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Find the right office in Seminole County. Court cases, deeds and parcels, sheriff and jail records, vital records and county filings, each linked to the office that keeps them.
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Property records
Seminole County Tax Collector, 1101 E. 1st Street, Sanford, phone (407) 665-1000, where owners search and pay property taxes and handle tag and title services.
Open official site Seminole County Tax CollectorPolice & jail
Criminal records for Seminole County start with the sheriff's office, which holds the arrest records, the incident and accident reports and the roster of the county jail.
Open official site Seminole County Criminal RecordsVital records
Order certified copies of Florida death certificates through the Seminole County health department, with eligibility rules, fees and what identification to bring.
Open official site Florida Department of Health in Seminole County Death CertificatesCity records
Search for information for county businesses.
Open official site Seminole County Business InformationState records
Index of Seminole County's services and resources.
Open official site Seminole County Directory of DepartmentsState records
Voter registration and election information from Seminole Voter Registration and Elections, the office that keeps the county voter roll.
Open official site Seminole Voter Registration and ElectionsPolice & jail
The Seminole County Sheriff's Office list names the registered felons and sexual offenders recorded as living in Seminole County.
Open official site Seminole County Sex OffendersCity records
The Seminole County public library gives readers its catalogue, its online databases and the local history and genealogy collections it holds for the county.
Open official site Seminole County LibraryPolice & jail
Search the inmate search public database.
Open official site Seminole County InmatesEverything else, organized
8 more Seminole County sources not listed above.
Local record guide
County profile
Sheriff & Law Enforcement. Seminole County Sheriff's Office is responsible for law enforcement services in the unincorporated areas of Seminole County.
Police Departments. Law enforcement in Seminole County is provided by both Seminole County Sheriff's Office and several municipal police departments.
Law Enforcement & Arrests. Seminole County Sheriff's Office, led by Sheriff Dennis Lemma, is the primary law enforcement agency for unincorporated areas and provides countywide services including detention operations, court security, and civil process. The John E. Polk Correctional Facility, located at 211 Bush Boulevard in Sanford, serves as Seminole County's main detention center. Arrest records in Seminole County are public records under Florida Statute 119.011, the Florida Public Records Law, which guarantees citizen access to government records. Some third-party websites also aggregate booking photos, though the official source remains the Sheriff's Office.
Arrest Records. Arrest records in Seminole County are maintained by Seminole County Sheriff's Office. These records can be requested by residents and attorneys through the Sheriff's Office, either in person or via their official website.
Mugshots & Booking Photos. Mugshots in Seminole County are taken and retained by Seminole County Sheriff's Office as part of the booking process. These booking photos are accessible through the Sheriff's Office website, allowing the public to search for mugshots of individuals processed at the John E. Polk Correctional Facility.
Abandoned mine records
Where the workings are, and the office that holds the mine maps.
From the old mine records
The mine records hold 13 named mine sites inside the county, 1 of them worked out or abandoned; the old survey maps add 18 holes drawn inside the county, 0 of them shafts or tunnels. The mineral the records name is Diatomite.
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. Florida sinkholes are karst, not mine subsidence.
Rows taken off the old survey maps open the USGS record of what sits at that spot, because no single feature on those maps has a page of its own. Rows from the mine records open their own USGS page.
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.
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Booking photos are kept by the agency that made the arrest, such as the Seminole County Sheriff or a city police department in Seminole County. Ask that agency for its record. Under section 901.43, Florida Statutes, anyone who publishes arrest booking photographs may not solicit or accept a fee to remove them, and must remove a photograph without charge within 10 calendar days after a written request sent by registered mail.
The Florida criminal history record comes from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, Criminal Justice Information Services. Online name based search of public Florida criminal history through the FDLE Instant Search (results are not certified), or a certified request; FDLE no longer takes mailed request forms. Fee: $24.00 per search, plus a $1.00 credit card processing fee.
Search the Florida Sexual Offenders and Predators (FDLE), or every state at once on the National Sex Offender Public Website run by the U.S. Department of Justice.
Register with the county Supervisor of Elections or through the Florida Division of Elections. You can also register online with the state online registration. The deadline to register to vote for an upcoming election is 29 days before the election.
Deeds and other recorded land documents in Seminole County are kept by the Seminole County Clerk of the Circuit Court, as county recorder. Property values are set by the county Property Appraiser, and tax bills come from the county Tax Collector. Source: official state page.
Certified birth and death certificates for Florida come from the Florida Department of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics. Local county health departments take mail in and walk in requests for Florida birth records from 1917 to the present; fees vary by county. By mail to Florida Department of Health, Vital Statistics, P.O. Box 210, Jacksonville, Fl 32231-0042, walk in at 1217 N Pearl St., Jacksonville, at a county health department, or online and by phone through VitalChek (877-550-7330), the only contracted vendor. Fee: $9 for the first computer generated birth certification (includes the $9 search fee); $4 for each additional copy.
Business entity filings are searched with the Florida Department of State, Division of Corporations (Sunbiz). Counties and cities may levy a local business tax and issue local business tax receipts under Chapter 205, Florida Statutes.
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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.