Private reference, not a government office. The operators cannot pull, certify, correct, or remove a Whittier record. For an emergency call 911. If someone is being stalked or harassed, contact local police.
Choose the Right Records Desk
Most questions can be routed by record type rather than by sending a general message to this reference.
- Street and parcel questions: use the Whittier street directory route.
- Old occupants and directories: use the Whittier city directory collections.
- One name to verify: use the Whittier resident lookup workflow.
- Municipal files: contact the Whittier City Clerk through the public-record request channels below.
- County deeds or certificates: contact the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk, not City Hall.
Whittier City Clerk
City Hall, 13230 Penn Street
Whittier, CA 90602
(562) 567-9850
Counter hours are not stated in the supplied research. Confirm before visiting.
LA County RR/CC Real Estate
12400 Imperial Highway
Norwalk, CA 90650
(800) 201-8999, option 3
Weekdays, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Whittier City Clerk requests can be submitted through the SAIRA public-request form, by email, by mail, by phone, or at the counter. Describe the department, address, date span, permit or project number, and preferred format. The city states a ten-calendar-day CPRA determination period, subject to a statutory extension. The RR/CC CPRA routing page explains that Los Angeles County has no centralized records keeper. For deeds, Norwalk’s alphabetical grantor/grantee index is the required historical route because the county does not provide a public Internet deed index.
Police reports use the separate Whittier Police Records Bureau route. The bureau may limit access or redact victims, witnesses, juveniles, medical facts, investigative material, addresses, and identifiers.
For county divisions, the Los Angeles County RR/CC contact page supplies the current mailing and telephone routes. It is the better contact point when a deed, vital copy, fictitious-business-name file, or recorder question does not fit the City Clerk’s scope.