Paris Court Docket Searches
The first stop for a public docket lookup is Search ARCourts. If you know the full case number or citation number, type it in. No number? Switch to Participants and enter the person's or company's name. Pick Logan County. But hold off on locking the Court Location when the venue is unclear.
- Find the case number, citation number, party name, and court name on the newest document.
- Choose Cases for a number or Participants for a person or organization.
- Expand Detail and select Logan County; add Paris only after confirming the venue.
- Compare the court, case style, filing date, type, status, and newest events.
- Use the Paris courthouse kiosk or call the correct District or Circuit desk when the online result is missing or unclear.
Coverage of District Court material varies. Confidential cases stay sealed no matter how you search. An empty result means broaden the terms and call the clerk, not that no Paris court record exists.
One Paris Courthouse, Two Record Desks
Paris District Court and the Logan County Circuit Clerk's office both list 25 West Walnut Street. One address, two separate record desks. District clerk Tammy Schneider holds the lower-court files. Circuit Clerk April Hice keeps the Circuit Court dockets for criminal, civil, probate, domestic-relations, and juvenile matters across Logan County's judicial districts.
| Paris Desk | Record Scope | Published Phone |
|---|---|---|
| District Court department | Traffic, limited criminal, civil, small claims, warrants, and specified referred matters | 479-963-3792 |
| Logan County Circuit Clerk | General-jurisdiction Circuit Court case files | 479-963-2164 |
Always ask which desk holds the case before you request a copy. A shared courthouse address does not merge the District and Circuit dockets into one system.
Inside the Paris District Court
The Paris Department is part of Logan County District Court in the Twelfth Judicial District. The directory names Judge Brian Mueller and clerk Tammy Schneider. Its docket covers traffic, limited criminal, civil, and small-claims cases, plus certain first appearances, bond proceedings, warrant work, and referred matters. Call 479-963-3792 for the District Court clerk, or fax 479-963-2762. The clerk can confirm public entries, a current setting, and how to request copies. No phone call changes a Paris court date. The staff cannot give legal advice either.
Desk check: Tell the courthouse whether the notice says District Court or Circuit Court before asking for Paris court records.
Paris Organization and Name Searches
Name searches in Search ARCourts behave in a way that shapes Paris results. One or two characters in a name field trigger an exact-name search. Three or more characters can return exact or partial matches. So a short fragment is not always the wider net. For a stubborn organization name, the Arkansas AOC suggests one or two distinctive words in the Last Name field. Begin with the recorded business name. Select Logan County. Strip out extra date or location filters. Then sort by headings and compare the case description, court, venue, and filing date. The official navigation tips walk through participant searches and filters. They help in Paris. There, District and Circuit cases share a city but stay on separate dockets.
Finding Paris Court Dates
The Twelfth District Court plan schedules Paris sessions on the second, third, and fourth Thursdays. These split into criminal/traffic and small-claims/civil blocks. The chart's text does not carry a dependable time. So no hour should be quoted from it. And a recurring Thursday is never your personal setting. Read every part of the newest event or court notice:
| Date | The scheduled day on the newest entry, order, or notice. |
|---|---|
| Time | The stated appearance time, not one inferred from a recurring Thursday. |
| Courtroom | The room or desk at the Paris courthouse, tied to the named court level. |
| Judge | Judge Brian Mueller for District Court or the assigned Circuit judge. |
| Setting Type | Criminal/traffic, civil/small claims, first appearance, bond, pretrial, review, or trial. |
A reset counts only once the court approves it and a later entry or order reflects it. If online information clashes with a notice, call the right Paris clerk before you drive over.
Paris Thursdays Are Not Personal Settings
The Thursday pattern shows how the Paris docket groups cases. It cannot tell one person when to appear. District judges also handle first appearances, bond inquiries, preliminary matters, warrants, and referred civil or domestic work. None of that fits a simple criminal-day or civil-day assumption. Rely on three things together. Use the latest case event, any filed notice, and direct confirmation from the clerk. A past Thursday still shows in the event history after a court-approved continuance. Read the dates in order and hunt for a later order. Note: the clerk's current confirmation and the newest court-issued notice always control. They outweigh a general session-day pattern.
Paris Traffic Ticket Lookups
A Paris citation lists the court, the citation number, and a deadline. Search ARCourts takes a Citation Number in Cases mode. Arkansas eTraffic and Arkansas Court Payment offer official ways to pay eligible cases. But each service must first find the citation and confirm eligibility. Pay and contest are different roads. Paying may finish the case as your chosen resolution. A contest means following the Paris District Court's plea and appearance instructions. Opening a payment page does not pause any deadline. The court publishes no complete Paris fine table and no blanket deferred-disposition rule. The countywide Logan County traffic court page explains how citation records differ from state driver records. If a Paris search comes up empty, call Tammy Schneider's office. Have the exact citation number in hand.
Paris Citations and Circuit Appeals
Most city citations and limited matters never leave the Paris District Court department. File a criminal appeal there, though, and the case moves up. The Fifteenth Circuit Division 1 gets a fresh Circuit Court case. That record sits apart from the original Paris docket.
So search both levels after an appeal. The District Court file holds the citation, the appearances, the plea, and the outcome. The Circuit Court file picks up the appeal itself and everything filed after it. Ask the clerk who keeps that exact record for a certified disposition. Each office certifies only what it holds.
This split trips people up. Both offices share the Paris courthouse, so the paperwork looks like one file. Read the case number and court heading first. They tell you which desk owes you an answer.
How Paris Cases Reach the County
Paris District Court belongs to the county district system already. Bigger cases, though, ride past its jurisdiction and land in Logan County Circuit Court. The northern and eastern county seat houses the Circuit Clerk counter that takes those general-jurisdiction filings.
Docket flow: Paris District Court › Logan County Courts › Logan County Circuit Court
Split your docket search by court level. Limited matters live in the District Court record, while felony, broader civil, probate, domestic-relations, juvenile, and appellate work belongs to Circuit Court. The Logan County court docket gives the county-wide view, but it never changes which Paris clerk keeps the original file.
Paris Courthouse Kiosk Access
The Arkansas courthouse-kiosk program lists a public kiosk for Logan County at 25 West Walnut Street. It covers Circuit Court categories. Walk-up use is free. Civil, domestic-relations, criminal, juvenile, and probate case information is open to the public there, within access restrictions.
The kiosk has limits worth knowing. It cannot replace the District Court clerk when a matter belongs to that department. It cannot certify a result. Nor can it force open a sealed or confidential record. Treat it as a finding tool. Use it for public Circuit Court information, then go to April Hice's office for copies or certification.
Bring the full case number, or at least enough party and filing detail to pin the case down. With two court offices in one courthouse, this channel saves real time. Just confirm the court level before you rely on it.
Paris Court Records Across Two Eras
The Paris courthouse standing today went up in 1908, a red-brick building with an octagonal clock tower. It serves as the seat for the northern and eastern half of Logan County. A two-district geography still decides where sessions sit. It also decides where files live.
Older records carry a break no clerk can fix. A courthouse fire in 1877 wiped out early county records. A modern docket search cannot recover them. Genealogists and history researchers should tell the clerk the record type and rough period, then ask what holdings remain.
A newer break came in January 2024, when Search ARCourts replaced Public CourtConnect for digital access. The online summaries are handy. Still, the clerk's original file and whatever archive survived remain the sources that count.
Who Can See Paris Court Records
Arkansas Supreme Court Administrative Order 19 sets the rules for public access to judicial records. Anyone can view a public Paris docket through Search ARCourts, the courthouse kiosk, or the proper clerk. Sealed material, juvenile information, confidential identifiers, and other protected records stay out of view or come back redacted.
Key rules:
Administrative Order 19 allows public access except where law, rule, or a court order restricts the material.
Arkansas Code ยง 9-27-309 subjects juvenile records to confidentiality and court-controlled access.
Arkansas Freedom of Information Act governs many public records, while court-case access is principally controlled by Supreme Court rules and the judicial clerk.
A case summary on a screen is not a certified Paris record. For an authenticated copy, ask Tammy Schneider at District Court or April Hice at Circuit Court. Confirm the charge before you order, since the city posts no fee table for copies.