Petaluma Police Court records, 1912-1952

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Summary

Creators:
Petaluma (Calif.). Police Court
Abstract:
This collection contains records pertaining to the operations of the Petaluma Police Court, including lists of jurors
Extent:
17 volumes
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

Petaluma Police Court records, 1912-1952. SCG.00020, Sonoma County Archives, Sonoma County Library, Rohnert Park, California.

Background

Scope and content:

Dockets heard in the Petaluma Police Court .

Arrangement of the collection

Organized into two series:

  1. Police court docket, 1912-1951
  2. Police court docket--civil, 1918-1952

Biographical / historical:

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.

Rules or conventions:
Finding aid prepared using Describing Archives: A Content Standard, Second Edition DACS

Access and use

Restrictions:

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 707 308-3212 to request they be brought from the Archives to the Library

Terms of access:

Collection does not circulate and may be photocopied or photographed by arrangement only.

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 https://sonomalibrary.org/locations/sonoma-county-history-and-genealogy-library/order-photo

Preferred citation:

Petaluma Police Court records, 1912-1952. SCG.00020, Sonoma County Archives, Sonoma County Library, Rohnert Park, California.

Location of this collection:
6135 State Farm Drive
Rohnert Park, CA 94928, US
Contact:
(707) 545-0831
digital@sonomalibrary.org
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