This collection contains a large number of volumes that derive from the operations of the Petaluma Small Claims Court in Petaluma, Sonoma County, California

The Petaluma Small Claims Court was a municipal-level court that handled small civil claims. The Petaluma Court came under the jurisdiction of the Sonoma County Municipal Court following court reorganization and consolidation, but continued as a separate court venue. Although state-mandated budget cuts threatened its existence in the early 1990s traffic and parking cases continued to be heard in Petaluma. The Sonoma County Municipal Court was absorbed into the Superior Court following the voter-authorized reorganization in 1998, California Proposition 220.

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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 to request they be brought from the Archives to the Library