Beauregard Parish Traffic Court Records
Traffic records in Beauregard Parish live in separate offices, not one shared database. Whichever channel issued the citation usually keeps the docket. A traffic or criminal entry can end up filed in the Thirty-Sixth Judicial District Court of Louisiana. But a ticket does not become a 36th JDC case on its own. Step one is simply reading the court name on the ticket. Don't go knocking on every local door. Once you find the right holder, the docket can show a lot: the charge or citation, the plea, court settings, the outcome, and any fine or cost. The record may sit with an issuing justice of the peace. It may sit with a city administrative office, or with the Beauregard Parish Clerk of Court for matters filed in the 36th JDC. The clerk's criminal-cost page lists traffic-related lines. It is not, however, a parishwide site for paying citations.
Beauregard Parish Tickets Start With the Issuing Court
A city limit, a police agency name, or a charge-code lookup cannot tell you which office keeps the docket. The ticket itself can. It names the issuing court. It gives the appearance or plea date, lists a court address, and carries instructions. Start there. A JP district on the citation means call that JP. A 36th JDC criminal record means call the clerk's criminal department. A DeRidder code-enforcement letter belongs with the city's administrative channel. Not every Beauregard Parish ticket lands in the clerk's eSearch index. So don't treat that index as complete. The Beauregard Parish resources roster lists Justice of the Peace districts 1, 2, 4, and 5. District 3 is absent, and guessing at it fixes nothing. Each numbered court is its own local channel. The district named on your ticket should drive your contact.
Looking Up a Traffic Ticket
Beauregard Parish publishes no parishwide citation-number lookup and no shared payment form. The real path runs through the court named on the ticket. It is not a website form that was never built. Keep the citation in hand. It supplies the court, the appearance details, and the instructions. Louisiana's charge-code database can decode a law or cost code for you. It cannot find a ticket record or take a payment.
- Read the citation for the issuing court, the printed appearance or plea date, the court address, and the stated instructions.
- Contact the issuing JP or city clerk if that court is named. Ask how it accepts a case-record request, how to confirm the setting, and how it handles a response before the printed date.
- If the ticket was filed in a 36th JDC criminal record, call the Beauregard Parish Clerk's criminal department at (337) 463-8595 or send department-specific written communication to criminal fax (337) 202-7834.
- Visit the issuing court or clerk counter, or make a written record request, when online information is not available.
- Use the Louisiana charge-code system only to identify the statute or cost framework. Return to the issuing court for case status, payment, or contest instructions.
No local name-and-date-of-birth citation search form exists either. Follow the issuing court's directions rather than inventing a name search, a citation format, or a payment link of your own.
Beauregard Parish JP Traffic Channels
The parish roster lists four JP districts: 1, 2, 4, and 5. District 1 has an official auditor filing naming Deborah Hollie at 390 Burks Road, Starks. It also carries a published phone number. The roster names Eva Stark for District 2, Julee LaFleur for District 4, and Ruthie Huckaby for District 5. Official listings do not carry full current addresses and phones for each of them. The sensible move is to match your ticket to its district. Then confirm current contact details with the parish or the JP office. The parish's official roster shows the separate JP channels described here. It points a Beauregard Parish ticket holder to the right jurisdiction. It does not pretend one district court handles every citation.
The roster helps you route by the district named on the citation. It offers no parishwide traffic search screen, no payment function, and no single local deadline.
How to Find Your Traffic Court Date
Your first source for a Beauregard Parish traffic date is the appearance or plea date printed on the ticket. Confirm it with the issuing court before you act. That matters most when a date has already passed. It also matters if a setting may have moved, or the instructions read unclearly. The parish posts no parishwide citation format and no public traffic-calendar database. So copy the citation identifier exactly as it appears on the document. Don't rebuild it from a sample.
| Citation number | No parishwide public citation format published. Use the number exactly as shown on the ticket. |
|---|---|
| Issuing court | The JP, city, or 36th JDC route named by the citation controls the case file and date confirmation. |
| Date and time | The citation's appearance or plea date is the starting point. Confirm current time and any reset directly with the court. |
| Location | The court address or venue printed on the citation. A city administrative hearing has a separate city venue. |
| Case status | Ask the issuing court whether the matter is pending, set, disposed, or requires another response. Do not infer status from a charge-code lookup. |
Beauregard Parish Traffic Code Enforcement
DeRidder publishes an Administrative Adjudicative Hearing Process for code-enforcement violation letters. Hearings generally appear on the City Hall Council Chambers calendar on the fourth Thursday of each month at 9 a.m. That holds unless the posted schedule says otherwise. That is a genuine public calendar. It is not a searchable traffic or criminal portal, not a citation payment system, and not proof that a state-law ticket belongs on the city calendar. For state-law traffic, criminal, civil, small-claim, or eviction matters in or near DeRidder, read the court named on the ticket. The service papers work too. A JP district matter goes to that JP. A 36th JDC case runs through the Beauregard Parish clerk and court. DeRidder City Hall is right only for its documented administrative adjudication path. That is, unless the city says otherwise.
Pay or Contest a Ticket
Your ticket, not a general rule, sets the pace here. The citation names a court and an appearance date. That court decides what happens next. Beauregard Parish publishes no single parish-wide deadline for paying or entering a plea. There is also no uniform local schedule for deferred disposition or a driving safety course. So read the printed date and call the issuing court before it passes. One more caution: paying a ticket, seeing a charge-code result, and contesting a citation are three different things. None of them stands in for the others.
| Question | Payment route | Contest route |
|---|---|---|
| Who controls it? | The court named on the citation states whether and how it accepts payment. | The same issuing court states how a person may respond or appear to contest the citation. |
| What is the deadline? | Use the date printed on the ticket and confirm it with the court. | Use the date printed on the ticket and obtain the court's response instructions before that date. |
| What can be assumed? | No universal Beauregard Parish payment portal or fine schedule was located. | No universal local deferred-disposition or course eligibility matrix was located. |
Missed date: The 36th JDC warns that skipping an approved virtual criminal appearance can lead to an attachment for arrest. On a traffic ticket, confirm the real consequence with the court that issued it. Beauregard Parish posts no parish-wide failure-to-appear fee or current license-hold page.
Beauregard Parish Traffic Charge-Code Lookup
Louisiana's official charge-code system helps you decode a statute or cost code on a Beauregard Parish traffic citation. The search screen lets you enter terms. It also filters by law book, jurisdiction, law category, and charge category. You can narrow by date of offense and choose among Charge Code/Law/Keyword/All. Pick NCIC categories and hit Search. Two warnings matter. Local ordinances may show up incomplete, and the system takes no ticket payments at all.
| Charge-code field | Control | Use |
|---|---|---|
| Enter Search Terms | Text | Search a charge-code, law, or keyword reference. |
| Law Book and Jurisdiction | Choices | Narrow the legal source and jurisdiction. |
| Law and Charge Categories | Choices | Limit the results by category. |
| Date of Offense | Date | Enter the date in MM/DD/YYYY form. |
| NCIC Offense Categories | Choice | Includes Traffic Offenses among the listed categories. |
The Louisiana charge-code site shows the official statutory and cost-code lookup you can search. Treat it as a research aid rather than a Beauregard Parish citation portal. Use it to understand the law or fee behind a code, then go back to the issuing court for the ticket itself, the court date, payment, or a contest.
The screen has no payment function. A code you identify there is simply information to raise with the court named on the citation.
Court Traffic Record vs Driving Record
Two different offices keep two different files. The court record lives with the issuing court or clerk. It tracks the citation through the court process. The driving record belongs to Louisiana OMV/DPS. That office holds reported convictions, suspensions, and driving-privilege history. A Beauregard Parish court docket cannot substitute for an OMV driver record. By the same token, OMV cannot replace the court for a docket, a plea, a setting, or a certified court copy.
| Record | Court traffic record | Louisiana OMV driver record |
|---|---|---|
| Custodian | Issuing JP, city court or administrative office, or Beauregard Parish Clerk of Court when filed in the 36th JDC. | Louisiana Office of Motor Vehicles / Department of Public Safety and Corrections. |
| Contents | Citation or charge, plea, settings, disposition, fine or cost, and court filings. | Reported convictions, suspensions, and driving-privilege history. |
| Request path | Request from the court or clerk that holds the case. | Request from OMV, not the court clerk. |
Beauregard Parish Traffic Reports to OMV
Louisiana R.S. 32:393 requires a court to send a conviction or qualifying bail-forfeiture record to the Department of Public Safety and Corrections/OMV in certain situations. R.S. 32:414 sets out mandatory suspension and reinstatement rules. Read together, the statutes describe how records flow from court to OMV. They do not prove the result of any specific Beauregard Parish ticket, its reporting date, a suspension, or a local fee. The court record still matters, since it holds the case's procedural history. Ask the issuing court about the current outcome of a particular ticket. Use OMV's own request path for the OMV record. Beauregard Parish publishes no parish-specific OmniBase page and no universal traffic failure-to-appear penalty.
Copies and Fees
The Beauregard Parish criminal schedule lists copy and certification charges. They apply when a traffic-related file sits with the 36th JDC clerk. It does not set fees at a JP, a city channel, or the issuing court. Those offices set their own. Ask the records custodian directly about current charges, accepted payment, and delivery method. Confirm whether you need a plain or certified copy.
| 36th JDC clerk item | Published amount | Scope or caution |
|---|---|---|
| Criminal or traffic copy | $1 per page | Published Beauregard criminal schedule. |
| Certified criminal or traffic copy | $5 certification plus copy pages | Confirm the current total with the clerk. |
| Conformed copy | $3 | Date-filed stamped copy, distinct from certification. |
| Ten-year criminal search | $20 | Clerk search charge, not a universal citation payment or court-cost amount. |
| Charge-code lookup | Free | Official lookup only; it cannot accept ticket or fine payment. |
Beauregard Parish traffic fines are not one flat list. A local schedule shows a $50 line for a non-moving Article 893/894 matter. That one is paid by money order or cash only. A $100 DWI line also appears. It calls for two $50 money orders, one for the clerk and one for DMV. Those published lines are not a universal fine matrix. No single Beauregard Parish schedule ties together every fine, cost, deferred disposition, and driving-course amount. So do not apply these figures to your ticket without directions from the court that issued it.
The clerk's criminal fee schedule covers the clerk's own charges. Use it for record-copy costs, and keep that separate from paying a citation. Payment on a ticket goes to the court named on it, not the clerk's counter.
The Louisiana Legislative Auditor's public-report index shows Beauregard justice of the peace districts filing their own reports. That confirms JP offices are separate public channels. Each is distinct from the court that takes your ticket payment.
Confirm the court, the charge, the date, and the pay-or-contest instructions with the right district or clerk first. Only then rely on a posted fee line.
Beauregard Parish Traffic Citation Confirmation
If the citation does not say which court it belongs to, keep the paper. Find the agency or place printed on it. Then contact the court or clerk it names. The lower-court route can stay murky, so ask the parish resources office, and the JP office can confirm the current district contact too. A citation that has turned into a 36th JDC criminal record goes through the clerk's criminal department. A city office can confirm its own administrative matter, but a city name alone does not prove city-court jurisdiction. Never guess a number format, a web payment route, a deadline, or a court cost. When official web sources leave a detail unpublished, a direct confirmation is the safer Beauregard Parish traffic-ticket search result. Note: The court named on the citation controls the response path. Charge-code results only explain a statutory or cost-code reference.