Collection context
Summary
- Extent:
- 5 Linear Feet (28 volumes and 1 manuscript boxes)
- Language:
- English
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item and/or item number], [box and folder number], Sacramento (Calif.) Police Court Records, CTY0050, Center for Sacramento History.
Background
- Scope and content:
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The collection contains records from the Sacramento City Police Court dating from 1857 to 1938, including case files, trial judgments, registers of daily proceedings, and financial records.
- Biographical / historical:
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The City of Sacramento Police Court mostly handled lower-level criminal offenses that were punishable by smaller monetary fines or shorter prison sentences in the county jail. The Police Court's duties were absorbed into the Sacramento Municipal Court by a city charter amendment in 1941.
- Acquisition information:
- Acquired from the Sacramento City Clerk in 1978 (1978/031), California State Library in 2015 (2015/038), Robert J. Chandler in (2017/066), and the Elk Grove Historical Society on an unrecorded date.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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The collection is open for research.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item and/or item number], [box and folder number], Sacramento (Calif.) Police Court Records, CTY0050, Center for Sacramento History.
- Location of this collection:
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551 Sequoia Pacific Blvd.Sacramento, CA 95811, US
- Contact:
- (916) 808-7072