California, Sonoma County
Where Santa Rosa's records are kept. Santa Rosa has its own city government, clerk's office, police department and fire department; county and state offices keep its other public records.
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The cards below include Santa Rosa's own offices, along with State of California offices; the Sonoma County offices are on our Sonoma 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
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 CaliforniaState 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 RecordCity records
City of Santa Rosa site, with City Hall at 100 Santa Rosa Avenue, Permit Santa Rosa for permits and inspections, a real estate asset map of city properties, job openings and city council news.
Open official site City of Santa RosaState records
City legal records and public files City Hall, Room 10 100 Santa Rosa Avenue Santa Rosa, California 95404 Phone (707) 54
Open official site Santa Rosa City ClerkPolice & jail
Public safety and law enforcement 965 Sonoma Avenue Santa Rosa, CA 95404 Phone: (707) 543-3600
Open official site Santa Rosa Police DepartmentCity records
Fire prevention and suppression 2373 Circadian Way Santa Rosa, CA 95407 Phone: (707) 543-3500
Open official site Santa Rosa Fire DepartmentCity records
City legal services 100 Santa Rosa Avenue, Room 8 Santa Rosa, CA 95404 Phone: (707) 543-3040 Fax: (707) 543-3055
Open official site Santa Rosa City AttorneyProperty records
Building permits and codes 100 Santa Rosa Avenue, Room 3 Santa Rosa, CA 95404 Phone: (707) 543-3200
Open official site Santa Rosa Community DevelopmentEverything else, organized
10 more Santa Rosa sources not listed above.
Local record guide
Local profile
Santa Rosa, a place of 178,127 people, is the seat of Sonoma County. Court and property records sit with Sonoma County, and birth and death certificates come from the State of California. Santa Rosa's own offices are in the cards above, and our Sonoma 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 10 mine sites inside the city or town limits: 2 past producers, now closed, 1 prospect or occurrence that was never worked, 3 sites producing when the record was made, 4 sites with no status in the record; the old survey maps add 4 holes drawn inside the city or town limits, 1 of them shafts or tunnels. The minerals the records name are construction sand and gravel; Stone.
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 85 investigations with a Santa Rosa address since fiscal 2005 and recorded $1,039,471 in back wages agreed for 633 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| El Charro Casita Inc. | 3 | $147,955 | 29 |
| Monte Verde Home | 1 | $125,647 | 17 |
| Sarah's Group Homes | 3 | $118,722 | 35 |
| Kingsbourgh Atlas Tree Surgery | 1 | $96,969 | 188 |
| Rincon Valley Gardens, LLC | 1 | $73,930 | 8 |
| R.T. Angel, Inc. | 1 | $54,613 | 7 |
| NADHAM Inc. | 1 | $51,896 | 13 |
| Hoen's Care Home | 1 | $51,551 | 4 |
| Al Lewis Trucking | 2 | $49,682 | 18 |
| The Mystical Rose | 1 | $45,928 | 7 |
| Saint Josephs Health System -Sonoma | 1 | $25,631 | 15 |
| Mora's Boots, Inc. | 1 | $19,498 | 7 |
| California Human Development Corporation | 2 | $12,587 | 62 |
| Panda Palace Buffet, Inc. | 1 | $12,286 | 7 |
| Redwood Regional Medical Group | 1 | $9,843 | 1 |
| Rafael Castaneda, an individual proprietor | 1 | $8,185 | 30 |
| North Bay Petroleum, Inc. | 1 | $7,953 | 2 |
| Beachwood HOUSE, INC. | 1 | $7,850 | 13 |
| All American Roofing Co. | 1 | $7,838 | 35 |
| Eagle Transportation Company, Inc. | 1 | $7,438 | 1 |
| Mission Car Wash, A California Limited Partne | 1 | $7,014 | 8 |
| Northwest General Engineering | 1 | $5,482 | 1 |
| NeilMed Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $5,444 | 14 |
| Chasen Goat Grazing LLC | 1 | $5,114 | 5 |
| AC Connection, Inc. | 1 | $4,416 | 2 |
The 25 employers with the most back wages agreed, of 69 whose address on the record is in Santa Rosa; 22 employers have a page of their own and open from the table, the rest show their whole record here. The 44 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 Rosa.
Deeds for property in Santa Rosa are recorded by the Sonoma County Recorder, and the county office that assesses property keeps the tax values. Our Sonoma 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.