North Carolina County Public Records Information

The North Carolina county public records include vital records such as birth and death records, marriage and divorce records, criminal records and often other records such as tax records and business records.  These records are published so that they can be easily accessed by the residents of the state. While some of these are really ‘vital’ for the subject of the records, other records (namely criminal records) fall within the sphere of public information as it pertains to the security of the community. These records are used for background check purposes as well, especially at the time of employee verification prior to recruitment.

North Carolina County Vital Records

The vital records for each of the counties in the State of North Carolina along with court records are maintained by the probate office.  These records are then forwarded to the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services. http://vitalrecords.nc.gov/vitalrecords/ bears all the necessary information in this regard.  The birth records in the state from the year 1913 till the present find their place on the website. The death records in the state are available from 1930 onwards. Copies of marriage records that were registered in the state post 1962 can be found on the website. This holds true for divorce records that were granted after 1958.

You can obtain a certified copy of the vital records from North Carolina Vital records department.  A certified copy bears the seal of the office along with the signature of the State Registrar. However, these certified copies are not available for everyone to access. As per NCGS 130A-93(c) of North Carolina law, certified copies can only be accessed by the subject of the record or by an immediate family member, a legal representative of the subject of the record or one who has requested the information for determination of property rights.  For any further information, you can call up the office of North Carolina Vital Records at 919 733 3000.

Other Records in North Carolina

As far as the tax records in the North Carolina counties are concerned, these are maintained by the tax records departments. On the other hand business information can be retrieved from the records of the Chamber of Commerce in each of the counties.

As far as the storage and maintenance of criminal database is concerned, the office of the county sheriff in each of the North Carolina counties keep up a database containing a daily crime report, an offender alert system, a sex offender registry, a list of the missing people in the county, a list of the most wanted criminals, inmate and arrest records. For example, in the Orange County in North Carolina, all this data is maintained on the website of the sheriff’s department http://www.co.orange.nc.us/sheriff/.

The information is made a part of public records so that the residents of the community can be on guard against these dangerous criminals.  If you possess any information about a potential suspect lurking in your neighborhood, you can immediately contact the department to check if the individual has his/her name in the police records.