Louisiana, parish records
Find the right office in Ouachita 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 Ouachita Parish.
Open official site Ouachita Parish Clerk of CourtCounty court
The state trial court for Ouachita Parish: civil, criminal and family cases, judges and dockets.
Open official site 4th Judicial District CourtProperty records
Property assessments, parcel ownership and the tax roll for Ouachita Parish.
Open official site Ouachita Parish AssessorPolice & jail
Parish law enforcement, the parish jail, warrants, civil process and property tax collection for Ouachita Parish.
Open official site Ouachita Parish Sheriff's OfficeParish records
Voter registration and the office that keeps the voter rolls for Ouachita Parish.
Open official site Ouachita Parish Registrar of VotersCity records
The parish governing body, its offices and public records contacts for Ouachita Parish.
Open official site Ouachita 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 Ouachita Parish Sheriff's Office is responsible for law enforcement in the unincorporated areas of the parish.
Police Departments. In addition to the Ouachita Parish Sheriff's Office, law enforcement in the parish is supported by municipal police departments, including the Monroe Police Department and the West Monroe Police Department.
Law Enforcement & Arrests. The Ouachita Parish Sheriff's Office, headquartered at 400 Saint John Street, Monroe, LA 71201 (phone: 318-329-1200), provides primary law enforcement services throughout unincorporated areas of the parish. Sheriff Marc Mashaw oversees operations including patrol, criminal investigations, civil process, and the Ouachita Parish Correctional Center. The detention facility houses pre-trial detainees and sentenced inmates; inmate lookup is linked from the Ouachita Sheriff website at opso.net through its OCC Bookings service. The posted information may change; confirm current custody and bond details with the facility and case dispositions with the court. R.S. 44:1 et seq.), which mandates public access to government records with limited exceptions.
Arrest Records. Arrest records in Ouachita Parish are maintained by the Ouachita Parish Sheriff's Office. To obtain these records, requests can be submitted in writing to the Sheriff's Office, with some information available online through their official portal.
Mugshots & Booking Photos. Mugshots in Ouachita Parish are taken and retained by the Ouachita Parish Sheriff's Office during the booking process. These photos are part of the public record and can be accessed through the Sheriff's Office website or by submitting a formal request.
1900 Stubbs Avenue, Monroe, LA 71201 • Phone: 318-327-1120 Elections in Ouachita Parish are administered by Ouachita Parish Registrar of Voters, located at 701 St. John Street, Monroe, LA 71201 (phone: 318-327-1436). 300 St. John Street, Monroe, LA 71201 • Phone: 318-329-2323
Abandoned mine records
Where the workings are, and the office that holds the mine maps.
From the old mine records
The mine records hold 5 mine sites inside the parish: 1 prospect or occurrence that was never worked, 4 sites producing when the record was made; the old survey maps add 42 holes drawn inside the parish, 0 of them shafts or tunnels. The mineral the records name is construction sand and gravel.
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.
Ouachita County 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 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.
Labor Department file
The U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division closed 376 investigations in Ouachita Parish since fiscal 2005 and recorded $3,108,612 in back wages agreed for 4,278 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 317 on the Ouachita Parish record; 89 employers have a page of their own and open from the table, the rest show their whole record here. The 292 more with smaller records are on the Louisiana wage theft records page, whose search answers for every employer in the state.
The Clerk of Court notice says its software consolidation includes civil, criminal and property inquiry, with non-support added in September 2026. Posted access prices are $20 for a day, $75 for a month or $800 for a year, with three licenses included; page copies cost fifty cents each. Card purchases add a 3.49-percent vendor charge, subject to a $1 minimum. A subscription buys the described access period, while copies and certification are separate products. Before opening an account, determine the case or recorded instrument you need and whether an ordinary image meets the requirement. Ask the Clerk about older material if it is not found in the current inquiry. The Clerk office instructions identify weekday service from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and telephone 318-327-1444. A current notice says attorney pleadings must be submitted in person or electronically from January 1, 2026, rather than faxed or mailed for filing. That is a filing instruction, not a declaration that every records-copy inquiry must use an attorney account. The Secretary of State Clerk directory identifies the public office at 301 South Grand Street, Room 104, with mail at P.O. Box 1862, Monroe, LA 71210-1862. State the requested record, case or instrument reference and certification format when contacting the Clerk.
The Sheriff Records and Identification Division maintains offense reports, accident reports, warrants and booking documentation and lists 318-324-2630 as its direct contact. It also handles public-records requests, background checks and fingerprint services. For a crash-report copy, the instructions offer the linked online vendor or an in-person request at the Courthouse Annex, second floor, Room 201, for $10 cash. Identify the report date, location and report number, then distinguish the crash report from an investigation file or jail booking entry. A fingerprint appointment is also a separate service from requesting a copy of a record already held by the division.
The official OCC bookings entry point leads to the Sheriff booking service and explains that information can change after posting. Use the identified person and booking reference to ask the facility about a present custody question; use the court file for a criminal disposition. A booking entry does not establish a conviction or predict the final result of charges. Preserve the date of the search when keeping a research note because custody and bond information may be updated. This route belongs to Ouachita Parish and should not be confused with similarly named sheriff systems elsewhere in Louisiana. The police report, detention record and prosecution file remain separate records.
The state Vital Records service-fee schedule lists a birth certificate at $15 and a death certificate at $7, while participating Clerk issuance is $34 for a long-form birth certificate and $26 for a death certificate. The Clerk birth certificate and short-form card combination is $48. Mail and VitalChek orders carry an additional fifty-cent state charge, with separate vendor charges where applicable. These are channel-specific prices, so a state fee should not be used to budget a Clerk counter purchase. Determine the document and ordering route first. The state schedule also says vital-record fees are not waived, unlike discretionary relief that can apply to other public-record copies.
The state birth-order procedure treats birth records as restricted and requires a completed application, suitable identification and payment. It lists entitled relatives and explains when a custody judgment or authorization is needed. A notarized informal custody paper is not interchangeable with the judgment described in the instructions. State mail requests go to Vital Records Registry, P.O. Box 60630, New Orleans, LA 70160, with an approximate eight-to-ten-week delivery allowance. Will Call orders are collected after the notification that processing is complete. Use the requested event details and supporting relationship papers before choosing a channel, especially where the requester is acting for a child or another adult.
The Louisiana death-record instructions allow participating Clerks to issue certificates for deaths on or after July 7, 2012. They separately identify applicants whose requests must go to the central office in person or by mail, including specified estate and beneficiary categories. An eligible family request and a financial-institution request are not necessarily handled through the same channel. The current instructions include a financial-institution category effective August 1, 2026 and specify its supporting documentation. For an older death or a request relying on representative authority, check the required route before approaching the parish counter. The state lists approximately eight to ten weeks for mailed death-certificate delivery.
Louisiana Revised Statute 44:32 allows inspection and requests for copies, permits reasonable posted copying fees and provides a written determination within five days excluding weekends and legal holidays when public status is questioned after a written request. That limited determination period should not be presented as a universal delivery promise. In a different process, State Police Right to Review provides the subject access to Louisiana criminal history through fingerprints. Its electronic report link permits one access and expires after thirty days; the printed sealed-copy option serves purposes that may require an embossed original. Select the product the receiving institution requests before choosing electronic delivery.
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.
Parish court, land and marriage records; Clerk Connect inquiry and copies.
Office page: voterportal.sos.la.gov
Offense/accident reports, warrants, booking documentation, fingerprints and record requests.
Office page: opso.net
Voter registration records and election-related registration services.
Office page: voterportal.sos.la.gov
Straight answers
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Booking photos are kept by the agency that made the arrest, such as the Ouachita Parish Sheriff's Office or a city police department in Ouachita 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 Ouachita Parish are kept by the Ouachita 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 Sheriff provides its OCC search through the official Bookings link. That route replaces the unrelated opcso.org address printed in the older narrative.
The official Sheriff message identifies Marc Mashaw. See the current office message.
The Records and Identification Division lists 318-324-2630 for reports, record requests and related services. Use its division contact.
The division lists $10 cash at the Courthouse Annex, second floor, Room 201, and also links an online crash-report vendor. Review its crash-copy instructions.
No. State Vital Records lists $15 for a birth copy and $34 for a Clerk-issued long-form birth certificate. Consult the channel-specific fee table.
The state limits Clerk issuance by event date and sends specified representative or beneficiary requests to its central office. Check the death-order eligibility and routing.
The official parish and state directories identify 701 St. John Street, Monroe, and 318-327-1436. See the state Registrar listing.
No. State Police describes one-time computer access through a link available for thirty days. Select the mailed sealed-copy option when that is required; see Right to Review delivery.
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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.