Louisiana, Ouachita Parish
Where Monroe's records are kept. Monroe has its own city government, police department, fire department and public library; county and state offices keep its other public records.
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The cards below include Monroe's own offices, along with the Ouachita Parish and State of Louisiana offices that keep the rest of its public records. Use the category buttons to narrow the list.
State records
Louisiana Secretary of State archives with an online catalog and a statewide index of historical birth and death records plus Orleans Parish marriages; newer vital records come from the Vital Records Registry.
Open official site Louisiana State ArchivesCounty court
Federal court for bankruptcy cases in western Louisiana, with offices in Alexandria, Lafayette, Lake Charles, Monroe and Shreveport. Posts court fees and local procedures and takes applications for unclaimed funds.
Open official site U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Western District of LouisianaCounty court
The Louisiana Supreme Court sits at 400 Royal Street in New Orleans; its site posts court actions with email alerts, the docket, court rules, oral argument video, electronic filing and law library resources.
Open official site Louisiana Supreme CourtVital records
The Center for Vital Records and Statistics sells Louisiana fetal death certificates for $7 by mail or at 1450 Poydras Street, New Orleans; parents on the record can order a stillbirth certificate, first copy free.
Open official site Louisiana Department of Health Certificate of Fetal DeathPolice & jail
Help for families from the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections: find someone in state custody or on probation or parole through LA VINE, updated every 24 hours, or call the Imprisoned Person Locator.
Open official site Louisiana Public Safety and Corrections Inmate InformationPolice & jail
State Police clearinghouse set up in 1985 that manages Louisiana AMBER and Silver Alerts and Level II Endangered Missing Child Advisories, lists active alerts and works with families, police and NCMEC.
Open official site Louisiana Clearinghouse for Missing and Exploited ChildrenPolice & jail
Louisiana State Police registry of convicted sex offenders, sexually violent predators and child predators; users accept conditions of use before searching, and data come from corrections, courts and local police.
Open official site Louisiana State Police Sex Offender and Child Predator RegistryPolice & jail
Louisiana State Police bureau that issues a certified Right to Review copy of your own criminal history, ordered by fingerprint appointment through LAPS and sent by mail or a 30 day email link.
Open official site LSP Bureau of Criminal Identification and InformationCity records
City of Monroe website to pay water bills, property taxes and sales taxes, apply for permits, find bids and check garbage pickup, with council meetings, ordinances and Monroe Transit. 400 Lea Joyner Expressway, 318-329-2200.
Open official site City of MonroePolice & jail
The Monroe Police Department. Law enforcement services 700 Wood Street Monroe LA 71201 Phone: (318) 329-2600
Open official site Monroe Police DepartmentCity records
Fire and emergency services 1810 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive Monroe LA 71201 Phone: (318) 329-2472
Open official site Monroe Fire DepartmentCity records
Monroe library services, reference materials and research assistance 1800 Stubbs Avenue Monroe LA 71201 Phone: (318) 327
Open official site Ouachita Parish Public LibraryEverything else, organized
7 more Monroe sources not listed above.
Local record guide
Local profile
Monroe, a place of 47,702 people, is the seat of Ouachita Parish. Court and property records sit with Ouachita Parish, and birth and death certificates come from the State of Louisiana. Monroe's own offices are in the cards above, and our Ouachita Parish page lists each parish office.
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 city or town limits: 1 site producing when the record was made.
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.
Monroe 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 town. 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.
Labor Department file
The U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division closed 240 investigations with a Monroe address since fiscal 2005 and recorded $2,407,608 in back wages agreed for 3,119 workers. Snapshot of April 22, 2026; a case here is a finding by the Division, not a court judgment, and the city is the one written on the employer's record.
The 25 employers with the most back wages agreed, of 208 whose address on the record is in Monroe; 56 employers have a page of their own and open from the table, the rest show their whole record here. The 183 more with smaller records are on the Louisiana wage theft records page, whose search answers for every employer in the state.
Straight answers
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Voter registration in Louisiana is run by the Louisiana Secretary of State and local election officials. Its site lists the registration deadline, online voter registration, polling places and the local election office for Monroe.
Deeds for property in Monroe are recorded by the Ouachita Parish Clerk of Court, and the parish office that assesses property keeps the tax values. Our Ouachita Parish page lists the parish offices.
Certified birth and death certificates for events in Louisiana come from the state vital records office, Louisiana Vital Records Registry. Its site lists who may order a copy, the fee and how to order.
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.