City of Jacksonville, Duval County, FL Public Records

• Where can I find how to find someone's police report?
  Do you know which department made the arrest? You can request the arrest report directly from the police or sheriff's departments.
• How can I determine who owns Kingsbury Apartments on Woodruff Avenue in Jacksonville, Florida?
  That information can be easily found online. Go to the city of Jacksonville's property appraiser's webpage by searching for "Property Appraiser Basic Search COJ." This page has a search form on the left side where you can enter either owner or business name, giving you several possible matches. You can also include the street name ("Woodruff ") to narrow the search. There's more information than just the owner's names, for example, sales history, property use, deed history, full legal description, value, a property report card on pdf, and more.
• Where can I find a property's history?
  You can begin your search with an instant search about publicly available property records. A search can initially start from the latest data and work back to archives. Examining previous owners can reveal if the property was passed down from one family member to another. This record includes the square footage and its borders showing the lot's change from one ownership to another in cases where the parcel was broken up.
• Where can I find out why it is difficult to access some public records online when open records and meeting laws guarantee access?
  Access may be guaranteed and written into law, but making them available online is different. Statutes covering access to records make it so that the person requesting it is not, in one example, cost prohibitive, but this is not the same as making it free or lowest cost possible. Each agency has its protocol for how and where to accept and process requests for information. Many agencies have a public information officer assigned to their department that knows how to handle these requests. However, much information regarding how to get these records can be found online. Public records availability can span from online access to making an official open records request. Also, larger venues that receive many requests will have better services to access their data. Generally recorded documents do not require an official FOIA request but have their policies and guidelines in place, which is legal as long as they are reasonable. Criminal records are open to the public, but some criminal cases are under investigation and are kept from the public. Even in these cases, an open records request can still be made if the law enforcement agency, for example, uses its guidelines outside the law. These requests are made by journalists, concerned groups, and so forth, and they end up in court. Once again, this is more common with department data such as its budget rather than recorded documents. Many private companies are good sources if using public sources is not feasible. Government agencies throughout Florida and nationwide outsource some of their services to private companies. In the case of vital records, private entities for many states can provide official certificates of death, divorce, marriage, or birth.
• Where can I find out if every gun owner goes through the same background check?
  There are federal as well as state standards for gun ownership. The national average is the minimum, and the state's laws can add more restrictions, waiting periods, and availability of specific categories or types of weapons. A federal FBI background check can be ordered by employers, which can search similarly to the one conducted for a firearm owner application. The state's laws can be reviewed individually by referring to their constitution and looking up statutes. This page covers some gun laws in Florida.

Departments which record, maintain and provide official documents, certificates or information requested by the general public.

• City of Jacksonville Official Website:
  Government department official public web-portal.
• City of Jacksonville Municipal Codes:
  City ordinances governing cities, villages, parishes and jurisdictions below state level.
• Jacksonville Crime Maps:
  Mapping of Jacksonville street locations of criminal reported activity from local law enforcement agencies.
• Latest Obituaries in Jacksonville Florida:
  Published recent deaths, name, date and age.
• Jacksonville Public Schools:
  Local area K-12 location and parent information.

• Violent Crime:
  5,886
• Murder And Nonnegligent Manslaughter:
  129
• Rape:
  554
• Robbery:
  1,294
• Aggravated Assault:
  3,909
• Property Crime:
  30,088
• Burglary:
  4,906
• Larceny Theft:
  22,373
• Motor Vehicle Theft:
  2,809
• Arson:
  82

• Information About People and Demographics

• Total population of residents
  821,784
• White resident population recorded
  488,473
• Black or African American resident population recorded
  252,421
• American Indian and Alaska native resident population recorded
  3,270
• Asian resident population recorded
  35,222
• Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander resident population recorded
  765
• Hispanic or Latino of any race resident population recorded
  63,485
• Resident population of some other race recorded
  17,995
• Resident population of two or more races recorded
  23,638