How to Search the Iberville Parish Court Docket
Start by figuring out which court holds the case. In Iberville Parish, district-court civil and criminal matters belong to the 18th Judicial District Court of Louisiana. That court serves three parishes. Pointe Coupee and West Baton Rouge share the district. Clerk of Court Amy Matirne Patin keeps the 18th JDC's records in separate departments. They cover civil, family, probate, and criminal matters. A Plaquemine city ticket may sit somewhere else. So may a St. Gabriel municipal matter or a justice-of-the-peace case.
Gather a few things before you search. Bring the docket number, division, record type, the approximate year, and the names exactly as they appear on the notice or filing. Local forms label the case identifier as docket number and include a Division field. No fixed Iberville numbering pattern is published. Let the source document tell you whether the matter is civil, criminal, or another record channel. A name match alone does not prove the result concerns your person.
- Identify whether the matter belongs in 18th JDC, Plaquemine City Court, St. Gabriel Mayor's Court, or a justice-of-the-peace court.
- For an 18th JDC case, begin with the Clerk's online service or the statewide location and parish-search path.
- Match the docket number, division, caption, and year before relying on an index entry or released image.
- If a date is needed, compare the notice or latest order with the court calendar and confirm it with the assigned court office.
- Ask the proper clerk or court for official inspection or a certified copy when the remote result is missing or authenticity matters.
How Iberville Parish Docket Portals Fit
Iberville Parish has no single catch-all docket search open to anyone. Instead, the Clerk of Court splits access across a few doors. The Online Imaging service covers civil and criminal indices along with released images. The local eSearch login page asks for a User ID and password. No case lookup begins before that. Civil searchers get pointed to Clerk Connect as well. Accounts, subscriptions, coverage, and image limits can differ from one portal to the next.
Above the parish sits a statewide layer. That layer is eClerks LA, run through the Louisiana Clerks' Remote Access Authority. It offers statewide index and location tools. Parish and criminal searches, civil information, e-filing, alerts, and other clerk services are included too. Which parishes take part, and how many images each releases, varies across the state. So a statewide subscription has limits. It still will not make every city or lower-court file appear as an 18th JDC record.
The official eClerks LA portal lays out statewide and parish-level paths first. Then it narrows to a particular clerk's records.
It separates the state access layer from the Clerk's local index and image service.
What a Court Docket Shows
An Iberville Parish court docket is the running, chronological record of a case. Filings, orders, settings, and a final result appear there once entered. The verified header fields are the docket number, the court, and the division. Civil forms add the case caption, or style. The Clerk's criminal and civil materials also identify the departments that hold the underlying proceedings.
Keep that in mind when reading an index. A released record can confirm an item is open to public viewing. It cannot promise that every event, document image, party detail, financial entry, or setting field will appear remotely. For an official record, or clarity on an entry that affects a particular matter, the Clerk is the right source.
| Docket number | The proceeding identifier shown as a local docket number field; no public Iberville formula was located. |
|---|---|
| Court and division | The 18th JDC court heading and a Division A, B, C, or D field identify the district-court assignment. |
| Caption or style | The formal case title, commonly a plaintiff or petitioner against a defendant or respondent in civil materials. |
| Filings and entries | Filed documents, minute entries, motions, orders, service, judgments, and related record actions may form the chronological history. |
| Settings and result | A notice, order, or authenticated docket may supply the current setting and any disposition; public calendar pages do not expose every case field. |
Iberville Parish Released Docket Records
Online Imaging uses the local phrase "released record." The Clerk defines it as a record that has been recorded, indexed, verified, and released for general public viewing. An official number can exist before that process finishes. A blank online result may therefore reflect timing or coverage rather than a final answer about the case.
One more caution applies. The Clerk states plainly that an online image is not the official public record. Civil indices reach back to 1990, and civil images to 2008. Criminal indices begin in 2000, and criminal images in 2014. Anything earlier, any missing image, or any need for legal authenticity belongs with the Clerk's records department, not guesswork.
- Released record
- An indexed and verified record the Clerk has released for general public viewing.
- Division
- The 18th JDC assignment field shown on local forms, using Divisions A through D.
- Certified copy
- A Clerk-authenticated copy. The Civil Department publishes a fee of $5 for each certified copy.
Note: A released image can help with research. The Clerk's office still provides the authoritative public record and the certified-copy channel.
Which Courts Keep Dockets
Court level tells you who keeps the record. The 18th JDC holds original civil and criminal jurisdiction across the three-parish district through four elected divisions. Plaquemine City Court keeps its own city-court matters. St. Gabriel Mayor's Court runs the municipal traffic channel, and six justice-of-the-peace districts retain separate lower-court records. An appeal opens a separate docket at the Louisiana First Circuit Court of Appeal.
| Court | Docket covers | Where to search |
|---|---|---|
| 18th Judicial District Court | Iberville district-court civil, family, probate, and criminal matters. | Iberville Clerk Online Imaging, eClerks LA, Clerk Connect for civil direction, or the Clerk counter. |
| Plaquemine City Court | City-limit small claims, civil cases, misdemeanors, juvenile, and traffic matters. | Plaquemine City Court and its Clerk or Judicial Administrator. |
| St. Gabriel Mayor's Court | Municipal traffic and violation matters, including the city defensive-driver channel. | St. Gabriel's city portal or the city court contact route. |
| Iberville justice courts | Lower-dollar civil matters and other jurisdiction assigned by Louisiana law. | The correct ward-based justice court through the state directory. |
Iberville Parish Drug Court Docket
The Iberville Parish Drug Court sits inside the 18th JDC. Its official program page lists Division D Judge Elizabeth A. Engolio. The program serves adult offenders with alcohol or mood-altering chemical abuse or addiction, pairing treatment with accountability. It aims to ease crowding on the regular docket while coordinating court, treatment, prosecution, defense, law-enforcement, and case-management work.
Do not mistake the program page for a participant search. Start with the underlying 18th JDC criminal matter. The Clerk's Criminal Records Department or the program office can explain how program status is reflected in the case record. No separate public participant docket, general treatment calendar, or fixed published program length appears on the official pages.
Finding Court Dates and Settings
Confirm any Iberville Parish court date against the most recent paperwork you hold. That means the citation, summons, notice, minute entry, or order. Write down the docket number, division, first date, and type of setting. Do this when the notice lists them. The 18th JDC calendar and duty-judge rotation give useful administrative context. But the parish offers no anonymous calendar that pairs every district-court case number with its courtroom and setting type.
The Clerk's jury status page lists Jury, Judge, Date, Time, and Status. Jurors are told to check after 5:30 p.m. the evening before. A trial can call off close to the scheduled time. For assigned settings, the Division C and D judge offices are sensible fallbacks. Plaquemine and St. Gabriel city matters belong with their own courts. The Iberville Parish court calendar page lays out the calendar-specific channels.
Iberville Parish Calendar Docket Limits
A duty-judge card does not prove your case sits before that judge. Treat it as coverage information only. The 18th JDC calendar shows which judge is on duty. The jury page is a separate status surface. Between them, the public pages give a date range, the duty judge or division, and jury fields. What they do not publish is a full anonymous table. Such a table would list case style, docket number, courtroom, or hearing type.
When a setting moves, keep the old date in your notes as part of the docket history. Then confirm the new notice, order, or current setting with court staff. Under the district's administrative rules, the local duty week runs from Monday morning to the following Monday morning. That rotation exists for court operations and emergency assignments. It is not a general case-search result.
Iberville Parish Docket Technology
Iberville splits electronic filing from remote public viewing, and the gap between them confuses people. Local e-filing procedures adopted May 12, 2025 say an accepted PDF filing becomes the official electronic record. The rules cover PDF format, redaction of personal identifiers, maintenance interruptions, and rejection notices. Filers need them. But an accepted filing still will not necessarily surface right away in an anonymous public search.
Statewide, the LCRAA structure builds remote access and e-filing under La. R.S. 13:754. The January 1, 2026 deadline has passed. Yet Iberville still points local users to Online Imaging, eSearch, and Clerk Connect for different record needs. Hence the layered experience. An account screen, a subscription route, or a released-image limit can appear even after a case carries an official docket number.
Digitization depth matters for older research too. Civil indices reach back farther than civil images. Criminal indices reach back farther than criminal images. For a historical matter, pin down the date and record type first. Then use the Clerk counter, phone, or written-request channel when the online path is index-only or incomplete. Remember the distinction. Accepted electronic filing is an official court-record status, while a remote image is only a convenience copy under the Clerk's published notice.
Public Access to Dockets
Louisiana law lets the public inspect and copy records unless an exception applies. So start with the right office and the correct route, local or statewide. Iberville Parish court records work this way. If something released is not online, send a request to inspect or copy it. Requests for 18th JDC records go to the Clerk. Lower-court files sit with the independent city or justice court that keeps them.
Expect limits, though. Juvenile proceedings, expunged records, sealed files, protected family or adoption information, and redacted identifiers may never appear in a routine search. When you hit a wall, ask whether a redacted or partial release exists. Also request the legal basis behind any denial.
Key Rules:
La. R.S. 13:754 establishes the LCRAA remote-access framework and statewide portal, without guaranteeing that each parish image is free.
La. R.S. 44:31 gives the public a right to inspect, copy, or reproduce records unless a lawful exception applies.
La. R.S. 44:32 addresses presentation during regular hours and the custodian's copy duties, subject to lawful safeguards and fees.
La. Ch.C. art. 412 makes juvenile proceedings and records confidential except for statutory disclosures.
Blank Iberville Parish Docket Results
A blank search result has several local explanations. The case may sit in Plaquemine City Court, St. Gabriel Mayor's Court, or a justice court rather than with the parish Clerk. Or the civil or criminal year falls outside the published index or image coverage. Spelling, a docket-number digit, division, release timing, or a protected status can also block an online match. So can a simple data lag.
Work through it in order. Check the court level, then the record type, year range, name variant, and exact number. Still nothing? Call the right office and ask about lawful access, not protected contents. Keep one thing clear. An image missing from an online service does not mean a case was dismissed, never filed, or expunged.
Practical point: A city payment path is not a case-history search, and a parish index is not a substitute for every city or justice-court docket.
The Clerk and Docket Records
Iberville Parish Clerk of Court Amy Matirne Patin is the elected keeper of court records. She holds 18th JDC civil, family, probate, and criminal records. The Civil Department covers civil, family, probate, adoption, divorce, and related filings. The Criminal Records Department maintains all criminal proceedings of District Court. Requests move faster when you name the docket number, division, document type, and date range, if you know them.
District-court access runs through several channels. Online Imaging, eClerks LA, and Clerk Connect for civil searches are the electronic options. A first-floor counter request, the main phone line, mail, the published Clerk email, and the general contact form complete the list. Published fees are a $5 certified copy, a $10 civil search, and a $20 criminal search per name. Other charges, such as remote images, plain copies, subscriptions, or turnaround timing, are not all listed. Confirm the cost and return method before sending anything.
Iberville Parish Clerk of Court
58050 Meriam Street, first floor
Plaquemine, LA 70764
225-687-5160
Iberville Parish Court Docket Counts
The Louisiana Supreme Court's 2025 annual report counts 3,435 Iberville filings. That total spans juvenile, civil, criminal, and traffic work. Read it as a measure of filing activity, nothing more. It is not a roster of live docket entries. It is not a clearance rate either. The report does offer an average filing-to-disposition figure. But it leaves out pending inventories by department, judge-by-judge workload, and totals for city and justice courts.
Those counts explain why routing matters so much. Iberville Parish district traffic volume runs high, but plenty of traffic files sit in municipal and justice courts that the Clerk's district-court docket search simply does not reach.
Iberville Parish JP Court Dockets
Iberville Parish is divided into six justice-of-the-peace districts under La. R.S. 13:2623. These ward-based courts sit outside the parish Clerk's 18th JDC record system entirely. A lower-dollar civil case may land there. So may anything else routed to a justice court. Track it through the precinct and court named on your paperwork. One wrinkle: the statute carries phased 2026 and 2027 provisions. When a ward boundary matters, confirm the current district contact before you go. For that step, Louisiana's Justice Court Directory is the state's official listing of Iberville justice-court contacts.
The directory points you to the right lower-court office in Iberville Parish. The docket itself, and any copies you need, stay with that individual court.
Court Dockets by City in Iberville Parish
Iberville Parish has only two incorporated cities: St. Gabriel and Plaquemine. That is the whole list, so the city docket routes end there. St. Gabriel handles municipal traffic through its Mayor's Court. Plaquemine City Court keeps its own records for small claims, civil matters, misdemeanors, juvenile cases, and traffic. Some cases move up to 18th JDC.
St. Gabriel Court Docket
2020 Census population 6,433 · Mayor's Court traffic and defensive-driver access channel.
Plaquemine Court Docket
2020 Census population 6,269 · City Court records and ticket-payment routing.
Map and Directions to the Iberville Parish Courthouse
18th Judicial District Court civil, family, probate, and criminal records for Iberville Parish are kept on the first floor of the Iberville Parish Courthouse, 58050 Meriam Street, in Plaquemine. Division C (Alvin Batiste, Jr.) and Division D (Elizabeth A. Engolio) judicial offices are also in the same building, and the 18th Judicial District Attorney's office is on the third floor. Plaquemine City Court, which keeps separate city-limit records, is a different building at 23640 Railroad Avenue.
Iberville Parish Clerk of Court
58050 Meriam Street, first floor
Plaquemine, LA 70764
225-687-5160
Walk-in service published 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
No parking map, public-transit route, or building-security policy is published for the Meriam Street courthouse beyond the note that smoking is not prohibited inside; recording or photographing in a courtroom is generally barred under the state Code of Judicial Conduct. Confirm the docket-counter hours with the Clerk before a time-sensitive visit, since only the birth-certificate walk-in window is officially published.