LaGrange County Clerk Office
The official county page identifies Kimberley Johnson as the LaGrange County Clerk. The Clerk is a county elected official, an officer of the court, the manager of court information, and the chief financial officer for revenues collected on behalf of the court. The Clerk also serves as Secretary to the County Election Board and administers elections for LaGrange County.
The office is the practical counter for many court-record users. MyCase can show public case data and some documents, but the Clerk remains the official record keeper for copies, certification, confidential-record pickup rules, and current court balances. The LaGrange County Clerk page is the official county source for the Clerk's contact block and division list.
That official page ties the Clerk to court information, court money, elections, and the records divisions used by county residents.
LaGrange County Clerk
Clerk: Kimberley Johnson
105 N Detroit St
LaGrange, IN 46761
260-499-6372
Fax: 260-499-6403
Monday-Friday, 8 a.m.-4 p.m.
LaGrange County Clerk Duties
The Clerk's office covers court records, court money, and several public-service counters. The county lists Traffic Violations, Marriage License, Child Support, Dissolution of Marriage, Protective Orders, Small Claims, and Voter Registration as Clerk divisions. Those divisions do not all create the same kind of public record. A traffic ticket, a divorce filing, and a marriage-license copy each use a different request path.
- Maintains court information for LaGrange Circuit Court and LaGrange Superior Court.
- Processes requests for copies of court records and certified court documents.
- Handles certified copies of LaGrange County marriage licenses.
- Supports traffic-violation payments, denials, and questions through the Clerk division.
- Provides small-claims forms and contact routing for the Superior Court small-claims process.
- Maintains child-support, dissolution, protective-order, and voter-registration divisions.
Indiana uses a unified County Clerk structure in LaGrange County. There is no separate district clerk or county recorder acting as the trial-court record keeper for these files.
Request LaGrange County Clerk Copies
The official court-copy channel is the Clerk's Request for Copies of a Court Record page. Use it when a public court document is not linked in MyCase, when an older document is missing online, or when a certified copy is needed for legal use. The county recommends certified copies for court proceedings, employment, Social Security, and similar formal purposes.
- Search MyCase first if the case number, party name, or filing type is not known.
- Identify the case number, party names, court, and document name as precisely as possible.
- Use the Clerk's court-record copy request process for the needed document.
- Tell the Clerk whether a plain copy or certified copy is needed.
- Pay the page and certification fees quoted by the Clerk.
- Bring photo identification if the Clerk says the requested record is confidential or access-limited.
Confidential records require more than a payment. The county states that requesters must meet Indiana Administrative Rule 9(B) requirements and present photo ID when picking up documents.
LaGrange County Clerk Request Fields
The court-record and marriage-copy PDFs could not be machine-read in the research environment, so the reliable field inventory comes from the county public-records request form and the official court-copy page description. For court copies, the safest request includes enough detail for the Clerk to locate the file without guessing.
| Field or Detail | Required? | How It Helps |
|---|---|---|
| Date of request | Expected | Tracks when the request was made or received. |
| Name and contact information | Expected | Allows the office to follow up and return copies. |
| Mailing address | Expected for mailed copies | Used when copies are sent by mail. |
| Telephone, fax, or email | Useful | Gives the Clerk a way to clarify broad requests. |
| Case number | Best practice | The fastest way to identify the court file. |
| Document description | Required by APRA standard | Indiana requests must identify records with reasonable particularity. |
| Certification request | Needed for certified copies | Tells the Clerk to add certification to the document. |
LaGrange County Clerk Fees
The LaGrange County Clerk publishes specific court-copy and marriage-copy fees. The court-record copy page cites IC 33-37-5-1 and IC 33-37-5-3 for copy and certification fees. The county public-records request form also states copying fees must be paid in advance.
| Item | Amount | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Court-record plain copy | $1.00 per page | Published by the Clerk court-copy page. |
| Court-record certification | $3.00 per document | Added when certification is requested. |
| Certified marriage-license copy | $4.00 | $1.00 per page plus $3.00 certification. |
| Child-support payment history | $1.00 per page | Confidential; photo ID required. |
| APRA public-record copy | Fee not located | The form says copying fees must be paid in advance. |
LaGrange County Clerk Divisions
The Clerk has several divisions that produce or route records. Marriage-license copies use a separate official request channel from court case copies. Traffic questions go through the Clerk's traffic number, while contested traffic cases and small claims connect to the Superior Court structure.
| Division | Local Record or Service | Contact Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Marriage License | Applications, local license records, certified copies, and copy requests. | 260-499-6368; applications accepted 8 a.m.-3:30 p.m. |
| Traffic Violations | Payments, written denials, citation questions, and ePay routing. | 260-499-6375. |
| Small Claims | Notice of Claim and Notice of Claim Eviction forms. | 260-499-6375. |
| Dissolution | Divorce filing forms and court-record routing. | 260-499-6370. |
| Protective Orders | Protective-order division contact through the Clerk. | Protection-order case data is not searched on MyCase. |
Marriage records and divorce case files are not the same record type. Marriage-license copies come from the Clerk's marriage-copy request process, while divorce records are court records searched in MyCase and copied through the court-record request process.
LaGrange County Clerk and MyCase
LaGrange Circuit Court and LaGrange Superior Court both use Odyssey/MyCase. Attorneys are required to e-file in LaGrange County, and other filers are encouraged to e-file. MyCase can help locate case numbers, public case summaries, charges, events, hearings, financial entries, and some public document links.
The LaGrange Circuit Court page is a local court source for one of the two trial courts whose records route through the Clerk.
That court source is useful when a request needs the court name, judge, address, phone number, or local court context before contacting the Clerk.
MyCase is not the official record. If the financial balance is current-balance sensitive, if the document must bear a certification, or if a public document is not linked online, use the Clerk's copy channel.
LaGrange County Clerk Access Limits
Indiana's Access to Public Records Act and the Indiana Rules on Access to Court Records both affect Clerk requests. The county public-records request form cites IC 5-14-3-3 and says records must be identified with reasonable particularity. For court records, access may also be limited by court rules, sealed or expunged status, juvenile confidentiality, protected-party exclusions, adoption confidentiality, mental-health rules, and other statutory limits.
Use the court-copy process for court records, the marriage-copy process for LaGrange-issued marriage licenses, and the county public-records form for agency records outside the court file. The County Clerk can confirm whether a request belongs with the Clerk, the court, another county office, or a state agency.
Note: The official copy-request PDFs were scanned or image-based in research, so exact form boxes were not extracted.