Search the Perry County Court Docket

Perry County Court Docket Searches

Pick the right court first. A Perry County docket search goes nowhere if the case sits with a different clerk. Felonies, major civil matters, and appeals from Justice Court live in Circuit Court. The Circuit Clerk holds those files. Chancery covers divorce, custody, probate, guardianship, adoption, and equity. Justice Court handles misdemeanors, small claims, preliminary felony matters, and county traffic outside city limits. A city ticket belongs to the municipal court named on the citation. Starting with the correct court saves the most time.

For Circuit and Chancery cases, MEC is the electronic entry point where it has been implemented. Its public route is called PAMEC. That route needs an account rather than a quick anonymous name search across the county. Lower-court and municipal files stay with the clerk or court that holds them. Have the party name, case or citation number, court, case type, and rough filing year in hand. A full case number is the safest way. It separates the case you want from another with a similar party name.

1. Read the case subject or citation to identify the Circuit, Chancery, Justice, municipal, Youth, or federal court.
2. For a Circuit or Chancery case, register for PAMEC as the appropriate public user and use the available case-information tools.
3. Open the docket sheet and read the header, parties, chronological entries, and the newest setting or order.
4. Use the current court calendar or call the responsible administrator when the date is important or appears to have moved.
5. Ask the responsible clerk for a plain or certified copy when a screen view or electronic document is not enough.

Note: An empty result has several common causes. The case may sit in a different court, the file may be restricted, the name may be misspelled, or the case may simply not be in the system you searched yet.

Perry County MEC Docket Access

The Perry Circuit Court's MEC Court Information page places the local court in the Twelfth Circuit. February 21, 2017 is the MEC go-live date. Public read-only viewing runs through Public Access to MEC, usually shortened to PAMEC. Before login, the official public page offers no usable name-search form. Registration comes first, and filing access stays separate from public viewing.

PAMEC offers Attorney, Non-Attorney, and Firm Administrator user types. The registration screen lists a $10 annual fee. Paying online activates an account faster than mailing a check. A third-party processing charge applies. Its amount is unspecified. MEC terms also set a $0.20-per-page charge tied to search-result pages or use. None of these are Perry certified-copy fees.

The official PAMEC registration page only sets up an account. It does not promise that every Perry case can be viewed remotely as a document image. For free viewing and records requests, the courthouse and the responsible clerk remain the fallback.

Court Dockets: What They Show

A docket sheet lists case events in order, not the full text of every filing. In Perry Circuit MEC, the case header and parties come first. Entries follow, like a filing, order, notice of setting, continuance, plea, judgment, cost bill, or appeal. Chancery calendars add more. Expect a setting date, time, county, chancellor, case style, case type, schedule text, and comments. An older date in the history can linger. It may sit there after newer action. The most recent confirmed entry is what matters.

Perry Court Docket Status Flags

The Twelfth Circuit CourtInfo inventory publishes translations for the local flags. Those translations help you read a docket status. You will not mistake a short label for the whole case outcome. A flag may mark a pending task, a program, a restriction, or a stage of the case. That flag is not a ruling. Always pair the flag with the chronological entries and the latest signed order.

Trial Pending

The case remains set for or awaiting trial activity; it does not state the eventual result.

Plea Pending

A plea-related action has not been completed in the displayed status sequence.

General Continuance

A setting has been continued or moved. Check later entries for the new date.

For Sentence

The case is at or awaiting sentencing rather than necessarily closed.

SEALED or EXPUNGED

An access or record-status marker that can limit what appears remotely.

Flags like Municipal Court Appeal or Justice Court Appeal suggest a lower-court matter has moved up to Circuit Court. The original lower-court record stays with the office that created it.

Perry County Courts and Their Dockets

Perry County runs several court channels. The county court landing page helps mainly for its office list, since its court cards carry placeholder material. When a record actually matters, use the specific clerk and court links. The table separates two things. It shows the court that hears a matter and the office or system most likely to hold its docket.

Appeals in Mississippi can continue to the Mississippi Court of Appeals or the Mississippi Supreme Court under the applicable appellate rules. Federal cases run on a separate system. A federal case will not appear here just because it arose in Perry County.

Perry County Clerk Docket Split

Subject matter is the first clerk question. The Circuit Clerk keeps Circuit civil and felony-criminal dockets, the judgment roll, and related appeals. Chancery dockets for family, probate, equity, and property matters sit with the Chancery Clerk. The Justice Court Clerk is a third custodian for the lower-court docket. The Chancery Clerk also runs a land-record index. That stream is separate from a court docket even though one office handles both.

The Circuit Clerk's official page explains the office's felony and civil work. The Chancery Clerk page covers equity and domestic-relations cases. It notes that card payments are not accepted. A clerk can walk you through the records route and copy process. Staff cannot advise you on handling a case.

Court Dates and Settings in Perry County

A Perry County court date can surface in several places. You might find it in a MEC docket entry. It could also appear in a Circuit calendar, a Chancery setting record, or a lower-court file. The general county events calendar is another matter entirely. It lists community announcements, not hearings. Circuit criminal settings are confirmed through the Twelfth Circuit administrator. The civil court page posts links for civil trial calendars, open civil trial dates, open motion dates, and set motion dates. For anything tied to one case, read the docket history before trusting a broad calendar.

Chancery runs on its own local process. The settings menu splits settings into Trial, Probate, R81, Motion, Ex-Parte, Pre-Trial, Status Conference, and other categories. Filling out the web form is only a request. Nothing is set until an administrator confirms a date and time. The case then goes on the docket. Keep that line clear when a case shows a pending request but no notice of setting.

The Perry County events page offers a useful contrast. It is a county announcements interface. It is not a live court docket, and it is not a substitute for clerk confirmation.

Confirm a setting with an official court calendar page. Check the latest docket entry and the responsible clerk or administrator too. Do this whenever the hearing is close. The Perry County news archive sometimes carries county notices and site updates. It is not a case calendar or a court docket, though.

A general county notice is not a case-level record. For a hearing setting, check the court-specific source or ask the clerk.

Perry Chancery Calendar Settings

The Tenth Chancery District covers Perry along with four other counties and four chancellor places. Its trial-setting form asks for the assigned judge and Perry as the county filed in. It also asks for a date range, case number, case style, attorneys, issues, requested trial length, and setting preferences. Probate and Rule 81 forms carry their own subject-specific fields. Treat it as a calendar request channel, not an open public case-index search tool.

District procedures set many matters on Monday mornings at 9:00 a.m. That includes ex parte items, irreconcilable-differences divorces, Rule 81 returns, and motions. The published procedures cap a setting day at 25 settings unless the chancellor allows more. Excess matters can be pushed later in the day. Motions usually go to staff ahead of time. Even so, a calendar request still needs administrator confirmation.

Docket Access Under Mississippi Law

Mississippi court access rests on court policy, court rules, and public-record principles. The judiciary is a separate branch. Because of that, the clerk and MEC procedures are the practical first route to a court file. Public access has limits, though. Juvenile cases, sealed matters, protected family documents, and sensitive identifiers can be restricted. In a restricted MEC case, the docket sheet may stay visible. An image can be open only to counsel, court staff, or someone at the clerk's counter under applicable procedures.

Perry Docket and Certified Copies

A docket sheet, a filed document, and a certified copy are three different things. The docket is the case-event index. A filed document is the underlying complaint, order, motion, judgment, or other paper. A certified copy is a clerk-authenticated copy for when an official certification is required. A downloaded PDF, a printout, or an MEC display never becomes certified. It does not matter that it shows the same event.

Start with the entry title and date. Then contact the Circuit, Chancery, Justice, or municipal custodian. Bring the case number, case style, document type, plain or certified preference, contact details, and delivery request. Perry's official sources post no general copy-request form and no certified-copy fee schedule. The courthouse does offer free electronic viewing during regular hours under MEC procedures. Reproductions can carry separate charges.

Perry County Courthouse Docket Counter

For Circuit and Chancery records, the front counter to try is at the Perry County Courthouse. It sits at 103 South Main Street in New Augusta. Regular counter hours run 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., per the MEC CourtInfo listing for the Perry Circuit location. The Circuit Clerk keeps the Circuit docket and the judgment roll. The Chancery Clerk handles Chancery docket questions and document requests. Justice Court works through a separate clerk office reached by mail at P.O. Box 455 in New Augusta.

Perry County's official home page gives the county-government overview and courthouse context. It is a starting point, though. It is not a records counter and not an electronic case route. For the actual docket, use the clerk.

The court publishes no local parking, security, room, public-terminal, or accessibility details. Call the clerk before assuming anything about the building.

Perry Municipal Docket Routes

Perry County has three incorporated towns: Richton, Beaumont, and New Augusta. Those are small places. The 2020 Census incorporated-place table counts 920 residents in Richton. Beaumont has 669, and New Augusta has 554. Population numbers, though, say nothing about caseloads. Each town may run its own municipal docket. It covers city traffic, ordinance violations, and municipal misdemeanors. Justice Court takes traffic outside the town limits. Circuit Court handles felonies and higher-court matters.

None of the three towns offers an official public docket search for city court. There is no citation portal, calendar PDF, or online payment screen either. So start with whatever court is named on your citation, and call the town clerk. Do not assume a PAMEC search will surface a municipal ticket, because it will not. A municipal appeal can spawn a higher-court case flagged as related. But the original file stays a municipal record. For the population backdrop behind this spread-out court map, Census QuickFacts publishes the county figures directly.

Population never decides where a case belongs. The court named on the citation, the case papers, or the docket header tells you whom to contact next.

City-by-City Court Dockets in Perry County

Even a small county splits municipal work by town. Richton, Beaumont, and New Augusta each take a city-level first contact. That contact covers a municipal ticket or ordinance record. The cards that follow list each town's official page and where its municipal records start. If a case falls outside city jurisdiction, or has already moved up, take the Justice, Circuit, or Chancery route instead.

Perry County Court Docket History

Perry County dates to 1820, and New Augusta serves as the county seat. The technology story is more recent. Perry Circuit Court's official MEC information gives February 21, 2017 as its go-live date. That means older matters may live on paper, in bound docket books, on microfilm, or as scanned files. The county publishes no retention schedule, archive inventory, or old-file retrieval fee. Ask the responsible clerk what form covers the record you need. Perry County's history page gives the county-seat background on its official site. Its historical material, though, proves nothing. It cannot tell you whether a given court docket exists or sits online. Keep history and records separate when you ask.

One caution from the clerk's office: a fire destroyed pre-1874 marriage licenses, and that note covers marriage records only. It is not a statement that court dockets were lost. Name the record type when you ask about historical files.

Perry Federal Docket Route

A federal case arising in Perry County belongs to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi, Eastern Division. It does not belong on any Perry County state docket. The nearest federal courthouse sits in Hattiesburg. Federal cases run on PACER and CM/ECF, not Mississippi MEC. PACER demands an account. You should confirm current fee details through its live official materials rather than secondhand summaries. The Mississippi Secretary of State maintains a judicial-directory page covering state and county court offices. Federal and state court records stay separate. That holds true even when both involve the same person or the same event. Check the caption before you search anywhere.

The court name in the case caption, notice, or filing tells you where to begin. That single detail picks PACER, MEC, a clerk, or a town court as your starting point.

Perry Court Docket Source Links

Perry County's official courts landing page lists Circuit, Chancery, Justice, and Youth Court. Yet its cards offer no complete docket interface. The working sources sit elsewhere. They include the clerk pages, the MEC CourtInfo page, the Twelfth Circuit calendar pages, and the Tenth Chancery settings site. That split among sources mirrors the split among the actual records. Follow the court-specific path instead of trusting a county homepage search to cover everything. The Perry County courts page works well as a navigation reference. From there, continue to the court or clerk responsible for your case. That is where to go when you need a current court date or an official record copy.

The split matters most when a county webpage holds broad office links but no public case search form. In that situation, go straight to the specific court's own docket source.

Map and Directions to the Perry County Courthouse

Circuit and Chancery records are both kept at the Perry County Courthouse, 103 South Main Street, in New Augusta, one of Mississippi's smallest county seats. The Circuit Clerk's office handles the Circuit docket, felony and civil filings, and the judgment roll, while the Chancery Clerk's office in the same building handles divorce, custody, estates, guardianships, and other equity matters and accepts cash, check, or money order only. Both offices post hours of 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

The Chancery Clerk's line at this same address is 601-964-8398. Official sources do not document parking, security screening, room numbers, or accessibility details for the building, so call ahead of a time-sensitive visit; Justice Court uses a separate mailing address and is not housed at this courthouse.