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Carlisle County Circuit Court Clerk

KCOJ identifies Courtney Burge as Carlisle County Circuit Court Clerk. The office is at the Carlisle County Courthouse in Bardwell and is the local court-records point for Kentucky Circuit, Family, District, and Business Court matters. KCOJ's request-records instructions say AOC does not maintain local case records for public copy requests. The request starts with the clerk of the court that heard the case.

The Carlisle County Clerk contact page is a separate county-clerk source, useful because many courthouse users confuse the County Clerk with the Circuit Court Clerk.

The key local distinction is simple: court case copies go to the Circuit Court Clerk, while marriage, recording, and other county-clerk records go to Becky Martin's office.

Carlisle County Clerk Duties

The Circuit Court Clerk handles court case records and court access. Court records can include criminal citations, pleadings, motions, orders, evidence, reports, dockets, video recordings, transcripts, judgments, payment records, and stored-file locator details. The clerk can also explain whether a file is active at the clerk's office, stored at a record facility, sealed, restricted, or no longer available under retention rules.

County Clerk duties are different. Becky Martin's office handles marriage licenses, notary applications, fishing and hunting licenses, veteran's discharge, handicap placards, liquor licenses, recorded documents, elections, motor vehicles, delinquent taxes, and County Clerk open-records requests. It also advertises Doc Alert for deed and mortgage fraud notifications.

• Court case copies and certified court records: Circuit Court Clerk.
• KYeCourts and CourtNet access questions: statewide court systems plus clerk follow-up.
• Marriage licenses and recorded county documents: County Clerk.
• Sheriff reports and accident records: Sheriff's Office open-records process.

Request Carlisle County Certified Copies

A certified copy is a copy the court clerk certifies as an official court record. It may be needed for appeal, expungement, employment licensing, name-change proof, probate support, or another legal use. KYeCourts can help locate public case data, but certification comes from the clerk's office, not from a screenshot or third-party search result.

1. Identify the court, case number, party names, and document type if known.
2. Call the Circuit Court Clerk at 270-628-5425 to confirm availability, copy fees, and whether the file is stored.
3. If the clerk says the record is in a record facility, ask for the case and file locator numbers.
4. Submit the request by the channel the clerk confirms, with the needed payment method.
5. Inspect the copy for seal, certification, document date, and case number before relying on it.

Carlisle County Request Forms

The County Clerk site links forms for that office, including Kentucky's standardized open-records request form. That form is useful for County Clerk records, but court case files usually start with the Circuit Court Clerk under KCOJ's court-record request instructions. If the record belongs to the sheriff, use the sheriff's open-records request path instead.

The Carlisle County Clerk forms page shows the county-clerk form route and should not be confused with court eFiling.

Use the form route only when the custodian is the County Clerk or another public agency that accepts that open-records form.

Carlisle County Clerk Fees

The research file gives concrete fees for the County Clerk, not a complete court-copy fee schedule. KCOJ lists local court payment options as cash, cashier's check, money order, and online ePay where eligible. For court copies, call the Circuit Court Clerk before mailing payment. For county-clerk services, Becky Martin's site publishes several specific fee examples.

The Carlisle County Clerk recording fee page supplies local fee examples for recorded county documents.

Those fees help users who need County Clerk records, but they do not replace a call to the Circuit Court Clerk for court-copy pricing.

Carlisle County Clerk Services

Because the County Clerk is in the same courthouse area, many users reach that office while trying to solve a court-record problem. The County Clerk services page lists marriage licenses, notary applications, fishing and hunting licenses, veteran's discharge, handicap placards, and liquor licenses.

Those county services are useful courthouse records, but criminal, civil, probate, traffic, and family case documents remain court-clerk records.

Carlisle County Open Records

Kentucky's open-records law can apply to agency records, but the custodian still matters. KRS 61.872 covers inspection rights, KRS 61.880 covers agency response timing, and KRS 61.878 lists exemptions. For court case records, KCOJ directs requests to the clerk that heard the case. For county-clerk administrative or recorded records, use the County Clerk. For sheriff records, use the sheriff's request process.

The Carlisle County Clerk open-records policy page documents the county-clerk request route.

Start with the office that owns the record to avoid delays, denials, or a referral to a different custodian.

Note: KYeCourts and CourtNet are court access systems, while CSC and Simplifile are e-recording vendors for county-clerk recorded documents.