figures on housing, schooling and health insurance.
Open official site U.S. Census Bureau QuickFactsPolice & jail
California Attorney General guide to records the state DOJ holds: reviewing your own criminal history, fingerprint checks for jobs, licensing, adoption or immigration, and Megan's Law data. Court records stay with superior courts.
Open official site California DOJ Public Records AccessPolice & jail
California Department of Justice keeps the state criminal record repository and issues fingerprint based RAP sheets for law enforcement, employment and licensing checks, built from arrest and court reports.
Open official site California DOJ Fingerprint Background ChecksState records
National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, the national clearinghouse that takes missing child reports and runs the CyberTipline for exploitation reports.
Open official site Center for Missing & Exploited ChildrenPolice & jail
California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation lookup of selected information on people in state prison. It is not an official CDCR record and may contain errors.
Open official site CDCR Incarcerated Records and Information Search (CIRIS)Everything else, organized
Local record guide
Local profile
Santa Ana, a place of 310,227 people, is the seat of Orange County. Court and property records sit with Orange County, and birth and death certificates come from the State of California. Santa Ana's own offices are in the cards above, and our Orange 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 2 named mine sites inside the city or town limits, 1 of them worked out or abandoned. The mineral the records name is 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 Santa Ana.
Deeds for property in Santa Ana 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.
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.