St. Tammany Clerk Office
The St. Tammany Parish Clerk of Court is a unified Louisiana parish clerk, not a split county clerk and district clerk system. The State Court Structure Map identifies the Clerk of Court as the primary clerk for the parish. Current Clerk site branding names Jessica Jenkins Brewster as Clerk. The office serves as the public record custodian for many court and public-document functions tied to the 22nd Judicial District Court and parish records.
The Clerk's official department list is highly specific to St. Tammany Parish. It includes Archives, Civil, Criminal, Elections, Land Records, Passports, Personal Document Services, Recording, Finance, Human Resources, and the Slidell Annex. For court records, the Civil and Criminal Departments are the core divisions. Civil handles civil suits, domestic matters, adoptions, commitments, successions, tutorships, and appeals. Criminal handles misdemeanor, felony, juvenile, non-support, and traffic records.
St. Tammany Parish Clerk of Court
Clerk: Jessica Jenkins Brewster
701 N Columbia Street
Covington, LA 70433
985-809-8700
Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
Slidell Annex Office
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.
The Clerk department source shows how St. Tammany Parish Clerk records are divided by department.
That department structure is the key to choosing the right St. Tammany Parish Clerk of Court access channel before calling or searching online.
St. Tammany Clerk Duties
The Clerk of Court receives and maintains court filings, supports certified copy requests, preserves historical and land records, and provides public access tools for current and older records. In St. Tammany Parish, the Clerk's duties are broad because Louisiana parish clerks handle court and public-record work that may be split between different offices in other states.
- Civil Department records for civil suits, domestic cases, adoptions, commitments, successions, tutorships, and civil or criminal appeals.
- Criminal Department records for misdemeanor, felony, juvenile, non-support, and traffic violations.
- Personal Document Services for marriage licenses and vital-record copy services through the Louisiana Vital Records Registry role.
- Archives for parish history and genealogy records dating back to 1810.
- Land Records and Recording for conveyance, mortgage, judgments of possession, cancellations, and immovable-property documents.
The Clerk's online-services source identifies the main web channels for St. Tammany Parish Clerk of Court records.
Online services are helpful for search and filing, but the Clerk remains the custodian for certified copies and department-specific record questions.
How to Request a Certified Copy
Certified copies are used when a person needs an official court or public record rather than a search result. A St. Tammany Parish Clerk of Court record may be searchable online, but a certified copy must come from the Clerk. The exact request path depends on whether the document is a current civil or criminal case record, an older e-certified record, a marriage record, a land record, or an archive item.
- Identify the record type first. Use Civil for domestic, succession, tutorship, adoption, commitment, and appeal files; use Criminal for felony, misdemeanor, juvenile, non-support, and traffic files.
- Search re:SearchLA or the Clerk legacy portal when a case number, party name, or older e-certification path may narrow the request.
- Contact the correct Clerk department or visit the Covington office or Slidell Annex with the case number, party names, document type, and requested copy format.
- Confirm current fees and delivery options before payment because the research did not locate official copy-fee amounts in HTML sources.
- Use the Clerk's certified or e-certified output for legal use rather than relying on an uncertified online view.
Note: The Clerk's legacy portal is specifically tied to older court e-certification for records entered before 4/25/19.
Records Request Form Fields
The research did not locate one universal Clerk records-request form for every department. Still, the official portal inventory shows the practical fields needed to request St. Tammany Parish Clerk of Court records. Supplying more identifiers reduces the risk that a Clerk employee must search across Civil, Criminal, Land Records, Archives, and Personal Document Services.
| Field | Required | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Case number | Best if known | Use for exact civil, criminal, succession, traffic, or domestic court records. |
| Party names | Yes | Include plaintiff/defendant, petitioner/respondent, decedent, spouse, or business name as relevant. |
| Department | Yes | Choose Civil, Criminal, Personal Documents, Archives, Land Records, or Recording. |
| Document type | Yes | Examples include judgment, order, docket, marriage license, recorded judgment of possession, or e-certified court record. |
| Date range | Helpful | Important for Archives, older court files, and common names. |
| Copy format | Yes | State whether a plain copy, certified copy, or e-certified copy is needed. |
The legacy portal source is still relevant for older Clerk record categories.
The legacy login reflects a separate access path for records such as land, marriage, archives, assessor rolls, and older court e-certification.
St. Tammany Clerk Fees
The research file found Clerk payment channels but did not confirm exact civil, criminal, plain-copy, certified-copy, or search-fee amounts in official HTML sources. The Clerk's online services link to Point & Pay for Clerk payments and eClerksLA for filing workflows. Because fees can depend on record type, certification, filing category, and payment vendor, the safer St. Tammany Parish Clerk of Court records practice is to verify the amount before submitting payment.
| Item | Official status from research |
|---|---|
| Plain court-record copy | Amount not located in official HTML source. |
| Certified civil or criminal copy | Amount not located; confirm with the owning department. |
| Marriage license fee | Official PDF located in research, but amount not extracted. |
| Online payment | Point & Pay portal linked by Clerk. |
| E-filing fee | Account and transaction dependent through eClerksLA. |
The Clerk notes that curators using civil e-filing should answer the pauper or government-party question as directed to avoid being charged filing fees. That is a specific e-filing instruction, not a general fee waiver for all users.
Common Clerk Forms
St. Tammany Parish Clerk forms and filing support are spread across department and court channels. The 22nd JDC orders and forms page is the court-side source for forms, while the Clerk online-services page points to filing, recording, payment, and records portals. E-filing is for submitting pleadings. It is not the same thing as searching public records.
- re:SearchLA - current civil and criminal court-record search linked by the Clerk.
- eClerksLA - e-filing for new suits and subsequent pleadings.
- Point & Pay - Clerk online payment vendor.
- Archives Department - older genealogy and historical record research.
The eClerksLA source is the official filing portal linked by the Clerk for eligible filings.
E-filing can create or add to a court file, while re:SearchLA and the legacy portal are the channels used to locate existing records.
Mail and Online Filings
The St. Tammany Parish Clerk online-services page names several access channels. re:SearchLA is the current civil and criminal case-viewing portal. The legacy portal covers land records, marriage licenses, archives, assessor tax rolls, and e-certified civil and criminal court records entered before 4/25/19. eClerksLA handles e-filing for new suits and subsequent pleadings. E-recording partners include CSC, ePN, and Simplifile. Point & Pay handles Clerk online payments.
Louisiana filing rules matter for mail and online filings. The Clerk notes that most e-filed documents become originals once received by the Clerk of Court, but specific original legal documents cannot be e-filed under Louisiana Code of Civil Procedure Article 253 and electronic-record laws including La. R.S. 9:2602 and La. R.S. 9:2603.
Mail and counter requests should be routed by department, not by a broad "court records" label. A divorce decree, custody order, succession judgment, tutorship filing, adoption file, commitment record, or appeal belongs with Civil. A felony file, misdemeanor file, traffic violation, juvenile matter, or non-support case belongs with Criminal, subject to any access limits. A recorded judgment of possession or conveyance issue may require Land Records. Older genealogy or parish-history research may require Archives. That routing prevents a St. Tammany Parish Clerk of Court request from being delayed because it reached the wrong record unit.
The Clerk contact source supplies the official office contact channel for St. Tammany Parish Clerk records.
Contacting the Clerk directly is the fallback when a portal requires login, a certified copy is needed, or the record belongs to a specific department.