Martin Court Docket Searches
Every Martin court docket search begins with one question: what kind of case is this? District matters belong to the Red River Parish Clerk of Court and the Thirty-Ninth Judicial District Court. That covers civil, criminal, family, succession, probate, and juvenile cases. ClerkNet lists civil and criminal cases, dockets, minutes, document purchase, and e-filing. The public entry screen shows only Email and Password controls. eClerks LA adds a statewide participating-parish layer. Even so, it cannot replace parish case detail.
A Martin traffic citation follows the issuing agency. Tickets from the Sheriff or State Police channel go through the Sheriff Tyler route. Coushatta City Police tickets use Coushatta Police. Small civil matters may land with a Justice of the Peace. A Martin address is helpful context. But it does not assign a case to one docket.
- Read the Martin citation, summons, or order for its court and identifier.
- Use ClerkNet or eClerks LA for a Martin district-court case.
- Use the Sheriff citation route for the agency shown on a traffic ticket.
- Ask the relevant JP whether it keeps a limited civil Martin record.
- Confirm the latest Martin setting with the proper custodian.
Martin Court Records by Place
Martin is a village in Red River Parish. It was home to 524 people at the 2020 Census. The official parish profile lists it as a village. Official GARM material places Martin in Census District 2. That context matters for record hunting. Martin court records move through the parishwide court network. The village has no courthouse or municipal records office of its own. No Martin court judge, dedicated clerk hours, municipal caseload count, court building, night court, or warrant-amnesty program appears in any official listing.
The 2020 Census incorporated-place table supplies the population figure for Martin.
The census count anchors Martin as a real place on the map. Even so, the route to its court records runs through the parish and its agencies.
Inside the Martin Municipal Court
Here is the plain answer. Martin has no Municipal Court. It has no standalone ticket portal. It has no city clerk keeping a Martin court docket. So the real answer is a routing answer. District cases go to the Clerk and the 39th JDC. Traffic cases go through the issuing agency's channel. Small civil or eviction matters can belong to a Justice of the Peace. Calling the village route a municipal court would invent a court that does not exist.
Missing a local portal does not mean the record is missing. It means the court or office with subject-matter jurisdiction holds it. Start with the court named on the filing or citation. Treat the Martin address as supporting context, not as the field that decides custody.
Martin ClerkNet Court Records
Martin cases that reach the 39th JDC start at ClerkNet, hosted at search.redriverclerk.com. The service offers cases, dockets, and minutes. You can also print or download PDFs, buy documents, and file civil and criminal cases electronically. Its public screen shows civil and criminal index coverage running from January 1, 2015 to current. Search fields past login are account-gated. Enter the case number exactly as printed. Call the Clerk if you cannot tell which field or index fits your case.
The Louisiana Clerks of Court directory confirms the official Red River Clerk contact. It also confirms the records route.
That directory page points a Martin search toward the parish Clerk.
Finding Martin Court Dates
No village schedule controls a Martin court date. The latest notice, minute entry, order, or citation does. For district settings, call the 39th JDC Court Administrator, Peggy McCoy, at (318) 932-6206. Local rules set a regular rule and motion hour every Monday and Thursday at 9:00 a.m. The hour applies when court is not in session. Trial dates come from a conference with the judge and a scheduling order. Criminal pre-trials run quarterly. The felony jury schedule is posted in the Clerk's office each year.
| Date | Use the latest Martin notice, citation, order, or minute entry. |
|---|---|
| Time | Motion hour is a general 39th JDC schedule, not a Martin case guarantee. |
| Court | The filing, citation, or JP assignment identifies the court holding the Martin matter. |
| Setting type | Read the actual entry for a motion, pretrial, trial, or other event. |
| Confirmation | Call the Court Administrator when the current Martin district setting is unclear. |
Sometimes a Martin docket still shows an older event. Check for a later minute entry or order that continued, reset, or rescheduled it. The old line stays in the history, but it is not always the current instruction.
Martin Traffic Record Custodians
Start a Martin traffic search at the office that wrote the ticket. Do not start at a Martin courtroom. The Sheriff Tyler portal lets you pull up a citation several ways. Try a citation number, a driver license with state, a Social Security number with date of birth, a vehicle plate with state, a name with date of birth, or a business name. The citation number plus the issuing office is the cleanest pair to try first. Behind that portal there is no Martin-only traffic database and no full public traffic docket.
The Red River District Attorney splits State Police and Sheriff citations from Coushatta City Police tickets. Martin is not Coushatta. So a Martin address alone should never route a ticket into the Coushatta Police path. Read what the citation itself says. Then call the Sheriff at (318) 932-5754, or the issuing office named on the ticket, whenever the portal leaves the venue unclear.
Martin Traffic Ticket Lookups
Some Martin tickets can be paid; others demand a court appearance. It depends on the offense and the circumstances cited. The local District Attorney treats accidents, speeding 30 or more miles per hour over the limit, texting while driving, reckless operation, certain handicap-parking violations, and failure to stop for a school bus as appearance matters. The date printed on the citation governs. No Martin online plea form, deferred-disposition program, or generic deadline exists.
Miss the court date without paying or appearing and the stakes climb: a license suspension, a $25 affidavit fee per ticket, possible DMV fees, or a bench warrant. Those are the published Red River consequences, not a prediction for any single Martin citation. Take payment, appearance, and copy questions straight to the Sheriff or the issuing office.
Martin Justice of Peace Records
Martin residents may fall under Justice of the Peace District B or another district. That depends on how the territory is assigned. The current Attorney General directory lists District B Justice of the Peace Randy J. Thomas Jr. at (318) 947-5932. It lists no street address or online docket. Justice courts share civil jurisdiction up to $5,000 under Louisiana Code of Civil Procedure article 4911. They handle movable-property and eviction matters under article 4912, subject to the exclusions in article 4913. The Louisiana Justice of the Peace jurisdiction source lays out that limited-jurisdiction frame for any Martin record.
That jurisdiction source is the reason a Martin small civil file should be verified with the JP directly. Do not assume it sits in ClerkNet.
How Martin Cases Reach the County
Where a Martin case lands depends on what it is about. District civil, criminal, family, succession, probate, and juvenile cases belong to the parish Clerk. The 39th JDC hears them. A small civil or eviction matter can go to the relevant JP instead. Traffic follows the issuing agency or the Sheriff. Appeals from the 39th JDC move up to the Louisiana Court of Appeal, Second Circuit. The Martin place name alone never supplies subject-matter jurisdiction.
Case route: Martin village address › issuing agency, relevant JP, or Thirty-Ninth Judicial District Court › Louisiana Court of Appeal, Second Circuit.
For routing in more depth, the Red River Parish court docket maps the parish court and its lower-court channels. A notice of appeal can show in the trial record before any appellate docket opens.
Martin Court Record JP Contacts
Some Martin records fit no district-court or traffic search. For those, the Justice of the Peace directory is the fallback. The directory lists Jerry Clark for District A. His number is (318) 469-5047. Randy J. Thomas Jr. covers District B at (318) 947-5932, and Michael T. Perkins handles District C at (318) 932-3416. Not every district gets a public online docket page or a street address there. Call first to confirm which JP holds the record. The Louisiana Attorney General Justice Court directory is the official source for these Martin-area contacts.
The directory gives Martin users an official contact route when no standalone village docket appears online.
Who Can See Martin Court Records
Access to Martin court records follows the rules of the office holding them. For 39th JDC records the Clerk is the legal custodian under Louisiana Code of Civil Procedure article 251. The Clerk generally must allow examination and copying during required office hours. Exceptions apply. A request can go in person at 615 East Carroll Street in Coushatta. Mail works too, at P.O. Box 485. Phone is (318) 932-6741. A JP or traffic record has to be requested from its own custodian.
Louisiana access rules.
CCP art. 251 makes the Clerk the district-court records custodian and supports inspection and copies, subject to law.
R.S. 44:31 provides public-record access unless a specific exception applies.
R.S. 44:35 provides a route for enforcing a public-record request under its terms.
A public lookup can miss a Martin record for ordinary reasons. Juvenile, sealed, expunged, or protected files may not appear at all. The 2015 ClerkNet coverage boundary, an older file, a JP record, or a traffic record can each explain a gap in a Martin search.
Martin Parish Court Map
Martin's official place status explains the access route without inventing a Martin court building. The parish profile lists Martin as one of Red River's villages. Coushatta, Hall Summit, and Edgefield are the others. A Martin record request works best when it names the case or citation. Include the record type too. Name the agency or court believed to hold it. A clear request helps the receiving office route it. It can also point you to the office that owns the record. The official Red River Parish profile is the source for the Martin place-list context.
The Martin map source places the village inside the parishwide court system. Its records actually live there. So a docket request starts with three simple facts. Name the case or citation. Pick the likely office. Say whether you want a plain or certified copy. A Martin district court request belongs with the Clerk. Justice court matters go to the identified JP court. Traffic ticket records sit with the agency printed on the ticket. Getting the office right keeps a Martin record search from stalling before it starts.