Louisiana, parish records
Find the right office in Lafayette 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.
Open official site Louisiana death certificatesState records
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 Lafayette Parish.
Open official site Lafayette Parish Clerk of CourtCounty court
The state trial court for Lafayette Parish: civil, criminal and family cases, judges and dockets.
Open official site 15th Judicial District CourtProperty records
Property assessments, parcel ownership and the tax roll for Lafayette Parish.
Open official site Lafayette Parish AssessorPolice & jail
Parish law enforcement, the parish jail, warrants, civil process and property tax collection for Lafayette Parish.
Open official site Lafayette Parish Sheriff's OfficeParish records
Voter registration and the office that keeps the voter rolls for Lafayette Parish.
Open official site Lafayette Parish Registrar of VotersParish records
The parish governing body, its offices and public records contacts for Lafayette Parish.
Open official site Lafayette 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 Lafayette Parish Sheriff's Office is responsible for law enforcement in the unincorporated areas of the parish.
Police Departments. Lafayette Parish is served by several law enforcement agencies, including the Lafayette Parish Sheriff's Office and municipal police departments such as the Lafayette Police Department, Broussard Police Department, Carencro Police Department, Scott Police Department, and Youngsville Police Department.
Law Enforcement & Arrests. Law enforcement in Lafayette Parish, Louisiana is primarily handled by the Lafayette Parish Sheriff's Office, headquartered at 316 W. Lafayette Parish Correctional Center maintains an online inmate lookup system where citizens can search current detainees by name, booking number, or date. Within Lafayette area, Lafayette Police Department serves the city of Lafayette Parish and can be reached, with headquarters at 900 E. University Avenue. Mugshots and booking photos from Lafayette Parish jail are accessible through the Sheriff's Office website and are updated regularly as bookings occur.
Arrest Records. They are maintained by the arresting agency, primarily the County Sheriff's Office and municipal police departments.
100 Poydras St, Lafayette, LA 70501 • Phone: (337) 236-5407
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 prospect or occurrence that was never worked; the old survey maps add 2 holes drawn inside the parish, 0 of them shafts or tunnels. The mineral the records name is Geothermal.
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.
Labor Department file
The U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division closed 249 investigations in Lafayette Parish since fiscal 2005 and recorded $7,657,343 in back wages agreed for 6,602 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 220 on the Lafayette Parish record; 64 employers have a page of their own and open from the table, the rest show their whole record here. The 195 more with smaller records are on the Louisiana wage theft records page, whose search answers for every employer in the state.
The Clerk's Online Records page directs court users to ClerkConnect and land users to eSearch. It describes land images from January 1, 1935, while the Land Records department describes its written/computer research collection differently. Treat those statements as descriptions of particular access methods, not proof that every older item is searchable by name. Choose the collection first, then retain its act or entry number.
The ClerkConnect transition notice says the former local ClerkConnect site was retired and old credentials do not carry over. The office ended its monthly account billing for court access in January 2025. Current court access is purchased through the replacement service. An old bookmark or saved instruction can therefore fail even where the case still exists; begin with the current Clerk parent before troubleshooting a missing login.
The Land Records/Copy instructions ask for act or entry numbers, quantity, ordinary or certified status, contact details, delivery destination and payment method. Payment is required before processing. Include each instrument separately when requesting a chain of documents. A mortgage certificate and a copy of a mortgage are different requests; the copy department should not have to infer which product is intended from a property address alone.
The Clerk's fee page lists public copy-button output at $0.50 per page, office copies at $1 per page and certification at $10 plus copy charges. Court subscriptions and land subscriptions have separate prices. A subscription does not make every printed page or certified product free. Confirm the number of pages and certification unit when ordering several acts, and avoid mixing older combined-subscription prices into a current estimate.
The contact page places the Clerk at 800 South Buchanan Street, Lafayette, LA 70501, with mail addressed to P.O. Box 2009, Lafayette, LA 70502. Land Records/Copy inquiries use 337-291-6300; the main office number is 337-291-6400. If a land entry refers to a divorce judgment, distinguish the recorded copy from the underlying court case and request the relevant department's record.
Office Hours and Holidays lists weekday access from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., except legal holidays and emergency closures, and directs public visitors and deliveries to the south-side entrances. A remote subscription and a public research terminal are different access arrangements. Preserve the portal name, search date and act number in the research notes so another reader can reproduce the search. The Louisiana records guide adds statewide routes when a parish instrument points beyond the local collection.
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.
Conveyance, mortgage and related recorded-copy requests.
Office page: lpclerk.com
Straight answers
Open only the answer you need.
Booking photos are kept by the agency that made the arrest, such as the Lafayette Parish Sheriff or a city police department in Lafayette 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 Lafayette Parish are kept by the Lafayette 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 Online Records page directs mortgage, conveyance and UCC research to eSearch, separately from court access.
The online description gives January 1, 1935; coverage should be checked for the particular series and search method.
The transition notice says they do not; users must follow the replacement service instructions.
The notice identifies January 2025.
The copy instructions ask for act or entry numbers, number of copies and ordinary or certified status, plus contact, payment and delivery details.
The land-copy schedule lists $1 per page for office copies and $10 certification plus the copy charge.
The marriage-license fee section lists $5; the license issuance fee is a different item.
The department page gives 337-291-6300.
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.