Mississippi, Lafayette County
Where Oxford's records are kept. Oxford has its own clerk's office, police department, municipal court and permit and planning office; county and state offices keep its other public records.
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The cards below include Oxford's own offices, along with State of Mississippi offices; the Lafayette County offices are on our Lafayette County page. Use the category buttons to narrow the list.
City records
The Oxford City Clerk at 107 Courthouse Square posts meeting agendas, records council votes and keeps board minutes, and also handles tax collection and privilege business licenses.
Open official site City of Oxford City ClerkPolice & jail
The Oxford Police Department, headquartered at 9 Industrial Park Drive in Oxford, Mississippi, sells eCrash reports and links to the city public records request portal and a video discovery form.
Open official site Oxford Police DepartmentMunicipal court
The Oxford Municipal Court decides city ordinance and state misdemeanor charges, including Oxford Police traffic tickets; its clerks handle records requests, continuances, payment plans, expungements and online ticket payments.
Open official site City of Oxford Municipal CourtCity records
The Oxford Building division of Development Services reviews residential and commercial plans, issues permits through EnerGov, inspects construction and issues certificates of occupancy.
Open official site Oxford Building DepartmentFederal
FBI wanted posters, from the Ten Most Wanted list to fugitives, terrorism suspects, kidnapped and missing persons, bank robbers and seeking information cases; tips go to tips.fbi.gov.
Open official site FBI Most WantedPolice & jail
MDOC home page with an inmate search by first and last name or MDOC ID number, a parolee search and a facilities finder, plus information for families, victims and the public.
Open official site Mississippi Department of CorrectionsState records
USAGov explains how to get certified copies of birth and death certificates, copies of marriage and divorce records, and replacements for lost or stolen government ID cards.
Open official site USAGov Guide to Copies of Vital Records and IDsCounty court
The federal judiciary's national index of district, bankruptcy and appellate court cases. Searching needs a free PACER account; pages cost $0.10, capped at $3 per document, with quarterly charges of $30 or less waived.
Open official site PACER Case LocatorProperty records
USAGov sends you to your state's unclaimed property office, which holds most unclaimed money, and to federal searches for back wages, pensions, IRS refunds, savings bonds and deposits from failed banks.
Open official site USAGov Guide to Unclaimed MoneyVital records
The Social Security Administration explains survivor benefits, monthly payments to eligible relatives of workers who paid Social Security taxes before death, including who qualifies, possible amounts and when to report a death.
Open official site Social Security Survivor BenefitsPolice & jail
U.S. Department of Justice search of public sex offender registries from every state, territory and many tribes by name or ZIP code; address radius searches cover only states that send coordinates.
Open official site Dru Sjodin National Sex Offender Public WebsiteProperty records
USAGov explains checking your registration through Can I Vote, which opens your state's election website, and advises doing it before the state deadline, which can be up to 30 days before an election.
Open official site USAGov Guide to Confirming Voter RegistrationCounty court
Federal judiciary guide to finding a case in PACER: search the court where it was filed for current data, or the nationwide PACER Case Locator, updated daily. A PACER account is required.
Open official site PACER Find a CaseState records
State archives guide to family research: death records from 1912 to 1943 on microfiche (no birth records), county marriage books on microfilm, census returns, Dawes Rolls and Confederate pension files.
Open official site Mississippi Department of Archives and History GenealogyCounty court
Bankruptcy court for north Mississippi at the Thad Cochran U.S. Courthouse in Aberdeen, with hearings only in Oxford and Greenville. Posts court news, notices and vacancies.
Open official site U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Northern District of MississippiCounty court
Website of the Mississippi courts with Supreme Court and Court of Appeals dockets and briefs, appellate opinions since 1996 and live oral arguments; trial court files sit in the subscriber, fee based PAMEC portal.
Open official site State of Mississippi JudiciaryEverything else, organized
Secondary links stay collapsed until they are needed, keeping the page useful without turning it into an endless wall of cards.
Local record guide
Useful local context without burying the official record links above.
Local profile
Oxford, a place of 25,416 people, is the seat of Lafayette County. Court and property records sit with Lafayette County, and birth and death certificates come from the State of Mississippi. Oxford's own offices are in the cards above, and our Lafayette County page lists each county office.
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Deeds for property in Oxford are recorded by the Lafayette County Chancery Clerk, and the county office that assesses property keeps the tax values. Our Lafayette County page lists the county offices.
Certified birth and death certificates for events in Mississippi come from the state vital records office, Mississippi Vital Records. Its site lists who may order a copy, the fee and how to order.
Same county
Use the city page when a record was created by a municipal police department or city office; use the county page for courts, deeds, vital records and jail custody.