Searching the Cameron Court Docket
Cameron offers no municipal court, so a Cameron docket search starts elsewhere. For civil, criminal, juvenile, traffic, succession, or similar trial-court records, the Cameron Parish Clerk of Court holds the 38th JDC files. The Clerk's office handles those requests directly. Neither the court nor the Clerk posts an anonymous case search or a public daily calendar online. A case number helps, of course. Still, a full party name plus an approximate year, category, and the event you need can be enough for the Clerk to locate the Cameron file.
- Collect the Cameron case number, citation number, party name, approximate year, and court category from the available paper.
- Ask the Cameron Parish Clerk of Court whether the record belongs to the 38th JDC and what current search or request channel is available.
- For a lower-court matter, identify the ward Justice of the Peace before requesting a Cameron docket.
- Use the issuing agency and court named on a Cameron traffic citation to select the first contact.
- Confirm a live Cameron setting with chambers or the cited court before appearing.
Cameron Parish Seat, Not Court
Cameron is the parish seat, but that label carries no courtroom of its own. It is not an incorporated municipality. So there is no city court here and no city-court clerk to call. The official Census CDP table classifies Cameron as a Census-designated place with 315 residents counted in the 2020 Census. The Louisiana parish profile matches that CDP listing. What does that mean for your docket route? A community address never creates a separate municipal docket. The named court and its clerk control where the Cameron case record lives.
Population figures aside, the 38th JDC and its Clerk define the actual Cameron court-record route. A general trial matter goes to the 38th JDC. A Justice of the Peace matter depends on the ward. Appeals belong to the Louisiana Court of Appeal, Third Circuit. Federal cases fall to the Western District of Louisiana. The word Cameron gives you local orientation only. The court named in the case decides which clerk holds the record.
Cameron Municipal Court Basics
You will find no Cameron municipal court. There is no city hall docket page, citation-payment site, or municipal court calendar either. The trial court that matters for most local cases is the Thirty-Eighth Judicial District Court of Louisiana. Its Clerk is the Cameron Parish Clerk of Court, led by Susan Racca. The 38th JDC holds original jurisdiction over civil and criminal matters in Cameron Parish. Six Justice of the Peace ward jurisdictions keep their own lower-court files within their authority. So do not treat the parish-seat label as a city-court label. Ask instead where the record sits: the 38th JDC, a ward court, the Third Circuit, or federal court. Assuming every Cameron issue starts in a municipal docket will only send your request to a court that does not exist.
Cameron Room 21 and West Annex
Head straight to the Cameron Parish Clerk of Court for a trial-court docket. The office sits in the Cameron Parish Courthouse at 119 Smith Circle, Room 21, P.O. Box 549, Cameron, LA 70631, and the phone is 337-775-5316. Use that counter or the mail when you need a 38th JDC record. First, though, let the office confirm the process it wants. Chambers works differently. Its P.O. Box is 578 and its phone is 337-775-5649. That number fits a scheduling question about an upcoming hearing. The Police Jury permitting page also marks the West Annex, a second courthouse-area location in Cameron.
Keep one thing in mind. The West Annex houses parish government, not a Cameron court or docket office. Do not send a Clerk record request there unless an official notice tells you otherwise. Offices near the courthouse do very different work, and that trips people up. When you call, name the document, the court, and the record type. A plain docket copy, a certified judgment, a scheduling answer, and a parish-government matter may each need a different Cameron contact.
Court Dates and Settings in Cameron
Cameron posts no municipal calendar. The 38th JDC offers no anonymous daily-calendar form either. For a trial-court date, chambers at 337-775-5649 is the local scheduling contact. The Clerk handles the docket record itself. The 38th JDC FAQ allows a scheduling or status conference request by motion, letter, or email. A trial date can be sought by letter or an e-filed motion. Resets take coordination with opposing counsel plus a letter to chambers. A formal motion is filed when agreement or waiver is missing.
| Case identifier | Give the Cameron case or citation number if known; a local public number format was not published. |
|---|---|
| Setting question | Identify whether the Cameron question concerns a conference, motion, trial, citation appearance, or status event. |
| Record contact | The Cameron Parish Clerk of Court keeps 38th JDC records. |
| Scheduling contact | 38th JDC chambers at 337-775-5649 can address a current trial-court setting. |
| Calendar availability | No Cameron municipal or anonymous 38th JDC calendar form was found. |
Write down whatever time and date the court gives you. Cameron settings can change, so the court itself is the only source that can confirm a hearing still stands.
Cameron Closure Date Checks
Any current Cameron setting deserves a second look after a courthouse interruption. In January 2026 the 38th JDC issued an official weather closure order. That order moved operations to remote work before reopening. One closure does not create a standing remote-calendar rule. It does show why an old notice should never be read as a permanent schedule. The court also publishes remote-court instructions and forms, which are separate from any docket lookup.
For a changed Cameron setting: retain the notice, ask chambers or the Clerk for the current status, and follow the court's actual direction. Do not infer that a closure, reset, or remote appearance means that the case was resolved.
For community-classification background on this Cameron court route, see the official Louisiana Cameron Parish profile.
That profile labels the community of Cameron itself. The parish-level offices, not the label, issue record and setting details.
Traffic Tickets in Cameron
Cameron Parish offers no citation lookup form. It has no public payment portal. There is no public traffic calendar or photo-enforcement docket either. So a traffic case starts with the paper citation in hand. State Police Troop D says parish traffic courts handle citations. It routes Cameron matters to the 38th JDC through the local sheriff contact at P.O. Box 1250, Cameron, LA 70631, phone 337-775-5111. Treat that as routing help only. The sheriff contact does not make the sheriff the Clerk.
The citation itself may list the court, the date, the violation, and the issuing agency. Use those details when asking the court or Clerk about the court record. Don't assume every ticket can be paid by mail or online. Louisiana law attaches conditions and exclusions to pay-by-mail procedures. So the court named on the citation has to confirm what responses it accepts.
Cameron Troop D Routing
Routing matters most when a citation is old or a search returns nothing. Keep the citation number, the name as printed, the date, the parish, and the issuing agency. Then call the number on the citation or the Troop D route, and ask the Cameron Parish Clerk of Court whether the court file, docket entry, judgment, or disposition sits with that office. Another agency can point the way. The record itself stays a Cameron court question.
Don't blend two different records. The court or Clerk holds the citation case, its settings, filings, judgment, and public documents. The state licensing agency keeps its own administrative history. A Cameron court disposition can be reported to that agency without merging the two files.
Where Cameron Cases Go
Where a Cameron case goes depends on level and type. The 38th JDC handles general Cameron Parish civil and criminal matters as the trial court. A Justice of the Peace court keeps records for its own ward. Appeals from the 38th JDC reach the Louisiana Court of Appeal, Third Circuit. Federal matters sit with the Western District of Louisiana. The Cameron community name may show up in a caption or address, but it never replaces the proper court name in a request.
Docket flow: Cameron community matter › 38th JDC or appropriate ward Justice of the Peace › Louisiana Court of Appeal, Third Circuit for an appeal.
eClerks LA is a statewide clerk-record layer, but its Cameron routes sit behind a login. Clerk Connect is linked for e-filing, with no confirmed Cameron civil-inquiry tenant. Those limits make a direct call to the office safer than assuming a portal result.
Cameron Historic Record Clues
Older Cameron files reward a sharper question. Cameron Parish was created in 1870. The Police Jury history reports an early courthouse fire in 1874, with local tradition tying it to an attempt to destroy land records. The present steel-and-concrete courthouse dates to 1936-37. Hurricane Audrey struck in 1957 and stands as the parish's greatest disaster. None of that proves any particular Cameron case file is gone.
The official Louisiana DOTD parish resource shows the dispersed-community setting. That setting keeps a Cameron inquiry pointed at the parish court route.
That local context is a reminder. A Cameron search should ask for the actual Clerk index. It should not rely on a city-court archive.
When requesting an older record, ask the Clerk whether the search covered paper volumes, microfilm, a scanned series, a legacy index, or an electronic system. If something comes back empty, ask what was searched. A separate custodian, a sealed file, or a separate attachment may explain the result.
Cameron Court Record Access Rules
A Cameron court docket is an index of events. A Cameron court record may include the petition, motion, exhibit, order, judgment, or minute entry behind each entry. Louisiana Constitution Article I, Section 22 protects access to courts. Revised Statutes 44:31, 44:32, and 44:35 build the public-record framework. Access still yields to a valid seal, juvenile confidentiality, expungement, redaction, or another legal restriction. Code of Civil Procedure Article 253 covers protected personal information in electronic filings.
Access rule: A Cameron requester should name the exact record and ask the custodian whether it is public, redacted, or restricted. A docket entry does not automatically provide every document in the case file.
For a 38th JDC file, the Cameron Parish Clerk of Court can name the record route and copy type. A ward Justice of the Peace, the Third Circuit, and the federal court keep their own records. Each follows its own access rules.
Cameron Clerk Record Requests
Contact the Cameron Parish Clerk of Court for a 38th JDC record: 119 Smith Circle, Room 21, P.O. Box 549, Cameron, LA 70631, phone 337-775-5316, fax 337-775-7172. Office hours run Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Give the case or suit number. Also give the party name, approximate year, record type, and the exact document wanted. Say whether you need a plain, conformed, or certified copy.
The Police Jury public-open-houses page is a civic-location resource, not a court-record request form.
Cameron Parish separates its public meeting spaces from the office that keeps the court records. That office is the Clerk.
For copies, the Cameron Clerk sets simple fees. Plain pages run $1 each, conformed copies $3, and certified copies $5.
A civil docket search stretching back ten years costs $15 per name.
Need to file a request? The web contact form works for questions, but the Clerk does not call it a certified-copy order form. So confirm the accepted delivery and payment method before sending your court records request.