Search St. Tammany Parish Court Records
Most St. Tammany Parish court records start with the St. Tammany Parish Clerk of Court online services page. The Clerk directs users to re:SearchLA for current civil and criminal court records. The same Clerk page also points to the legacy public-record and e-certification portal for Archives, Assessor Tax Rolls, Land Records, Marriage Licenses, and older civil and criminal e-certification records entered before 4/25/19.
Choose the portal by record type before searching. Civil suits, domestic cases, successions, tutorships, commitments, adoptions, and appeals route through the Clerk Civil Department. Felony, misdemeanor, juvenile, non-support, and traffic violations route through the Clerk Criminal Department. Marriage licenses and older archive material may sit in the legacy system instead of the current case search.
- Start with the record type and decide whether the Clerk Civil Department, Clerk Criminal Department, Personal Documents, Archives, or the Sheriff's Office is the likely custodian.
- Use re:SearchLA for current District Court civil and criminal case access. Search by party name if the case number is unknown.
- Narrow results to St. Tammany Parish or the 22nd Judicial District when a court or parish filter is available.
- Check the filing date, party names, case type, division, events, and document links before ordering copies.
- Use the Clerk legacy portal, the Clerk counter, or the Slidell Annex when the record is older, certified, paper-based, or not returned online.
The Clerk of Court homepage is the source for current service links, department routing, and office notices.
The Clerk's online-service route is shown in the official re:SearchLA court-record search portal.
St. Tammany Parish Court System
St. Tammany Parish is in the 22nd Judicial District Court, a Louisiana district that also includes Washington Parish. Louisiana uses District Courts as the main trial courts of general jurisdiction. Local matters may also arise in justice of the peace, mayor's, city, or municipal courts, especially for local ordinance cases, evictions, certain traffic matters, and bench-warrant issues.
Appeals from the District Court move through the Louisiana Court of Appeal system, with the Louisiana Supreme Court at the top of the state court structure. Federal cases are separate. A federal civil suit, federal criminal prosecution, or bankruptcy case linked to St. Tammany Parish is not a parish District Court record.
Case flow: local court or filing office › 22nd Judicial District Court › Louisiana Court of Appeal › Louisiana Supreme Court. Federal cases move through the Eastern District of Louisiana, the Bankruptcy Court, the Fifth Circuit, and PACER.
| Court or office | Role | Records to expect |
|---|---|---|
| 22nd Judicial District Court | Main trial court for the parish | Civil, criminal, family, juvenile, non-support, traffic, succession, tutorship, and specialty-court matters |
| Clerk of Court | Primary record custodian | Case files, copies, e-certification, marriage licenses, archives, and land-record links |
| Justice, mayor, city, and municipal courts | Lower local venues | Local ordinance, smaller civil, traffic, and bench-warrant issues depending on court authority |
| Federal courts | Separate federal system | Federal civil, criminal, bankruptcy, prisoner, and appellate dockets |
The local trial-court framework is documented on the 22nd Judicial District Court website.
St. Tammany Parish Clerk Records
The St. Tammany Parish Clerk of Court is the unified parish record office for this project. Current office branding identifies Clerk Jessica Jenkins Brewster. The Clerk's departments map to the most common court-record questions: Civil handles civil, domestic, adoption, commitment, succession, tutorship, and appeal records; Criminal handles misdemeanor, felony, juvenile, non-support, and traffic violations; Personal Document Services handles marriage licenses and certain vital-record copy services; Archives preserves parish history and genealogy materials dating back to 1810.
The main Clerk public counter is at the St. Tammany Parish Justice Center in Covington. East-parish visitors can also use the Slidell Annex in the St. Tammany Parish Administrative Complex, though that office closes from 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. daily. Call ahead when a certified copy, archive file, succession record, or older court file is needed.
Clerk of Court Covington Office
701 N Columbia Street
Covington, LA 70433
985-809-8700
Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
Clerk Slidell Annex
520 Old Spanish Trail, 5th Floor
Slidell, LA 70458
985-643-6969
Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.; closed 1:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m.
Clerk Elections Office
601 N Jefferson Street
Covington, LA 70433
985-809-8700
Chief elections office for the parish
The Clerk's public-facing departments are organized on the official St. Tammany Parish Clerk of Court site.
St. Tammany Parish Record Types
St. Tammany Parish court records are grouped by the department and court function that created them. A civil suit is different from a succession, even though both route through the Clerk Civil Department. A criminal case file is different from a jail booking record, even though both may begin after an arrest. Traffic court records are different from Louisiana OMV driver records.
Current online access does not mean every document is public or downloadable. Some records are indexed online but require a Clerk request for a certified copy. Other records, such as juvenile, adoption, commitment, sealed, or expunged matters, may be limited to parties, counsel, agencies, or court-approved users.
- Civil court records: petitions, answers, motions, orders, judgments, appeals, domestic suits, commitments, successions, and tutorships.
- Criminal court records: felony, misdemeanor, juvenile, non-support, and traffic case files maintained by the Clerk Criminal Department.
- Arrest and charge records: sheriff booking information, DA charging action, filed charges, bond, case number, and disposition when a case opens.
- Domestic records: divorce, custody, support, protective-order components, and related civil filings.
- Succession records: Louisiana probate-style records such as petitions, wills, inventories, tutorships, and judgments of possession.
What St. Tammany Parish Court Records Show
A case record usually combines a case header, party information, docket events, filed documents, hearings, and disposition data. The exact fields depend on the case type. A criminal record may show charges, arraignment, pleas, motions, sentencing, bond, probation, and warrant events. A civil record may show pleadings, service returns, motions, orders, judgments, and appeal activity.
| Field | What it shows |
|---|---|
| Case number | Exact docket identifier used for searches, copies, and case matching |
| Court and division | 22nd Judicial District Court, St. Tammany Parish, and the division, judge, commissioner, or hearing officer |
| Parties | Plaintiff, defendant, petitioner, respondent, State of Louisiana, offender, decedent, or succession name |
| Events | Filings, motions, hearings, arraignments, continuances, judgments, sentencing, and appeal activity |
| Documents | Pleadings, orders, minutes, warrants, bonds, certificates, notices, and e-certified copies if available |
| Disposition | Judgment, dismissal, guilty plea, conviction, sentence, probation, transfer, appeal, sealed status, or closure |
St. Tammany Parish Public Access
Louisiana public-record law supports inspection and copying of public records unless a legal exception applies. In St. Tammany Parish, the practical route is to contact the custodian that holds the record. Court files usually start with the Clerk of Court. Sheriff booking, warrant, crash, or law-enforcement records start with the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff's Office and its GovQA request channel.
Key Statutes:
La. R.S. 44:1 defines public records broadly for Louisiana public bodies.
La. R.S. 44:31 frames the right to inspect, copy, or reproduce public records through the custodian.
Louisiana Code of Civil Procedure art. 253 governs filing pleadings and documents with the Clerk.
La. C.Cr.P. art. 971 et seq. is the Louisiana expungement framework for qualifying criminal records.
Restricted St. Tammany Parish Records
Not every court record is open. Juvenile case records, adoption files, mental-health commitments, sealed records, expunged criminal records, and personal identifiers may be restricted or redacted. Protective-order and emergency-custody records may also have safety-based limits. A public search can return no result when a case existed but has been sealed or expunged by court order.
Adult criminal expungement is not the same as record destruction. It limits public access after a qualifying case and signed order, while some law-enforcement or agency access may remain. For case-specific access or filing rules, the Clerk Criminal Department or counsel is the right starting point.
Note: A missing online result does not prove that no record exists, especially for older, sealed, or restricted records.
St. Tammany Parish Court Dockets
The 22nd JDC court calendar gives docket and schedule context. It links 2026 court calendars, a duty judge calendar, holidays, division schedules, and hearing categories. Calendar categories include felony jury trial weeks, civil jury and bench trial weeks, traffic court, misdemeanors, juvenile court, felony motions, child support, drug court, civil motions, civil pre-trials, felony pre-trials, family matters, and arraignments.
A docket is not the full case file. It is the chronological schedule and event list for hearings, filings, orders, and court actions. Use the docket to confirm timing and use the Clerk record channel to get the filed document, judgment, or certified copy.
Criminal Cases and Charges
Criminal court records in St. Tammany Parish are maintained by the Clerk Criminal Department after a case is filed. The case file may show charges, arraignment, plea, motions, hearings, disposition, sentence, probation, warrants, and bond information. The District Attorney for the 22nd Judicial District, J. Collin Sims, prosecutes criminal matters, including state traffic-law violations when within St. Tammany and Washington Parish jurisdiction.
An arrest record is not the same as a criminal court record. An arrest may first appear in sheriff custody or booking records. Formal charges may follow after prosecutor review, and the court case then appears through the Clerk system. The full outcome belongs in the court file, while custody status belongs with the jail roster or sheriff records.
Prosecution office details come from the 22nd Judicial District Attorney website.
St. Tammany Parish Sheriff and Jail
The St. Tammany Parish Sheriff's Office is led by Sheriff Bret Ibert, according to the current official sheriff pages and the June 2026 leadership-transition notice. STPSO is the source for jail custody, visitation, sheriff public-record requests, ticket and court-fine payment links, warrant phone routing, and some law-enforcement records. The jail is separate from the Clerk's court-record system.
The official jail roster endpoint is documented at inmates.stpso.revize.com, but automated research was blocked by Cloudflare. Normal browser access may still work. If the roster does not return the record, use the jail phone line, VINELink Louisiana, the Louisiana DOC locator for state-prison custody, the BOP locator for federal custody, or the STPSO GovQA request portal for sheriff-held records.
| Channel | Use | Phone or link |
|---|---|---|
| STPSO business office | Sheriff office routing | 985-809-8200 |
| Parish jail | Custody and jail questions | 985-898-2320 |
| Warrants | Active warrant confirmation | 985-809-8242 |
| Tickets and fines | Traffic ticket or court-fine questions | 985-809-8250 |
Current sheriff and jail service links are published through the official St. Tammany Parish Sheriff's Office.
Marriage Divorce and Succession
Marriage license services are handled by the Clerk's Personal Document Services department. The Clerk is also an agent for the Louisiana Vital Records Registry for some birth and death copy services. Marriage licenses may be searchable through the legacy portal, while certified copies should be requested from the Clerk.
Divorce is a domestic suit in District Court and Clerk Civil Department records. Current public divorce cases may be searched through re:SearchLA, but child, protective-order, or sealed details may be restricted. Louisiana probate-style matters in St. Tammany Parish use succession and tutorship terminology rather than a separate Probate Court name. These matters route through the District Court and Clerk Civil Department.
- Succession
- Louisiana estate proceeding used to transfer a deceased person's property.
- Tutorship
- Louisiana proceeding that can appoint authority for a minor's care or property.
- Judgment of possession
- Succession judgment that transfers estate property to heirs or legatees and may be recorded in land records.
St. Tammany Parish Specialty Courts
The 22nd JDC specialty-court system is a major local feature. Programs include Adult Drug Court, Drug Court Co-Occurring Track 2, Family Preservation Court, Court Intervention Services, Re-Entry Court, Sobriety/DWI Court, and Veterans Court. These programs do not replace the court record, but they can affect hearings, supervision, treatment terms, and case outcomes.
Re-Entry Court is especially specific: participants enter in prison at Angola or the Louisiana Correctional Institute for Women, then return to court-supervised re-entry focused on work, treatment, employers, and housing. Veterans Court entry depends on District Attorney approval based on criminal history and military records. Court Intervention Services can connect recently arrested people to mental-health or substance-abuse support.
St. Tammany Parish Record Fees
Some St. Tammany Parish record costs are portal- or transaction-dependent, and the research file did not locate reliable HTML text for plain-copy, certified-copy, or marriage-license fee amounts. The Clerk links online payments through Point & Pay, and the marriage-license fee PDF exists on the Clerk site but was not machine-readable during research. Exact charges should be verified with the Clerk before a request is placed.
| Item | Official status from research |
|---|---|
| Civil or criminal certified copy | Fee not located in official HTML sources; verify with Clerk |
| Plain copy | Fee not located in official HTML sources; verify with Clerk |
| Marriage license fee | Clerk PDF located, but text extraction failed; verify before relying on an amount |
| Online Clerk payment | Point & Pay vendor linked by Clerk |
| Inmate deposits | GTL and TouchPay vendor channels; pricing is vendor-controlled |
Federal Court Records
Federal records for St. Tammany Parish are outside the parish District Court and Clerk portals. Federal trial cases route through the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana. Bankruptcy cases route through the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana. Appeals go to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
PACER is the main federal docket access system, while CM/ECF is used by registered filers. A federal inmate lookup uses the Bureau of Prisons locator, not the St. Tammany Parish jail roster or Louisiana DOC locator.
Federal cases tied to St. Tammany Parish begin with the Eastern District of Louisiana when they are district-court matters.
State appellate and judicial-branch context is available from the Louisiana Supreme Court.
St. Tammany Parish Court History
Older record research often depends on the Clerk Archives Department, which preserves St. Tammany Parish history and genealogy dating back to 1810. That matters for older succession, marriage, land, archive, and court materials that may not appear in the same systems as current re:SearchLA case records.
The Sheriff's Office history also shows a long local record trail. Official history lists sheriff succession from Thomas Brewster in 1900 through Randy Smith and Bret Ibert in 2026. Current court access has moved toward re:SearchLA, eClerksLA, e-certification, GovQA, and vendor payment systems, but the original custodian still matters for each record type.
Indigent-defense office context comes from the Louisiana Public Defender District 22 page.
St. Tammany Parish Records FAQ
Where do current St. Tammany Parish court records start?
Current civil and criminal District Court records start with the Clerk's re:SearchLA access route. The Clerk legacy portal remains important for older e-certified court records before 4/25/19, marriage licenses, archives, land records, and assessor tax roll categories.
Who keeps certified copies?
The Clerk of Court issues court-file copies and certified court records. Civil, domestic, succession, tutorship, and appeal matters route through the Civil Department. Felony, misdemeanor, non-support, juvenile, and traffic case records route through the Criminal Department.
How are warrants checked?
STPSO lists a direct warrant phone line at 985-809-8242. Court dockets may show warrant-related events, but active status should be confirmed with the sheriff, issuing court, or counsel because warrants can be recalled or updated.
Are traffic records the same as driver records?
No. A court traffic record is the citation or case file handled through the District Court, Clerk Criminal Department, DA, and ticket/fine channel. A state driver record is maintained by Louisiana OMV and accessed through ExpressLane.
Does St. Tammany Parish have a separate Probate Court?
No separate Probate Court was identified in the official court structure map. Succession, tutorship, and related estate records are handled through the District Court and Clerk Civil Department.