Louisiana, parish records
Find the right office in Orleans 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 Orleans Parish.
Open official site Orleans Parish Clerk of CourtCounty court
Civil cases and judgments for Orleans Parish, the civil trial court of New Orleans.
Open official site Orleans Parish Civil District CourtCounty court
Criminal case records and minute entries from the Clerk of Criminal District Court in New Orleans.
Open official site Orleans Parish Criminal District Court ClerkProperty records
Property assessments, parcel ownership and the tax roll for Orleans Parish.
Open official site Orleans Parish AssessorPolice & jail
The parish jail, court security and civil process for Orleans Parish.
Open official site Orleans Parish Sheriff's OfficeParish records
Voter registration and the office that keeps the voter rolls for Orleans Parish.
Open official site Orleans Parish Registrar of VotersCity records
The parish governing body, its offices and public records contacts for Orleans Parish.
Open official site Orleans 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 Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office is responsible for maintaining public safety and order within the parish.
Police Departments. Orleans Parish is served by the Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office and the New Orleans Police Department, which is the primary law enforcement agency for the city of New Orleans.
Law Enforcement & Arrests. Law enforcement in Orleans Parish is primarily provided by the New Orleans Police Department (NOPD), headquartered at 715 South Broad Street, New Orleans, LA 70119, with a non-emergency phone number of. Instead, Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office (OPSO), located at 2800 Perdido Street, New Orleans Parish, LA 70119 (phone: 504-827-8200), primarily manages the Orleans Parish Justice Center jail facility and provides courthouse security. R.S. 44:1 et seq.), which requires government agencies to make public records available for inspection and copying during regular business hours.
Criminal Records. Residents can request background checks through the Sheriff's Office or the state bureau, which provides full criminal history reports.
Arrest Records. Arrest records in Orleans Parish are maintained by Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office, which provides documentation of arrests made within the parish. These records can be requested by residents and attorneys through formal applications to the Sheriff's Office, under the Louisiana Public Records Act.
Jail & Inmate Records. Inmate information can be accessed through the Sheriff's Office website, which provides a searchable database for locating individuals currently held in the facility. Visitation rules are specific to the facility and require scheduling in advance, with guidelines available on the Sheriff's Office website.
Mugshots & Booking Photos. Mugshots in Orleans Parish are taken and retained by the Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office during the booking process at the Orleans Justice Center. These images are part of the public record and can be accessed through the Sheriff's Office website or by formal request.
Orleans Parish operates a distinctive multi-tiered court system. The Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans has its Civil Clerk records office at 421 Loyola Avenue, Room 402, New Orleans, LA 70112 (phone: 504-407-0000), handles civil matters including property disputes, successions, and large monetary claims. The Criminal District Court for the Parish of Orleans, at 2700 Tulane Avenue, New Orleans, LA 70119 (phone: 504-407-0700), has exclusive jurisdiction over all felony criminal cases in the parish. 1340 Poydras Street, New Orleans, LA 70112 • Phone: 504-658-1300
Abandoned mine records
Where the workings are, and the office that holds the mine maps.
From the old mine records
The mine records hold 8 mine sites inside the parish: 4 sites producing when the record was made, 4 processing plants, which are not workings.
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 Land Records Division separates the legacy Mortgage and Conveyance indexes from the unified index beginning February 18, 2014. Earlier images can be located with an instrument number, former notarial-archives number, mortgage instrument number or conveyance instrument number. Save the reference exactly as displayed and identify the system that supplied it. A result consisting only of an instrument number can still lead to an image; it does not necessarily represent an incomplete or unrelated transaction.
The notarial-record retrieval guide explains a change in retrieval keys around August 1970. Earlier acts are found by the notary's name and act date, while later material uses a notarial-archives number. A conveyance index can help recover the missing reference. Keep the notarial act date distinct from any later recording or indexing date. For an architectural or family-history inquiry, the underlying act can supply details not visible in a modern parcel summary.
The Civil Division remote-access explanation dates electronic case data from 1985 and scanning of all pleadings from December 14, 2015, with back-scanned material reaching 2010. Thus, a case can be indexed without every older pleading appearing as an image. Record the case number and specific missing filing before contacting the Clerk. The public office remains a separate access route from a paid remote subscription, and a land index is not a search of criminal court proceedings.
The online-subscription information and the published subscriber agreement display different daily prices. They also distinguish subscription access from escrow arrangements used for image printing or downloading. Confirm the active checkout terms before paying instead of treating either displayed daily amount as settled. Determine whether the research needs civil images, land images or only an index search; that decision affects which account and record system will be useful.
The Land Records FAQ describes public search computers for the Mortgage, Conveyance and Unified systems and prohibits personal photographic or scanning equipment in the division. Plan to record references and order the required copies through the office process. A researcher following an older act may need more than one index before locating the complete instrument. Keep any plan or attachment connected to its act rather than saving an image without its archival reference.
The Civil Division contact instructions identify 421 Loyola Avenue, Room 402, New Orleans, with telephone 504-407-0000 and weekday hours from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. They specifically invite inquiries about data entry and adding an image. Supply the case and filing reference so staff can identify the requested material. The Louisiana records guide provides other parish and statewide routes when the record belongs outside these civil and land collections.
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.
Civil case data, pleadings and missing-image requests.
Office page: remoteaccess.orleanscivilclerk.com
Mortgage, conveyance, unified land indexes and notarial references.
Office page: orleanscivilclerk.com
Labor Department file
The U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division closed 702 investigations in Orleans Parish since fiscal 2005 and recorded $8,852,015 in back wages agreed for 12,799 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 627 on the Orleans Parish record; 186 employers have a page of their own and open from the table, the rest show their whole record here. The 602 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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Booking photos are kept by the agency that made the arrest, such as the Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office or a city police department in Orleans 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 Orleans Parish are kept by the Orleans 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 division guidance identifies separate legacy Mortgage and Conveyance indexes for earlier recordings.
The retrieval guide uses the notary's name and act date for the older series.
The remote-access description gives different starting points for data entry and scanned pleadings.
The Clerk contact instructions provide an image-addition inquiry route; supply the case and document reference.
The subscription information differs from the published agreement. Confirm the active purchase terms.
The division FAQ prohibits personal photographic or scanning equipment.
The contact directory lists 421 Loyola Avenue, Room 402, New Orleans.
The Civil Division explanation distinguishes the parish's separate Civil and Criminal District Courts.
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.