Wednesday, August 6, 2014

Arizona Public Records

By Ben Kingsley


Since the Arizona public records law has been in placed in the state, residents of the state have been given the freedom to request for any of the public records Arizona has generated and filed under their name. This has made the monitoring of the incidents in the state easy for the government official.

There are a lot of public documents in Arizona. It can be any document that has a significant importance such as a birth certificate. Each person has a birth certificate and this is issued at the time of birth. Such record is used in a number of transactions in the government. Birth certificates are used as a valid proof of identification. There are also other kinds of documents available such as the marriage license, death certificates and divorce papers. There is also one type of document that has been opened to the public and that is the criminal records. This document contains information that is sensitive and used by authorized individuals when checking the background of an individual.

The public documents in the state of Arizona can be requested at the office where the incident has been filed or registered. However, records of birth, marriage, divorce and death are archived at the office of the Vital Records Section at the Department of Health. One can also request any of it at the county clerk. Criminal records are managed by the office of the Department of Public Safety in the state of Arizona. One can also seek help from the office of the county court. A mail request can also be sent to any of the office that were mentioned in order to avoid the hassle of going to the office but the results are obtained only after a few days since it was requested.

One should know the requirements in obtaining for a copy of a public document. The basic details of the document being requested such as the name, place and date has to be provided. This can help speed up the retrieval process. The retrieval of a public document would require the contact details of the one who requested for the document. Such information will only be used to monitor the access to the file.

The processing fee would not be the same for the retrieval of the documents. It can cost as low as $5 ad as much as $50 depending on the type of request made. Requesting for a criminal record is costly especially if it was for a fingerprint search. Name based search is also available for a much cheaper price.

The use of the Internet has made the sharing of information fast and easy. The public records in Arizona can now be requested online. This makes the retrieval convenient and time saving. The results of the search are obtained in just seconds instead of days and there is no need to go to any office just to file the request. There are websites that offer to conduct a free government public records search. Residents of Arizona prefer to go for the paid search to ensure that they get quality results.




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