California, Santa Barbara County
Where Santa Maria's records are kept. Santa Maria has its own city government; county and state offices keep its other public records.
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The cards below include Santa Maria's own offices, along with State of California offices; the Santa Barbara County offices are on our Santa Barbara County page. Use the category buttons to narrow the list.
State 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 WebsiteCity records
City of Santa Maria site with City Hall at 110 E. Cook Street, (805) 925-0951, council meetings, the municipal code, public records requests, utility bill and parking ticket payment, business license renewal and permits.
Open official site City of Santa MariaCity records
Santa Maria Clerk and Records Division at 110 E. Cook Street prepares City Council agendas and minutes, manages official records and helps with voter registration and passports.
Open official site Santa Maria City Clerk and RecordsPolice & jail
Santa Maria Police Department at 1111 West Betteravia Road, lobby open around the clock, records weekdays 7:30 to 4:30, with online reports, crime statistics and public information.
Open official site Santa Maria Police DepartmentState records
Santa Maria Fire Department at 314 West Cook Street provides all risk emergency services, fire prevention, public education and life safety programs, and takes public records requests.
Open official site Santa Maria Fire DepartmentProperty records
Santa Maria Community Development at 110 South Pine Street, Suite 101, with planning, building, community programs and code enforcement divisions, open Monday through Thursday.
Open official site Santa Maria Community DevelopmentCity records
City of Santa Maria issues business licenses for firms working in the city, with online applications and renewals; the license office is at 206 E Cook Street, Santa Maria, CA 93454.
Open official site City of Santa Maria Business LicenseEverything else, organized
11 more Santa Maria sources not listed above.
Local record guide
Local profile
Santa Maria, a place of 109,707 people, is in Santa Barbara County, whose county seat is Santa Barbara. Court and property records sit with Santa Barbara County, and birth and death certificates come from the State of California. Santa Maria's own offices are in the cards above, and our Santa Barbara 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 3 mine sites inside the city or town limits: 1 past producer, now closed, 1 site producing when the record was made, 1 site with no status in the record; the old survey maps add 11 holes drawn inside the city or town limits, 0 of them shafts or tunnels. The mineral the records name is construction sand and gravel.
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 178 investigations with a Santa Maria address since fiscal 2005 and recorded $4,201,572 in back wages agreed for 5,121 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Century Farms | 2 | $772,119 | 326 |
| Sierra Del Tigre Farms, Inc. | 2 | $763,978 | 161 |
| LaurCal, Inc. | 2 | $398,094 | 130 |
| Savino Farms, Inc | 2 | $388,418 | 253 |
| Bauer Residential Inc. | 1 | $272,828 | 42 |
| VTC Enterprises | 1 | $221,880 | 142 |
| Big F Company, Inc. | 2 | $157,698 | 242 |
| Royal Oak Ag Service, Inc. | 1 | $120,996 | 157 |
| Rancho Del Mar, Inc. | 2 | $97,642 | 445 |
| Adam Bros. Farming, Inc. | 1 | $94,146 | 30 |
| Rancho Nuevo Harvesting, Inc. | 7 | $85,739 | 588 |
| Brothers Best Labor, Inc. | 2 | $82,025 | 161 |
| Cardenas Bros Farming Co., Inc. | 2 | $81,466 | 207 |
| ProFresco, Inc. | 1 | $50,790 | 471 |
| Cal-South Harvesting, Inc. | 2 | $49,079 | 176 |
| Pre Con Industries, Inc | 4 | $46,188 | 80 |
| Boavista Farms | 1 | $43,297 | 28 |
| Landmark Landscape Company, Inc. | 2 | $35,708 | 56 |
| Valle El Paraiso Berry Farms, LLC | 1 | $35,430 | 105 |
| Royal Oak Ag Services, Inc. | 3 | $32,851 | 560 |
| AIS Construction Company | 1 | $32,793 | 15 |
| Mesa View Produce, Inc. | 1 | $30,836 | 74 |
| La Princesa Market #12, Inc. | 1 | $22,546 | 23 |
| Danys Berry Farms, LLC | 1 | $22,466 | 42 |
| TrueBlue, Inc. | 3 | $22,379 | 38 |
The 25 employers with the most back wages agreed, of 127 whose address on the record is in Santa Maria; 79 employers have a page of their own and open from the table, the rest show their whole record here. The 102 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 Santa Maria.
Deeds for property in Santa Maria are recorded by the Santa Barbara County Recorder, and the county office that assesses property keeps the tax values. Our Santa Barbara 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.