Search Clinton County Court Docket

Searching the Clinton County Court Docket

Start a Clinton County court docket search at Indiana MyCase. The portal pulls from Odyssey. It covers Clinton Circuit Court, Clinton Superior Court, and Frankfort City Court. An exact cause number works best. You can also narrow a docket search by party name, citation number, cross-reference number, attorney name, court, case category, status, or filing dates.

1. Read the notice or citation and note the named court and cause number.
2. Open MyCase and select Clinton County or Clinton County–Frankfort City.
3. Search the exact number, or use a name with a short date range.
4. Open the result and read the newest Chronological Case Summary entries.
5. Check the setting, status, court, and public document links.
6. Call the clerk or court for a missing record or official copy.

The assigned image below comes from the official MyCase landing address.

The statewide lookup is free for public case information. Just know it may not show every filed document or older court event online.

Clinton County Docket Search Fields

MyCase offers separate search paths for a case, a party, a business, or an attorney. Exact inputs cut down false matches. Broad queries can get capped by the public interface. Repeated searching may trigger a captcha. So aim for one known Clinton County case, not a bulk pull of court records.

The live Indiana public-access application appears in the next assigned image.

Write down the cause number before leaving the result. That single key unlocks a court call, a counter request, or a mailed copy request.

Inside a Clinton County Court Docket

Indiana's official timeline of case events is the Chronological Case Summary, or CCS. Trial Rule 77 lists it among the records the Clerk of the Circuit Court maintains. Each entry appears when a filing arrives or a judicial event occurs. Fixes come through a later entry. They never come through silent deletion. That is why entry order matters when reading a Clinton County docket.

A CCS is not the full case file. Nor is it a certified copy. The case file holds the filed papers, while certification is the clerk's formal attestation that a copy matches the maintained record.

Clinton County Docket Number Clues

Clinton County cause numbers start with 12. The next segment names the court. That is 12C01 for Clinton Circuit Court, 12D01 for Clinton Superior Court, and 12H01 for Frankfort City Court. Later segments carry the filing year and month, the case-type code, and the sequence. These clues keep a case lookup from landing in the wrong court.

CF or felony level

A criminal felony route, assigned to Circuit under current local rules.

CM

A criminal misdemeanor code, assigned to Superior.

SC and EV

Small-claim and eviction categories handled in Superior.

IF and OV

Infraction and ordinance categories, with Frankfort City Court possible when named.

PO

A protection-order category with special public-search limits.

A code is only a routing aid. It does not give you the legal result. Read the case style, current status, charge or claim, latest order, and disposition too, since a transferred or converted case may carry an older cross-reference or less detail than a recent Odyssey filing.

Courts That Keep Dockets in Clinton County

Clinton County runs one unified county clerk office. Each court still keeps its own docket. Under the 2026 local rules, felony filings go to Circuit and misdemeanors to Superior. Superior also takes small claims, evictions, infractions, and ordinance violations. Frankfort City Court is a separate lower court handling matters inside its city jurisdiction.

The official Clinton County courts page gives local court descriptions and contact paths.

The court named on the notice is the one that holds the docket; a town name alone does not create a separate municipal docket in Clinton County.

Clinton County Docket Routing Rules

The local allocation rules head off a common search error. "Criminal" does not put every criminal docket in Circuit. Felonies go there. Misdemeanors go to Superior. "Civil" does not mean Circuit alone either, since general civil matters may sit in Circuit or Superior, and the cause number confirms where the file lives.

Protection orders usually route to Superior. Stated exceptions cover a minor respondent or a matter tied to divorce or paternity. Juvenile CHINS, termination-of-parental-rights, and miscellaneous juvenile matters go to Circuit. A Frankfort City Court appeal moves into a county trial court. Note that Clinton County Court identifier 12E01 is abolished and historical, not a current search filter.

The county government source shows the courthouse context for these Clinton County dockets.

Still unsure of venue? Hand the clerk the full cause number instead of guessing from the subject of the case.

How to Find Court Dates and Settings

Begin with the citation, summons, or newest notice you hold. Then check the latest CCS setting in MyCase. The Clerk page's "Look up Hearing" tab opens a Doxpop event widget. It can show the case, court, judge, event type, day, time, place, and status. Doxpop is a convenience source, not the official record.

Call the named court when a date is close, a setting moved, or sources disagree. Circuit publishes 765-659-6345. The state directory lists Superior at 765-659-6341, and the county page lists 765-659-6340 as well. Frankfort City Court uses 765-654-5715. Ask for the time, room or location, setting type, and whether attendance is required. The full Clinton County court dates walkthrough covers resets and missed settings.

A motion to continue does not change a date by itself. Only the judge's ruling plus a later reset entry does. The court posts no permanent Clinton remote-hearing schedule. So rely on a current court notice or direct instructions.

Clinton County Clerk Hearing Tools

The Clerk of the Circuit Court page gathers several local channels in one spot: "Look up Hearing," forms, office details, and a traffic-payment link. It names Stephanie Harshbarger as the elected Clinton County Clerk. That one office keeps the CCS records, case files, judgment and order records, indexes, and public receivables for Circuit, Superior, and probate.

The assigned clerk-page image records that public access point.

This page shines when a portal result needs a human follow-up. The clerk can confirm the public record, the current balance, the copy route, or the court destination. Staff cannot give legal advice. The county department directory offers another official route when you know the office but not the direct line.

Contact the court, clerk, or archives for records; prosecutor and probation offices handle different duties.

Public Access to Court Dockets

Indiana's starting point is Indiana Code 5-14-3, the Access to Public Records Act. Court dockets add another layer, since Indiana Supreme Court rules govern them too. Assume openness unless something says otherwise. A statute, a court rule, an exclusion, a sealing order, or a case type can each hold something back, and what you reach from home is narrower than what the clerk counter provides in person.

When a MyCase link shows up, the public documents behind it cost nothing. Missing something online does not mean it is sealed. State guidance sends the requester to the clerk in the county where the case was heard. Bulk or compiled court data is a different animal, handled through the Office of Judicial Administration under Administrative Rule 9(F).

Restricted Clinton County Court Dockets

A blank result is not a verdict on whether a case exists. MyCase leaves out confidential, sealed, and expunged matters. Protection-order cases never surface in an ordinary search, while protected-party information stays private. Juvenile, adoption, some family, mental-health, investigative, and other sensitive records carry their own limits. Start with the clerk. Confirm the cause number and the court without asking staff to reveal protected facts, and ask whether a public order or a redacted version exists. When a lawful basis supports more, Access Rule 9 allows a verified extraordinary-access request to the court with jurisdiction. The record stays confidential until the judge rules. Parties can log in with an Indiana Courts account and a case access code for documents tied to their role. Attorneys of record may see a broader layer. Neither expands what the general public sees, and neither unseals a sealed record.

Docket Records at the Clerk's Office

Need an official CCS, a plain or certified copy, a filing missing online, a balance, or a sealed-access question? The Clinton County Clerk of the Circuit Court is the person to see. The county page lists 2 E Washington Street, Suite 304, Frankfort, IN 46041. The phone is 765-659-6335. Counter hours run Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. The state directory, though, lists 265 Courthouse Square. Call ahead so your visit or mailing lands at the right place.

Before mailing a request for a live record, phone the office about the address, copy type, payment, and turnaround. At the counter, ask about a public terminal if what you need is not online. One case goes to the local clerk; bulk or compiled data goes to the OJA instead.

Historic Clinton County Docket Trail

Modern search tools only reach so far back in Clinton County. The county dates to 1830. The Archives holds old divorce, lawsuit, criminal, guardianship, and probate records. The 2000 courthouse remodel pushed older material to the public library for indexing and storage. So a nineteenth-century court docket may live only in a bound book. It may sit in an index or an archive file. The Clinton County Archives page spells out how to request those historic records.

Archives keeps Tuesday through Thursday hours, 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., at 2 E Washington Street, Suite 003, reachable at 765-659-6369. Mailed research requests are accepted too.

Clinton County Docket by Numbers

Numbers help without naming anyone. The certified ICOR report covers every Clinton County court in 2024. That year brought 4,545 new filings on top of 3,669 matters already pending. Transfers and venued cases added more. Courts had 8,295 matters before them and disposed of 5,039. The year closed with 3,236 still pending.

Look closer at the mix. Of the new filings, 1,482 were criminal. Another 1,141 were civil violations, 1,719 civil, and 203 juvenile. Superior drew 2,787 new filings, Circuit 1,575, and Frankfort City Court 183. That spread is telling. It is why a Clinton County court docket is far more than a felony list. The assigned prosecutor source points to one office inside the local case process.

The prosecutor handles prosecution and deferral roles, while the clerk remains the record custodian.

Clinton County Docket Technology Timeline

Frankfort City Court came onto Odyssey in 2015. Clinton Circuit and Superior followed in 2019. MyCase now serves as the public window, and Odyssey is the case-management source. The Indiana Electronic Filing System handles filing and service. Attorneys must e-file in Clinton County. Self-represented filers are generally encouraged, not required. Doxpop carries Clinton data back to 1991, but age alone does not guarantee a complete official CCS. Imported material can show up as a "converted event." The 2026 CCS/RJO guide stresses sequential and corrective entries. Current Rule 87 took effect in August 2026, so weigh any old e-filing instructions against the rule in force. The assigned probation image shows another office whose payment and supervision work can sit beside court events.

Probation does not keep the docket. The CCS, filed orders, and certified records all belong to the clerk. The county forms source gathers local court-related forms in one place.

A form just starts the process. The court record is what tracks the filing, the order, and the setting that follow.

Clinton County Court Dockets by City

The five city pages follow the 2020 Census population ranking. Frankfort stands alone among the top five with a separately listed current lower court. Rossville, Mulberry, Kirklin, and Colfax show no separate municipal court in the state directory or the Odyssey list, so their cases route through Clinton Superior or Circuit by case type.

Town offices can handle municipal ordinance questions. When the item is a CCS or a certified court copy, though, only the Clinton County Clerk will do.

Map and Directions to the Clinton County Courthouse

Clinton Circuit Court, Clinton Superior Court, and the Clerk of the Circuit Court are all housed at the county courthouse, 2 E Washington Street, in Frankfort. The county's own courts page places the Clerk in Suite 304 and both Circuit and Superior Court offices in Suite 306; the CCS, RJO/order-book material, and case files a visitor needs for an official copy are kept with the Clerk, not a courtroom.

The state Court Directory instead lists the Clerk at 265 Courthouse Square, with Circuit at 355 and Superior at 320 Courthouse Square, so call 765-659-6335 to confirm the entrance and suite before a visit. No official page publishes courthouse parking, security-screening, or accessibility details.