Search Grant County Court Records
Most Grant County court records start with Indiana MyCase, the public case-search system used for courts that run on Odyssey. The Indiana Judicial Branch lists Grant County as a local court county and links the public to MyCase for court case search. Grant County local rules also refer to Odyssey random filing for certain criminal assignments, which confirms that Grant County case routing and public lookup are tied to the statewide case-management environment.
MyCase is useful for party names, cause numbers, court assignments, docket entries, hearing dates, financial entries, and many public documents. It is not the certified court record. The public-access notice says official records must come from the court that keeps the file. If a document is not linked online, or if a certified copy is needed, the next step is the Grant County Clerk of the Circuit Court.
- Open MyCase and choose a name, case number, attorney, or citation-number search.
- Filter to Grant County when the statewide result list is too broad.
- Check the court code, such as 27C01, 27D01, 27D02, 27D03, 27H01, or 27H02.
- Review the chronological case summary for filings, hearings, orders, and disposition entries.
- Contact the Grant County Clerk when an older file, a certified copy, or an official balance is needed.
The MyCase help page explains public, party, and attorney access levels. Public users see public, non-confidential case data at no charge. Parties can request online access codes for their own cases, and attorneys use the Courts Portal for broader access tied to their appearances.
Grant County Court Search Fields
Grant County court searches work best when the search terms match the record type. A citation number may find a traffic case faster than a name. A full party name can return civil, family, criminal, probate, and city-court results. A cause number is the most precise option because it includes county, court, year, case type, and sequence data.
| Field | Type | Use in Grant County |
|---|---|---|
| Case Number | Text | Best when the court code and cause number are known. |
| Party Name | Text | Useful for civil, criminal, family, probate, and city-court matters. |
| Date of Birth | Date | Helps narrow criminal, traffic, and party-name searches. |
| Citation Number | Text | Useful for traffic tickets and payable infraction records. |
| County | Dropdown | Select Grant to avoid statewide matches from other Indiana counties. |
| Court | Dropdown | Use Circuit, Superior, Gas City City Court, or Marion City Court if known. |
Grant County Courts at a Glance
Grant County is in Indiana Judicial District 14 with Madison County. Indiana trial courts include circuit courts, superior courts, and local city or town courts. In Grant County, the main trial courts are Grant Circuit Court and Grant Superior Courts 1, 2, and 3. Two city courts, Marion City Court and Gas City City Court, handle many local misdemeanors, infractions, traffic matters, and ordinance cases.
The Grant County court staff directory identifies judges, court phones, court reporters, bailiffs, and division contacts. That directory is often the practical bridge between a MyCase result and the office that can answer scheduling or courtroom questions.
| Court | Code | Common Record Role |
|---|---|---|
| Grant Circuit Court | 27C01 | General trial matters, Drug Court, Veterans Court, grand jury, and juvenile waivers. |
| Grant Superior Court 1 | 27D01 | Estates, guardianships, tax sales, Reentry Court, and some felony assignments. |
| Grant Superior Court 2 | 27D02 | Protective orders, adoptions, IV-D support, juvenile, and Family Recovery Court matters. |
| Grant Superior Court 3 | 27D03 | Small claims, evictions, Level 6 felonies, OWI misdemeanors, and traffic/small claims contacts. |
| Gas City City Court | 27H01 | Gas City ordinances and many misdemeanors or infractions outside Marion. |
| Marion City Court | 27H02 | Marion misdemeanors, infractions, ordinance violations, and city traffic cases. |
Case flow: city-court or county trial court filing > hearing and docket entries > order, judgment, plea, or sentence > Court of Appeals of Indiana when an appeal is taken.
Grant County Clerk Records
The Grant County Clerk of the Circuit Court is the local court-record custodian. The official Clerk page names Pam Harris and describes the office as the keeper of court records and seal, issuer of process, accepter of filings, recorder of judgments and orders, fine and judgment collector, marriage-license issuer, and keeper of wills and probate matters. The Clerk also handles election duties, but court users most often need the office for copies, filings, traffic payments, marriage licenses, divorce records, and probate records.
Clerk of the Circuit Court
101 E 4th St, 1st Floor
Marion, IN 46952
(765) 668-8121
8:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. Monday-Friday
The Clerk FAQ includes a local scam warning: the Clerk's Office says it will never call to collect payment or threaten a lien on a home. That matters because public case data can make fines, judgments, and traffic debts visible online. Call the Clerk directly before paying anyone who claims to collect for the office.
Grant County Court Record Types
Grant County court records vary by court and case type. Civil files can include complaints, summonses, service returns, motions, orders, judgments, and settlement entries. Criminal records can include charging documents, probable-cause material when public, initial hearing entries, bond orders, plea entries, motions, dispositions, sentencing orders, and probation entries. Traffic records may appear in Superior Court 3, Marion City Court, Gas City City Court, or another county court depending on the ticket and charge.
- Civil records: complaints, appearances, service papers, orders, judgments, and collection filings.
- Criminal records: filed charges, hearings, pleas, dispositions, sentencing entries, and bond records.
- Family and divorce records: dissolution files, support matters, orders, and restricted child-related materials.
- Probate records: estate petitions, wills, letters, inventories, claims, accountings, guardianships, and orders.
- Traffic records: citations, court dates, pleas, fines, failures to appear, deferral entries, and license-suspension links.
- Juvenile records: court files usually subject to strong confidentiality rules and limited public inspection.
What Grant County Court Records Show
A Grant County case record usually combines identity fields, court-assignment fields, docket history, and case-outcome fields. The court code helps readers understand where the case is filed. The chronological case summary is the docket-style list of events, such as filings, orders, hearings, notices, continuances, plea entries, sentencing entries, and financial postings. Document links appear only when the document is public and available online.
| Field | What It Shows |
|---|---|
| Cause number | County number, court code, year, case type, and sequence. |
| Court | Grant Circuit, Superior, Gas City City Court, or Marion City Court. |
| Parties | Names and roles, such as plaintiff, defendant, petitioner, or respondent. |
| Chronological Case Summary | The public docket entries for filings, hearings, orders, and outcomes. |
| Financial information | Fines, costs, payments, credits, and balances when shown, subject to update lag. |
| Documents | Online public orders or filings when the access level and document type allow viewing. |
Grant County Court Public Access
Indiana court records start from a public-access rule, then narrow by statute, court rule, and case type. The Indiana Judicial Branch public-records hub points users to court case search, public-record requests, marriage lookup, protection-order search, guardianship cases, BMV driver records, IDOC locator, and county jail lookup. For Grant County court records, the practical rule is simple: search public online sources first, then ask the maintaining court or Clerk for official copies and non-online documents.
Key access rules:
Indiana Access to Public Records Act, IC 5-14-3 generally allows inspection and copying of public records unless a law permits or requires withholding.
Access to Court Records Rule 1 states the presumption of public access for court records.
Access to Court Records Rule 5 lists records and data excluded from public access.
Access to Court Records Rule 9 gives a process for seeking access to excluded records when the rule allows it.
Restricted Grant County Court Records
Some Grant County court records are not visible in public MyCase search. Juvenile cases, adoption files, mental-health proceedings, sealed cases, granted expungements, protected-party information, medical records, Social Security numbers, financial account data, and many minor-related details may be restricted. Protection-order cases are not searchable in MyCase because protected-person identifying information is excluded from online public access.
Indiana's expungement law, IC 35-38-9, can change how an arrest or conviction appears to the public. Some granted records are sealed from public view. Other conviction records may remain public but show expungement status. The Clerk can receive filings and provide record copies that are public, but the court decides whether a record is sealed, excluded, or released under a rule-based request.
Grant County Sheriff and Jail Records
The Grant County Sheriff's Office is at 214 E 4th St in Marion. Sheriff Delmiro "Del" Garcia is the current sheriff. Jail and booking information is separate from the court case file. An arrest may first appear in the county jail roster or the statewide Indiana County Jail Public Portal. Filed criminal charges then appear in MyCase after the prosecutor files the case and the court opens the record.
The Sheriff's jail page links to the current-inmates page, which points to the local roster, and also identifies SAVIN/VINE as the notification channel for custody changes. The statewide jail portal can be used with a county filter when the local roster is unavailable. For state-prison custody after sentencing, use IDOC, not the county jail roster.
The official Grant County Sheriff's pages did not document a sheriff-specific mobile app for inmate or warrant search. City of Marion's MyMarionApp is a civic issue and notification app, not a court-record, warrant, or jail-roster app.
Grant County Warrant Records
No official Grant County online active-warrant search was located in the research. The reliable fallback chain is the Sheriff's non-emergency line, the court that issued the warrant, the Grant County Clerk, and MyCase entries that may show missed hearings, failures to appear, bond forfeitures, petitions to revoke, or warrant-related settings. Marion City Court and Gas City City Court matter because city-court bench warrants may be tied to those courts rather than a Superior Court case.
The Sheriff's Civil Process page defines a rule to show cause as a court order requiring a person to appear at a set date and time, with a warrant possible if the person fails to appear. An active warrant check should not rely on MyCase alone. Public data can lag, and some warrant information is sealed or not posted online.
Grant County Traffic Court Records
Grant County traffic records can sit in Superior Court 3, Marion City Court, Gas City City Court, or another Grant County court depending on the ticket location, officer, and charge. The Clerk FAQ says a person may plead guilty or not guilty. Payable tickets by mail require money order or cashier's check, no personal checks, and the back of the ticket must be signed. Failure to pay before the court date can lead to license suspension.
Indiana ePayment at public.courts.in.gov/pay is the statewide payment portal. The BMV driver record is a different file from the court traffic record. A court record shows citation, plea, fine, disposition, and failure-to-appear items. A BMV record shows license status, violations, suspensions, and official driver-record entries.
Grant County Marriage and Probate
Marriage licenses are handled by the Grant County Clerk. Applicants can start the process online through Indiana marriage-license guidance, but both applicants must appear in person. The local FAQ says the Bookkeeping office is in the courthouse basement, just past the security checkpoint, first door on the left. The license is good for 60 days, and the Grant County Clerk no longer performs marriage ceremonies.
Divorce records are court records maintained by the Clerk and courts. Many divorce cases can be searched in MyCase, while certified decrees and older files should be requested from the Clerk. Probate is handled within the Circuit and Superior Court system, with estate and guardianship cases assigned to Superior Court 1 under local rules.
- Estate
- A probate case that handles property and debts of a deceased person.
- Guardian
- A person appointed by the court to care for a minor or incapacitated adult.
- Inventory
- A filing that lists estate or protected-person assets.
Grant County Court Records Fees
The research found clear local fee information for marriage licenses, infraction deferral, traffic-ticket payment methods, and online driver records, but did not locate a current official Grant County copy and certification fee table in the Clerk's HTML pages. Certified court-copy costs should be confirmed with the Clerk before ordering.
| Item | Amount or Rule |
|---|---|
| Grant County resident marriage license | $18.00, cash or money order only. |
| Grant County out-of-state marriage license | $60.00, cash or money order only. |
| Infraction deferral, six months | $192.50. |
| Infraction deferral, twelve months | $252.50. |
| Traffic ticket mail payment | Money order or cashier's check only, payable to the assigned court clerk. |
| Indiana BMV Official Driver Record | $4.00 certified driver record. |
Grant County Court History
The official Circuit Court history says court first met in 1832 at David Branson's home. The first civil matter was John Rawlins v. Samuel McClure, Sr., and the first criminal case was State v. Jonathan Berry and Jessie W. Thompson for assault and battery. Court later moved to Riley Marshall's home near Boots Creek and the Mississinewa River, where sessions sometimes took place outside under a large elm tree because of limited space.
Commissioners decided in 1880 to build the current courthouse on the public square. The cornerstone ceremony on June 1, 1881 drew an estimated 10,000 people. The original building had a dome and Statue of Justice; the dome was removed in 1960. The Circuit Courtroom was remodeled in the 1950s, again in 1991, and updated in 2011 with improved audio, wireless internet, and a flat-screen television for court proceedings.
Grant County Court Source Views
The Indiana Judicial Branch Grant County page is the state-level source for local court links, e-filing, MyCase, and local rules.
That state page is useful when a Grant County court record search needs the official MyCase or local rules path.
The Grant County Courts home page gives courthouse location, hours, and links to court offices.
The local courts page confirms the public-facing county court office structure used throughout this Grant County records site.
The Grant County Clerk page identifies the Clerk's court-record, marriage, probate, and payment duties.
Certified copies, older files, and official court documents route back to the Clerk when MyCase does not provide the needed document.
The Indiana MyCase public case search is the main online search path for Grant County case records.
MyCase should be treated as a public lookup source, not as the certified court file.
The MyCase help page explains public, party, and attorney access levels for Indiana case records.
Access level matters because party and attorney views can include records that public users do not see.
The Indiana public-records hub links court, jail, marriage, protection-order, BMV, and IDOC record tools.
The hub helps separate court records from jail custody, driver records, and statewide vital-record tools.
The Grant County court staff directory gives phone numbers and division contacts for the local courts.
Staff directory details help match a case record to the court office or courtroom that handles scheduling questions.
The Indiana Judicial Branch court-structure page explains the appellate and trial court system that frames Grant County filings.
That state structure explains why Grant County cases can involve circuit, superior, city, appellate, and federal paths.
Grant County Court Records FAQ
Where are Grant County court records searched online?
Start with Indiana MyCase and filter to Grant County. Use the court code or cause number when available. If a document is not online, contact the Clerk of the Circuit Court for official copies.
Are Grant County MyCase records official?
No. MyCase is a public lookup source. The official record comes from the court that maintains the file, usually through the Clerk when copies or certifications are needed.
Which court handles Grant County probate?
Grant County does not use a separate probate court. Local rules assign estate and guardianship matters to Superior Court 1, while the Clerk keeps wills and probate records.
Is there a Grant County warrant search portal?
No official online active-warrant search was found. Check MyCase for related case entries, then contact the Sheriff's Office or the issuing court for current warrant status.
Where are Grant County inmate records found?
The Sheriff's current-inmates page links to the local roster. The Indiana County Jail Public Portal provides a statewide county-jail lookup, and IDOC covers state-prison custody.
Who keeps Grant County divorce records?
Divorce records are court records kept by the Clerk and courts. Search MyCase for the case, then request certified decrees or older files from the Clerk.