Search the White County Court Docket

White County Court Docket Searches

Start at MyCase, Indiana's public window into the Odyssey case-management system. A cause number works best. It points to exactly one case, while names can collide. If you only have a name, narrow the docket search by court. Add case status, filing date, and case type as well. Wildcard and Sounds-like tools exist too. A broad case lookup can hit the result limit, though.

1. Select Case when a full cause number is available, or Name when it is not.
2. Choose White County and narrow the filing period, status, or case category.
3. Open the result and confirm the court, judge, filing date, and case type.
4. Read the CCS from filing through the newest event, not only the status line.
5. Call the clerk or assigned court when a date, balance, document, or certification must be confirmed.

Treat online access as a convenience rather than the official court record. MyCase may leave documents out or display converted legacy events. For field-by-field help with names and cause numbers, see the White County docket search page.

No cause number? Start with the narrowest reliable name and add an approximate filing year. Check both open and closed statuses, since the matter may already be disposed. Confirm any result actually belongs to White County, because MyCase spans courts statewide. Searching by attorney helps when you know counsel and the court. If matches pile up, tighten the date range. Or add a case category instead of trusting the first similar name.

MyCase First, White County Clerk Second

MyCase settles the first question: which White County court holds the case, and under what cause number. After that, the clerk handles record custody. Lori Austin's unified office serves both trial courts. It can route public inspection, paper copies, certification, older files, filing receipts, and payment-ledger questions.

The Indiana Judicial Branch White County page gathers local court contacts, MyCase, e-filing, local rules, and statistics in one place.

That official page bridges the statewide systems and the two courts that actually hold White County cases.

The office roles stay distinct once a docket search ends. Court administrators confirm hearing times, rooms, resets, and judge assignments. The clerk holds the file and handles the inspection route, copies, certification, filing receipts, and current money questions. Court reporters handle transcripts or recordings. The county pages publish no transcript form, rate, delivery method, or turnaround, though. Call the right office. That keeps you from mistaking a short CCS description for the complete record.

Court Dockets: What They Show

Indiana names its event register a Chronological Case Summary, or CCS. It is not automatically the full case file. The header can show the cause number, court, judge, filing date, case code, caption, status, and disposition. Below that sits the event list. It may record pleadings, service, motions, orders, settings, resets, payments, and results.

Read docket entries in order. A Motion Filed entry is a request, not a ruling. An Order entry is the judge's action. A Reset changes a date without dismissing anything. Only the clerk issues a certified judgment.

Criminal metadata may list charges, offense levels, bonds, probation reviews, and sentencing events. Civil metadata can flag service, pleadings, judgments, and related cases. A setting block names the date, time, judge, courtroom, and hearing type. Financial entries may lag the clerk's live ledger, and public documents vary by case type. A closed label means little until you find the event that closed the matter, so locate the final order or disposition and read its date.

What 91C01 and 91D01 Tell You

Indiana cause numbers encode the county and court. White County carries county code 91. Circuit filings show 91C01, while Superior filings show 91D01. The rest of the number carries the filing year, case-type code, and sequence.

That prefix tells you where to aim a phone call or copy request. It also keeps an older reference to the abolished 91I01 White/Monon Town Court from sending you astray. That town office no longer holds a current docket.

Case-type segments help sort similarly named results, too. White's 2024 filings included criminal misdemeanors coded CM, Level 6 felonies coded F6, infractions coded IF, civil collections coded CC, evictions coded EV, and protective orders coded PO. Small claims are coded SC. The codes describe filing categories only, never guilt, liability, or outcome. Pair any code with the full CCS and the court's latest order.

Copy a cause number exactly when you contact the clerk. Year and sequence separate matters sharing a party name or category. Cross-reference, transfer, consolidation, appeal, and companion-case fields may point to a second number. Verify which file holds your document or setting. The court prefix names the filing court. Not every later event stays under one number.

White County Courts and Their Dockets

White County's trial courts are White Circuit Court and White Superior Court. Their 2026 rules divide the filings. One county clerk serves both. Superior takes all criminal matters, infractions, ordinance violations, and expungements. Circuit takes juvenile, probate, family, protective-order, mental-health, adoption, and several civil categories. Civil plenary, foreclosure, collection, and tort dockets may land in either court. So may miscellaneous civil dockets.

The official Circuit Court contact page identifies the local court office.

The Circuit page is a setting contact, while the clerk remains the file custodian.

White's 2026 Court Rules Divide Cases

New allocation rules take effect January 1, 2026 in White County. They replace the earlier general orders. That matters for docket searches. Two cases filed on the same day can land before different judges depending on case type. The rules also touch criminal stages and continuances. Family and probate practice, Veterans Treatment Court, proposed orders, bonds, and even courtroom devices are covered too.

Allocation does not split custody of the file. Copy requests still start with the White County Clerk. Always give the full cause number. Questions about a setting, courtroom, or judge assignment may get routed to the Circuit or Superior administrator. The criminal and civil pages in the main navigation offer more page-specific help.

Timing rules shape what you see on a docket. Any motion needing judicial action should carry a proposed order and a distribution list. A hearing request should state its purpose and expected length. Continuances generally must be written and signed unless made on the record or otherwise authorized. So a CCS may list a motion first, then a later order or setting. The filing alone did not move the hearing.

Court Dates and Settings in White County

MyCase CCS entries can show hearings and reset history. White County posts no standalone daily hearing-calendar webpage. The county's approved-calendar PDFs are administrative calendars, not lists of individual case settings. Yet Indiana Administrative Rule 9 still requires daily calendars or dockets to be available electronically or in another form.

Verify a live setting in MyCase first. Then call Circuit at 574-583-5032, Superior at 574-583-1548, or the clerk at 574-583-7032. Ask for the date, time, court, courtroom, and judge. Also ask the hearing type and whether any continuance or reset came later. The detailed White County court schedule page explains setting fields and what to do after a missed date.

Odyssey Reached White County in 2020

White Circuit and White Superior both went live on Odyssey on March 16, 2020. MyCase is the public read layer for that system. The timeline explains a common split in court records. Newer CCS events look consistent. Older files carry Converted Event labels or lack online images.

The official Odyssey courts page documents the statewide implementation history. A converted event proves nothing about a missing order or any outcome. Ask the clerk about the underlying paper instead. That matters most for records from 2017 and earlier. Those may route through the archive linked on the clerk page.

Docket Access Under Indiana Law

Indiana law builds the access framework in layers. Administrative Rule 4 creates a medium-neutral presumption of access to public court records. Rule 5 excludes specified cases, documents, and personal information. Rule 6 governs requests for extraordinary exclusion. Rule 9 covers remote access plus daily calendars. Indiana's Access to Public Records Act sits at IC 5-14-3.

Expect gaps between the case and the paper. A matter can appear in MyCase while a document stays hidden. Juvenile, family, mental-health, protective-order, and certain probate records carry significant remote limits. Full Social Security numbers, protected addresses, and account credentials are excluded across the board. So are other specified identifiers. Ask the clerk whether public inspection or a redacted copy exists. Do not try to work around a restriction.

The Indiana Court Online Reports portal provides aggregate court statistics, not personal case records. That official page shows the statewide numbers Indiana publishes each reporting period.

ICOR is useful for county context. MyCase and the clerk remain the routes for an individual docket.

A no-result search has several explanations. The filer may have picked the wrong county, date range, court, spelling, or case type. A confidential, sealed, expunged, juvenile, or newly filed matter may not appear the way you expect. A visible header without a linked image can reflect remote-access limits or document conversion. Narrow the search first. Then ask the clerk a question. Ask whether public information, an in-person document, or a redacted copy is available.

White County's 2024 Docket Volume

Certified ICOR data counted 10,056 cases before all White County courts in 2024. The breakdown included 3,311 criminal, 2,145 civil-violation, 376 juvenile, and 4,224 civil matters. Courts also recorded 4,097 new filings, 5,003 dispositions, and 5,007 cases pending at year end.

These are case counts, not people or outcomes. Superior recorded 3,178 new filings, including 1,485 criminal and 1,132 civil violations. Circuit recorded 919 new filings, including 191 juvenile and 727 civil. The statistics explain workload in White County. They cannot reveal the status of a particular cause.

How the Clerk Keeps Docket Records

Lori Austin's office supports both trial courts. You will find it at 110 North Main Street, second floor, Monticello, Indiana 47960. It is open Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. The published mailing address is PO Box 350, Monticello, IN 47960. Phone 574-583-7032, fax 574-583-1532.

The official clerk page supplies the local office details. It also links the record pages Indiana publishes for the office.

At the counter, start with the basics. Identify Circuit or Superior, give the cause number and event date, and name the paper you want in plain or certified format. The clerk offers no general White County email form and no guaranteed turnaround.

A Free White CCS Is Not a Certified Copy

A public CCS reads free of charge. Certification is different, because the clerk charges for it. Indiana's published fee sources list one dollar per legal or letter-size page. A partial page counts as a full one. The sources also list three dollars for a certificate under seal that authenticates the copy. Call ahead to confirm the total and how payment works before you order.

A CCS label is not the document itself. Labels stay short. The signed order or pleading behind the entry carries the exact wording. So ask for a copy of it when precision matters. Originals stay with the clerk or the court unless removal is permitted. Plan on requesting a copy rather than walking out with the original filing.

Mail and fax both work as backup channels. A strong written request names White Circuit or White Superior. It gives the cause number, points to the event or date range, and says whether you want plain or certified form. Include your contact information too. Ask the clerk whether fax, mail, or an in-person order suits the record best. White County posts no general email request address. It posts no online copy-order form and no local production estimate. The White Superior Court page lists its court staff and phone contact.

Superior is the setting contact: call that court about its hearings, though certified copies still route through the clerk.

White County Government Court Routes

The White County government homepage gathers the links you need: clerk, Circuit Court, Superior Court, local rules, forms, and payment resources.

That county navigation helps you reach offices. It will not run a case search. For a CCS, use MyCase; for an eligible ticket, use Indiana ePay. A department page is not a searchable case index, and the gap matters when all you hold is a party name and you need the cause number before calling the clerk.

City-by-City Court Dockets in White County

The five city pages follow the 2020 Census ranking. Population alone creates no municipal court. No city or town here runs its own docket portal, and local rules send infractions and ordinance violations to White Superior Court.

Monticello led with 5,508 residents in the 2020 Census, ahead of Monon, Brookston, Wolcott, and Reynolds. Each page keeps things at city level. Real court matters route out to MyCase, the clerk, or the assigned county court.

Map and Directions to the White County Courthouse

White Circuit Court and White Superior Court share one clerk's office at 110 North Main Street, second floor, in downtown Monticello, the county seat. The White County Clerk's counter there is the single stop for both courts' file custody, public inspection, copies, certification, filing receipts, and payments, so a visit starts on the second floor regardless of which court holds the cause number.

Bring the full cause number and identify Circuit or Superior at the counter; a court-administrator call to Circuit at (574) 583-5032 or Superior at (574) 583-1548 can confirm a hearing room or setting before the trip. The research located no published parking, building-security, or accessibility policy for this address, so calling ahead is the safer check for those details.