Lookup Beauregard Parish Court Dockets

Beauregard Parish Court Docket Basics

A docket is the court's working list of case events. In Beauregard Parish, docket information can include a hearing date, judge or division, case number, party names, event type, minute entry, filing date, continuance, motion setting, arraignment, trial setting, judgment, disposition, or sentencing entry. The full case record is broader. It can include pleadings, motions, exhibits, certified copies, and images if available through the Clerk or portal. A docket is best for tracking progress and appearances. A case file is better for reading the papers behind the event.

The 36th Judicial District Court is the general jurisdiction court for Beauregard Parish. It has Division A and Division B. Research from the Louisiana Supreme Court rules appendix says the court has two judicial positions and that divisions do not have exclusive subject-matter jurisdiction. The judges rotate monthly between civil and criminal dockets. That local rotation is important because the division listed in a docket or case entry may reflect assignment or schedule administration, not a separate court with a narrow case type.

Docket

A list of case activity, hearings, filings, and court events.

Minute entry

The Clerk's official summary of what occurred in court.

Continuance

A postponement of a hearing or trial to another date.

Disposition

The outcome of a charge, motion, claim, or full case.

Find Beauregard Parish Dockets Online

The online docket path starts with the Clerk because the Clerk maintains civil and criminal minute entries and case records for the 36th Judicial District Court. The Clerk online records page points civil and criminal case searches to ClerkConnect. The public research did not locate a free, open docket calendar with party-name and case-number search fields for Beauregard Parish. ClerkConnect is subscription based, and unauthenticated public pages do not expose Beauregard-specific docket search fields. The result is a mixed access model: search the official portal where available, then use Clerk or court contact when the docket date or minute entry is not visible.

1. Start with the case type. Civil and criminal docket entries route through the Clerk case system.
2. Use ClerkConnect when searching a 36th JDC civil or criminal case by the official case route.
3. Check the 36th JDC site for division, rules, jury, forms, and online-court context.
4. Call the Clerk when a docket is not visible online, when an official minute entry is needed, or when the case may be older or restricted.
5. For traffic, mayor's court, municipal, or justice of the peace matters, use the court or payment channel named on the citation or summons.

The 36th JDC district court rules page is an assigned docket source because local rules shape how hearings are set and managed.

Rules pages do not replace a docket search, but they explain the court process behind Beauregard Parish docket events.

Sample Beauregard Parish Docket Entry

No public civil or criminal docket entry could be inspected without ClerkConnect subscription or account access. The field inventory must therefore come from the Clerk's department descriptions and the general court-record fields documented in the research. The Clerk's Civil Department keeps civil minutes while court is in session and transcribes court matters into minute books. The Criminal Department keeps criminal minutes, processes pleadings, receives exhibits, and handles copies and certifications. Those duties show the core fields a docket or minute entry is likely to identify.

The Louisiana Supreme Court district-court rules appendix was assigned to this docket page as a PDF source and confirms local division and docket details for the 36th JDC.

Courts With Beauregard Parish Dockets

Most record-heavy docket work in Beauregard Parish sits in the 36th Judicial District Court. The court states that it has original jurisdiction over civil and criminal matters in Beauregard Parish. Louisiana also has city courts, justice of the peace courts, and mayor's courts, and the research map identifies Justice of the Peace Court, Mayor's Court, and local municipal or traffic payment channels as lower-court paths. For a user, the key is to follow the case origin. A district-court criminal case is not the same docket as a municipal ordinance citation or a traffic payment record.

• 36th Judicial District Court handles the main Beauregard Parish civil and criminal docket stream.
• Division A and Division B are the elected district court divisions, and judges rotate monthly between civil and criminal dockets.
• The Clerk of Court keeps civil and criminal minutes, case indexes, pleadings, and copy records tied to the docket.
• Justice of the peace and mayor's court matters may exist for limited local cases, but a complete local ward table was not located in the research.
• Traffic payment and court-fine records can move through the Sheriff Civil and Tax Division or the ticket's named court channel.

The 36th JDC orders and forms page shows docket-adjacent routes for divorce, adult name changes, and change-of-address filings.

Forms and orders often become docket events once filed, set for hearing, granted, denied, or continued.

Beauregard Parish Dockets vs Case Records

A docket answers what happened and when. A full case record answers what was filed, argued, admitted, ordered, or certified. In Beauregard Parish, that distinction is practical because online access can show indexes or minute information while full documents remain behind account access or Clerk copy procedures. A docket event might say that a motion was heard. The full case record might include the motion, opposition, exhibits, order, and certified judgment. For legal use, request the full court record or certified copy through the Clerk rather than relying on a docket line.

Read Beauregard Parish Docket Entries

Docket entries are short. A single line can hide a lot of procedure. "Arraignment" means the criminal defendant is called to answer the charge. "Motion" means a party asked the judge to take action. "Continuance" means the matter was postponed. "Disposition" means an outcome was entered. "Sentence" records punishment after conviction. "Judgment" is a civil decision or order. If the entry is unclear, the Clerk can help locate the record, but Clerk staff cannot explain legal strategy or give advice.

The local schedule research adds several useful timing anchors. The rules appendix notes juvenile hearing days normally on the second and fourth Tuesdays at 9:30 a.m., protective orders, support enforcement, and child support by hearing officer on Thursdays at 9:00 a.m., and juvenile traffic on the first Thursday at 1:30 p.m. These are not a substitute for checking a specific case date. They are local schedule clues that help explain recurring docket labels and why some hearings may be set in regular blocks.

Louisiana R.S. 13:5992 addresses public electronic access to criminal minute entries or summaries for qualifying post-2020 criminal cases.

The statute supports minute-entry access, but the research notes that full images and documents may still require portal or Clerk procedures.

Beauregard Parish Docket Contacts

For a district-court docket, the local contact points are the 36th Judicial District Court and the Clerk of Court. The 36th JDC lists the courthouse address as 200 West Second Street, DeRidder, Louisiana 70634, phone 337-463-7993, and public hours Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., closed for lunch from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. The Clerk lists phone 337-463-8595, civil fax 337-462-3916, and criminal-records fax 337-202-7834. Jury reporting uses 337-463-7993 the day before reporting for a recorded message. The courthouse also bars cell phones and subjects entrants to security search.

The 36th JDC Title V local rules PDF was also assigned as a docket source. Use it with the court and Clerk contacts when a case-specific setting needs confirmation.