Search Sullivan County Court Records
Sullivan County public case information is searched first through Indiana MyCase, the statewide portal for courts that use Odyssey case management. The Indiana Judicial Branch Sullivan County page links users to the same search system, so there is no separate county-built court-record database to check before MyCase. Public case summaries may show the case number, court, case type, filing date, status, parties, chronological case summary entries, hearings, charges, bonds, balances, and public document links.
MyCase is broad, but it is not the final official record. Indiana's help pages warn that online information may have errors, omissions, or limited historical coverage. If a Sullivan County Court record is not linked in the case summary, the file may still be public at the Clerk's Office. Start with the case number, party names, document title, and filing date, then contact the local clerk for copies or certification.
- Open MyCase and choose the search mode that fits the information available.
- Search by case number, citation number, cross reference, party name, or attorney name.
- Use Sullivan County or the court filter when the portal offers a county or court field.
- Open the matching result and review the CCS, hearings, parties, charges, balances, and document links.
- Contact the Sullivan County Clerk's Office if a needed document is not downloadable or must be certified.
The MyCase portal is the main online entry point for Sullivan County Court records. The statewide portal matters here because Sullivan County's own court pages are contact pages, not a duplicate search database.
Use the MyCase result as a lead for court, clerk, or payment follow-up rather than as a certified copy.
Sullivan County Court Search Fields
MyCase supports several ways to find a Sullivan County Court case. Exact case numbers are best, but party and citation searches are useful when the case number is not known. Repeated broad searches can trigger a captcha, and public display depends on Indiana access rules.
| Field Label | Type | Required | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Case Number | Text | No | Best for exact lookup when the Indiana case number is known. |
| Citation Number | Text | No | Useful for traffic tickets and infractions. |
| Cross Reference Number | Text | No | May match law-enforcement or agency references tied to a case. |
| Party Name | Text | No | Search by person or business; wildcard and Soundex features may help. |
| Attorney | Text | No | Finds cases by attorney name where public display supports it. |
| Court / County | Filter | No | Narrows results to Sullivan County or a specific court. |
| Status | Filter | No | Filters open, closed, or all case results. |
Sullivan County Court System
Indiana trial courts include circuit courts, superior courts, and local city or town courts created by law. Sullivan County has Sullivan Circuit Court and Sullivan Superior Court, both located in the same courthouse-square building. The county is part of Judicial District 19 with Clay, Putnam, and Vigo counties. Appeals from Indiana trial courts generally move to the Court of Appeals of Indiana, with Supreme Court review in limited or discretionary cases.
The county source set did not show a separate Sullivan County city or town court page. Probate, civil, criminal, family, traffic, and juvenile matters should therefore be described as case categories within Indiana trial-court structure unless the case record itself points to another court. Federal cases from Sullivan County are separate and route to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana, usually through the Terre Haute federal courthouse.
| Court or Office | Role | Local Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Sullivan Circuit Court | Indiana trial court | Room 306, courthouse square; Judge Robert E. Hunley II is listed by the county. |
| Sullivan Superior Court | Indiana trial court | Room 105, courthouse square; the county page lists court reporter Angela Melchert. |
| Sullivan County Clerk's Office | Record office | Room 304; handles court document requests, marriage licenses, and clerk payments. |
| Sullivan County Prosecutor | State criminal and infraction filings | Room 103; handles criminal cases, juvenile matters, traffic infractions, and diversion. |
| Court of Appeals of Indiana | Appellate review | Reviews most trial-court appeals from Indiana counties. |
Case flow: filing or citation › Sullivan Circuit Court or Sullivan Superior Court › chronological case summary › order, plea, trial, dismissal, judgment, or sentence › appeal when allowed.
The Indiana court-system overview explains the statewide trial and appellate structure that governs Sullivan County Court records. That state-level structure is why local records use Circuit Court and Superior Court names rather than district-court labels.
The same structure also explains why some questions go to the court, some to the clerk, and some to a state agency.
Sullivan County Courthouse Records
The Sullivan County Courthouse is the practical hub for local court records. The Clerk's Office, Circuit Court, Superior Court, Prosecutor, and Probation Office are all in the courthouse-square building. That matters for people who start online but need a certified copy, an older document, a transcript contact, a prosecutor diversion form, or a court date question that MyCase does not answer.
The county's official pages publish standard county business hours, with the Circuit Court and Superior Court pages noting a noon-to-1:00 p.m. lunch closure. Security, cell-phone, recording, parking, and locker details were not published in the court source set reviewed, so visitors should call the office tied to the hearing or copy request before making a time-sensitive trip.
Sullivan County Courthouse
100 Courthouse Square
Sullivan, IN 47882
(812) 905-0499
County hours: 8:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
Sullivan County Clerk's Office
100 Courthouse Sq, Room 304
Sullivan, IN 47882
(812) 268-4657
Monday-Friday, 8:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
Sullivan County Sheriff's Office
77 E Justice Dr
Sullivan, IN 47882
(812) 268-4308
Open 24 hours a day
The official Sullivan County homepage is the county-wide starting point for courthouse departments. Its department pages supply the local room numbers that MyCase does not show.
For record users, the official county site is most useful as a contact directory and office locator.
Sullivan County Court Record Types
Sullivan County Court records include civil, criminal, traffic, family, divorce, probate, juvenile, and protection-order related categories, but public access changes by case type. Civil records may include complaints, summons, appearances, motions, orders, hearings, judgments, and financial entries. Criminal records may include charging information, hearings, pleas, convictions, sentencing orders, probation terms, fees, bonds, and final disposition.
Traffic infractions and ordinance violations can be searched by citation number, name, or case number. Probate files may include estate, guardianship, trust, and filed-will material, though wills are not usually online. Domestic-relations cases can be searchable as public case information, but family documents may have tighter limits. Juvenile, adoption, mental-health, and protected-party information are restricted by state rules.
- Civil records: collections, torts, mortgage foreclosures, evictions, small claims, tax sale, and civil plenary cases.
- Criminal records: felony, misdemeanor, murder, post-conviction, and expungement-related case categories.
- Traffic records: infractions, ordinance violations, criminal traffic cases, citation balances, and deferral outcomes.
- Family records: divorce and domestic-relations cases, with sensitive filings often limited.
- Probate records: estates, guardianships, trusts, and filed probate orders handled through the trial courts.
What Sullivan County Court Records Show
Most public Sullivan County Court records in MyCase are built around the chronological case summary, often called the CCS. The CCS is the Indiana docket event list. It can show filings, hearings, orders, service entries, payments, bonds, charge changes, sentencing entries, and document links. A case result is not the same as a paper certified copy, but it can help identify the exact court file.
| Field | What It Shows |
|---|---|
| Case number | The Indiana court identifier assigned to the filing. |
| Court and case type | The court handling the matter and the public category, such as civil, criminal, infraction, estate, or domestic relations. |
| Parties | Names and roles such as plaintiff, defendant, petitioner, respondent, attorney, appellant, or appellee. |
| Charges | Offense date, citation number, statute, degree or level, and charge description when criminal or traffic charges are public. |
| Events | CCS entries for hearings, filings, notices, motions, orders, payments, and dispositions. |
| Financial data | Fees, transactions, credits, balances, and payment availability when the case permits online payment. |
Sullivan County Court Access Laws
Indiana public access is shaped by both general public-record law and court-specific access rules. The Indiana Access to Public Records Act, IC 5-14-3, generally requires public agencies to allow inspection and copying unless an exception applies. Court records are also governed by the Indiana Rules on Access to Court Records, which state that court records are public unless a rule, statute, court order, or specific exclusion limits access.
Key access rules:
Access to Court Records Rule 4 treats court records as publicly accessible unless an exclusion applies.
Access to Court Records Rule 5 lists categories excluded from public access, including confidential personal data and restricted case material.
Access to Court Records Rule 10 requires a maintained list of records and documents excluded from public access.
The Indiana court public-record request page explains when state court records should be requested from the Office of Judicial Administration and when county case documents should be requested from the court or clerk maintaining the file. For Sullivan County case-file copies, the local clerk is the practical route.
This distinction helps avoid sending a local case-copy request to the wrong state office.
Sullivan County Restricted Records
Some Sullivan County Court records are public only in part, and some are not public online. Juvenile CHINS, juvenile delinquency, juvenile status, termination of parental rights, adoption, mental-health records, and protected-party information are restricted under Indiana access rules. The Sullivan County Prosecutor's Juvenile Division also states that juvenile matters are confidential and may be discussed only with the juvenile, parents, guardians, or attorney.
Expunged and sealed records need separate care. MyCase help states that a pending or denied expungement may appear, but a granted expungement can remove the case from ordinary public access depending on the type of expungement. Indiana Code 35-38-9 controls the petition process and effect. A sealed public result does not mean every internal agency copy disappears.
Sullivan County Diversion Programs
No official Sullivan County drug court, veterans treatment court, mental health court, reentry court, or family recovery court page was found in the county source set. The local alternatives documented by the county are prosecutor-run infraction deferral and pretrial diversion. These programs can affect the final court record because successful completion may keep a traffic conviction or misdemeanor conviction from becoming permanent in the usual way.
| Program | Local Detail | Record Effect |
|---|---|---|
| Infraction Deferral | Three-month program for people with little or no driving record; fee listed as $170; CDL holders are not eligible. | Successful completion may avoid a traffic conviction on the driving record. |
| Pretrial Diversion | Misdemeanor program for people with little or no criminal history; fees range from $334-$479; DUI and drug cases are excluded. | Successful completion may avoid a permanent criminal conviction. |
| Juvenile Division | Handles juvenile delinquency and related youth matters with confidentiality limits. | Public access is restricted, and public MyCase access is limited. |
Sullivan County Jail Records
The Sullivan County Sheriff's Office and Sullivan County Jail are separate from the clerk and court file system. A recent arrest may first appear through jail or sheriff channels before a criminal case is filed in MyCase. The jail page links a county vendor inmate search, while the statewide INjail Public Portal can search Indiana county-jail custody by name, birth date, and county.
Sheriff report requests also use a different path. The sheriff's report page says crash reports are purchased through LexisNexis BuyCrash for $12 online, while incident reports and CAD reports can be requested by emailing reports@sullivancounty.in.gov. Not all incident reports are releasable. There is no verified Sullivan County, Indiana sheriff app for app-only warrant or inmate search in the research file.
Sullivan County Marriage Probate Records
Marriage licenses are handled by the Sullivan County Clerk's Office. Indiana residents apply in the county where either applicant lives, and out-of-state applicants apply in the Indiana county where the ceremony will occur. The Indiana marriage-license service supplies the statewide application path and fees, while certified copies are requested from the county clerk.
Divorce cases may appear in MyCase when public, but certified divorce decrees come from the clerk in the county where the divorce was granted. Probate matters are handled through Indiana trial-court case types such as estates, guardianships, and trusts rather than a separate probate court website. Filed wills and certified estate papers should be requested from the Sullivan County Clerk when not linked online.
- Executor
- A person named to carry out a will and estate duties after court appointment.
- Intestate
- A death without a valid will, so Indiana law controls who may inherit.
- Guardianship
- A court case appointing someone to manage personal or financial needs for a minor or incapacitated adult.
Sullivan County Record Fees
The research file did not find a Sullivan clerk page posting plain court-copy or certified court-copy fees. The county clerk fee schedule page was a placeholder, so court-record copy costs should be confirmed with the Clerk's Office before mailing payment. Some state-level and local program fees were documented and are useful benchmarks for common record-related tasks.
| Item | Amount | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Marriage license, Indiana resident applicant | $25 | Indiana Judicial Branch marriage-license page |
| Marriage license, out-of-state applicants marrying in Indiana | $65 | Indiana Judicial Branch marriage-license page |
| Certified marriage-license copy | $4 each | Indiana Judicial Branch marriage-license page |
| Crash report through BuyCrash | $12 online | Sullivan sheriff report page |
| Infraction deferral program fee | $170 | Sullivan County Prosecutor |
| Pretrial diversion program fee | $334-$479 | Sullivan County Prosecutor |
The Indiana MyCase help page explains online case access and public documents. It is useful for knowing what may be free online before a clerk copy is needed.
Checking the online case summary first can reduce clerk copy work to the exact document needed.
Sullivan County Court History
Sullivan County was formed in 1817 and named for Revolutionary War figure Daniel Sullivan. The county seat is Sullivan, and the courthouse square remains the center of local government. The current courthouse was built in the late 1920s, faced in Indiana limestone, and listed as a historic courthouse. That history matters to record access because older files may not be fully digitized or linked in MyCase.
Census QuickFacts estimated Sullivan County at 20,831 residents in 2025, close to the 2020 Census count of 20,817. STATS Indiana lists the county as rural, with about 447.17 square miles and Sullivan as its largest city. Court records in a small county still run through the same statewide Odyssey/MyCase systems used by larger Indiana counties, but older local files often require clerk help.
The Census QuickFacts page for Sullivan County gives population and land-area context for the local court system. Those county details help explain why one courthouse and one jail are central to most record tasks.
Population size does not change public access rules, but it affects the way local offices are organized.
The STATS Indiana Sullivan County profile adds county-seat, formation, and local profile details. It is useful background when older records or courthouse history are part of the search.
For historical records, online searching and clerk contact often work together.
Sullivan County Court FAQs
Can Sullivan County Court records be searched online?
Yes. Public, non-confidential Sullivan County case information is searched through Indiana MyCase. Certified copies and documents not linked online are requested from the Sullivan County Clerk's Office.
Is MyCase the official record?
No. Indiana warns that MyCase may have errors, omissions, or limited older coverage. The official record comes from the court that maintains the file.
Where are Sullivan County criminal charges shown?
Filed charges can appear in MyCase after the prosecutor files them in court. Arrest reports and jail booking records are sheriff records, not clerk case records.
Does Sullivan County publish active warrants online?
No official Sullivan County online active-warrant list was found in the research source set. Warrant questions should be handled through the sheriff, court, clerk, and MyCase fallback channels.
Where are marriage and divorce records requested?
Marriage licenses and certified divorce decrees are requested from the county clerk where the marriage occurred or the divorce was granted.