Search the Dubois County Court Docket

How to Search the Dubois County Court Docket

Start your Dubois County court docket search at Indiana MyCase. It pulls public, nonconfidential cases from the Odyssey system. A full case number is the fastest path when you have one. No number? Try a party or business name. Then filter by court, status, case type, or filing date. For Dubois County, Odyssey offers two court choices. Use 19C01 for Circuit Court and 19D01 for Superior Court. Widen the net and you drown in matches. Tighten too much and a transferred case slips past.

Keep whatever notice, order, or citation you received close at hand. The number printed on it beats one pieced together from memory every time. MyCase will accept a case number without hyphens or leading zeroes. Name searches allow a trailing wildcard or a sounds-like option. Official help notes you cannot use both.

1. Open MyCase and choose Case, Name, or Attorney.
2. Enter the known number or name, then select 19C01 or 19D01 when appropriate.
3. Open the match and review its header, status, parties, and Chronological Case Summary.
4. Compare a hearing entry with CourtCal and the latest court notice.
5. Ask the Clerk for an official or certified copy when online data is not enough.

The blank Indiana MyCase search screen is the statewide doorway into a Dubois County docket lookup.

Its Case, Name, and Attorney tabs all reach public Odyssey data, and the court filter keeps every result anchored to Dubois County.

Dubois County Docket Codes in MyCase

The first two digits mark the case as Dubois County. Circuit Court answers to 19C01; Superior Court answers to 19D01. These codes work better than any city name, because Jasper, Huntingburg, Ferdinand, Holland, and Birdseye carry no separate codes in the official Odyssey list.

CCS

Chronological Case Summary, Indiana's official trial-court event record.

19C01

Dubois Circuit Court and its assigned work.

19D01

Dubois Superior Court, including all traffic and small claims.

Entry date

The date an item reached the docket, which may differ from its event date.

Always use the number the court itself supplied. Guessing its year, type, or sequence parts invites errors. And if a matter was transferred, a second court search can pay off.

What a Court Docket Shows

Indiana calls its docket the Chronological Case Summary. That's what a Dubois County court docket gives you. It is a log of judicial events, not the full story of the dispute. One entry might say a motion was filed, an order entered, or a hearing set. When public access allows, more waits behind it. The linked filing or Clerk file holds the actual text behind that brief line.

A caption proves no liability, and an event entry never replaces the order behind it. Money figures shown online may be incomplete. For the official balance or file, go to the Clerk.

Dubois County Dockets Became Digital

Dubois County mandated e-filing on August 25, 2017. Circuit and Superior both went live in Odyssey on June 24, 2019. Authorized filers work through the Indiana Electronic Filing System. The public searches through MyCase. The public cannot file anything via MyCase.

Indiana's e-filing page lays out the filing system behind Dubois County records.

Once the Clerk accepts a filing, it can generate CCS events. Public documents may surface in MyCase later. A blank result online, though, does not mean no record exists. Files from before the Odyssey era may sit with the Clerk or the Records Library. A seal, a transfer, a misspelled name, or an indexing delay can also leave a search empty. So can a simple indexing delay.

Which Courts Keep Dockets

One Dubois County Clerk keeps the trial records, but local rules split the work between two courts. Circuit alone handles probate and juvenile matters. Superior alone handles traffic and small claims. Other civil cases can land in either courtroom, and criminal assignment follows the most serious charge, shifting only for good cause or when companion cases are consolidated.

The official Circuit Court page identifies that local office and its role.

The office answers 19C01 calendar questions, while the Clerk keeps filed records.

Dubois County Docket Routes by Case

Traffic and small claims lookups should start with Superior. Small Claims sits in the Annex, not a municipal court. Probate and juvenile belong to Circuit, though juvenile access stays limited. A civil matter may carry either code. Criminal cases follow charge-based assignment. So where an event happened in town does not fix its court.

The Superior Court page covers traffic, small claims, and Drug Court work.

That assignment is why a county ticket or small claim should be checked under 19D01 first. Drug Court is a Superior specialty docket, not a separate portal, and access still hinges on MyCase, confidentiality rules, and court orders. Local rules list a monthly participant fee but publish no distinct calendar for it.

Finding Court Dates and Settings

A hearing date may surface in the CCS or a mailed notice. It may also come from CourtCal, or from a quick call to the court office. CourtCal is the public calendar. The CCS records case events. A setting is just a schedule, not proof of trial. A reset moves the event without dismissing anything.

The official CourtCal screen is linked by both Dubois County courts.

Check CourtCal against the newest CCS entry. Also check your notice, since the calendar runs separately from the official file.

If something conflicts, call Circuit at 812-481-7020 or Superior at 812-481-7070. Traffic questions may start at 812-481-7071. The courts publish no daily printed calendar or local reminder program. More setting details sit on the Dubois County court calendar page.

Dubois County Docket Access Points

When MyCase falls short, match the request to the office that holds the record. The Clerk counter and its public terminal cover official Circuit and Superior files. The Records Library reaches much older civil, probate, criminal, marriage, deed, survey, and land sources. Transcripts come from a court reporter. A setting that looks wrong belongs with the judge's office.

The county government directory connects the courts, Clerk, Records Library, security, and a phone list. It can save a wasted trip.

Sorting custody from calendar questions through the directory saves a wasted courthouse trip.

Main county hours run weekdays, 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. The Clerk stays open until 6:00 p.m. Wednesday. Call ahead before a special trip, since no fixed terminal schedule or turnaround is published. Local security screening rules apply at the door.

Public Access to Dockets

Indiana treats court records as public unless a rule says otherwise. Some files stay closed. Sealed papers, protected identifiers, and confidential case types fall outside a Dubois County docket search. A blank result is not the last word either. Restrictions, old files, transfer, delay, or a misspelled name can all hide a case that exists.

A seal is not an invitation to work around it. Parties themselves can reach sealed material through MyCase party access once identity checks pass. For anyone else, authorized access to a restricted court docket runs through Rule 9 or a direct court order.

Dubois County Docket Versus Certified File

MyCase shows a public information copy of a Dubois County court docket. It is not the official record. If a document link is missing, the image simply is not online. The Clerk may still hold the paper. A printout carries no certification. Certification is what the Clerk adds to authenticate a copy. A transcript is a different thing altogether, because a court reporter prepares that verbatim record.

The Clerk fee table bears the date August 31, 2022. It lists $1 per plain-copy page, $3 per certified pleading, and $6 per pleading with exemplification. Ask the office to confirm current cost and payment method before you send money.

The Clerk and Docket Records

Amy L. Kippenbrock is the Dubois County Clerk of the Courts. Her office keeps the records of both courts. It enters orders, records filings, handles probate wills, and collects court sums. You can start a request in MyCase, at the counter, by phone, or in writing. State guidance sends record requests to the local clerk. Dubois County posts no single request form or fixed turnaround. The official Clerk page lists duties, hours, contacts, and fees.

Check it before relying on a dated fee or planning a copy request.

Dubois County Historic Docket Boundary

Dubois County dates to 1817, and the seat moved to Jasper in 1830. A courthouse fire in August 1839 destroyed nearly every county record. For genealogy and historic court work, that loss is a hard boundary. Later books cannot bring destroyed files back. The Records Library offers a route MyCase never will.

Older civil, probate, criminal, will, and marriage holdings sit in the courthouse basement. Other historic sources sit there too. Call 812-481-7091. Described ranges include deeds from 1839 through 1968 and land-transfer books from 1869 through 2009. Exact coverage varies by series.

Bring a name and a record type. Add an approximate year and an index reference when you start. Never assume a 2019 Odyssey search reaches a nineteenth-century file. A brick courthouse followed the fire in 1844, and the present courthouse replaced it in 1911. Annex space grew in 1992 and again in 2002. The Records Library now occupies the courthouse basement. Small Claims sits on the Annex main floor. Historic court research belongs with the library. A current small claim belongs with Superior staff and the Clerk's case file.

Different routes serve different needs. MyCase is the fastest way to read a public modern CCS. The Clerk can confirm custody and hand you a plain or certified paper. The court office verifies live settings, and the reporter handles transcripts. For an old index or book, call the Records Library. Give staff the court code, exact case number, event date, and document title. No fixed response time is guaranteed. The same goes for a certified-copy web form or a single payment method. Confirm those points before mailing funds or traveling.

Dubois County Appeals Leave MyCase

Where do Dubois County appeals go? Usually to the Court of Appeals of Indiana. That adds a new court layer. It is not another 19C01 or 19D01 entry in the county CCS. The county docket may note that an appeal was taken. The appellate court system holds the appeal's own docket and orders. The Court of Appeals page introduces Indiana's intermediate appellate court.

Federal matters skip all of this. They run through the Southern District of Indiana's Evansville Division, with PACER or CM/ECF instead of MyCase.

Court Dockets by City in Dubois County

Two cities and three incorporated towns make up Dubois County. The counts below come from the 2020 Census through STATS Indiana. None of them carries its own Odyssey court code. A city notice may begin locally. Once a traffic matter is filed, it lands in Superior under 19D01.

City offices never hold the certified county CCS. Follow a local notice only while the matter stays at city stage. Once it is filed, a Dubois County docket search runs through MyCase and the Clerk.

Map and Directions to the Dubois County Courthouse

Circuit Court and Superior Court case records, along with the Clerk of the Courts who keeps them, are at the Dubois County Courthouse, One Courthouse Square, in Jasper. The Records Library, which holds older civil, probate, criminal, marriage, deed, and land material, is in the courthouse basement. Small Claims, a Superior Court division, instead sits on the main floor of the county's Annex building, a separate address from the courthouse itself.

Local rule LR19-AR00-3 requires everyone entering the courthouse or Annex to consent to a search of their person and packages, and lists prohibited weapons; refusal can mean denied entry. No official page publishes a parking map or ADA procedure, so call the Clerk at 812-481-7035 or Circuit at 812-481-7020 to confirm access before a visit.