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Posey County Court Docket Searches

Indiana MyCase is where most Posey County court docket searches start. It is free, needs no account, and reaches nonconfidential Odyssey cases. Use the case number when you have it. A name alone can pull up dozens of strangers. Posey Circuit Court carries the code 65C01, and Superior Court carries 65D01. A citation number or agency cross-reference works for some cases too.

One caution belongs here. MyCase is a public view, not the official court record, and its own terms say entries can be incomplete or wrong. A missing document link proves nothing. The paper may still sit in the file. When a balance, an old file, or a hearing date cannot be confirmed online, call the Clerk of the Posey Circuit/Superior Courts, who can point you to the right counter and explain how to request a copy.

1. Open MyCase and choose the Case, Name, or Attorney tab.
2. Enter the most exact locator available, then narrow the court to Posey County.
3. Match the court code, filing date, case type, and public party details.
4. Read the Chronological Case Summary and inspect any public document links.
5. Ask the clerk to confirm a setting or issue a certified copy when needed.

Posey MyCase Search Fields

MyCase gives Posey County case lookup more than one doorway. The case-number field takes up to 30 characters, and it forgives hyphens and leading zeros. Citation and cross-reference formats are stricter and may need to match Odyssey exactly. For a person, start with the last name. Pair it with a first name, middle name, or birth date. Add a trailing asterisk to widen a name. The sounds-like option catches spellings that drift.

Cast too wide a net and a CAPTCHA appears, with results capped at 1,000. So narrow first. Apply the Posey court filter, pick a category such as Criminal and Citation or Probate, and set a filing-date range before concluding a case is missing. The official MyCase search tips track the current fields.

Court Dockets: What They Show

Indiana names its event history a Chronological Case Summary, or CCS. Think of it as the court docket's spine. Every entry gets a date and runs in order: complaint, appearance, notice, motion, setting, order, judgment, transfer, disposition. The header usually names the court, case code, filing date, status, caption, and judicial officer when that is public. Party roles and attorney appearances show up as well. A setting entry may carry the date, time, location, and type, plus whether an earlier date was reset.

Posey Dockets Since Odyssey

Both active Posey trial courts joined Odyssey, per the official Odyssey court list, on August 16, 2010. The list also marks the former 65E01 Posey County Court as abolished. Its archived cases stay on the list. That history explains an odd court code on an older record. It also explains a file with few electronic documents. The identifiers on that official page separate a current Circuit or Superior filing from a legacy county-court case.

For files older than Odyssey, ask the clerk whether the record was converted, stays paper-only, or has moved to an archive. A gap online says nothing about the merits or outcome.

Posey County Courts and Their Dockets

Posey County runs two trial courts under one elected clerk. Local rules send all criminal cases to Circuit Court. Traffic and infraction cases go there too. Superior Court handles much of the civil side. That covers family, juvenile, small claims, eviction, mortgage, protection-order, and ordinance matters. Probate work, along with adoption, estates, guardianships, and trusts, routes back to Circuit. Categories can shift under the local rule. The court code inside the case number is the safest guide. It tells where a Posey County court docket lives.

Posey Docket Volume in 2024

How busy are these courts? Indiana's official trial-court statistics query counted 6,802 cases before all Posey courts in 2024. Of those, 4,744 were new filings. Another 4,905 were disposed. The new filings break down to roughly 830 criminal matters and 2,488 civil violations. Add 196 juvenile matters and 1,230 civil matters. These are countywide totals, so they describe no single judge, city, or case.

That towering civil-violation figure explains why a Posey County court docket search so often traces back to a ticket or an ordinance issue rather than a lawsuit. Statistics measure workload. They predict nothing about a given file's pace, result, or complexity.

Court Dates and Settings in Posey County

The statewide Indiana Court Calendar displays public hearings only for participating courts. On the August 23, 2026 research date, its availability service did not list a participating Posey court. A blank calendar result therefore does not mean the hearing was canceled or that the case has no settings. Check the CCS in MyCase, then call the relevant clerk or judge's office.

A setting is a scheduled court event, not always a trial. It may be an initial hearing, status conference, motion hearing, pretrial, sentencing, or another event named by the court. A continuance moves an event; a reset supplies another date. Confirm the latest entry and read the Posey County court schedule instructions before relying on travel or deadline plans.

When Posey CourtCal Is Blank

Work a short fallback chain when CourtCal comes up empty. Open the matching MyCase result. Scan its settings and latest CCS events. Confirm the court identifier is 65C01 or 65D01 and the event is current. Then call the unified clerk at 812-838-1306. The directory can hand you the proper judge's office if you need direct confirmation.

CourtCal itself is a narrow window. It normally spans only the prior seven days and the next four weeks, and it returns no more than 100 results. Sealed and nonpublic cases never appear. Those limits hold even when a county participates.

Docket Access Under Indiana Law

Access to Indiana court records starts with the Rules on Access to Court Records. Rule 4 opens the door. It presumes that records are public. Rule 5 then carves out the material a court keeps from view, and Rule 9 gives you a way to ask a judge for something that Rule 5 excluded. Posey County dockets follow these court rules first. The state's Access to Public Records Act still matters, but it covers public agencies at large rather than judicial files, so the court rules control docket access.

Restricted Posey Docket Material

Not everything in a Posey County docket is open. MyCase hides or trims juvenile cases, adoptions, mental-health matters, protection orders, sealed files, and expunged records. Confidential identifiers, medical details, financial account numbers, and protected addresses are restricted too. You may see the case header on a MyCase search yet get no access to a pleading or attachment behind it.

Parties can unlock more online. An Indiana Courts account plus a case access code, granted after identity checks and subject to the case type and current access rules, expands what a party can view. When a record stays excluded, the remedy is a Rule 9 request, and a missing public link alone will not get one approved. Filers use Form ACR to mark confidential information in a filing; it is not a request to seal an entire Posey court record.

How the Clerk Keeps Docket Records

Clerk Kay Kilgore's office keeps the docket records for both Posey trial courts. The office also enters court orders into civil, juvenile, and criminal files. To see a Posey County court docket in person, you have two counters. The Courthouse handles Circuit Court. The Coliseum handles Superior Court. Both counters share one main office phone, and each posts weekday hours of 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Central Time. The county has published no separate policy on public terminals, security, or queues. So a quick call before you travel is wise.

Posey Docket Copies and Fees

Viewing a docket on public MyCase costs nothing. But that view is not a certified record. For a certified copy from the Posey clerk, the county lists $1 per court-generated copy plus $3 per certification. Payment options are broad. Cash, local personal checks, money orders, and major credit cards all work for ordinary clerk transactions. A card adds 2.6 percent with a $1 minimum. Traffic payments are the exception, with tighter rules that bar personal checks by mail.

The clerk offers no general copy-request form and posts no standard turnaround. So build your request yourself. Give the office the court, the case number, the document name or event date, the copy type you need, and how you want it delivered. Transcripts go to the court reporter instead. Bulk compiled Odyssey data falls under Administrative Rule 9(F). The official clerk page lays out the local counter details and the fee schedule.

Fees and office procedures can change, so check that county source again before you place an order.

Historic Posey Court Records

Posey County court history reaches back far beyond MyCase. The Indiana Archives and Records Administration holds an early Posey Circuit Court collection of roughly 1,200 cases. Most are dated 1815 through 1855. Its index runs on 16 fields that point you to the physical boxes and folders. The Indiana State Library adds circuit, probate, marriage, and microfilm holdings to the picture. The IARA Posey collection description walks through what the archive holds.

An archival index is a pointer, not a substitute. It leads you to a historical file but never replaces the modern CCS for current cases. For land instruments, mortgages, liens, and plats, take the question to the County Recorder, not the court clerk.

Posey Federal Court Dockets

A federal case filed in Posey County will never surface in Indiana MyCase. Posey sits in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana, Evansville Division. That split is the first thing to grasp. Federal civil and criminal dockets run through PACER and CM/ECF. Bankruptcy cases follow the federal bankruptcy court's Evansville route. Ordinary PACER users still cannot open sealed federal documents. The official Evansville Division page lists the counties the division serves.

Sort by court level first. Indiana trial cases belong in MyCase, state appeals go to the appellate system, and federal dockets live in PACER.

City-by-City Court Dockets in Posey County

Posey County has five incorporated places, yet none runs its own municipal court. The current court directory lists none. The MyCase court list includes none, and CourtCal shows no such availability. A city or town hall can still help you track down the issuing agency on a traffic ticket. It can also give you the citation number. From there, the case itself lands in the county system. Current rules route infractions to Circuit Court. Ordinance violations go to Superior Court. The city resources below keep those local contacts alive, but the real docket search still runs through MyCase and the Posey clerk.

Map and Directions to the Posey County Courthouse

Circuit Court docket records are kept at the Posey County Courthouse, 300 Main Street, Room 115, in Mount Vernon, a building on the 1876 Courthouse Square. Superior Court records are kept a short distance away at the Coliseum, 126 East Third Street, Room 133, also in Mount Vernon. The same elected clerk staffs both counters and answers one main phone line, so calling ahead confirms which building holds a given file before a trip.

The county has not published a public-terminal, security-screening, parking, or accessibility policy for either building, so those details are best confirmed by phone at 812-838-1306 before a visit.