Search the Perry County Court Docket

Perry County Court Docket Searches

Start a Perry County court docket search on Indiana MyCase, the state's free public lookup. You can search by case number, party name, or attorney. Set the Court filter to Perry County. That way you only pull this county's Odyssey data instead of statewide noise. Already have the cause number? The prefix 62C01 tells you the case sits in Perry Circuit Court. MyCase also accepts a citation number or a cross-reference number. You may enter only one identifier type per search.

Name searching takes a little care. Fill in last, first, and middle name. A business name works too. Then add status and a filing-date range to narrow things down. A trailing wildcard helps when you have just part of a name. Keep queries broad and you can slam into the 1,000-result limit. Lean on the county filter and dates to stay under it.

1. Open MyCase and select Perry County.
2. Choose By Case, By Party, or By Attorney.
3. Enter one identifier or a focused name.
4. Read the type, status, and chronological case summary.
5. Confirm a date with the court or request a copy from the clerk.

Expect a CAPTCHA prompt on MyCase, and note the site's own warning that its public data is not the official record. For certified copies, older filings, or documents missing online, the clerk's office is the answer.

Why Perry Dockets Start 62C01

Every Indiana case number follows one uniform pattern. That pattern tells you plenty at a glance. Take 62C01-YYMM-XX-######. The 62 stands for Perry County. The C marks Circuit Court. The 01 is the court's sequence. Next in the number comes the filing year and month. A two-letter code flags the case type. Six digits close it out as the filing sequence. Common codes include CM for a misdemeanor. SC flags a small claim, IF an infraction, and DR a dissolution.

The Indiana Odyssey court list confirms Perry Circuit Court as 62C01 and shows its Odyssey start date of July 18, 2016.

That milestone is what put Perry County cases on the statewide MyCase interface. The clerk still keeps the official court docket, along with older records the portal does not carry.

Court Dockets: What They Show

Think of a Perry County court docket as a dated register of events, not a story. It names the case and court. It lists public parties and attorneys. It also lines up filings, settings, orders, judgments, and dispositions in order. Charges can carry an offense date, statute, degree, and citation. Bond entries may show an amount, status, and status date. Fields vary with the case type and access rules.

Read entries with care, because labels mislead. "Disposed" alone settles nothing about guilt or liability. A status date is not a hearing date, and a file date is not a trial date. Pull the public order when one exists, and ask the clerk for any eligible paper that never made it online.

Perry MyCase Search Limits

MyCase serves up public, nonconfidential Odyssey data plus selected documents, not the whole official file. Papers from older cases may simply not be online. Financial entries can lag behind reality. What documents you can open varies by case type. Protection orders follow a separate route, and confidential or sealed material never becomes public just because its cause number is known.

The official MyCase help source walks through the CAPTCHA, the 1,000-result limit, document access, and the warning that MyCase is not the official record.

Those limits shape a smart Perry docket search. Narrow the query, save the exact cause number, and turn to the clerk when the interface stops short.

Perry County Courts and Their Dockets

Perry Circuit Court stands as the county's active court of record in current official listings. Its docket covers the range of case paths you'll see in clerk records, from civil, criminal, probate, and juvenile matters to small claims, traffic, infractions, protection orders, and related filings. The county posts no separate active superior-court clerk.

Two former local courts are gone. Rule 8 lists 62H01 Perry/Cannelton Town Court and 62H02 Perry/Tell City City Court as abolished. Troy has no active Odyssey court listing. Remember, a police agency that issued a ticket does not create a city docket. Check venue on the citation or cause number before you search.

One Perry Court, Many Paths

One active court does not mean one uniform set of records. Indiana's case codes split matters into criminal, civil, family, probate, juvenile, mental-health, protection-order, infraction, ordinance, and small-claims tracks. Access differs across them. Some public orders show up online. Other eligible papers must come from the clerk. Several sensitive categories have no ordinary online public access at all.

The Perry Circuit Court source names Judge Lucy Goffinet and Magistrate Karen A. Werner. It also lists court hours and contact details.

Bring scheduling and process questions to the court itself. Joan Hess and the Circuit Court Clerk's office handle the official records and copies.

Court Dates and Settings in Perry County

Indiana Administrative Rule 9 requires daily calendar and docket information to be available electronically or otherwise. It covers case number, caption, date, time, and location. Perry County posts no standalone daily-calendar site. So find the case in MyCase first. Read the hearing events, then confirm the setting with Perry Circuit Court at 812-547-7048.

When you review events, note the type, date, start time, courtroom, judge or magistrate, and status if shown. A reset can replace an earlier setting. Conflicting event rows? Call the court. The Perry County court schedule lays out the full setting workflow.

Indiana Court Streaming offers remote hearings statewide, though no Perry stream is listed. An e-filing notice is not a daily calendar, so don't treat it as one. For filing and record questions, the clerk's number is 812-547-3741.

Perry Dockets by the Numbers

The official 2024 trial-statistics workbook paints a busy picture of Perry Circuit Court. It counted 13,882 cases pending at the start of the year, 3,571 new filings, 5,603 dispositions, and 11,840 cases pending when the year closed. The same workbook logged two matters venued in, twelve venued out, and 228 alternative-dispute-resolution referrals.

Perry County's docket filings split by case type. Infractions came in at 1,206. The count also includes 406 MC miscellaneous criminal matters, 329 CM misdemeanors, 254 CC civil collections, and 188 SC small claims. Read these as reported cases, not docket entries, unique people, or outcomes. No city breakdown exists. So none of the totals can be tied to Tell City, Cannelton, or Troy.

Docket Access Under Indiana Law

Indiana starts from open access. Administrative Rule 9 then sets the limits, controlling electronic access, courthouse inspection, calendars, and bulk requests, while Access Rule 5 covers confidential, sealed, excluded, protected, and redacted records. The broader public-record framework sits in Indiana Code 5-14-3.

A missing result proves nothing. Wrong spelling or court selection may explain it. So can case age, access category, expungement, or sealing. Excluded material may require a verified request, notice, hearing, and a written order.

From Courthouse to Odyssey

Perry County dates to 1814 and honors Oliver Hazard Perry. The courthouse went up in 1994. Andrew Churchill designed it. It stands at 2219 Payne Street in Tell City. Perry Circuit Court joined Odyssey in 2016, tying the local case record to statewide MyCase access.

The Indiana Bicentennial Perry source documents the county and courthouse history along with the Ohio River National Scenic Byway context.

History explains the paper trail. Older records may live with the clerk, microfilm, the State Library, or the Archives rather than MyCase alone.

How the Clerk Keeps Docket Records

Joan Hess serves as Circuit Court Clerk and keeps the official records for Perry Circuit Court. Her office receives pleadings, tracks motions and evidence, preserves rulings, and records judgments and decrees. It also certifies documents and handles court costs and fines. Staff stay impartial. They cannot give legal advice.

The counter sits at 2219 Payne Street, Tell City, IN 47586. Hours run Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Central Time. Call 812-547-3741, fax 812-547-9782, or email clerk@perrycounty.in.gov. MyCase is the online starting point. Counter, phone, fax, mail, and judiciary public-record instructions serve as fallbacks. Only a tax-warrant terminal is confirmed, so ask before counting on a case terminal.

The Perry clerk source lists duties, channels, and forms.

A no-cash drop box is also available. Confirm the amount and payee, include the cause number, and add a stamped return envelope if you want a receipt.

Perry Court Copy Costs

The clerk can hand you a plain copy or certify an eligible filed document. State sources list $1 per legal or letter page. A certificate under seal adds $3, and a transcript judgment lien costs $3. Treat these as references, not a quote. Page count, certification, or postage can change the total. So can another lawful charge.

The Indiana trial-fee source is the current statewide starting point.

Ask the clerk for delivery instructions before sending any payment. Certification never overrides confidentiality or sealing.

City-by-City Court Dockets in Perry County

Perry County counts three incorporated communities, not five. The 2020 Census puts Tell City at 7,506 residents, Cannelton at 1,524, and Troy at 347. Those figures shape the city pages. They do not split court filings or create three city courts.

No active city or town courts appear in current Perry listings. Tell City's 62H02 and Cannelton's 62H01 courts are both abolished. Troy has no active Odyssey entry. Current 62C01 matters start with MyCase and the Perry clerk, even when a city agency issued the citation. City offices keep municipal records, not the county docket.

The 2020 Census incorporated-place table supplies the ranking.

The three community pages explain their county-court connection without inventing municipal dockets.

Perry Docket Routes by Need

Match the route to the need in Perry County. MyCase gives a current public index plus selected documents. For official copies, certification, older files, or eligible papers missing online, use the clerk's counter, phone, fax, or mail. Call the court for hearing settings. The judiciary request process is the written fallback. Bulk data follows a separate Office of Judicial Administration application under Rule 9(F).

IEFS is Indiana's filing system, not a public docket replacement. Traffic public access handles citation searches and payments. Protection orders have their own search. Federal Perry matters begin in PACER or Southern District CM/ECF, not MyCase. Picking the right office keeps a city hall, a filing portal, or a statistics tool from being mistaken for a court record.

Gather details before you call. Save the full party or business name, the complete cause number, case type, filing or event date, and the exact document needed. Say whether you want inspection, a plain copy, or certification. For a hearing question, note the event type and the latest displayed date. These details help staff find the right Perry County case. A broad name match is not proof. They also keep your request separate from the legal advice clerk staff cannot give.

Map and Directions to the Perry County Courthouse

Perry Circuit Court's case files and the Circuit Court Clerk's docket records are both kept at the Perry County Courthouse, 2219 Payne Street, in Tell City, the county seat. Completed in 1994, the building houses the Clerk's office and the Circuit Court under the same roof, so the same address serves record requests and courtroom questions alike.

A no-cash drop box in front of the courthouse accepts payments; include the cause number and a self-addressed stamped envelope for a receipt, and never mail cash. Parking, security screening, and accessibility details were not published on the county's site, so call the Clerk at 812-547-3741 or the Circuit Court at 812-547-7048 to confirm arrangements before a visit.