Florida County Courts
Florida County Courts are another source for people search, criminal records and background checks. Search for personal and criminal records find people you are tyring to locate or find criminal history and get background check through county court records.
County courts usually oversee civil cases such housing, mortgage disputes, repayment, felonies, all cases of equity and eviction, reposession, personal injury cases, breach of contract, small claims, and divorces and adoptions, violations of county law and statues, traffic cases. Also land appropriations, guardianships, probate, involuntary hospitalization for mental institutes. Probate courts also rule over last testaments and wills. So whether you have a case you need to take to court or you want to research other cases or someones background county courts have a wealth of civil court cases to be researched most background checks include civil cases and document case numbers, offenses and judgements and convictions for felonies or any other matter.
If you are researching marriage and divorce county courts are the place to start your search of course you can try to save yourself time by getting an online report usually background checks and some people search reports include some of the information you search in courts but if you don't want to spend the money or have time to do the research yourself you can go to the court and request to see files and documents unless the case file is sealed by a judge for privacy.
Also County courts are where you can do searches for marriage records or to obtain marriage certificates if you are planning to get married.
Florida County Court Records
Alachua
Alachua Public Health Unit
P.O. Box 1327
Gainesville, FL 32602
Telephone: (352) 955-2356
Baker
Baker Clerk
55 North Third Street
Macclenny, FL 32063-2101
Telephone: (386) 259-3575
Bay
Bay Clerk
P.O. Box 2269
Panama City, FL 32402-2269
Telephone: (850) 785-0231
Bradford
Bradford Clerk
Starke, FL 32091-1286
Telephone: (904) 964-6280
Brevard
Brevard Public Health Dept.
Vital Records
878 South U.S. 1
Rockledge, FL 32955
Telephone: (321) 690-3435
Broward
Broward Public Health Unit
2421 S.W. 6th Avenue
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33315
Telephone: (954) 467-4413
Calhoun
Calhoun Clerk
425 E. Central Ave.
Blountstown, FL 32424-2242
Telephone: (850) 674-5061
Charlotte
Charlotte Health Department
Office of Vital Statistics
514 East Grace Street
Punta Gorda, FL 33950
Telephone: (941) 639-1181
Citrus
Citrus Clerk
110 North Apopka Avenue
Inverness, FL 34450
Telephone: (352) 637-9425
Clay
Clay Clerk
P.O. Box 698
Green Cove Springs, FL 32043-0698
Telephone: (904) 284-6300
Collier
Collier Public Health Unit
Courthouse Complex / Bldg H
Naples, FL 33962
Telephone: (941) 774-8205
Columbia
Columbia Clerk
35 North Herndaz Street
Lake City, FL 32055
Telephone: (386) 755-4100
Dade
Dade Dept of Health
Vital Statistics
1350 N.W. 14th Street
Miami, FL 33125
Telephone: (305) 324-2489
DeSoto
DeSoto Clerk
P.O. Box 591
Arcadia, FL 34265
Telephone: (863) 993-4800
Dixie
Dixie Courthouse
PO Box 1206
Cross City, FL 32628
Telephone: (352) 498-1206
Duval
Duval Public Health Unit
515 W. 6th Street
Jacksonville, FL 32206-4397
Telephone: (904) 630-3330
Escambia
Escambia Vital Records
1295 W. Fairfield Dr., Rm 200
Pensacola, FL 32501
Telephone: (850) 595-6531
Flagler
Flagler Health Department
Vital Statistics
P.O. Box 847
301 S. Lemon Street
Bunnell, FL 32011
Telephone: 386-437-7350 ext. 230 or 222
Franklin
Franklin Clerk
33 Market Street, Suite 203
Apalachicola, FL 32320
Telephone: (850) 653-8861
Gadsden
Gadsden Clerk
P.O. Box 231
Quincy, FL 32351-0231
Telephone: (850) 875-4700
Gilchrist
Gilchrist Courthouse
P.O. Box 37
Trenton, FL 32693-0037
Telephone: (352) 463-3198
Glades
Glades Clerk
P.O. Box 10
Moore Haven, FL 33471-0010
Telephone: (863) 946-0949
Gulf
Gulf Clerk
1000 5th St., Room 148
Port Saint Joe, FL 32456-1648
Telephone: (850) 227-1141
Hamilton
Hamilton Clerk
P.O. Box 789
Jasper, FL 32052
Telephone: (386) 792-1220
Hardee
Hardee Clerk
412 West Orange Street
Wauchula, FL 33873-2831
Telephone: (863) 773-4174
Hendry
Hendry Clerk
P.O. Box 1760
La Belle, FL 33935-1760
Telephone: (863) 675-5227
Hernando
Hernando Clerk
20 North Main Street
Brooksville, FL 34601
Telephone: (352) 754-4442
Highlands
Highlands Courthouse
430 S. Commerce Ave
Attn: Recording Dept
Sebring, FL 33870-3701
Telephone: (863) 386-6500
Hillsborough
Hillsborough Health Dept
1105 East Kennedy Blvd., Room #100
Tampa, FL 33602
Telephone: (813) 307-8002
Holmes
Holmes Clerk
201 N. Oklahoma St.
Bonifay, FL 32425-2243
Telephone: (850) 547-9316
Indian River
Indian River Clerk
1840 25th Street
Vero Beach, FL 32960-3365
Telephone: (561) 567-8000
Jackson
Jackson Clerk
P.O. Box 510
Marianna, FL 32446-0510
Telephone: (850) 482-3354
Jefferson
Jefferson Clerk
P.O. Box 547
Monticello, FL 32344
Telephone: (850) 997-5546
Lafayette
Lafayette Clerk
P.O. Box 88
Mayo, FL 32066-0088
Telephone: (904) 294-1600
Lake
Lake Health Department
421 West Main Street
Tavares, FL 32778
Telephone: (352) 742-6395
Lee
Lee Clerk
P.O. Box 2469
Fort Myers, FL 33902-2469
Telephone: (941) 335-2283
Leon Health Department
Leon Health Department
2965 Municipal Way
Tallahassee, FL 32304
Telephone: (850) 922-6377
Levy
Levy Clerk of Court
P.O. Box 610
Bronson, FL 32621-0610
Telephone: (352) 486-4311
Liberty
Liberty Clerk's Office
P.O. Box 399
Bristol, FL 32321-0399
Telephone: (850) 643-2272
Madison
Madison Clerk
P.O. Box 237
Madison, FL 32340-0237
Telephone: (850) 973-6221
Manatee
Manatee Vital Records
410 6th Ave E
Bradenton, FL 34208-1928
Telephone: (941) 748-0747
Marion
Marion Public Health Unit
Department of Vital Records
1801 South East 32nd Ave.
Ocala, FL 34471
Telephone: (352) 629-0137
Martin
Martin Public Health Unit
620 South Dixie Highway
Stuart, FL 34994
Telephone: (561) 221-4000
Monroe
Monroe Clerk
500 Whitehead Street
Key West, FL 33040-6547
Telephone: (305) 294-4641
Nassau
Nassau Clerk
P.O. Box 456
Fernandia Beach, FL 32035-0456
Telephone: (904) 261-5724
Okaloosa
Okaloosa Public Health Unit
221 Hospital Drive NE
Fort Walton Beach, FL 32548
Telephone: (850) 833-9255
Okeechobee
Okeechobee Health Dept
1728 NW 9th Ave PO Box 1879
Okeechobee, FL 34973
Telephone: (863) 462-5804
Orange
Orange Health Dept
604 Courland Street, Suite 200
Orlando, FL 32804
Telephone: (407) 623-1182 Info
(407) 741-4360
Osceola
Osceola Health Dept
1875 Boggy Creek Rd
Kissimmee, FL 32744
Telephone: (407) 343-2009
Palm Beach
Palm Beach Vital Statistics Dept
705 North Olive Ave.
West Palm Beach, FL 33402
Telephone: (561) 653-2350
Pasco
Pasco Clerk
38053 East Live Oak Avenue
Dade City, FL 33525
Telephone: (352) 521-4274
Pinellas
Pinellas Public Health Department
4175 East Bay Drive, Suite 160
Clearwater, FL
Telephone: (727) 5074330
Polk
Polk Clerk
P.O. Box 988
Bartow, FL 33830
Telephone: (863) 534-4000
Putnam
Putnam Clerk
P.O. Box 758
Palatka, FL 32078-0758
Telephone: (386) 329-0330
St. Johns
St. Johns Public Health Unit
180 Marine Street
St. Augustine, FL 32084
Telephone: (904) 825-5055 info
(904) 825-5008
St. Lucie
St. Lucie Clerk
221 South Indian River Drive
Fort Pierce, FL 33450
Telephone: (561) 462-6930
Santa Rosa
Santa Rosa Clerk
801 Caroline, SE
Milton, FL 32570-4978
Telephone: (850) 623-0135
For birth & death records:
Santa Rosa Health Dept
P.O. Box 929
Milton, FL 32572-0929
Telephone: (850) 983-5200
Sarasota
Sarasota Vital Records
1938 Laurel Street, 1st Floor
Sarasota, FL 34236
Telephone: (941) 316-1043
Seminole
Seminole Clerk
300 North Park Avenue
Sanford, FL 32771-1244
Telephone: (407) 665-4330
Sumter
Sumter Clerk
209 N. Florida St.
Bushnell, FL 33513-9308
Telephone: (352) 793-0215
Suwannee
Suwannee Clerk
200 S. Ohio Ave.
Live Oak, FL 32060-3239
Telephone: (904) 362-2827
Taylor
Taylor Clerk
P.O. Box 620
Perry, FL 3234-0620
Telephone: (850) 584-3285
Union
Union Clerk
55 W. Main St., Room 103
Lake Butler, FL 32054-1637
Telephone: (386) 496-2621
Volusia
Volusia Clerk
120 West Indiana Avenue
Deland, FL 32720-4210
Telephone: (386) 736-5915
Wakulla
Wakulla Clerk
3056 Crawfordville Hwy.
Crawfordville, FL 32327
Telephone: (850) 926-0905
Walton
Walton Clerk
P.O. Box 1260
Defuniak Springs, FL 32434-1260
Telephone: (850) 892-8118
Washington
Washington Clerk
203 West Cypress
Chipley, FL 32428-1821
Telephone: (850) 638-6285