{"id":186213,"date":"2026-05-07T12:50:51","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T12:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/186213\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T12:50:51","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T12:50:51","slug":"erie-county-clerk-michael-p-kearns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/186213\/","title":{"rendered":"| Erie County Clerk Michael P. Kearns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/mickey_kearns.png\" data-entity-uuid=\"2d936f37-a58f-43ac-8871-e806a33df150\" data-entity-type=\"file\" alt=\"\" width=\"252\" height=\"353\" class=\"align-left\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Michael P. Kearns was sworn in as the Erie County Clerk on December 5, 2017. A life-long resident of South Buffalo, Michael \u201cMickey\u201d Kearns graduated from Bishop Timon High School. He earned an Associate\u2019s Degree in Paralegal Studies from Erie Community College and Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Canisius College. He has served as an elected official since 2006 as the South District Council Member in the City of Buffalo and in 2012 was elected New York State Assemblyman to represent the 142nd District (then the 145th district). As Erie County Clerk, he prioritizes excellent customer service while efficiently and effectively serving the people of Erie County.<\/p>\n<p>If you need any assistance from one of our expert staff, please <a class=\"btn-rounded\" href=\"https:\/\/www4.erie.gov\/clerk\/help\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Start Here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www4.erie.gov\/clerk\/full-bio-erie-county-clerk-michael-p-kearns\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Michael P. Kearns<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www4.erie.gov\/clerk\/full-bio-erie-county-clerk-michael-p-kearns\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Erie County Clerk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael P. Kearns was sworn in as the Erie County Clerk on December 5, 2017. A life-long resident&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186214,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137],"class_list":["post-186213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}