Louisiana, parish records
Find the right office in Caddo Parish. Court cases, deeds and parcels, sheriff and jail records, vital records and parish filings, each linked to the office that keeps them.
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Vital records
Death certificates for any parish from the Louisiana Department of Health vital records registry, by mail, online or in person.
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Find active and inactive corporations by name from the Louisiana Secretary of State.
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Marriage certificates: Orleans Parish from the state vital records registry, every other parish from the clerk of court that issued the license.
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Civil and criminal court records, conveyance and mortgage records and marriage licenses filed in Caddo Parish.
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Property assessments, parcel ownership and the tax roll for Caddo Parish.
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Parish law enforcement, the parish jail, warrants, civil process and property tax collection for Caddo Parish.
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Voter registration and the office that keeps the voter rolls for Caddo Parish.
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The parish governing body, its offices and public records contacts for Caddo Parish.
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How to find someone in Louisiana state custody, including people serving state sentences in parish jails, from the Department of Public Safety and Corrections.
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Name and address search of registered sex offenders statewide, kept by the Louisiana State Police.
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Birth and death certificates for every parish, and Orleans Parish marriage certificates, from the state vital records office.
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Parish profile
Sheriff & Law Enforcement. The Caddo Parish Sheriff's Office is responsible for maintaining law and order throughout the parish, particularly in unincorporated areas.
Police Departments. Law enforcement in Caddo Parish is provided by both the Caddo Parish Sheriff's Office and several municipal police departments.
Law Enforcement & Arrests. Law enforcement and arrest records in Caddo Parish are primarily handled by the Caddo Parish Sheriff's Office, headquartered at 501 Texas Street, Shreveport, LA 71101. Sheriff Henry L. Whitehorn Sr. oversees operations including patrol, criminal investigations, and detention services. Arrest records in Shreveport are public records under Louisiana Public Records Law, specifically Louisiana Revised Statutes 44:1 through 44:41, which establish the presumption that all governmental records are public unless specifically exempted. The Shreveport Police Department maintains its own records division at 1234 Texas Avenue, Shreveport, LA 71101, phone 318-673-7000, for arrests made by city officers.
Criminal Records. For an authoritative source, see caddosheriff.org .
Arrest Records. Arrest records are kept by the arresting agency: the Caddo Parish Sheriff's Office or a city police department such as the Shreveport Police Department.
Permits, deeds and taxes. Professional and occupational licenses come from Louisiana state licensing boards, not the parish. Zoning and land use cases go to the Shreveport Caddo Metropolitan Planning Commission, 505 Travis Street, Suite 440, Shreveport, LA 71101, phone 318-673-6498. Deeds, mortgages and other conveyance records are kept by the Caddo Parish Clerk of Court, who is the parish recorder, at 501 Texas Street, Room 103, Shreveport, LA 71101, phone 318-226-6780; recorded documents can be searched on caddoclerk.com. Property values are set by the Caddo Parish Assessor, 501 Texas Street, Room 102, phone 318-226-6704. Property tax bills and payments are handled by the Caddo Parish Sheriff, as ex officio tax collector, at 501 Texas Street, Room 101, phone 318-675-2170. Elections are run by the Caddo Parish Registrar of Voters, 525 Marshall Street, Suite 103, Shreveport, LA 71101, phone 318-226-6891. The state vital records office can be reached at 504-593-5100 for questions about older records or complex requests.
Abandoned mine records
Where the workings are, and the office that holds the mine maps.
From the old mine records
The mine records hold 1 mine site inside the parish: 1 site producing when the record was made; the old survey maps add 37 holes drawn inside the parish, 0 of them shafts or tunnels.
A point in either file is a location, not a property line: the sheet shows the opening on the surface, not the rooms under it. The record that shows what runs under a parcel is the mine map. The OSMRE National Mine Map Repository holds scanned underground mine maps and answers requests for a named mine or an area. Louisiana's underground mines are salt mines; no state abandoned mine inventory is published.
Caddo County sits over a mapped coal field and the coal there is lignite, worked mostly at the surface. The two federal files record a shaft, an adit or a deposit where one was drawn on a survey sheet or catalogued as a site; neither file carries the outline of the workings, so the counts above are not the measure of what was mined under this county. The record that shows it is the mine map, held by Louisiana Geological Survey (LSU) and linked below.
Louisiana abandoned mine maps ranks every county and town in the state by the workings recorded inside it, names the office that holds the mine maps, and says what to do if the ground moves.
Disclaimer: The mine information here is for general information only. Old mine records can be incomplete, outdated or wrong, and finding nothing here does not mean there is nothing there. Check with the mine map office named here before you rely on it, and have a qualified engineer look at any ground you are worried about. PublicRecordCenter.com assumes no responsibility or liability for any errors, omissions, or consequences arising from the use of this information.
Know before you ask
Each figure below was read on the official source linked beside it, October to November 2026. A fee or rule the source does not state is left out rather than guessed, and offices can change their schedules, so confirm on the source before you pay or travel.
Caddo land research uses mortgage and conveyance indexes, book/page references and a stamped instrument number. The property-record explanation says the instrument number is used when requesting a copy. Its historical description gives different opening years for the collection and the back-scanned conveyances, so a single starting year should not be used to rule out an older filing. Ask the Record Room about the particular book and series. A cancellation or partial release may be represented by a notation on the instrument.
The Clerk copy-order service accepts requests for land, civil and criminal records by email. It lists $1 per page regardless of delivery method, with postage for postal delivery; a property order must cover every page of the instrument. Electronic index output is counted at 55 index records per page. Include the instrument or case identifier, whether certification is needed and the delivery method. Ordering a complete instrument avoids omitting an exhibit that describes the affected property.
The Web Inquiry instructions list $20 for a day, $50 for a month and $500 for a year, with separate printing and card charges. The recording fee schedule lists a different annual online-service amount. These published descriptions do not establish whether the prices apply to identical products. Request confirmation from the Clerk before buying annual access. The same schedule identifies an additional charge beginning January 1, 2027; that future charge should not be treated as already effective in this review.
The criminal division dates its computer index to 1980, electronic minutes to 1984 and scanned criminal documents to 2002. A name-index entry therefore does not promise a scanned pleading or a complete set of minutes. Request the identified charging document, disposition or transcript separately when needed. The division lists copies at $1 per page and certification at $5 per copy. Its $20 name-based background service is a local Clerk product and should not be labeled a statewide criminal-history search.
The marriage records instructions describe holdings beginning in 1838 and a name-only online search through eClerks. A certified copy is listed at $6.78. For postal ordering, the Clerk directs requests and payment to the Marriage Department at its Texas Street office. Preserve both names and the license reference from the index. A new marriage-license application and a certified copy of a completed marriage are distinct transactions, even when handled by the same department.
The birth and death certificate service is an in-person copy service; it does not accept mailed applications. The listed prices are $34 for a birth certificate, $48 for the birth certificate/card pair and $26 for a death certificate. Death issuance through the Clerk covers Louisiana registrations from July 9, 2012 onward. The stated purchase window ends at 4 p.m.; later service depends on the state computer system. Corrections to the underlying registration belong with Louisiana Vital Records.
Where to go
Each office below was read on its own site. A field the office does not publish is left out rather than filled in from a directory.
Court and land records; marriage copies; eligible state-system birth and death copies.
Office page: caddoclerk.com
Labor Department file
The U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division closed 463 investigations in Caddo Parish since fiscal 2005 and recorded $3,887,415 in back wages agreed for 5,992 workers. The county is the one the Census Bureau puts each employer's ZIP code in. Snapshot of April 22, 2026; a case here is a finding by the Division, not a court judgment.
The 25 employers with the most back wages agreed, of 410 on the Caddo Parish record; 96 employers have a page of their own and open from the table, the rest show their whole record here. The 385 more with smaller records are on the Louisiana wage theft records page, whose search answers for every employer in the state.
Straight answers
Open only the answer you need.
Booking photos are kept by the agency that made the arrest, such as the Caddo Parish Sheriff or a city police department in Caddo Parish. Ask that agency for its record. Louisiana Code of Criminal Procedure Article 234 requires a remove for pay publication or website to remove and destroy, within seven calendar days and at no charge, the booking photograph of a person who was acquitted or not prosecuted or whose charge was expunged, vacated or pardoned, once the person sends proof.
The Louisiana criminal history record comes from the Louisiana State Police, Bureau of Criminal Identification and Information. A Right to Review certified copy of your own record under R.S. 15:588, by digital fingerprints at a Louisiana Applicant Processing System site booked online, or by mail with two FBI FD 258 fingerprint cards and the Right to Review Authorization and Disclosure forms; Louisiana is a closed record state, so there is no public name search. Fee: $26.00 processing fee, plus a $10.00 fingerprint fee if printed at LSP Headquarters; a $5 technology fee is added to all background check requests.
Search the Louisiana State Police, State Sex Offender and Child Predator Registry, or every state at once on the National Sex Offender Public Website run by the U.S. Department of Justice.
Register with the parish Registrar of Voters or through the Louisiana Secretary of State. You can also register online with the state online registration. Register at least 30 days before an election in person or by mail (postmarked 30 days before), or 20 days before through GeauxVote Online Registration with a Louisiana driver's license or special ID card.
Deeds and other recorded land documents in Caddo Parish are kept by the Caddo Parish Clerk of Court. Property values are set by the parish Tax Assessor, and tax bills come from the parish Sheriff, as ex officio tax collector. Source: official state page.
Certified birth and death certificates for Louisiana come from the Louisiana Department of Health, Vital Records Registry. Participating Louisiana Clerks of Court sell certified copies of birth records (long and short form), and Clerk of Court issued death certificates, for an added fee. By mail to Vital Records Registry, PO Box 60630, New Orleans, LA 70160; in person at the Vital Records Central Office, 1450 Poydras Street, Suite 400, New Orleans; or online, by phone or fax through VitalChek Network, the authorized service provider the office names. Fee: $15.00 per copy of a birth certificate and $7.00 per copy of a death certificate, plus a $0.50 state charge on each mail or VitalChek order.
Business entity filings are searched with the Louisiana Secretary of State, Commercial Division. Louisiana Economic Development says licenses and permits are required at the local, state and federal levels, and local requirements come from your parish and city governments.
Keep the book and page as research references and the stamped instrument number for the copy order. The Record Room explanation describes how those references relate.
The Clerk says an online property-copy request must pay for every page of the instrument. See the copy-order instructions.
No. The Web Inquiry description and recording schedule publish different annual amounts. Confirm the product and current charge through Web Inquiry before purchasing.
No. Indexing, minutes and document scanning began at different times. Use the case identifier to ask the criminal division for the needed record.
The criminal division lists a local $20-per-name product. Do not label that service statewide without separate scope evidence; see the Clerk service description.
The marriage department lists $6.78 and gives postal payment instructions in its marriage records guidance.
This Clerk service accepts in-person applications only and directs remote applicants to the state ordering route. Follow the certificate instructions.
No. Its state-system copy service specifies registrations from July 9, 2012 onward. Use the published coverage and eligibility guidance before visiting.
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Use the city page when a record was created by a municipal police department or city office; use the county page for courts, deeds, vital records and jail custody.