Posey County Criminal Docket Searches
Indiana MyCase is the first stop for a public Posey County criminal docket. No account is needed. It searches nonconfidential Odyssey cases. The Case tab works when you have a case, citation, or cross-reference number. Use the Name and Attorney tabs for other searches. A broad statewide result should be narrowed. Choose Posey County and the Criminal & Citation category. MyCase caps results and can present a CAPTCHA. Add a filing-date or status filter when a query is too wide.
The case number is the strongest locator of all. Posey Circuit matters begin with 65C01. Then comes the filing year and month, case-type code, and sequence. Case-number searches tolerate dropped hyphens and leading zeroes. Citation and cross-reference formats may demand exact matches. When the search stalls, call the clerk at 812-838-1306. You can also email kay.kilgore@poseycountyin.gov, or stop by the Circuit counter. Older and protected records often need staff help.
- Choose the Case, Name, or Attorney tab.
- Select Posey County and Criminal & Citation.
- Enter the narrowest known identifier.
- Match the court code, filing date, and case type.
- Ask the clerk for an official copy when needed.
Posey Criminal Codes Decoded
Under current Posey local rules, all criminal cases go to Posey Circuit Court, identifier 65C01. The case code says more than a plain criminal label ever could. F1 through F6 mark modern felony levels. CM means misdemeanor, MC means miscellaneous criminal, PC means post-conviction relief, and MR means murder. Older files may still carry CF, FA, FB, FC, or FD. Indiana changed its felony classification in 2014. RF flags a red-flag firearm proceeding, which carries special access limits.
- CCS
- The Chronological Case Summary, or official event-by-event history.
- Converted event
- An older entry imported from a prior case system, sometimes without a document link.
- Disposition
- The way a case or charge ended, not merely its status.
- RJO
- The Record of Judgments and Orders associated with the CCS.
Codes steer a search, nothing more. They never state guilt or explain a result, so read the CCS and final public order side by side.
Criminal Dockets: What They Show
A Posey County criminal docket opens with a header and then tracks the case. Public fields can cover the court, case type, filing date, status, judicial officer, and party roles. Counsel, charges, settings, disposition, financial entries, and cross-references may appear too. Event and entry dates can differ. The event date marks when something happened. The notation date marks when staff entered it. That gap matters when you rebuild a deadline or hearing history.
| Case number | A uniform identifier such as 65C01-2608-CM-000123, shown only as a format example. |
|---|---|
| Charge area | Count, offense description, statute reference, and amendment when public. |
| Settings | Initial hearing, pretrial, plea, motion, trial, sentencing, or review. |
| CCS events | Filing, order, warrant, appearance, reset, judgment, and link status. |
| Disposition | Dismissal, plea, trial result, deferred result, or other outcome. |
| Financials | Costs and balance fields that must be confirmed with the clerk. |
MyCase helps, yet its own terms say the display is not the official record. A missing download does not prove the paper is absent.
Posey MyCase Search Limits
MyCase gives public event history more often than a full set of criminal documents. Final orders may be linked in many criminal classes. Charging papers, discovery, medical material, sentencing support, exhibits, and confidential attachments may stay offline. An Indiana Courts party account can open more documents in a person's own case. It requires identity checks and an access code. That access never overrides confidentiality rules.
Missing result: Recheck the 65C01 identifier and case code, try a citation or cross-reference number, then contact the clerk. A CAPTCHA, converted entry, or absent link is not a ruling that no record exists.
Find the Circuit clerk counter at 300 Main Street, Room 115, Mount Vernon, Indiana 47620. Hours run Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Central Time. Call before you travel. The county posts no public-terminal policy or general criminal-record request form.
Criminal Case Stages on the Docket
A criminal CCS often starts with a filing, warrant, or initial-appearance event. From there it logs counsel appearances, pretrial settings, motions, and trial or plea events. A sentencing or final-order entry may come next. Reviews, probation issues, fee entries, and post-conviction filings can follow. These can keep going long after the main disposition. Cases rarely follow one neat line, and a single reset does not end anything.
Posey docket flow: Charge filed › Initial hearing › Pretrial settings › Plea or trial › Disposition › Sentencing or review
A pretrial conference is not a trial date. A continuance moves an event, and a transfer can change the court identifier. "Closed" is an administrative status, not a full legal explanation. "Deferred" is not automatically a conviction. Read the linked order with the entries on both sides of it.
Posey Criminal Filing Context
Indiana's certified 2024 aggregate lists 830 criminal filings across Posey County courts. That figure gives local scale. It says nothing about guilt, backlog, or how many people were involved. One case can generate many CCS events. One filing count cannot predict the pace of a specific matter. The statistics application separates filings from dispositions. Treat a raw count as scale, not as a docket total.
For a current matter, the case-specific CCS beats the county aggregate every time. Filing figures only show the scale of local court work.
Posey County Criminal Docket Courts
All Posey County criminal cases now sit in Circuit Court under local rule LR65-CR2.2-01. Felonies, misdemeanors, murder cases, post-conviction work, and older felony-code matters all land there. So do red-flag cases. Traffic infractions go to Circuit too. A cited traffic misdemeanor, though, pulls you into court for an appearance. Check the case code. The citation instructions tell a criminal traffic charge from a civil infraction.
One clerk serves both trial courts. That's the elected Clerk of the Posey Circuit/Superior Courts. The unified office holds every file. Still, which court handles the case matters. For record questions, start with the clerk. The Circuit Judge office takes scheduling calls at 812-838-1302. The Posey judiciary page and the local rules control the details.
Older docket entries may carry 65E01, the code for the abolished Posey County Court. Both active Posey courts joined Odyssey on August 16, 2010. Anything earlier may take a clerk-assisted or historical search to pull up.
Posey Dispositions Need Context
Indiana dispositions come with a vocabulary. Jury trial, bench trial, guilty plea or admission, default, deferred or diverted, dismissed, closed, failure to appear, and failure to pay all appear on a Posey County criminal docket. Read each label in context. A dismissal is not the same as a charge never filed. A bench disposition is not a jury verdict. FTA and FTP entries mark a missed appearance or payment event; they say nothing about the merits of the original charge.
Money fields deserve the same caution. MyCase warns that a displayed balance can leave off newer charges or interest, so call the clerk for the current amount. Also remember what a criminal docket is not. It is not the Indiana State Police limited criminal-history product, and it is not the Department of Correction custody locator. Those systems have their own custodians and purposes. The Posey County criminal docket tells you what the court filed, scheduled, and decided in one specific case.
Note: Verify the final public order and the CCS sequence before drawing a conclusion from a short status label.
Access Rules for Criminal Dockets
Indiana presumes that court records are open, but the presumption bends. Sealed cases, granted expungements, juvenile matters, mental-health records, protected personal data, investigative material, and confidential filings may all be withheld. Protection-order cases sit in a separate public search. That search leaves out protected-person information. A public caption does not make every attachment downloadable.
Key access rules:
Access Rule 1 sets the scope and open-access presumption.
Access Rule 5 identifies confidential cases, records, and protected data.
Access Rule 9 provides a verified-request process for excluded records.
An excluded record takes more than patience. Rule 9 is the route for anyone seeking one, and no amount of repeating an online docket search can replace it. For a public item with no link, ask the clerk whether a plain or certified copy is available.
Posey Criminal Copy Channels
When the docket itself is not enough, the clerk is the official fallback. Have the court, case number, event date, document name, and copy type ready. Posey charges $1 per copy plus $3 per certification for court-generated documents. Pay by cash, local personal check, money order, or major credit card. Card payments carry a 2.6% charge with a $1 minimum. No notary service is offered.
The clerk posts no general mail-in copy form. The office promises no turnaround, so call before mailing anything. Do not treat judge-office fax numbers as request channels unless the clerk confirms it. Transcripts belong to the court reporter. Bulk Odyssey data runs through Administrative Rule 9(F), not an informal staff request.