Additional Info

Birth Record Parentage-Pre-Birth Court Orders : Yes

Birth Record Parentage-Parentage Labels : Mother/Father, Parent/Parent, Can be left blank

Birth Record Parentage-Two or More Parent Certificates : Yes, through court order

Birth Record Parentage-Parentage Legal Citation : Yes, through court order

Data Use-Require Agreement for Partners Within Health Department : No

Data Use-Require Agreement for External Partners : No

Data Use-Allowed to Charge for Sharing Data : No

Data Use-Statistical Suppression Rules Birth Other : CA Dept. of Public Health complies with the CA Health and Human Agency deidentification quidelines.

EBRS-Geocoding : No

EBRS-API Capability : No

EBRS-FHIR API Capability : No

EDRS-Vendor : UC Davis

Fees-Birth Certificates : $29

Fees-Additional Birth Certificates : $29

Fees-Amended Birth Records : $26

Fees-Death Certificates : $24

Fees-Additional Death Certificates : $24

Fees-Amended Death Records : $26

Fees-Marriage Certificates : $17

Fees-Additional Marriage Certificates : $17

Fees-Divorce Certificates : $16

Fees-Additional Divorce Certificates : $16

Fees-Fetal Death Certificates : $21

Fees-Additional Fetal Death Certificates : $21

Fees-Amending Demographic Items : $26

Fees-Amending Medical Items : $26

General Questions-Health Dept HIPAA : No

General Questions-Vital Records HIPAA : Other

General Questions-Births Vital Events Volume : 456272

General Questions-Deaths Vital Events Volume : 270129

General Questions-Fetal Deaths Vital Events Volume : 2285

General Questions-Marriage Vital Events Volume : 188873

General Questions-Other Vital Events Volume : NA

General Questions-Local Registrar Count : 61 (58 counties + 3 cities)

General Questions-Local Registrar Abilities : Register vital events, Issue certified copies of vital events, Amend/Correct vital event records

General Questions-Notes : The CA Dept. of Public Health is considered a hybrid entity. Some programs are covered by HIPPA; most are not.

ITOPVitalEvents are not recorded.

Divorce Vital Events are unknown/not indexed.

Operations Questions-Birth Records Public Access : Open

Operations Questions-Birth records Public Access Details : Additional Limitations:
CA statute
places different statutory access to birth data as opposed to birth
certificates.  CA statute defines
authorized individuals; those who are not authorized may obtain a certified
copy marked 'Informational, not a valid document to establish
identity.'​

Operations Questions-Death Records Public Access : Open

Operations Questions-Adoption Records Access : Closed

Operations Questions-Cert Birth Short Form : No

Operations Questions-Cert Birth Long Form : All public data fields, no confidential medical information

Operations Questions-Cert Birth Other Form : Informational copy includes all public data fields, no confidential medical information. Includes a large red stamp indicating it is not for indentification use.

Operations Questions-Cert Death Long Form : All public data fields, no confidential medical information

Operations Questions-Birth Filing Mandate : Local registration within 10 days following the date of the event.

Operations Questions-Death Filing Mandate : Local registration within 8 days following the date of event.

Operations Questions-Birth Registration Timeline : State registration takes an average of 8.2 days. Local registration takes an average of 4.6 days.

Operations Questions-Death Registration Timeline : We don’t have a report for the estimated average number of days it takes for a death to be filed, however, approximately 70% of deaths in California are registered in 8 days.

Sex Designation-Sex on birth record : Male, Female, Nonbinary, Unkown, Not Yet Determined

Sex Designation-Gender Marker on BC : No

Sex Designation-Sex on death record : Male, Female, Unknown, X

Sex Designation-Death Cert Gender Marker : No

Sex Designation-Sex Change Amendment Birth : The sex field may be amended both administratively and by court order.

Sex Designation-Sex Change Amendment Death : Requires two people with knowledge of the facts with documents that support the amendment.

Sex Designation-Sex Change Requirements : No

Sex Designation-Sex Change Legislation : Sex field may be amended administrative and by court order as specified in CA Health and Safety Code 103425; 103426; 103447