Public Records And Legal Papers

By Claire Dowell


As per mandate of the Public Records Act and the California Constitution, anybody who lives within the state may place a formal application on the retrieval of the California public records for various legal reasons. These legitimate records can be ordered at any of the local or state agencies, including the Justice Department. The Department of Justice historically becomes the first to manage almost all of the existing records that the state government has been keeping for years. Today, all the procedures done at the different agencies are patterned from how the Justice Department administers on all the official reports ever since.

At the state level, the California Courts have been compiling all the criminal cases being filed and resolved before the judiciary. There is also the California Department of Health which takes care of the business on birth and death records. Marriage records on the other hand are maintained at the county recorder, later on, both the birth and death have become part of the county recorder's custody with the objective to bring the information much closer to the local residents or make it more accessible for them. The divorce reports are obtainable at the clerk of court's office as per provision of California's Family Laws. More so, the arrest and criminal records are updated at any of the local law enforcement agencies including police, narcotics, highway patrol and other enforcing units.

Historically, the application of records must be done by providing the basic details to the Department of Justice' office. You had to input the three basic details such as the specific name of the record, the subject matter and the exact place where it had been accounted. But today, the flow on how it is done has changed dramatically by having to just fill out a copy of the records request form. It can be obtained at any of the records offices or be downloaded from their official websites. The form has to be completely in its entirety; otherwise the staff will not proceed with the actual search.

Today, there are four options in accomplishing the lookup. You may call the office, send the request through email, send by facsimile or drop by the agency concerned in person. They say that dropping by the office is the most effective option as you get to ask the staff in person and therefore you are assured that you are doing the right steps in the effort to reclaim the public files. You just have to present copies of any government-issued IDs in order to get the permission to perform the search.

The waiting time may be long but you are definitely guaranteed that you are going to get all-encompassing results of the search. The usual processing time would be from 6 to 10 working days. But, it should not matter unless if you are in a rush of retrieving such documents for some important reasons. It is going to be lengthy but it is going to compensate the effort that you have put into it.

However, if you would like to try a completely different approach then it's about time that you explore on the online method of performing the search. With this modern alternative, you only have to find a trustworthy website which offers real records services, pay for the fee and do the public records search by making a few clicks to obtain the records in no time. It is indeed an efficient tool to benefit from since it can be done anytime and anywhere for as long as you have access to the Internet.




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