St. Landry Parish Warrant Searches
Begin wherever the ticket, summons, or minute entry says the case sits. St. Landry Parish has no single public name search that pulls district, city, town, and federal process together. Each channel answers only for its own files.
- Read the notice for the issuing court and the case, docket, or ticket number.
- Call the Clerk of Court at 337-942-5606, Courts Division extension 5113, for a district file.
- Call the city court on the paper: Opelousas at 337-948-2570 or Eunice at 337-457-6535.
- Send a written request to the custodian when a phone answer will not do.
- Ask the sheriff at 337-948-6516 for service or custody direction, and check PACER only for a federal case.
Note: Each step in St. Landry Parish answers for one court only, so a clean result in one place still leaves the others open.
St. Landry Parish Warrant Search Boxes Are Missing
The sheriff's contact page routes legal, FOIA, and public record requests to a records email and offers a short form with name, email, phone, address, and subject fields. There is no warrant field, no case field, and no status selector. The clerk's courts overview fills some of that gap by describing the criminal proceedings the Courts Division actually keeps, which is where a St. Landry Parish warrant question ultimately lands.
The sheriff's page warns that requests sent through its records channel can take time. So send a narrow request instead of asking for every warrant in the parish. Name one case, one court, and one date range. The main switchboard at 337-948-6516 is just a switchboard, so treat any call there as a routing question rather than a warrant line.
What a Warrant Search Asks For
The St. Landry Parish courts expose no public name-search form. A clerk or records officer can still pull a file fast. Give the request the same identifiers a search form would collect.
| Field Label | Type | Required | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Full legal name | Text | Yes | Give every name used on the case, including a former or maiden name. |
| Date of birth | Date | No | Separates a common name from the right person. |
| Case or citation number | Text | No | The fastest key when the number is printed on the notice. |
| Issuing court | Dropdown | Yes | 27th JDC, Opelousas City Court, Eunice City Court, or the named town court. |
| Record type | Select | Yes | Warrant entry, minute entry, service return, or current case status. |
| Date range | Date | No | Helps the office pull existing entries from a specific period. |
St. Landry Parish Ticket and Case Numbers
Both city portals open with a required ticket number and a begin button. Nothing else is asked first. No name-only option exists. Opelousas help text puts the ticket number at the top of the citation, and a court docket or case number may work after an appearance. Eunice runs the same ticket gate and routes questions to its clerk at 337-457-6535. Each court also separates ordinary payment from a mandatory appearance. At Opelousas, a full online payment is treated as a guilty plea to all violations and closes the case. That consequence deserves a second read before you pay anything in St. Landry Parish.
St. Landry Parish Warrant Search Results
What comes back depends on the office and the record. A court answer in St. Landry Parish describes one case, not a person in general.
| Warrant or Case Number | The file key the court uses, often written in a form like 27JDC-2026-CR-001184. |
|---|---|
| Charge or Obligation | The offense, ordinance, or unpaid obligation behind the process. |
| Issuing Court | The court that signed or recorded the warrant. |
| Bond or Bail | Any amount or condition the warrant specifies. Many warrants carry none. |
| Status | Active, unserved, served, recalled, quashed, or returned. |
| Next Step | The appearance, payment, or motion the court requires to move the case forward. |
A status answer is only as current as the clerk's entry in St. Landry Parish. Ask when the record was last updated before you act on it.
St. Landry Parish Written Warrant Requests
A written request beats a broad question because it points at one existing file. Name the custodian, the case or citation number, the record type, and a date range.
- St. Landry Parish Clerk of Court, Courts Division, for a district criminal or traffic file.
- Opelousas City Court or Eunice City Court for a city citation, ordinance case, or failure to appear.
- The Sheriff's Office for a service return, booking entry, or incident record.
- The District Attorney for a prosecution-held record, with copying at $1 per page per side and scan by email at $2 per page.
- St. Landry Parish Government for a parish department record, by written request to its Opelousas post office box.
Under La. R.S. 44:35, a requester has a remedy when a written request is denied or when five days pass with no written determination or estimate.
St. Landry Parish Warrants: Who Holds What
Four record keepers cover most questions here. The Clerk of Court holds district criminal files for the Twenty-Seventh Judicial District Court. Opelousas City Court and Eunice City Court keep their own citations and ordinance cases. A town mayor's court holds its ordinance matters, while a justice of the peace office handles limited civil process rather than general criminal warrants in St. Landry Parish. Law enforcement adds a separate layer. Deputies, city police, and marshals serve process and record returns, and the District Attorney keeps prosecution records. Federal process sits outside all of it.
St. Landry Parish Clerk of Court
118 South Court Street
Opelousas, LA 70570
337-942-5606
St. Landry Parish ClerkConnect Access Costs
The St. Landry Parish clerk advertises criminal, traffic, civil, and probate records through ClerkConnect, a subscription service that begins with registration on the clerk's own page. Published tiers run $20 for one day, $50 for 30 days, and $600 for 365 days, with $1 for each printed page.
Registration and account verification come before any search field appears. St. Landry Parish offers no name or ticket field before that step. The current vendor landing page does not list St. Landry among its selectable offices.
That mismatch is worth a call to extension 5113 before anyone pays for access. A subscription buys nothing if the St. Landry Parish records are not loaded in the vendor system.
Which Warrants Stay Restricted
Public access is the default for records held by public bodies, but it is not absolute. Louisiana law lets an office withhold specific categories, and a denial should name the basis it relies on.
Key Rules:
La. R.S. 44:3 lets law enforcement withhold records tied to pending criminal litigation or a confidential source, while complaints, booking entries, summonses, and citations may still be released.
Children's Code art. 412 restricts juvenile records, and art. 922 makes a sealed or expunged juvenile record unavailable.
La. C.Cr.P. art. 973 keeps an expunged arrest or conviction record confidential, with limited exceptions for courts, law enforcement, and the person named.
When a St. Landry Parish file is only partly restricted, request the non-exempt portion instead of the whole record. Also ask which exception the office is applying.
St. Landry Parish Warrant Results and Proof
A warrant entry is an order or process. A blank answer is not a clearance either. Process may be too new to appear, may sit with a different court, or may be sealed. A payment receipt from a city portal shows a transaction, not a recall. Verify any status with the issuing court, where active warrant status actually lives.