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Encuentre La Agencia Que Guarda El Registro

A Florida public-record search is not one statewide database. Florida’s Attorney General provides open-government guidance, while specific records stay with their custodians - for example, FDLE for Florida criminal-history searches and courts or clerks for court records. Start with the record type, then the official agency.

Record categories

Route the Florida record before you request it

Record need Likely first-party source Key distinction
Florida criminal history FDLE State criminal-history product
Court case/document Court or clerk holding the case Court record is separate from FDLE history. Start at the filing county’s clerk/court portal; Broward’s court-record request guide is a county example: check online documents first, then use Court Records by Request if a copy is unavailable.
Agency administrative/public record Agency that created/maintains it Use its published process or public-record request route
Open-government question Florida Attorney General guidance Explains public-record framework; does not hold every agency record
Birth, death, marriage or divorce certificate Florida Department of Health: Certificates & Records Choose the event type and follow the Bureau of Vital Statistics instructions. Its linked VitalChek service is the recommended online/phone ordering vendor; an order is separate from an open public-record search.
Vital-record access Birth certificate eligibility; death certificate eligibility Birth certificates have eligibility and photo-ID requirements. A Florida death copy without cause of death may be requested by an adult; recent cause-of-death information has narrower eligibility and photo-ID rules.
Deed, mortgage or other recorded property instrument The county recording office; Hillsborough Clerk Official Records is an example Choose the county where the instrument was recorded and its Official Records search, rather than the court-case or FDLE search. Hillsborough provides an online Official Records index and a separate eCertify route for certified copies; use the selected county’s own instructions elsewhere.
Workflow

A statewide routing method

  1. 01
    Name the record

    Court case, criminal history, property filing, agency correspondence or another category.

  2. 02
    Identify the custodian

    Use the agency that creates or maintains that record.

  3. 03
    Check what is already online

    An official portal may answer the request without a separate open-record request.

  4. 04
    Use the agency request channel when needed

    Follow the custodian’s current public-record instructions.

Context

Open-government law is a framework, not a universal database

Florida’s Attorney General publishes open-government resources explaining the state’s public-record framework. That guidance helps with access questions, but the underlying records remain distributed across state, county, municipal, court and other government custodians.

A broad query becomes manageable when it is turned into a routing problem. The record category tells you who can actually produce the record; the open-government framework helps when the record is not already published or when an agency request is required.

Statewide coverage

Broad Florida searches work best as a routing index you create for yourself

For a broad request, make a short inventory of record categories before contacting agencies. Court files, criminal-history information, property instruments, vital records and agency correspondence can each have different custodians. That list prevents a response from one office from being mistaken for a statewide all-records search.

If a category is already available through an official online system, use that system first and preserve the result URL/date. If it is not, move to the custodian’s published public-record request channel. This keeps the request specific enough for the agency to identify the record while preserving the user’s ability to explain what was and was not searched.

Examples

Examples of record-specific authorities

FDLE

Florida criminal-history record searches.

Court / clerk

Case files, dockets and judgments for the court involved.

County/municipal agency

Records created or maintained by that local body.

Attorney General guidance

Statewide open-government framework and educational material.

Routing caution
Do not send every request to one statewide office
The statewide open-government guidance does not make the Attorney General the custodian of every Florida public record. Direct the actual request to the agency that maintains the record.

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