Louisiana, parish records
Find the right office in St. Mary 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.
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Marriage certificates: Orleans Parish from the state vital records registry, every other parish from the clerk of court that issued the license.
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Civil and criminal court records, conveyance and mortgage records and marriage licenses filed in St. Mary Parish.
Open official site St. Mary Parish Clerk of CourtCounty court
The state trial court for St. Mary Parish: civil, criminal and family cases, judges and dockets.
Open official site 16th Judicial District CourtProperty records
Property assessments, parcel ownership and the tax roll for St. Mary Parish.
Open official site St. Mary Parish AssessorPolice & jail
Parish law enforcement, the parish jail, warrants, civil process and property tax collection for St. Mary Parish.
Open official site St. Mary Parish Sheriff's OfficeParish records
Voter registration and the office that keeps the voter rolls for St. Mary Parish.
Open official site St. Mary Parish Registrar of VotersParish records
The parish governing body, its offices and public records contacts for St. Mary Parish.
Open official site St. Mary 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.
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Parish profile
Law Enforcement & Arrests. The St. Inmate lookup for St. Mary Parish Law Enforcement Center (parish jail) is available through the Sheriff's Office website, where citizens can search current inmates by name, booking date, or booking number. Municipal law enforcement is provided by the Morgan City Police Department (985-380-4605) serving Morgan City, and the Franklin Police Department (337-828-1716) serving the parish seat of Franklin.
Arrest Records. They are maintained by the arresting agency, primarily the County Sheriff's Office and municipal police departments.
8585 Archives Avenue, Baton Rouge, LA 70809 • Phone: (225-922-2675 Public records are maintained by several key agencies: St. Mary Parish Clerk of Court, which handles court records, mortgages, and vital records; the St. Mary Parish Assessor's Office at 500 Main Street, Suite 102 in Franklin (337-828-1983) for property tax assessments; and the St. Mary Parish Recorder of Conveyances within the Clerk of Court's office for land and property deed records. St. Mary Parish is served by the 16th Judicial District Court of Louisiana, with courtrooms located at the St. Mary Parish Courthouse, 500 Main Street, Franklin, LA 70538 (337-828-4100, extension 201). For vital records older than 100 years or for certified copies with enhanced legal authentication, citizens can contact the Louisiana State Registrar of Vital Records, located at P.O. Box 60630, New Orleans, LA 70160 (504-593-5100), or order online through www.vitalchek.com. The Bayou Region Chamber of Commerce (985-384-3120, www.thebayouregion.com) serves Franklin and provides business networking resources, though it does not maintain official licensing records.
Abandoned mine records
Where the workings are, and the office that holds the mine maps.
From the old mine records
The mine records hold 18 mine sites inside the parish: 1 past producer, now closed, 6 prospects or occurrences that were never worked, 9 sites producing when the record was made, 2 processing plants, which are not workings; the old survey maps add 7 holes drawn inside the parish, 3 of them shafts or tunnels. The minerals the records name are Geothermal; 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.
Labor Department file
The U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division closed 27 investigations in St. Mary Parish since fiscal 2005 and recorded $2,109,128 in back wages agreed for 948 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.
| Employer | City | Cases | Back wages | Workers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home-Care PCA, LLC | Franklin | 1 | $1,107,101 | 270 |
| R.B.T. Welders, L.L.C. | Amelia | 1 | $398,380 | 246 |
| Premier Community Services LLC | Franklin | 1 | $222,971 | 100 |
| SafeCare, LLC | Franklin | 1 | $176,082 | 108 |
| JABA Enterprises, Inc. | Franklin | 2 | $61,773 | 56 |
| SMI Companies, Inc. | Franklin | 1 | $51,974 | 56 |
| City of Patterson Police Department | Patterson | 1 | $34,621 | 38 |
| Energy Logistics, Inc. | Berwick | 1 | $29,891 | 7 |
| Chitimacha Tribe of Louisiana | Charenton | 1 | $29,344 | 9 |
| St. Mary, Parish of | Centerville | 1 | $23,961 | 17 |
| The ARC of St. Mary | Centerville | 1 | $6,682 | 20 |
| Fourco, Inc. | Franklin | 1 | $6,227 | 12 |
| SMI Companies Global, Inc. | Franklin | 1 | $5,133 | 1 |
| City of Baldwin Police Department | Baldwin | 2 | $3,428 | 8 |
| Franklin Supply, Inc. | Franklin | 1 | $2,767 | 7 |
| Melagodon Home Repair | Berwick | 1 | $2,359 | 5 |
| St. Mary Association for Retarded Citizens | Centerville | 1 | $1,754 | 22 |
| L.D. Marine, LLC | Amelia | 1 | $289 | 1 |
| Slim's Baldwin Self-Serve, Inc. | Baldwin | 1 | $238 | 1 |
| Independent Seafood, LLC | Franklin | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| Champagne Farms, Inc | Franklin | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| Ameripure Processing Company, Inc. | Franklin | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| Ironman Staffing, L.L.C. | Berwick | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| Coastal Manpower, LLC | Amelia | 1 | $0 | 0 |
Every employer on the St. Mary Parish record, by back wages agreed; 13 employers have a page of their own and open from the table, the rest show their whole record in this row. The Louisiana wage theft records page ranks the whole state.
Straight answers
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Booking photos are kept by the agency that made the arrest, such as the St. Mary Parish Sheriff or a city police department in St. Mary 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 St. Mary Parish are kept by the St. Mary 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.
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