City of Ventura
Biohazard cleanup in Ventura
Ventura has its own police department, and it is also where the county's Medical Examiner works. If your loss happened here, both are a short drive away, though neither one is somewhere you need to go in person.
Phone answered 24/7, day and night
Ventura contacts
- Ventura Police, non-emergency
- Staffed at all hours. Ask here whether officers have finished with a home. Police directory.
- 805-650-8010
- Ventura Police records
- For a copy of a police report, which insurers and the Victim Compensation Board commonly request.
- 805-339-4425
- Medical Examiner's Office, reports
- For next of kin requesting the examiner's report. The office says it takes no walk-in visitors for this; call or email. Documents and reports.
- 805-641-4401
The Medical Examiner
What the office on Foothill Road does, and does not do
The Ventura County Medical Examiner’s Office at 3100 Foothill Road identifies the person, notifies relatives, safeguards property found with them and works out the cause and manner of death.
It has no viewing area, so a family's first visit is to the funeral home, not to Foothill Road. It does not hand out death certificates either; those come through the funeral home.
It also does not clean the home, recommend cleaners or pay for cleaning. Once its investigator has left and police have released the address, arranging that is up to the family or the owner.
Older houses
If the floor is raised wood
Where a house stands on a crawl space with board or plywood subfloor, liquid can pass through seams and reach the framing and the soil underneath. Tell the company if you know the house is built that way, and where the crawl space hatch is. Checking from below is the only way to be sure the job is finished.
Before the company starts on original floors or plaster, ask what it intends to take out and whether cleaning and sealing is an option for any of it.
Ready when the home is
Hold off until the police and the Medical Examiner's investigator are done with the property. After that, a single call puts a cleanup firm from the Oxnard area on the phone with you. Nothing gets booked unless you say so.
Talk it over with a cleanup company
Begin wherever you like. The story does not have to come out in order, and you may hang up whenever you want.
Call (805) 946-0050Phone answered 24/7, day and night
Your call may be recorded. Read how we are paid and what we keep.