California, Orange County
Where Seal Beach's records are kept. Seal Beach has its own city government and police department; county and state offices keep its other public records.
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The cards below include Seal Beach'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.
Police & jail
The Seal Beach Police Department at 911 Seal Beach Boulevard posts department news, a non emergency line, a police report release form and vacation check requests.
Open official site Seal Beach Police DepartmentFederal
U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts for Seal Beach city, California: 24,075 residents estimated for July 1, 2025, plus age, race, housing, income, education and business figures drawn from census and survey data.
Open official site U.S. Census Bureau QuickFactsProperty 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
City of Seal Beach Open Public Records portal, linked from the City Clerk's page, for requesting, tracking and reading public records and documents the city has released.
Open official site Seal Beach Public Records RequestsVital records
National Center for Health Statistics listing for California: the state address for birth and death certificate requests, the copy fee it lists, and a note that state records start in July 1905.
Open official site CDC Where to Write for Vital Records: 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
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 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 Seal Beach site with City Hall hours and location, street sweeping and trash pickup, water and wastewater rates, recreation registration, Alert OC sign up and police news.
Open official site City of Seal BeachCity records
Seal Beach City Clerk's Office at City Hall, open 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. weekdays, prepares council agenda packets, runs elections, manages city records and takes public records requests.
Open official site Seal Beach City ClerkEverything else, organized
10 more Seal Beach sources not listed above.
Local record guide
Local profile
Seal Beach, a place of 25,242 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. Seal Beach's own offices are in the cards above, and our Orange County page lists each county office.
Labor Department file
The U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division closed 5 investigations with a Seal Beach address since fiscal 2005 and recorded $0 in back wages agreed for 0 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| P2F Holdings | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| Llambs, LLC | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| Main Street Hospitality, LLC | 1 | $0 | 0 |
Every employer whose address on the record is in Seal Beach, by back wages agreed; 0 employers have a page of their own and open from the table, the rest show their whole record in this row. The California wage theft records page ranks the whole 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 Seal Beach.
Deeds for property in Seal Beach 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.