Search St. Landry Parish Court Records Online
The main online court-record route is the Clerk of Court's Criminal, Traffic, Civil, & Probate Records ClerkConnect page. The clerk identifies that service for St. Landry Parish civil, criminal, traffic, family, and probate records. The broader ClerkConnect portal describes search and print access for participating Louisiana clerk offices, but features are office-specific. For St. Landry Parish court records, the local clerk page is the better starting point because it states the local record categories and the subscription cost structure.
Search access is not the same as a certified copy. The clerk's courts overview says civil suits are filed with the Court Division and records of criminal proceedings are kept there. That local office matters when ClerkConnect does not show a file, when the record predates online indexing, when a court seal applies, or when a person needs a certified copy for filing, licensing, employment, appeal, or another formal use. Land, mortgage, conveyance, and historical index records use the separate eClerksLA/eVaultLA channel rather than the court-case subscription.
- Identify the record type first. Civil, criminal, traffic, family, and probate court records generally begin with the Clerk of Court and ClerkConnect.
- Use the St. Landry ClerkConnect registration page for online court-record access. The local page lists one-day, 30-day, and 365-day subscriptions.
- Search by the information available to you, such as a party name, case number, court category, or date range, while noting that exact public field labels were not visible without a subscription.
- Review the docket or file listing for the court division, case type, and event history before paying for prints.
- Call or visit the Clerk Court Division for certified copies, older files, restricted questions, or records that do not appear online.
- Use Opelousas or Eunice city-court contacts for city ordinance, lower-level traffic, and ward-level matters that may not be in the district-court search.
St. Landry Parish Court Records Search Fields
The public research could not view a live St. Landry Parish ClerkConnect case-result screen without an account, so the field table below stays limited to verified access facts and field concepts documented by the clerk and portal sources. That limitation is important. It prevents a court-record searcher from assuming the online system exposes a full public case file, document image set, judge field, disposition field, or complete docket without subscription access.
| Field Label | Type | Required | Notes / Format |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subscription / account | Login | Yes for full search and printing | St. Landry publishes one-day, 30-day, and 365-day court-record access tiers. |
| Parish / office | Dropdown or account context | Unspecified | ClerkConnect is a multi-office portal, and services vary by clerk office. |
| Record category | Category or tab | Likely required | The local page identifies civil, criminal, traffic, family, and probate records. |
| Party name | Text | Not visible | A common court-search input, but the exact St. Landry label was not verified. |
| Case number | Text | Not visible | Useful when available, but exact field behavior was not exposed publicly. |
| Search / Register | Button or link | Yes | The St. Landry page directs users to register for access. |
Types of St. Landry Parish Court Records
St. Landry Parish court records are split by case type and custodian. Civil suits are filed with the Clerk's Court Division. Criminal proceedings are kept by the same division after a case opens in court. Traffic records may appear through ClerkConnect, but payments and court fees can also involve the Sheriff's Civil, Tax, and Traffic Annex. Family and divorce records are district-court filings, while probate and succession matters run through the district court and Clerk of Court rather than a separate probate courthouse.
The parish also has lower-court channels. The clerk's city-court contact page lists Opelousas City Court and Eunice City Court with city judges and marshals. Those courts can matter for city ordinance, traffic, bench-warrant, and ward-level issues. A person searching only the district-court portal may miss a city-court event or local citation file.
- Civil court records can include petitions, answers, motions, service returns, judgments, garnishments, and certified-copy requests.
- Criminal court records can include bills of information, indictments, arraignments, pleas, bonds, motions, minute entries, dispositions, and sentences.
- Family and divorce records can include divorce petitions, support, custody, protective orders, and hearing-officer materials, with some limits on access.
- Probate records can include successions, wills, inventories, letters, tutorships, interdictions, and judgments of possession.
- Traffic records can include citation case data, plea or disposition entries, fines, and court actions, separate from the state driving record.
The public-record access image assigned for this page comes from the Louisiana Legislature's La. R.S. 44:31 public-record access page.
That statute supports inspection and copying rights, but St. Landry Parish court records still depend on the correct custodian and any court-specific restriction.
What St. Landry Parish Court Records Show
A court record is not just one document. It can be a file-level record, a docket entry, a pleading, a scanned image, a minute entry, an order, a judgment, a bond entry, or a certified copy. The 27th Judicial District Court local rules add local context because cases are allotted among Divisions A through D, criminal and civil sessions rotate by month, and several categories are handled by special assignment rules. Those division and allotment facts are part of how St. Landry Parish court records are organized.
| Field | What It Shows |
|---|---|
| Office / parish | St. Landry Parish Clerk of Court or another verified custodian such as a city court, sheriff, DA, or state office. |
| Record category | Civil, criminal, traffic, family, probate, or a separate land-record category through eClerksLA. |
| Division | District-court division A, B, C, or D where local rules assign or schedule the matter. |
| Parties | Plaintiff and defendant in civil cases, petitioner and respondent in some family/probate matters, or state and defendant in criminal cases. |
| Events | Filings, hearings, motions, continuances, minute entries, judgments, and other docket activity. |
| Access status | Public, subscription-gated, certified-copy only, sealed, expunged, juvenile-confidential, or otherwise restricted. |
St. Landry Parish Court Records Request Channels
The fallback chain matters as much as the portal. The St. Landry Clerk Courts Division is listed in Suite 121 on the first floor of the courthouse for civil suit filings and records of criminal proceedings. The general clerk office is listed at Suite 207. Archives are in Room 11 in the basement, and the archive holdings reach far beyond routine modern court-file requests.
| Channel | Best For | Limits |
|---|---|---|
| ClerkConnect | Online civil, criminal, traffic, family, and probate court-record search and print access. | Subscription and per-page print fees apply. |
| Clerk Court Division | Certified copies, civil filings, criminal proceeding records, older files, and record questions. | May need case number, party names, dates, and copy type. |
| Archives Department | Historical civil suits, marriage, probate, conveyance, sheriff deed, and genealogy records. | Not a substitute for current court filing counters. |
| City courts | Opelousas and Eunice city or ward-level matters. | May not appear in the district-court portal. |
| Sheriff or DA | Law-enforcement records, custody records, prosecution records, and public-record requests to those offices. | Not the custodian for the full court case file. |
Public Access to St. Landry Parish Court Records
Louisiana's Public Records Law supports access to public records, but the rule is applied through the agency or court custodian that holds the record. La. R.S. 44:31 states the general right of an adult requester to inspect, copy, or reproduce public records unless another law restricts access. La. R.S. 44:32 covers custodian duties for copies and reproduction. Those laws support requests, but they do not turn every sealed, juvenile, expunged, or protected court file into a public page.
The image below is from the Louisiana Legislature's La. R.S. 44:32 custodian-duty page.
For St. Landry Parish court records, that custodian concept points searchers back to the Clerk of Court for court files, the sheriff for law-enforcement records, and the DA for prosecution records.
Note: Public access starts with the right office, and certified copies still require clerk handling and any lawful copy fee.
Restricted St. Landry Parish Court Records
Some St. Landry Parish court records are not open to routine public inspection. Louisiana Children's Code art. 412 makes juvenile court records and reports confidential except for traffic violations and other disclosures authorized by the Children's Code. Adoption records, certain family and mental-health matters, protected personal identifiers, and court-sealed files may also be limited in full or in part. A clerk can confirm the existence of a process, but access to a restricted file may require a statute, party status, or court order.
The juvenile-record image assigned to this court-records page comes from the Louisiana Legislature's Children's Code confidentiality page.
That confidentiality rule is why juvenile matters should not be treated like ordinary St. Landry Parish civil or criminal court records.
Expungement is another access limit. Louisiana Code of Criminal Procedure art. 971 defines expungement as removing eligible arrest or conviction records from public access without destroying them. The Louisiana State Police Bureau of Criminal Identification and Information also processes court-ordered expungements that require criminal-history changes.
The expungement-definition image comes from the Louisiana Legislature's Code of Criminal Procedure art. 971 page.
For a St. Landry Parish case, an expunged record may still exist for limited legal uses even though it has been removed from ordinary public access.
The State Police image assigned to this page comes from the Louisiana State Police expungements page.
State Police processing is relevant after a court order affects criminal-history records, while the court file and certified orders still begin with the court and clerk.
In-Person St. Landry Parish Court Records
In-person and mail requests should be specific. Provide names, case number if known, approximate filing or hearing dates, record type, copy type, and whether certification is needed. For civil and criminal court files, the clerk research points to the Court Division in Suite 121. For general clerk routing, use the main clerk address and phone. For older historical materials, the Archives Department in Room 11 is a separate research path with probate, marriage, civil suit, conveyance, sheriff deed, and other records dating into the 1800s.
St. Landry Parish Clerk of Court
118 South Court Street, Suite 207
Opelousas, LA 70570
337-942-5606
Courts Division: Suite 121, ext. 5113