Search St. Tammany Parish Court Dockets

How to Search the St. Tammany Parish Court Docket

Match the search to the right court first. A citation, notice, or old case paper names it. For Twenty-Second Judicial District Court civil and criminal records, the St. Tammany Parish Clerk of Court is the office to use. The Clerk's official homepage points the public to re:SearchLA, the online portal. That route covers 22nd JDC cases. It does not automatically cover a Slidell City Court matter, a Covington or Mandeville ordinance citation, or a ward justice court file. Each of those courts keeps its own dockets.

Gather three things before searching: the record number, a party name, and the court type. The record number is the clerk's case identifier. Without it, the older Smart Search instructions say to enter names as Last Name, First Name, Middle Name, Suffix. The portal can require registration or sign-in. Treat any result as a lead only. Compare the case description, division, parties, and hearing details before deciding it is the correct St. Tammany record.

1. Identify the issuing court from the citation, summons, case number, or prior notice.
2. Open the Clerk’s official re:SearchLA route for a 22nd JDC civil or criminal case.
3. Search by record number or use the documented name format and a court-division filter.
4. Open Case Details to review parties, filings, hearings, and the case summary when available.
5. Call the clerk or court division to confirm a current setting, then request a certified copy if one is needed.

A case-level result is only a lead. It does not replace the clerk's certified record, and it is no substitute for confirming a hearing date directly with the court.

St. Tammany re:SearchLA Case Details

re:SearchLA is the Clerk-linked public interface for St. Tammany 22nd JDC records. It covers civil and criminal case records. Its official quick-reference material breaks the service into separate searches. Cases helps locate a docket. Filings centers on documents, while Hearings can show setting information when that access is open. Case Details may list the case number and type. It may also show parties, attorneys, judicial officers, filings or documents, hearings, and a summary. The live service can require an account. Documents and images sometimes follow different access rules than the case index itself.

Start from the St. Tammany Clerk homepage. It is the dependable route because it separates court records from the Clerk's land-record transition. The page displays the official department routing, not any private case record.

That routing matters more than it looks. A St. Tammany court docket search works best when you pick the clerk, city court, mayor's court, or ward office before typing a name.

What a St. Tammany Parish Court Docket Shows

A St. Tammany court docket is a running procedural record. It is not the whole case file. The public case-details model identifies the case number, type or description, parties and participants, attorneys, judicial officers, filings or documents, hearings, and a summary. Criminal Department records add court minutes. Minutes are clerk-entered accounts of what happened in court. Civil processing notices separately track entry, scanning, orders, and new suits, so a document can exist before the searchable record looks complete.

Read events in date order. A later continuance, notice, minute, or order can change what an earlier setting meant. No parish-wide list of shorthand docket codes is published. Trust the full labels on the entry, notice, or form over guesswork about an abbreviation.

St. Tammany No-Match Docket Searches

A no-match result in St. Tammany does not prove a case never existed. The Clerk's current notice addresses sealed items. It states that sealed cases and sealed documents are not available for online viewing in re:SearchLA. A sealed case may return no match. Civil processing is a second local snag. The Civil Department posts a daily status notice that separates filing entry, e-filings, orders, scanning, rush work, and new suits. A brand-new filing can predate its searchable entry.

Try the exact record number and the documented wildcard format before assuming the search failed. For names, the Clerk's local example is Smi*, J* when a spelling variant is possible. Then check the issuing court. A City Court, Mayor's Court, or justice-court matter may not belong in the parish clerk portal at all. If the file is public but not online, call the responsible clerk counter. A broad web search is a poor substitute.

Which St. Tammany Parish Courts Keep Dockets

Several offices keep St. Tammany dockets. The 22nd JDC serves St. Tammany and Washington Parishes. It is the general trial court. It handles felony matters, larger civil cases, family, succession, and probate work. The Clerk's Civil and Criminal Departments back that court. City Court of East St. Tammany holds east-parish city-court records. Ward justice courts keep limited civil and eviction dockets. Covington and Mandeville Mayor's Courts maintain their own ordinance and city traffic files.

The Louisiana Judiciary parish profile situates the 22nd JDC within the state court structure. An appeal from a 22nd JDC judgment goes to the Louisiana Court of Appeal, First Circuit, where the appellate case gets its own record path.

The profile explains a local reality. No single St. Tammany Parish court docket link can hold every local case type.

St. Tammany Traffic Has Three Custodians

A traffic ticket in St. Tammany Parish can land in any of three places. The 22nd JDC Criminal Department keeps adult and juvenile traffic violations on its books. City Court of East St. Tammany takes traffic and DWI matters. Those cover Wards 8 and 9. Covington and Mandeville each run a Mayor's Court for their own city ordinance and traffic citations. The citation itself is the best routing clue, since it names the issuing court or city.

That split shapes everything downstream. Where you pay depends on the issuing court. So do the court dates you get, and which record follows the case. A Slidell-area City Court citation moves through that court's ticket and calendar channels. A Covington ticket starts with the Mayor's Court or the police-department clerk. Mandeville has its own Mayor's Court route. For 22nd JDC traffic, two channels matter. The parish Criminal Department and the district-court docket are the ones.

Note: The court case record and the Louisiana OMV driving record are different files. They are held by different custodians.

Finding St. Tammany Parish Court Dates

Start with the paper. A case notice or citation is the direct source. That is where an individual St. Tammany hearing setting appears. For a 22nd JDC case, check the Clerk-linked case and hearing channel first, then the 22nd JDC court calendar for the division's general schedule, holidays, and published session categories. The calendar shows how a division usually runs. It is not a case-number lookup. It cannot replace the newest notice or minute entry.

City Court of East St. Tammany posts a standing monthly docket covering arraignments, traffic trials, civil trials, eviction settings, and more. That court warns the grid can change, and the clerk notifies scheduled parties. For Mandeville and Covington city matters, confirm from the citation and the city clerk. When a docket, a calendar, and paper conflict, call the minute clerk, the division office, or the named city court for the live setting. The 22nd JDC online court also provides division-level court resources and calendar access for the district.

Knowing the 22nd JDC division structure helps, but only up to a point. Every setting is case-specific. Confirm it with the court itself.

St. Tammany Calendar Notices Differ

A calendar gives context. A notice gives an instruction for one case. The 22nd JDC calendar lists trial weeks, traffic court, misdemeanors, juvenile court, motions, child support, drug court, family matters, and arraignments across its divisions, and a division page may add staff contacts or virtual-hearing instructions. Still, no calendar promises a hearing. A particular case may not be heard on the recurring date printed there.

Read changed settings in order. A continuance or reset pushes a hearing to a later date. An older calendar entry may be history rather than the current event. The Civil fee schedule's continue-and-reset entries show that resets are ordinary docket events here. City Court also closes some sessions to nonparticipants for juvenile and CINC matters. When anything conflicts, the newest court notice controls.

Setting

A scheduled court appearance or decision event.

Continuance or reset

A move of a hearing or trial to another date.

Special setting

A non-routine hearing assigned outside the regular calendar pattern.

Public Access to St. Tammany Parish Court Dockets

Louisiana law backs the public's right to inspect and copy non-exempt public records. In St. Tammany, the clerk serves as legal custodian of the 22nd JDC court record. The clerk can issue certified copies. Public access does not put every item on a screen. Juvenile, sealed, expunged, protected domestic, medical, victim, and similar confidential material can be withheld or redacted. An online result helps you locate a public procedural record. But it is not a certified copy.

Match each request to the court that actually holds the case. The parish Clerk handles 22nd JDC material. City Court, Mayor's Court, and justice-court clerks keep the lower-court records described above. For a 22nd JDC public-record question that does not fit the standard clerk-counter process, the court also offers a formal request channel.

St. Tammany 2024 Docket Counts

The Louisiana Supreme Court's 2024 annual-report table recorded 32,948 filings for District 22. The breakdown: 16,710 traffic, 8,562 civil, 6,915 criminal, and 761 juvenile. Those are district statistics only. They do not cover every City Court, Mayor's Court, or justice-court file in St. Tammany. The mix backs up the routing rule. Traffic tops the reported 22nd JDC categories. Yet local traffic dockets also live outside the parish clerk's district-court system.

Volume like that rewards precision. A exact record number plus the court name gets a St. Tammany searcher to the right docket faster.

The St. Tammany Clerk and Docket Records

Jessica Jenkins Brewster serves as St. Tammany Parish Clerk of Court. She supports both 22nd JDC departments, Civil and Criminal. The Civil Department holds public civil, domestic, succession, and tutorship records. The Criminal Department keeps felony, misdemeanor, juvenile, non-support, traffic, defendant-history, and appeal records. When online research comes up short, the clerk's counter is the fallback. It is also the source for an official plain or certified copy. Civil customer service and Criminal customer service run separate lines. The record work splits by function.

The Clerk contact information confirms the main Justice Center location and its service routes. The Slidell Annex offers civil and criminal customer service plus filing help. Documents filed there travel to Covington for civil processing. For a 22nd JDC public-record request outside the clerk-copy path, one more option exists. The court names Court Administrator Amber Mitchell as custodian.

St. Tammany Archives Before Online Records

Older cases in St. Tammany Parish live in the Clerk of Court's archive. The collection reaches back to 1810. It holds civil suits, successions, criminal records, ward-level justice-of-the-peace hearings, inquests, and more. For civil and succession files before 1986, the Civil copy form sends you to Archives. The Criminal form does the same for anything before 1977. So a docket search that turns up nothing online may simply mean the record predates the web-era indexes. The paper file still exists.

Before you mail a request, call ahead. Ask for the archive or the department that fits the case. Names, a date range, the court or ward, and the document type all help. Confidentiality rules apply to a historic court record. They apply just as they do to a current one. And remember: the archive can copy a file. It cannot put every older item online. Nor can it make each one instantly available.

Note: The archive route solves records custody, not instant online access to every aging file.

Court Dockets by City in St. Tammany Parish

St. Tammany Parish counts three incorporated cities: Slidell, Mandeville, and Covington. Each handles its local court docket differently. Slidell's City Court of East St. Tammany covers Wards 8 and 9. It runs its own calendar and ticket process. Mandeville and Covington each use a Mayor's Court for city ordinance and traffic matters. None of these replaces the 22nd JDC for a parish district-court case. But a citation may point to a municipal record. Then the city court is the right first stop.

St. Tammany Federal Docket Boundaries

A few St. Tammany cases land in federal court instead of the 22nd JDC. Federal civil and criminal matters for the parish go elsewhere. They belong to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana. Bankruptcy is separate, handled by the Eastern District Bankruptcy Court. Neither court's docket is part of the parish system. So a St. Tammany Parish court docket search will not surface them. For federal case lookup, PACER is the official access system. CourtListener's RECAP archive can sometimes supply documents for free. That works if other users have already contributed them.

The Eastern District court information page lays out the court's jurisdiction and lists its courthouses.

So routing comes first. A federal case will never appear in a St. Tammany Parish Clerk lookup, and searching there will only waste time. Register with PACER instead, since it is the official path to federal docket entries and filed documents.

Keep the systems straight, too. PACER's federal docket layout works differently from the re:SearchLA case details the parish clerk provides, and bankruptcy users should head to the Eastern District Bankruptcy Court for its own federal systems.

In short, bankruptcy records live in the federal channel, not in a St. Tammany civil or criminal docket search. For free access to many federal filings already contributed, the RECAP archive at CourtListener is worth a look.

RECAP works well as a supplement. The originating federal court is still the place to get an official record of the case.

Map and Directions to the St. Tammany Parish Justice Center

22nd Judicial District Court civil and criminal files are kept at the St. Tammany Parish Justice Center, 701 N. Columbia Street, in Covington. Both the Civil Department and the Criminal Department are on the basement level; the Criminal Department is reached by Elevator C. The Slidell Annex at 520 Old Spanish Trail can take some filings and customer-service questions, but civil documents filed there are forwarded to Covington for processing.

Civil customer service is reached at (985) 809-8733 and Criminal customer service at (985) 809-8732 rather than only the general switchboard. Specific entry-screening, locker, and parking details for the Justice Center were not published, so confirming current entry rules by phone before a visit is worthwhile, especially since the Slidell office has closed on short notice during weather events while Covington stayed open.