Arizona, Maricopa County
Where Surprise's records are kept. Surprise has its own city government, clerk's office, police department, municipal court and permit and planning office; county and state offices keep its other public records.
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The cards below include Surprise's own offices, along with the Maricopa County and State of Arizona offices that keep the rest of its public records. Use the category buttons to narrow the list.
City records
The City Clerk at 16000 N. Civic Center Plaza is Surprise's official records custodian, keeping the city code, council minutes, ordinances, resolutions, contracts, deeds and easements, and runs city elections.
Open official site Surprise City ClerkPolice & jail
Surprise Police Department at 14250 W Statler Plaza, Suite 103, takes online crime reports, records requests, impounded vehicle questions, praise or complaints, tips and traffic concern reports.
Open official site Surprise Police DepartmentPolice & jail
The police forms section offers the department's annual report and downloadable forms for public records requests, identity theft reports, stolen vehicle affidavits, vacation watch and trespass enforcement.
Open official site Surprise Police Records, Forms and ReportsMunicipal court
Surprise City Court at 16081 N Civic Center Plaza, Suite 105, handles criminal offenses and civil traffic tickets, with online payments, court date search, motions by email and court records requests.
Open official site Surprise City CourtCity records
Surprise takes all public records requests, including police, fire, City Court and City Clerk records, through its GovQA portal, where requesters can also track each request online.
Open official site Surprise Public Records RequestsCity records
Community Development at 16000 N. Civic Center Plaza issues permits for construction on private property and accepts online building, plan review and engineering submittals, with plans uploaded in ProjectDox.
Open official site Surprise Permits and ApplicationsPolice & jail
Arizona Department of Corrections Central Office 1601 W. Jefferson Phoenix, AZ 85007 602-542-5497
Open official site Inmate Search and Community CorrectionsState records
Arizona DPS takes public records requests for its own collision, arrest, citation, 911 and video records, with electronic delivery at $9; criminal history copies go only to authorized people and agencies.
Open official site Arizona Department of Public Safety Records RequestsProperty records
The Maricopa County Assessor's Office administers more than 1.8 million real and personal property parcels in the county; search by parcel number or address, use the parcel map viewer or apply for exemptions.
Open official site Maricopa County Assessor's OfficeState records
In Phoenix, the Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records holds assessment rolls, Great Registers of voters, Territorial Prison files and superior court marriage and probate records for family research.
Open official site Arizona State Library, Archives and Public RecordsCounty court
Arizona federal bankruptcy court with clerk offices in Phoenix and Tucson and hearings also held in Yuma, Flagstaff and Bullhead City; cases are looked up on PACER, and discharge copies can be requested.
Open official site United States Bankruptcy Court, District of ArizonaCounty court
The Arizona Judicial Branch runs eFileAZ, where registered attorneys, individuals, process servers and organizations sign in to file court documents electronically; an account is required.
Open official site Arizona Judicial Branch Statewide eFiling SystemVital records
The Arizona Department of Health Services Bureau of Vital Records in Phoenix issues certified birth and death certificates, online, by mail or in person; marriage and divorce records come from the courts.
Open official site Arizona Department of Health Services Vital RecordsPolice & jail
State prison lookup from the Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry. Listed release dates are unverified and may change; offense details are held by the clerk of the court that heard the case.
Open official site Arizona Corrections (ADCRR) Inmate Data SearchPolice & jail
Arizona DPS alert list, including Silver, SAFE and Turquoise alerts for missing people; active cases appear ahead of located ones, and names can be searched.
Open official site Arizona Department of Public Safety All AlertsPolice & jail
By state law Arizona DPS keeps the public sex offender website and verifies each offender name, address and photo; searches run on OffenderWatch, and county sheriffs handle registration.
Open official site Arizona Department of Public Safety Sex Offender ComplianceFederal
Surprise city, Arizona at a glance from the Census Bureau: 2025 population estimate 175,304, adults holding a bachelor's degree 30.5%, median gross rent $2,033, and more on income, jobs and housing.
Open official site U.S. Census Bureau QuickFactsEverything else, organized
12 more Surprise sources not listed above.
Local record guide
Local profile
Surprise, a place of 143,148 people, is in Maricopa County, whose county seat is Phoenix. Court and property records sit with Maricopa County, and birth and death certificates come from the State of Arizona. Surprise's own offices are in the cards above, and our Maricopa 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 1 mine site inside the city or town limits: 1 past producer, now closed.
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.
Arizona 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 48 investigations with a Surprise address since fiscal 2005 and recorded $315,476 in back wages agreed for 326 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dysart Unified School District #89 | 1 | $93,178 | 25 |
| Northwest Urology Associates, PLC | 1 | $42,189 | 11 |
| Matrix Management, Inc. | 1 | $29,000 | 32 |
| Native Sun Solar Security, Inc. | 1 | $19,901 | 20 |
| Arizona Lung Sleep & Valley fever institute | 1 | $17,525 | 19 |
| Cobblestone Auto Spa & Market IV, L.L.C | 1 | $13,414 | 52 |
| Second Chance Group Homes, LLC | 1 | $12,227 | 18 |
| CareScape, Inc. | 1 | $12,085 | 18 |
| A Paradise for Parents IV LLC | 1 | $11,160 | 7 |
| Chaney's Collision Centers | 1 | $8,872 | 15 |
| Young Generations, Inc. | 1 | $7,697 | 21 |
| Home Depot U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $6,955 | 1 |
| Moses Assisted Living, LLC. | 1 | $6,002 | 17 |
| Big Kahuna Construction, Inc. | 1 | $5,733 | 4 |
| Westside Internal Medicine, P.C. | 1 | $5,521 | 22 |
| A Paradise For Parents LLC | 1 | $5,243 | 9 |
| Uncle Bear's at Surprise, LLC | 1 | $5,091 | 2 |
| Restaurana LLC | 1 | $4,171 | 9 |
| D & E Bromm Enterprises | 1 | $1,790 | 7 |
| Fire District of Sun City West | 1 | $1,752 | 6 |
| Hayden's Carpet, Inc. | 1 | $1,358 | 1 |
| StormWater Plans LLC | 1 | $1,053 | 1 |
| Leisure Life Inc. | 1 | $718 | 4 |
| Hospice Promise LLC | 1 | $406 | 1 |
| Beauty Management Incorporated | 1 | $207 | 1 |
The 25 employers with the most back wages agreed, of 44 whose address on the record is in Surprise; 14 employers have a page of their own and open from the table, the rest show their whole record here. The 19 more with smaller records are on the Arizona wage theft records page, whose search answers for every employer in the state.
Straight answers
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Voter registration in Arizona is run by the Arizona Secretary of State and local election officials. Its site lists the registration deadline, online voter registration, polling places and the local election office for Surprise.
Deeds for property in Surprise are recorded by the Maricopa County Recorder, and the county office that assesses property keeps the tax values. Our Maricopa County page lists the county offices.
Certified birth and death certificates for events in Arizona come from the state vital records office, Arizona Bureau of 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.