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Find the right office in Calcasieu 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.
Open official site Louisiana Business & Corporation SearchVital records
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 Calcasieu Parish.
Open official site Calcasieu Parish Clerk of CourtCounty court
The state trial court for Calcasieu Parish: civil, criminal and family cases, judges and dockets.
Open official site 14th Judicial District CourtProperty records
The Calcasieu Parish Assessor's property site in Louisiana: a terms of use agreement opens the site before any assessment record appears, with a news tab for important dates.
Open official site Calcasieu Parish AssessorPolice & jail
The Calcasieu Parish Sheriff's Office in Lake Charles: the correctional center and sheriff's prison, inmate roster and funds, sheriff sales, sex offenders, public records requests, and paying tickets, court fines and taxes.
Open official site Calcasieu Parish Sheriff's OfficeParish records
Voter registration and the office that keeps the voter rolls for Calcasieu Parish.
Open official site Calcasieu Parish Registrar of VotersCity records
The parish governing body, its offices and public records contacts for Calcasieu Parish.
Open official site Calcasieu Parish governmentPolice & jail
How to find someone in Louisiana state custody, including people serving state sentences in parish jails, from the Department of Public Safety and Corrections.
Open official site Louisiana imprisoned person locatorPolice & jail
Name and address search of registered sex offenders statewide, kept by the Louisiana State Police.
Open official site Louisiana sex offender and child predator registryVital records
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 Calcasieu Parish Sheriff's Office is responsible for law enforcement in the unincorporated areas of the parish.
Police Departments. Law enforcement in Calcasieu Parish is provided by both the Calcasieu Parish Sheriff's Office and several municipal police departments.
Law Enforcement & Arrests. The Calcasieu Parish Sheriff's Office (CPSO), headquartered at 5400 East Broad Street, Lake Charles, LA 70615, is the primary law enforcement agency for unincorporated areas of the parish and operates Calcasieu Correctional Center. Sheriff Stitch Guillory leads the agency, which maintains its official website at www.cpso.com with online services including inmate lookup, sex offender registry, and warrant information. Citizens can contact the Sheriff's Office for Within Lake Charles area, municipal police departments include the Lake Charles Police Department (serving the parish seat), Sulphur Police Department, Westlake Police Department, Iowa Police Department, and DeQuincy Police Department. R.S. 44:1 et seq, which mandates that custodial agencies provide access to public records with limited exceptions.
Arrest Records. Arrest records in Calcasieu Parish are maintained by the Calcasieu Parish Sheriff's Office.
Mugshots & Booking Photos. Mugshots in Calcasieu Parish are taken and retained by the Calcasieu Parish Sheriff's Office during the booking process at the Calcasieu Correctional Center.
The Calcasieu Parish Clerk of Court, located at 1000 Ryan Street, Lake Charles, LA 70601 (phone: 337-437-3550), issues marriage licenses and maintains marriage records. 1000 Ryan Street, Lake Charles, LA 70601 • Phone: 337-491-1470 Land and property records for Calcasieu Parish are maintained by two primary offices. the Calcasieu Parish Clerk of Court, Mortgage, Conveyance and Cancellation Department, at 1000 Ryan Street, Lake Charles, LA 70601 (phone: 337-437-3558, extension 118 for indexing and research), is responsible for recording deeds, mortgages, liens, lis pendens, mineral leases, UCC filings, easements, and plat maps. 1015 Pithon Street, Lake Charles, LA 70601 • Phone: 337-721-3800
Abandoned mine records
Where the workings are, and the office that holds the mine maps.
From the old mine records
The mine records hold 10 mine sites inside the parish: 1 past producer, now closed, 2 prospects or occurrences that were never worked, 4 sites producing when the record was made, 3 processing plants, which are not workings; the old survey maps add 9 holes drawn inside the parish, 0 of them shafts or tunnels. The minerals the records name are Geothermal; Sulfur, Halite.
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.
Calcasieu County lies on the edge of 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.
The Clerk online-search directory announces that a Clerk Connect Criminal account is required for online criminal access beginning September 14, 2026. It separates civil/criminal searches from the mortgage, conveyance, marriage and miscellaneous index route. An old bookmark or an account for another collection may therefore fail without indicating that the record has disappeared. Start at the Clerk's current directory and keep the case or instrument reference with any support request. The office describes its issued public records as the authoritative record.
The software transition notices distinguish the earlier civil conversion from the later criminal change. Record which collection, portal and search date produced a result. When an older citation no longer works, ask the relevant records department about the case number rather than interpreting a changed login as a sealed or missing file. A software announcement is evidence about access procedures; it does not establish that every historical document was scanned or that all collections have identical start dates.
The Mortgage and Conveyance department guide describes conveyances by seller/buyer and mortgages by debtor/payee, in recording-date order. It also identifies a miscellaneous index for records including plats. The department warns that the April 1910 fire left many earlier records incomplete. Preserve each instrument reference and consider related recorded documents when reconstructing a historical chain. Failure to find an early deed in one index does not prove that the transaction never occurred or that a different surviving series contains nothing relevant.
The Clerk fee schedule lists ordinary copies at $1 per page, but certification and search services vary by department. Mortgage/conveyance certification, a civil certified document and a criminal background product should not share one assumed total. State the collection, page count, certification requirement and delivery method when requesting a quote. A subscription charge also does not necessarily include document printing. Keep the issued invoice or estimate with the order so optional delivery or payment charges are distinguishable from the underlying copy price.
The Clerk frequently asked questions direct marriage-record copies to the Criminal Records Department, while civil case documents use Civil Records. This local division assignment matters even though a marriage certificate is not evidence of a criminal proceeding. Supply the spouses' names and approximate marriage date and ask for the required certified product. The Clerk's Lake Charles office lists weekday service through lunch; confirm any service-specific cutoff before arranging a late-day visit.
The birth and death certificate instructions place this service at the West Calcasieu Annex, 1300 East Napoleon Street in Sulphur, rather than the Lake Charles office. Requests must be completed before the stated 3:30 p.m. cutoff. The Clerk lists birth certificates at $34 and death certificates at $26, with payment-method conditions. Its death service covers registrations from July 9, 2012 forward; older records use the state route. Confirm eligibility and the event details before traveling to the annex.
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 records and recorded instruments; choose department.
Office page: calcasieuclerk.gov
Eligible birth/death certificate requests.
Office page: calcasieuclerk.gov
Sheriff records; detention sites have separate addresses.
Office page: cpso.com
Labor Department file
The U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division closed 171 investigations in Calcasieu Parish since fiscal 2005 and recorded $3,069,256 in back wages agreed for 4,202 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 155 on the Calcasieu Parish record; 57 employers have a page of their own and open from the table, the rest show their whole record here. The 130 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 Calcasieu Parish Sheriff's Office or a city police department in Calcasieu 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 Calcasieu Parish are kept by the Calcasieu 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.
The Clerk requires a Clerk Connect Criminal account from September 14, 2026. Start with its current search directory.
No. The Clerk posts distinct migration notices for those collections. Check the software notices for the collection being searched.
The Clerk identifies losses from the April 1910 fire. Consult its historical-record explanation and retain references from surviving instruments.
No. The schedule separates mortgage/conveyance, civil and criminal services. Use the department-specific fees for the requested product.
The Clerk FAQ directs that request to Criminal Records. That division name does not change the nature of the marriage record. See the copy-routing instructions.
The Clerk directs this service to the Sulphur annex at 1300 East Napoleon Street. Check the vital-record location and cutoff.
Its published local service is limited to later registrations; use the stated state route for older records. See the death-record coverage.
At 5400 East Broad Street, Lake Charles, separately from its correctional center and prison addresses. See the Sheriff resource map.
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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.