Arizona, Maricopa County
Where Tempe's records are kept. Tempe has its own city government, clerk's office, police department and municipal court; county and state offices keep its other public records.
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The cards below include Tempe'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 Tempe City Hall, 31 E. Fifth St., runs local elections, oversees campaign finance and lobbyist reports, posts council agendas, keeps council proceedings and maintains the City Code and Charter.
Open official site Tempe City Clerk's OfficePolice & jail
Tempe Police Department, headquartered at 120 E. 5th Street with Apache and Hardy substations, takes online police reports and lists its property and evidence facility and complaint options.
Open official site Tempe Police DepartmentPolice & jail
The Police Records Section maintains official Tempe police records and takes requests online, by email, or on a form dropped off or mailed, following Arizona public records law.
Open official site Tempe Police Records SectionMunicipal court
Tempe Municipal Court handles tickets and photo enforcement complaints, with online case status, court payments, court records requests, English and Spanish court forms and virtual court.
Open official site Tempe Municipal CourtCity records
The City Clerk's Office takes Tempe public records requests through a JustFOIA online portal and offers a guide to which city department holds each type of record.
Open official site Tempe Public Records RequestsCity records
Tempe Community Development plans land use for transportation corridors, business districts and neighborhoods and administers permits and oversight of construction and private property maintenance.
Open official site Tempe Community DevelopmentPolice & 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
Name and birth date search of warrants that Arizona courts report to DPS, showing up to five results; the data is not real time, so check any warrant with the listed court.
Open official site Arizona Department of Public Safety Warrant SearchPolice & 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
Census Bureau statistics for Tempe city, Arizona: an estimated 190,571 people in July 2025 and a poverty rate of 15.8%, plus age, race, veterans, housing costs and commute times.
Open official site U.S. Census Bureau QuickFactsEverything else, organized
9 more Tempe sources not listed above.
Local record guide
Local profile
Tempe, a place of 180,587 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. Tempe'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 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 5 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.
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 336 investigations with a Tempe address since fiscal 2005 and recorded $10,380,219 in back wages agreed for 9,060 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TrueBlue, Inc. | 3 | $1,859,977 | 400 |
| Valley Wide Plastering Construction, Inc. | 5 | $1,312,360 | 964 |
| Direct Alliance Corporation | 1 | $984,365 | 1,003 |
| Ironwood Communications, Inc. | 1 | $657,267 | 226 |
| Southwest Windows and Doors, LLC | 1 | $577,997 | 109 |
| Insight North America, Inc. | 1 | $333,921 | 1,061 |
| Bergelectric Corporation | 2 | $288,967 | 103 |
| Valley Wide Plastering Inc. | 2 | $223,787 | 79 |
| Express Scripts, Inc | 3 | $172,323 | 107 |
| Freedom Financial Network, LLC | 1 | $162,705 | 576 |
| Centex Financial Services, Inc. | 1 | $148,035 | 77 |
| San Miguel Sweepers, Inc | 1 | $139,593 | 64 |
| C2 Cleaning Services | 1 | $130,825 | 134 |
| Iron Horse Companies, LLC | 1 | $126,284 | 96 |
| Insight Enterprises, Inc | 1 | $109,654 | 47 |
| Tempe Mechanical, LLC | 3 | $107,703 | 87 |
| Landmark Building Maintenance Services, LLC | 1 | $105,305 | 348 |
| G & G Painting & Wallcovering, LLC | 1 | $100,556 | 46 |
| Ganado Painting and Wall Covering, Inc. | 1 | $94,333 | 136 |
| Reliance SYSTEMS, INC. | 1 | $90,000 | 30 |
| Smart Systems Technology of Arizona, Inc. | 1 | $88,820 | 88 |
| Carlson Masonry, Inc. | 2 | $88,284 | 39 |
| TEG Staffing, Inc. | 1 | $84,917 | 33 |
| YourPeople Inc. | 1 | $83,649 | 8 |
| In P, Inc. | 1 | $79,430 | 92 |
The 25 employers with the most back wages agreed, of 283 whose address on the record is in Tempe; 108 employers have a page of their own and open from the table, the rest show their whole record here. The 258 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 Tempe.
Deeds for property in Tempe 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.