Access St. Bernard Parish Clerk Records

St. Bernard Parish Clerk Office

St. Bernard Parish uses a unified Clerk of Court structure. The elected Clerk, Randy S. Nunez, is the parish record custodian for district-court filings and several related record groups that many users search together. The Clerk's office supports the Thirty-Fourth Judicial District Court filing system and maintains records tied to civil cases, criminal cases, land and mortgage instruments, marriage licenses, divorce filings, and succession or probate matters. Louisiana does not split this parish between a district clerk and a county clerk, so the public-record route for these court and conveyance records starts with the same local Clerk of Court.

The Clerk should be separated from judge division staff. A judge's administrative assistant or minute clerk can help with a pending hearing, courtroom assignment, signed order, or division-specific docket question. The Clerk is the office to contact for filings, record searches, copies, certified copies, and the paid records portal. If a record was created by the Sheriff's Office, parish government, or a federal court, the Clerk may not be the custodian even when the event later connects to a court case.

Search St. Bernard Parish Clerk Records

The main online route is the St. Bernard Parish Clerk of Court Public Records Search. The login page is branded for the St. Bernard Parish Clerk of Court and requires an account before users can reach indexed records. The visible portal material says users need a User ID and password, should review certified dates before searching, and should use a current browser with pop-ups, cookies, Javascript, and PDF viewing settings configured for the site. The portal is not a free name-search page. It is an account and subscription system for indexed record categories.

The parish public-records request form is a useful source because it shows how parish government collects public-record requests, copy preferences, and fee acknowledgments.

That image matters for Clerk users because it highlights the custody question: parish government has its own form, but Clerk records must be requested from the Clerk's office or searched through Clerk systems.

Before logging in, the Clerk portal exposes the fields and account links below. After login, users select the record group and subscription level that fits the search. Civil records, criminal records, land records, and minutes are not interchangeable categories, so the user should identify the record type before paying for access.

St. Bernard Clerk Fees

The verified fee detail for the Clerk portal is strongest for online subscriptions and record images. The portal lists daily, monthly, three-month, and annual plans by record type. It also lists image and minute charges. The civil fee research captured only examples from the Clerk civil-fees page because the official fee page was not fully fetchable during research, so unverified civil line items should not be expanded beyond the captured facts. Certified-copy totals should be confirmed with the Clerk before mailing payment.

La. R.S. 44:31 is the state public-records access statute and supports the general right to inspect or copy public records unless an exception applies.

The statute image fits this fee section because Louisiana access rights still operate through the custodian's procedures, lawful fees, and record-specific limits.

Request Certified Clerk Copies

A certified copy is the version usually needed for court filings, official proof, agency submissions, title work, marriage proof, divorce proof, succession transfers, or other transactions where a plain portal image may not be accepted. The research confirms that the Clerk is the custodian for the relevant district-court and related parish records, but it does not confirm a universal certification fee schedule. For that reason, certified-copy requests should start with the Clerk's office and include enough detail for staff to locate the record and quote the correct total.

1. Identify the record type. State whether the request is for a civil case, criminal minute, marriage record, divorce judgment, land record, mortgage record, or succession document.
2. Gather search details. Use the case number if known, party names, filing year, document title, and whether the record may be under a former name or succession caption.
3. Contact the Clerk. Call 504-271-3434, visit the office, or mail a written request to P.O. Box 1746, Chalmette, LA 70044-1746.
4. Ask for the copy type. Say whether a plain copy, certified copy, image, minute entry, or full document packet is needed.
5. Confirm fees and delivery. Pay only the amount the Clerk quotes for the located record, certification, and delivery method.
6. Check confidentiality limits. Sealed, expunged, juvenile, adoption, and protected personal-information records may not be available to the public.

Parish Form Is Different

St. Bernard Parish government has its own public-records page and web form, but it is not the right route for most Clerk of Court records. The parish public-records page specifically warns that parish government does not maintain marriage certificates, divorce certificates, criminal certificates, or police reports. That point prevents a common error. Court filings and Clerk certificates should go to the Clerk. Police reports and many law-enforcement records should go to the Sheriff's Office. Parish government records, such as administrative records held by parish departments, use the parish government process.

The parish form still helps users understand what a public-records request usually needs. The research captured form delivery choices and a copy/search fee notice, including $0.25 per electronic page, $0.50 per black-and-white copy, and $45 per hour for electronic searches plus copy costs. Those parish-government charges should not be treated as Clerk certification charges.

La. R.S. 44:32 addresses custodian duties for copies and reproductions when public records are requested.

The custodian-duty source reinforces why a requester must send the request to the office that actually keeps the record.

Statewide Clerk Record Routes

Some St. Bernard Parish Clerk records may also connect to statewide clerk systems. The Louisiana Clerks Remote Access Authority portal is a statewide route for participating land and marriage records and shows login fields. Research also identified eClerks Louisiana as a locator-style portal for land, marriage, civil, family, and probate record location, with viewing often routed to participating clerk systems. These statewide tools are not a substitute for the St. Bernard Clerk when a certified local copy, complete district-court file, or older non-digitized record is needed.

The LCRAA source page documents the statewide portal environment for Louisiana clerk records.

That statewide screenshot is useful for users who need land or marriage search options beyond the local Clerk portal.

If a St. Bernard Parish Clerk record does not appear online, the reason may be indexing coverage, a subscription category mismatch, a sealed or restricted file, a non-digitized older record, a variant party name, or a record held by another custodian. The practical fallback is still direct contact with the Clerk. Provide the record type, names, date range, case or instrument number, and the exact copy type needed. For expungements, sealed matters, juvenile records, adoption matters, and records with protected identifiers, public access may be blocked or redacted even when the Clerk can confirm the filing exists.