No. You must contact our office by phone, at the office and/or a deputy must respond to the scene of the incident if such a response is deemed necessary.

No.  Birth and Death Certificates can be ordered through the Coos County Health Department if the incident has occurred within the last six months.  The Health Department recommends that you call their office to confirm that a staff member who can assist you will be present.  At the Health Department you will be requested to complete a written request for the documents and if you are requesting them by mail, it is recommended that you download the Request Form from the Vital Statistics Site and mail that to the Coos County Health Department at 1975 McPherson, North Bend, Oregon 97459 with the appropriate fee payable to Coos County.  The Health Department can be reached at 541-751-2400.  If the requested certificate is older than six months you will need to make your request to Oregon Vital Statistics.  A written request will be necessary and can be downloaded from their website at: www.oregon.gov/oha/ph/BirthDeathCertificates/GetVitalRecords/Pages/inde… mailed to OREGON VITAL RECORDS, POB 14050, Portland, Oregon 97293-0050.  The fee for birth and death certificates is $25 for the first record and $20 for each additional copy.  NOTE: Due to recent legislative changes to DMV’s requirement of presenting your birth certificate at the time of application/renewal, many individuals are in need of a certified copy of their birth certificate.  However, any request through the Coos County Health Department and/or Oregon Vital Records cannot be processed immediately, therefore, please make sure you submit your request with that in mind so that you can renew your Oregon Driver’s License prior to its expiration.

You may do so, following the instructions on the website for obtaining a copy of your own record.

Yes.  You may come in to the Sheriff’s Office with the item in question and a member of the office can run the serial number to ascertain if the item(s) is stolen.  These include items such as computers, guns, televisions, cell phones, cameras and other items.

No.  Property disputes are considered civil in nature and, particularly now, with severely reduced staffing levels, deputies are handling only criminal calls.  The exception to this would be if you have a Writ of Assistance, in which case, the Office would attempt to accommodate the request as soon as a deputy was available.  You may also wish to contact a city police department, if the location is located within a city jurisdiction, and it would be up to the individual department if they would have someone who could assist you in some manner.

A Sheriff is required to post the initial Notice of Sale online; you can find these postings through the Oregon State Sheriff’s Association website http://oregonsheriffssales.org/ . Please note, houses are posted online for the required 28 days prior to auction and may not be listed up until the sale date. Sale canceled or postponed may occur at the discretion of the foreclosure law firm without required public posting.

No. Deputies no longer carry devices to assist with either automobile problem. 

You may contact the Sheriff’s Office and request to speak to the supervisor of the member who you wish to file a complaint against.  Complaints can be taken over the phone; however, if you have a serious complaint, it is recommended that you put your complaint into writing so that it may be addressed through the proper chain of command.

You may add information to a police report being contacting our office and speaking with a representative of the office and/or the deputy who took the initial report.  Depending on the nature of the information, it may be something a staff member can automatically update and forward the update to the investigating deputy.  You may also mail in additional information to be kept on file with your report.

You may go to any law enforcement agency and present identification and if you are wanted, the matter will be dealt with at that time. The Sheriff’s Office does not release warrant information over the phone.  However, with the exception of a confidential case or a juvenile case, the State Courts will advise the wanted status of an individual in person and/or by phone.  Also, if you know of the location of someone you believe to be wanted, you may contact law enforcement and advise them of that location, and if there is a warrant, law enforcement will take the necessary action to secure an arrest on those charges, but we will not confirm nor deny the existence of any warrants.

You may contact a member of the Coos County Jail staff at (541)396-7850 and inquire if they have a particular subject in custody.  If they do, they will release that fact, the charges the subject is being held for and of any court dates scheduled.  They will not release any transport information nor will they advise on a subject’s arrest history.  They will release information on current inmates only.

Again, the Sheriff’s Office is allowed access to Computerized Criminal History information for criminal justice purposes only and cannot provide private citizens such information.  You may contact the Oregon State Police Identification Bureau and complete their request form, enclose the appropriate fee and mail your request to them.   (For additional information, you can visit their website: www.oregon.gov/OSP/ID/pages/index.aspx)

DMV records are available to law enforcement for criminal justice purposes only and no employee is allowed to process any request for driving histories for private citizens.  If you are in need of a copy of your driving record, you must contact the Department of Motor Vehicles for that information.

You must complete a Sheriff’s Office Public Request for Records Form and submit the appropriate fee and/or make the request with the understanding that there are fees involved and return the form to the Records Division of the Sheriff’s Office.  Attorneys and Insurance Companies do request reports which are presented on the respective agency’s letterhead with the appropriate fee enclosed.  All requests must be made in some sort of written form.

In order for any property held in Evidence by the Coos County Sheriff’s Office to be released, our office requires a Release Authorization Form from the District Attorney’s Office.  After obtaining the written Release Form from the District Attorney’s Office, you may contact the Sheriff’s Office and request to speak to the Evidence Custodian to schedule a time in which you may come to the office and pick up your property.  Currently the Evidence Custodian is available Monday thru Wednesday, 8:00 a.m. to approximately 3:00 p.m

Jury Duty in Coos County uses a call-in procedure. For further details and information, please click here.

Service time varies based on the current volume of active papers our division is attempting at any given time. Some papers are time sensitive, i.e. fast approaching court date, and become higher priority. We will make attempt(s) until the papers are served, or until we can show that the person is not servable, or the date of the paper(s) expires. Please be patient in this process, the Coos County Sheriff’s Office performs due and diligent search when serving civil process.

Due to the volume of work in our office, and because papers may still be in the field active with a Deputy, we are unable to provide status updates over the phone. Accurate status of your paperwork can be verified by utilizing a courthouse database terminal and searching your court case number, or the plaintiff’s or defendant’s name.

No.  Several times there have been attempts to establish a noise ordinance for Coos County; however, they have been unsuccessful at this time.

You may file a complaint with the Coos County Animal Division of the Sheriff’s Office.  The first step is to contact Animal Control at the Shelter at (541) 751-2480, Dispatch (541) 396-7830, or Voicemail for Animal Control (541) 751-2482.  Animal Control will issue to the owner of the barking offender(s) a written warning.  If, after a written warning, the problem continues, the reporting party will be asked to a complete a Complaint Form and attach a (7) day Barking Log, prior to issuance of a citation.

Please refer to the Required Documents for Civil Process list above for details about submitting papers for service

How Will You Stay Informed About Emergencies?

Sign up with the Coos County Emergency Mass Notification System.  Your safety is our top concern – that’s why Coos County wants to make sure you know about emergencies and incidents as they happen.

Click on the Coos County Emergency Mass Notification System Everbridge Signup Link or type this URL into the address bar of your web browser: https://member.everbridge.net/892807736724057/login

Click on the “SIGN UP HERE” button to create your account in the notification system.

Create your account:

Create a Username and Password

Usernames must be a minimum of 4 acceptable characters. Acceptable characters are: uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers, period, dash (-), underscore (_), and at symbol (@). No other characters or symbols are permitted at this time.
Password must be 8 to 64 characters long and contain at least one letter and one number. Special characters are permitted, but limited to !@#$%^&*().

Select a security question and enter its answer
Enter a Registration Email Address. This address is used to send temporary passwords, if you forget your credentials.
Accept the Terms of Use by checking the box
Click “Create Your Account”

Complete Your Profile: After creating your user name and password, you’ll be brought to a page where you can complete your profile. This is where you enter your personal information. Next, you will select how you want to receive alerts. Options include SMS text messages, email, mobile phones, landlines, or a mobile application for Android and iOS devices. The order you set these contact paths will be the order we will try and reach you in the event of an emergency.

Enter any Locations You Care About: We send alerts based on a geographical location on a map. Insert up to five addresses for which you want to receive an alert if the location is affected by an incident or upcoming event.

IMPORTANT – If the address you provided is not in our database of known addresses for our jurisdiction, you will be presented with other options to add your address into this system, including: selection from a list of suggested addresses,or dropping a pin to select your location on the map (Microsoft Silverlight plug-in is required). You will not receive any location based alerts if you do not provide a complete address.

Be Sure to Sign Up for the Alerts You Care About: You’ll be presented with various alert subscriptions you can sign up for.

Congratulations! Once you have finished and saved your account, you have successfully signed up.

Email everbridge@co.coos.or.us If you have any questions.

A local agency check consists of  contacts by our agency only.  We do not check nor verify any records for any other agency in the County or State.  If you are interested in the complete history of an individual’s background, it is recommended that you contact the Oregon State Police Identification Bureau and follow the procedures for obtaining that information.  Part of the procedure for doing so involves submitting a copy of your fingerprints, which is done by appointment with the Sheriff’s Office.

Cases that are referred to the District Attorney’s Office for review and/or charges to be filed are not available until the matter is adjudicated.  This includes the request from a victim as well as a suspect in a matter.  Open cases such as missing person(s) cases and unsolved homicides are also exempt from disclosure.  In addition, some records such as Concealed Handgun License files are exempt from disclosure.

However, if a case is not public record, you still may send a written request for the report, and at such a time the case becomes public record, your request will be addressed as soon as time allows.

Please address mailings to:

• Coos County Sheriff’s Office
• Attn: Civil Division
• 250 N. Baxter
• Coquille, OR 97423

No. Fees paid to the Sheriff’s Department are for processing and attempting service. In almost all instances attempts are made on different days/times if the respondent is not contacted on the first attempt.