Petaluma Police Court records
Scope and Contents
Dockets heard in the Petaluma Police Court .
Dates
- Creation: 1912-1952
Language of Materials
English
Conditions Governing Access:
Materials stored offsite, but collection is open to research. In many cases, further details on individual volumes can be found by calling staff at the Sonoma County History and Genealogy Library. To view these materials, please call staff at link to request they be brought from the Archives to the Library
Conditions Governing Use
Collection does not circulate and may be photocopied or photographed by arrangement only.
Publication Rights
Property rights reside with the Sonoma County Library. The Sonoma County Library has made this collection available and believes that the collection is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Collection may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Preferred credit line is: Courtesy, the Sonoma County Library. Please see additional reproduction and reuse information at link
Court History
The Petaluma Police Court was a municipal-level court that handled minor offenses, as well as initial handling of serious offenses that were subsequently referred to the Superior Court. The Petaluma Police Court was reorganized in 1952 as part of the State of California's inferior court reorganization program authorized by the voters as California Proposition 3 in 1950, which combined the offices of the township justices of the peace and city police court judges; the Petaluma Police Court and other, local municipal courts were combined as the Petaluma Judicial District Court or more formally, the State of California's Municipal Court for the Petaluma Judicial District) on Jan. 1, 1952.
A number of other reorganizations and consolidations of the County's District Courts took place over the next four decades until the District Courts and other inferior courts were absorbed into the Superior Court following another voter-authorized reorganization in 1998, California Proposition 220.
Extent
15.8 linear feet (17 ledger volumes)
Abstract
This collection contains records pertaining to the operations of the Petaluma Police Court, including lists of jurors
Arrangement of the collection
Organized into two series:
- Police court docket, 1912-1951
- Police court docket--civil, 1918-1952
- Title
- Petaluma Police Court records, 1912-1952
- Author
- Finding aid author: Mark Cooper.
- Date
- Published Feb 28, 2011
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in:English
Repository Details
Part of the Sonoma County Archives Repository