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Scott County Circuit Court Clerk

The Kentucky Court of Justice lists Tina M. Foster as the Scott County Circuit Court Clerk. The office is located in the Scott County Justice Center at 119 N. Hamilton St., Georgetown, KY 40324. The main phone number is 502-863-0474, the juror line is 502-867-9214, and the fax number is 502-863-9089. The clerk serves the state courts that sit locally in Scott County, including Circuit Court, Family Court as a Circuit Court division, and District Court.

For court users, this is the correct office for criminal case records, civil case files, family and divorce case records, traffic court cases, probate court case files, court fines and eligible payments, and case-copy questions. The office also becomes important when an older file is stored away from the courthouse. Kentucky's court-record request guidance says the local clerk must identify the record facility and provide case and file locator numbers before a State Records Center request can proceed.

Scott County Court Clerk Duties

Kentucky Circuit Court Clerks manage records for the state trial courts in their counties. In Scott County, that means the clerk is the access point for public case files from the court system, not for every county government record. A person looking for a divorce decree, a felony case disposition, a traffic citation record, a probate case order, or a civil judgment should start with the Circuit Court Clerk. A person looking for a deed, mortgage, recorded will, marriage license, election record, or vehicle service should use the County Clerk instead.

• Maintain Circuit Court, Family Court, and District Court case records for Scott County.
• Provide public access to court case information and copies when records are open.
• Collect eligible court payments by cash, check, money order, credit card, or debit card, with card fees.
• Help locate older court files and provide State Records Center locator numbers when needed.
• Support jury-service communications through the juror line listed for Scott County.

The Kentucky Court of Justice court structure page explains the Circuit Court, Family Court, District Court, and clerk roles statewide, while the county page gives the Scott County contact details.

Request Scott County Certified Copies

Certified court copies are used when an agency, school, employer, title company, licensing board, or court needs proof of a filed order or disposition. The public KYeCourts search may show summary case information, but a certified copy comes from the court clerk. For Scott County, call or visit the Circuit Court Clerk with the case number if known, party names, court type, document type, and any date range that helps staff locate the case.

1. Search KYeCourts public case access first if the case is public and likely recent enough to appear online.
2. Write down the case number, party names, court, filing year, and the exact document needed, such as decree, judgment, disposition, or order.
3. Contact the Scott County Circuit Court Clerk at 502-863-0474 or visit the Justice Center records counter.
4. Ask whether the file is at the courthouse, off site, sealed, expunged, or restricted before paying copy charges.
5. If the file is stored at a state records facility, get the case and file locator numbers from the local clerk.
6. Submit any State Records Center request only after the local clerk supplies the required locator information.

Scott County Court Request Fields

The research did not identify a separate Scott County Circuit Court Clerk web form with exposed fields for court copies. It did identify the Kentucky court-record request path for older files and the practical information the local clerk needs to locate a case. For county-government open records, Scott County uses a separate form under KRS 61.870 et seq., but that form is not the filing path for state court case copies.

Scott County Clerk Fees

The Scott County court page publishes payment methods for court fines and costs, not a full copy-fee table in the assigned research. Court users may pay by cash, check, money order, credit card, or debit card, with a fee for card payments and no out-of-state checks. Kentucky ePay is linked for eligible online court payments. Exact certified-copy and filing amounts should be confirmed with the Circuit Court Clerk before ordering because court fee schedules can change.

Scott County Clerk Office Split

Scott County has a split clerk structure. The Circuit Court Clerk is Tina M. Foster and handles court case files. The County Clerk is Rebecca M. Johnson and handles public land records, recorded wills, marriage licenses, notary bonds, elections, delinquent taxes, and motor vehicle services. The County Clerk's main office is at 101 E. Main St., Georgetown, KY 40324, and the branch office is at 240 Caleb Conley Way. Do not use County Clerk land-record tools to look for a divorce decree, criminal disposition, or traffic judgment.

The Scott County Clerk public land records page is shown here because many users confuse County Clerk recorded documents with court case records.

Land records, deeds, mortgages, recorded wills, marriage licenses, and notary bonds belong to the County Clerk, while active court case files belong to the Circuit Court Clerk.

The County Clerk's eCCLIX public search page explains the recorded-document search limits for private residents.

eCCLIX is useful for County Clerk recorded documents, but it is not the court case search for Circuit, Family, or District Court records.

The County Clerk elections open records page is also a separate County Clerk channel.

Election records follow the County Clerk open-records policy, not the Circuit Court Clerk case-copy process.

The County Clerk's branch office news explains the newer County Clerk branch service location.

The branch office helps with County Clerk services such as motor vehicle, drive-through, elections, and vote center needs, not court case copies.

Online and Older Court Records

Online case access in Scott County is statewide, not a county-built database. Use KYeCourts for public case summaries, then contact the local Circuit Court Clerk for copy requests and records that are not fully available online. For older records stored at the State Records Center, the Kentucky Court of Justice says the local clerk must provide the required case and file locator numbers. The State Records Center can then be contacted at state.records@ky.gov or 502-564-3617, but it cannot search by name or Social Security number.

Restricted records require a different expectation. Juvenile records, sealed records, expunged cases, adoption records, mental-health proceedings, protected addresses, Social Security numbers, financial account details, medical records, and victim-sensitive information may be withheld or redacted under Kentucky law and court rules. A public search result is not the same as a full case file.

Note: For land records, recorded wills, and marriage licenses, use the separate Scott County Clerk page instead of the court clerk.