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Lawrence County Court Docket Searches

Lawrence County spreads its records across several courts, and no single database covers them all. Circuit and Chancery records live on Mississippi Electronic Courts. Justice Court offers no public Lawrence search portal online. Monticello provides a way to pay a municipal ticket, not a full docket search. So begin with the issuing court, the caption, or the citation. Avoid a broad search by name.

Remote tools help, but the clerk counter remains a real way in. A phone call, a mailed request, and the courthouse terminal do too. The Circuit and Chancery CourtInfo pages do not open full anonymous case searching. Pick your route based on the record: PAMEC, the clerk, the public terminal, or a written request.

1. Identify the named court and case type.
2. Use CourtInfo to confirm the Circuit or Chancery system and clerk contact.
3. Choose PAMEC, a terminal, a call, or a written request.
4. Read the docket for filings, settings, and status.
5. Ask the clerk for a certified copy when an official document is needed.

Lawrence County Court Routing

Each Lawrence County court docket covers a different slice of work. Circuit Court takes major crimes, larger civil cases, and appeals from the lower courts. Chancery Court handles equity, domestic relations, estates, guardianships, land disputes, mental commitments, and youth-court matters where no county court exists. Justice Court covers small civil claims, minor criminal matters, preliminary felony proceedings, and traffic tickets outside a municipality.

Municipal courts sit apart from all of these. Monticello and New Hebron each run their own court. Silver Creek is incorporated, but confirm with the town who handles its cases now. One event in Lawrence County can land in a municipal, Justice, Circuit, or Chancery file. The court named on the document is what controls where you look.

Court Dockets: What They Show

Think of a Lawrence County court docket as a dated list of procedural steps in a case. Which fields you see depends on the court and your access level. A docket can show the court and district, case number, category, filing date, party roles, judge, entry date, event title, documents, hearing setting, disposition, and any restriction flag. Remember that an entry marks an event. It is not a certified order.

Circuit entries may cover arraignment, plea, motion, trial, sentencing, bond, warrant, judgment, cost, probation, appeal, and restrictions. Chancery entries may list petitions, service, settings, reports, accounts, plans, orders, and judgments. Personal identifiers and protected details stay out of the public version.

Lawrence County MEC Timeline

Lawrence Circuit CourtInfo shows an MEC go-live date of April 18, 2016. Chancery joined later, on November 17, 2017. Those dates mark when each court began entering records electronically. They do not promise that older paper files were converted, or that every newer record is open to remote viewing.

For court structure, clerk contacts, and terms across the state, the Mississippi Judicial Directory and Court Calendar is the orientation source to use.

For anything older than the go-live date, ask the Lawrence County clerk directly. An older index, a bound volume, a paper file, or a legacy category may be the right public route.

Lawrence County Courts and Their Dockets

The 2026 judicial directory places Lawrence County in Circuit District 15 and Chancery District 13. Its Circuit judges are Brad A. Touchstone, Prentiss G. Harrell, and Richelle Lumpkin. Chancery judges are David Shoemake and Gerald Martin. Justice Court posts belong to Albert Turnage and Donald Glenn Mullins. For copies of any court record, the clerks are the first local contacts.

No Lawrence County Court appears in the current directory. So do not mail a request to a County Court office that does not exist. Does an old document carry that name? Ask the Circuit Clerk which court actually originated the case.

Lawrence County Court Listing Gap

Mississippi runs county courts in 24 counties, and Lawrence is not one of them. The county has no listed County Court Judge, clerk, calendar, or docket channel. A small claim or lower-level offense cannot be routed by its dollar amount. Nor can a generic phrase on aging paper do it.

Call the Circuit Clerk at 601-587-4791 with the court name and case reference from your document. The clerk can sort out where the matter belongs. It may fit Circuit, Chancery, Justice, or a municipal court. This is simply a question of court identification. It is not a sign that one Lawrence court absorbed another.

Note: The point is narrow. The current 2026 directory materials simply do not list a Lawrence County Court.

Court Dates and Settings in Lawrence County

A court term in Lawrence County is not the same as your hearing date. For 2026, Circuit terms are published in advance. The schedule includes February and August grand-jury terms. Sessions also run in March, late March, late June, and September. Chancery runs twelve six-day terms under its published weekday rules. Any setting can still be continued, reset, or changed.

For daily settings, the 13th Chancery calendar report is the best public channel. It lists the date, judge and post, Lawrence term, and time. It also shows the matter description, attorney field, and prior-set date. It is not a full case history, and it is not a certified order. Follow current court instructions for an exact appearance time.

Lawrence County Court Terms

Term calendars show when court sessions may happen. They do not fix your hearing date. A Chancery report label such as EX PARTE, RULE 81/FIRST RETURNS, UNCONTESTED, CONTESTED, DHS, or PRO SE names the category of setting only. It says nothing about the outcome of the case.

The 2026 Chancery terms publication gives the Lawrence term rules. To confirm a live Chancery setting, call the clerk at 601-587-7162. For a Circuit setting, call the Circuit Clerk at 601-587-4791. Circuit and Justice post no complete anonymous daily docket.

Docket Access Under Mississippi Law

Court records in Mississippi follow their own access rules. The Supreme Court's public-record policy controls what judicial materials a requester can see. Court rules and orders help shape that access. The Mississippi Public Records Act adds broader ideas about openness. Yet it does not automatically answer every court request. Ask the clerk which procedure applies before you file anything.

A good request names the court, the record type, the date range, and whether you want a plain or certified copy. The clerk can also tell you if only a partial public record exists.

Lawrence County Docket Limits

Open access stops at the edge of protected information. MEC rules require redaction of certain details. Protected items include Social Security numbers, tax numbers, and dates of birth. Minor-child names, financial-account numbers, and home addresses are covered too. CourtInfo status labels include SEALED and RESTRICTED BY ORDER too. Treat any status as a flag, never as a legal conclusion about the case itself.

Youth Court records stay confidential under Mississippi Code section 43-21-251, apart from statutory exceptions. Lawrence County lists no county court. Chancery may hold youth-court jurisdiction there instead. PAMEC's non-attorney route is read-only and stops at restricted material. Ask the clerk about authorization or a public portion. Do not push into protected case information.

How the Clerk Keeps Docket Records

Every Lawrence County clerk keeps a different slice of the docket. Circuit Clerk Tracey Carany receives civil lawsuits, indictments, motions, and Circuit case papers. Chancery Clerk Kevin Rayborn handles Chancery filings, accounts, inventories, and reports. He also keeps land records and related matters. Justice Court Clerk Elizabeth Smith handles Justice Court files. She is the contact there.

The Lawrence County office descriptions summarize each clerk's duties. They help you route a request to the right desk.

Need an official copy, a fee check, a public-terminal answer, or a pre-MEC docket search? Go to the clerk for that court.

Lawrence County Clerk Access

The courthouse at 517 Broad Street, Monticello, is the place to walk in. Mail and fax belong at the named office once you confirm it. The courthouse directory fax and the Circuit Clerk fax are different numbers. Check the destination first. The Lawrence clerk offices publish no general email or online dropbox for court-record requests.

Remote Circuit and Chancery access runs through PAMEC. Its terms list a $10 annual registration fee for attorney and non-attorney users. Pages produced by a search cost $0.20 per page. A search with no matches can still cost one page. Those fees are portal terms. They are not a local clerk fee schedule.

City-by-City Court Dockets in Lawrence County

The Census place table lists three incorporated places in Lawrence County: Monticello, New Hebron, and Silver Creek. The city record pages cover exactly those three. Monticello, the county seat, offers a municipal payment route. New Hebron has a municipal judge route but no public docket portal. Silver Creek calls for a fresh check with the town office.

The Census incorporated-place source confirms the short list of cities.

Start any city route with the issuing court and city contact. If the matter belongs in a state court, move on to the Lawrence County clerk.

Lawrence County City Court Access

The New Hebron official site offers a town contact route, not a court database.

Check where a case actually lives before you lean on a town contact. Monticello's nCourt page handles payments only. So a Lawrence County court docket question still has to go to the office where the case was filed. The page won't pass your inquiry along to any other city.

The 2026 qualifying-period notice from the Secretary of State lays out the filing window. That window applies to candidates.

A public-office notice can point you to a local office. It is not a court docket, though, and it cannot replace the clerk who holds the case file.

The qualifying-deadline notice comes from the same official state source.

County announcements and court records serve different purposes. A public-office notice never sets a court date, record, or fee.

The May 2026 campaign-finance notice rounds out the official sources on this page.

Match your request to the record you need. Use the court, clerk, MEC system, calendar report, or municipal contact that fits the type of Lawrence County public record you seek.

Lawrence County Court Record Requests

Address your Lawrence County court-record request to the right clerk and keep it narrow. Say up front whether you want a Circuit, Chancery, Justice, or municipal record. Name the record by its public category. Examples include docket sheet, final order, case filing, hearing setting, or public calendar entry. Add an approximate filing year or date range. Say whether you need a plain copy or a certified one.

Avoid asking a clerk to guess at a broad pile of records. A precise description helps the office place the material. It might sit in MEC/PAMEC, on a courthouse terminal, in a current paper file, a bound volume, or a legacy category. It also gives the clerk a chance to flag a sealed or restricted record before you send payment. Lawrence County offers no official online form for a general court-record request. A phone call is the practical first step.

For Circuit records, call Tracey Carney's office at 601-587-4791. For Chancery records, call Kevin Rayborn's office at 601-587-7162. For Justice Court records, call Elizabeth Smith's office at 601-587-4854. Ask the named clerk whether to deliver the request at the counter, mail it to the office P.O. Box, or use another court channel. The county provides no email or general online dropbox for court-record requests.

Fees deserve the same care. The Circuit Clerk statutory baseline is $1 for certification of a complete filed document. It is $1 per staff-made copy page. It drops to $0.25 per page when you or someone else makes the copy. Those figures do not set Chancery, Justice, municipal, docket-sheet, mailing, or vendor charges. Confirm the amount, the payment instrument, the certification requirement, and any delivery charge before you send funds.

If access is denied or narrowed, ask which court rule, statute, or order applies. Also ask whether a separable public portion can still be provided. Do not seek youth-court records, sealed filings, protected identifiers, or restricted material without the authority the court requires. A response from the clerk is the reliable guide here. It separates a public copy request from a restricted case file. Note: A court, record category, date range, and copy type give Lawrence County clerks key details. Those details let the office route a request accurately.

Map and Directions to the Lawrence County Courthouse

Circuit Court criminal and civil filings are kept at the Lawrence County Courthouse at 517 Broad Street in Monticello, the county seat; the Circuit Clerk's MEC listing gives the same building as 517 East Broad Street. Chancery Court and Justice Court records are kept by their own clerks in the same courthouse. Call ahead, since the courthouse-directory fax and the Circuit Clerk's fax differ and no source confirms which counter is staffed at a given time.

No official source publishes courthouse hours, a parking map, security-screening rule, or public-terminal count for Lawrence County, so call the Circuit, Chancery, or Justice Court clerk before a visit to confirm the counter and current hours.