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Danbury Town Clerk Office

The Danbury Town Clerk page states that the office is responsible for the preservation and safekeeping of official records and documents for the City of Danbury. It describes the Town Clerk as the government official in charge of public records and vital statistics and notes a key role in the election process. As Registrar of Vital Statistics, the office oversees births, marriages, and deaths that occur and are recorded in Danbury.

The official staff directory lists Laurie A. Esposito as Town Clerk. Other staff named in the research include Lisa M. Todman, CCTC Assistant Town Clerk; Jennifer Dorin, CCTC Assistant Town Clerk; Jessica Galvez, Assistant Registrar of Vital Statistics; and Kamyla Correa, Clerk. The office assists residents, attorneys, title searchers, local businesses, and state agencies. It also keeps the City Seal.

Danbury Town Clerk Duties

The Town Clerk is the right office for local records that are municipal or vital in nature. It is not the office for criminal files, civil lawsuits, divorce decrees, traffic court dockets, warrants, or other Superior Court case documents. Those court records are handled by Judicial Branch clerks at the Danbury courthouse. This distinction is especially important because Connecticut does not use a county clerk model for Danbury court files.

• Preserve and safeguard official records and documents for the City of Danbury.
• Serve as Registrar of Vital Statistics for births, marriages, and deaths recorded in Danbury.
• Handle marriage license and certified marriage certificate transactions documented in city materials.
• Support land record copies, recordings, maps, trade names, notary filings, and local public records.
• Keep the City Seal and assist residents, attorneys, title searchers, businesses, and state agencies.
• Perform election-process duties assigned to the office.

Request Danbury Certified Copies

Certified copies from the Town Clerk are most often vital records or certified municipal copies. For a marriage certificate, the certified marriage-copy request form says to provide both spouses' legal names before marriage, date of marriage, town of marriage, number of copies, amount enclosed, and requester information and signature. The form says not to mail cash and to use a check or postal money order payable to the City of Danbury.

1. Confirm the record was created or recorded in Danbury.
2. Choose the correct Town Clerk request path for a vital record, land record, trade name, map, or other local document.
3. Gather names, dates, record location, copy count, and requester contact information.
4. Confirm fee, payment method, and eligibility limits before mailing or visiting.
5. For a marriage certificate by mail, do not send cash and make payment payable to the City of Danbury.
6. Use the Superior Court clerk instead when the requested record is a divorce decree, judgment, docket, or court filing.

Danbury Marriage Request Fields

The marriage-copy form field inventory is the clearest captured Town Clerk request form in the research. It is useful even when a person plans to visit in person because it shows the facts the office needs to find the certificate. The form references access limits for protected details, so the requester may need to show that they are a spouse listed on the record or otherwise eligible.

Danbury Town Clerk Fees

The Town Clerk fee sheet gives the practical cost of many local records transactions. It should be used for Town Clerk records only. Court users should not apply these charges to Superior Court case files, and Probate Court users should use probate fee resources instead. When a request involves many pages, recordings, or a certified copy, confirm the total before submitting payment.

Danbury Marriage License Records

The Danbury marriage license FAQ states that the marriage license fee is $50 and payable by cash or check. It also says a certified copy of the marriage certificate is $20, with an additional $20 charged for a certified copy mailed after the officiant returns the license to the office after the ceremony. The fee PDF lists the marriage license as $50 plus $20 for certificate, which matches the local process described in the FAQ.

Marriage records are local vital records in this context. Divorce records are not. A person who needs a divorce decree should contact the Clerk of the Superior Court at 146 White Street or search the civil/family portal by Danbury Judicial District and FA case category. For the combined vital and family records path, use the Danbury marriage and divorce records page.

Danbury Local Public Records

Connecticut FOIA rules apply to many public agency records, but the correct Danbury office depends on the record. City vital and public records use the Town Clerk path. Police incident, arrest, accident, and related records use the Danbury Police Records and Property Division and its FOIA form. Court case records use Judicial Branch procedures. Probate files use the Connecticut Probate Courts and Danbury Probate Court. A single public-records law does not make every office the custodian for every record.

Danbury Town Clerk Limits

Vital records can have eligibility limits. The marriage-copy form references C.G.S. 7-51A access limits and notes that only spouses listed or other eligible persons can receive certain protected details. The research also identifies a separate adopted-person original birth certificate process with a $65 fee and eligibility rules for an adopted person at least 18 or an adult child or grandchild. Do not treat every vital record as an open file.

The Town Clerk can help with local records, but it cannot issue a court order, clear a criminal record, open a sealed court file, or certify a Superior Court judgment. For those issues, use the Clerk of the Superior Court. Note: Friday closure in the City Hall schedule affects planning for in-person Town Clerk visits.