Access Floyd County Clerk Records

Floyd County Clerk Office

Floyd County uses a unified county clerk model for trial-court filings and records. The elected Clerk is Danita L. Burks. The public office is in Room 235 on the second floor of the New Albany-Floyd County City-County Building. The Floyd County Clerk website lists core services that include criminal records, payment of fines and traffic tickets, marriage licenses, civil filings, probate filings, small claims filings, protection orders, and child support payments.

The Clerk is also the practical fallback when a public court document is not available online in MyCase. Indiana court guidance says a person should contact the clerk in the county where the case is heard when an online court document is not available. For Floyd County, that means the Clerk's Office or the staff contact tied to the case type.

The manifest source for the main local Clerk profile is the Floyd County Clerk home page.

That source identifies the office services and helps separate Clerk counter work from online case searching.

Floyd County Clerk Services

The Clerk accepts and maintains filings for criminal, civil, divorce, probate, small claims, traffic, protection order, mental health, marriage, paternity, and child support matters. Some tasks are payment based. Some are filing based. Others are record-copy tasks. The right staff contact depends on the case type and the document needed.

• Criminal filings, criminal records, fines, and court payments.
• Civil, divorce, estate, guardianship, small claims, and eviction filings.
• Marriage license applications and certified marriage copies.
• Traffic tickets, traffic violations, and payment questions.
• Protection orders, mental health filings, paternity, and child support payment routing.
• Stored, scanned, or microfilmed court file retrieval through records staff.

The Floyd County government also hosts an official Clerk page. The manifest includes that source from the Floyd County government Clerk office page.

The government page confirms the same public office location, phone, fax, and office-hour framework.

Request Floyd County Certified Copies

Certified copies are issued by the Clerk, not by MyCase. MyCase may help find a case number or docket event, but legal copies of decrees, orders, filings, letters, or judgments must be requested from the office that maintains the court record. A certified copy request is strongest when it includes the cause number, party names, document type, approximate filing date, number of copies, and whether plain or certified copies are needed.

1. Search MyCase or existing papers for the Floyd County cause number.
2. Identify the court, case type, party names, and exact document, such as decree, order, judgment, letters, or filing.
3. Contact the Records Department for mail-copy information at 812-542-3011 or creilly@floydcounty.in.gov when a mailed request is needed.
4. Pay copy and certification charges required by the Clerk's fee schedule.
5. Use the Records Supervisor route for stored, older, scanned, or microfilmed files that need retrieval.

Floyd County Clerk Fees

The Floyd County case filing fee page lists filing and copy charges effective August 1, 2024. The fee schedule is useful both for new filings and for people trying to understand why a counter request includes more than one charge. Sheriff service is separate from filing fees when service is requested.

The manifest source for this topic is the Floyd County court filing and copy fee page.

That fee page is the local source for copy costs, certification charges, and the filing fees most often tied to court records.

Floyd County Clerk Staff Channels

The Clerk's contact directory gives direct routes by duty. Danita Burks is listed as Clerk of Courts at 812-948-5411 and dburks@floydcounty.in.gov. Natosha Riley handles child support payments and D02/D03 criminal filings at 812-948-5416. Carrie Berry handles C01 and D01 criminal filings, adoption filings, and child support at 812-981-2765. Natisha Combs handles small claims, traffic tickets, protective orders, and mental health filings at 812-542-3019.

Ashley Underwood handles D01 and D03 civil filings, estates, and guardianship at 812-542-3017. Patti Meier Trinosky handles C01 civil and divorce filings at 812-542-3021. Anessa Gilbert handles protective orders and traffic violations at 812-948-5414. Kimberly Harrell is Records Supervisor for storage and retrieval of court files and documents at 812-941-4578. These staff routes are more useful than a generic request when the user knows the case type.

The manifest source for staff routing is the Floyd County Clerk staff directory.

The directory supports the Clerk page's record-request paths because different staff handle criminal, civil, probate, traffic, family, and stored-record work.

Floyd County Clerk Payments

The Clerk home page says the office accepts cash, money orders, cashier checks, and major credit or debit cards. Child support non-cash payments go through the Indiana State Central Collections Unit or 1-866-972-9427. If the payer does not know the ISETS case number or court cause number, the Clerk gives 812-948-5416. Traffic tickets may be paid online after the officer's report is received, and the research notes that this can require a wait of up to two weeks.

Court fines can be paid through PayGov where available, with the caution that payments are not processed until funds are received by the county. Mail traffic-ticket payments require a money order or certified check, not a personal check. For marriage certified copies by mail, the local instructions call for a $1 money order per license and a self-addressed stamped envelope.

Payment channel matters because a payment record is not always the same as a case record. A traffic payment may clear a fine, but the case history still appears in the court file. A child support payment may route through state collections, while the court cause number remains useful for Clerk questions. A filing fee opens or advances a case, but copies and certification are charged separately when a person later needs proof of a court action.

Floyd County Clerk Access Limits

The Clerk applies Indiana court access rules and the Indiana Access to Public Records Act framework where appropriate. Court records are governed by court rules, and general agency records are governed by APRA. Some records are public, some are public only at the counter, and some are excluded by rule, statute, or court order. Juvenile, adoption, mental-health, sealed, expunged, and protected personal data are common limits.

MyCase can show a public case summary even when the document a person wants is not linked. That is common for older records, some family documents, probate filings, guardianship materials, and documents that require redaction. The Clerk can confirm whether a copy is available, whether certification is possible, and whether the request must be narrowed by case number, party name, filing date, or document title.

The manifest source for state public-record law is the Indiana Code title page for IC 5.

That state source matters because Floyd County Clerk requests can involve both court-record access rules and public-agency records principles.

Note: A public docket entry does not guarantee that every underlying document is available online or without redaction.

Floyd County Clerk Stored Records

Floyd County's records page identifies scanned and microfilmed court files and documents, so older records may still exist even when a modern online docket is sparse. Storage and retrieval questions should go to the records staff route rather than a general online search. Kimberly Harrell is listed as Records Supervisor for storage and retrieval, and the research notes that extra retrieval or research charges may apply after the requester is contacted.

A useful stored-record request should give the Clerk enough facts to locate the file without guessing. Include party names, case type, approximate year, court if known, document needed, and whether a certified copy is required. For marriage records, use the bride's maiden name, groom's name, and wedding date. For divorce, probate, criminal, civil, and traffic records, a cause number from MyCase or older paperwork is the best starting point.