Louisiana, parish records
Find the right office in East Baton Rouge 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.
Open official site Louisiana marriage recordsCounty court
Civil and criminal court records, conveyance and mortgage records and marriage licenses filed in East Baton Rouge Parish.
Open official site East Baton Rouge Parish Clerk of CourtCounty court
The state trial court for East Baton Rouge Parish: civil, criminal and family cases, judges and dockets.
Open official site 19th Judicial District CourtProperty records
Property assessments, parcel ownership and the tax roll for East Baton Rouge Parish.
Open official site East Baton Rouge Parish AssessorPolice & jail
Parish law enforcement, the parish jail, warrants, civil process and property tax collection for East Baton Rouge Parish.
Open official site East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff's OfficeParish records
Voter registration and the office that keeps the voter rolls for East Baton Rouge Parish.
Open official site East Baton Rouge Parish Registrar of VotersParish records
The parish governing body, its offices and public records contacts for East Baton Rouge Parish.
Open official site East Baton Rouge 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.
Open official site Louisiana Vital Records RegistryLocal record guide
Parish profile
Sheriff & Law Enforcement. The East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff's Office is responsible for law enforcement in the unincorporated areas of the parish.
Police Departments. Law enforcement in East Baton Rouge Parish is provided by multiple agencies, including the East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff's Office and the Baton Rouge Police Department.
Law Enforcement & Arrests. The East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff's Office (EBRSO), headquartered at 8900 Jimmy Wedell Drive, Baton Rouge, LA 70807, is the primary law enforcement agency for unincorporated areas of the parish and operates the parish detention facilities. Sheriff Sid J. Gautreaux III leads the office, which maintains a full website at ebrso.org with resources for warrant searches, sex offender registries, and tax information. The Baton Rouge Police Department (BRPD), located at 9000 Airline Highway, Baton Rouge, LA 70815, provides law enforcement services within the incorporated city limits and maintains its own arrest records and booking procedures.
Arrest Records. Arrest records in East Baton Rouge Parish are maintained by the East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff's Office.
Mugshots & Booking Photos. Mugshots in East Baton Rouge Parish are taken and retained by the East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff's Office during the booking process. These booking photos are part of the public record and can be accessed through the Sheriff's Office website or by request. While some third-party websites may also host mugshots, the most reliable source is the official Sheriff's Office portal.
Abandoned mine records
Where the workings are, and the office that holds the mine maps.
From the old mine records
The mine records hold 25 mine sites inside the parish: 9 past producers, now closed, 9 sites producing when the record was made, 5 processing plants, which are not workings, 2 sites with no status in the record; the old survey maps add 47 holes drawn inside the parish, 0 of them shafts or tunnels. The minerals the records name are construction sand and gravel; Aluminum; crushed stone.
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.
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 Recording Department assigns recorded notarial acts an Original and Bundle identifier and a recording date and time. UCC financing statements use a separate numbering system. Preserve the identifier exactly when asking for a copy or a related act; a UCC number should not be forced into the notarial reference fields. Recording creates a public record, but the index alone is not the document image or a title opinion.
The Clerk online-access schedule identifies Clerk Connect for civil, family, probate, criminal and property research. It lists a $20 daily pass, $65 thirty-day pass and $780 twelve-month pass, with $0.60 printing per page and $5 per certified document. Subscription access and output charges are separate. Choose the term for the intended research rather than assuming a paid account includes unlimited copies or every restricted record.
The Copy Department schedule lists ordinary copies at $1, certification at $10 and a map copy at $3. The online product has its own charges. State the delivery channel, authentication and document reference in the request so the estimate matches the product. If the unit or page count is unclear for a large instrument, ask the Copy Department before sending payment.
The Clerk Archives description includes parish records from 1782, tax rolls from 1872, notarial bundles and civil, family, probate and criminal collections. The archive is at 444 St. Louis Street under the West River Center parking garage. A historical court or land project should identify its collection and dates rather than treating the archive as a modern case-search screen. Staff also offer genealogy and court-record research assistance.
Public Service collections distinguish vendor and vendee conveyance indexes, mortgage indexes, marriage books, compiled restrictions, plan books and other series. Spanish records and translations and American State Papers are marked downtown only. An estate-related land search can therefore require more than one index. Retain the original spelling and the translated or later name as separate search leads when following an older instrument.
The Clerk birth and death service is offered at the downtown City Hall location on a walk-in basis. The stated death-certificate access begins in June 2012; earlier requests go to the state Vital Records office in New Orleans. Do not assume the branch that issues a marriage license also issues these certificates. The Louisiana records guide connects parish research with state and archive services.
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.
Original historic parish and court collections.
Office page: ebrclerk.com
Index research and marriage services.
Office page: ebrclerk.com
Eligible birth and covered death certificates.
Office page: ebrclerk.com
Labor Department file
The U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division closed 478 investigations in East Baton Rouge Parish since fiscal 2005 and recorded $6,491,886 in back wages agreed for 8,420 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 431 on the East Baton Rouge Parish record; 148 employers have a page of their own and open from the table, the rest show their whole record here. The 406 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 East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff's Office or a city police department in East Baton Rouge 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 East Baton Rouge Parish are kept by the East Baton Rouge 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 its Original and Bundle number and the recording date and time.
No. The Clerk describes a separate UCC identifier.
No. The schedule separately lists printing and certified-document charges.
The Copy Department lists its own certification charge; the online schedule is separate.
It is at 444 St. Louis Street, under the West River Center parking garage.
No. Public Service marks some historical collections as downtown only.
The Clerk directs earlier death records to state Vital Records in New Orleans.
The posted service is walk-in at downtown City Hall only.
Same county
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.