About the St. Bernard Parish Clerk of Court
Randy Nunez is the Clerk of Court for St. Bernard Parish. The Louisiana Clerks of Court Association (LCCA) lists him in office since July 2012, and the clerk's online records portal gives his name as Randy S. Nunez. Like every Louisiana district clerk, he holds an elected four-year office created by Article V, Section 28 of the state constitution, which makes the clerk both the keeper of the district court's record and the parish recorder of conveyances, mortgages, and other acts. The Election Code adds the role of chief election officer, and the clerk's site carries polling place, precinct, and district information for St. Bernard voters.
The Census Bureau counted 43,765 St. Bernard residents in its 2020 base and estimated 44,783 in July 2024. Its measurements show about 1,778 square miles of water and roughly 378 square miles of land inside the parish, and it reaches east to take in the Chandeleur Islands and Chandeleur Sound. Formed in 1807, the parish lies southeast of New Orleans, and Chalmette is its parish seat.
The clerk's site gives one street address, 1101 West St. Bernard Highway in Chalmette, for the clerk's office, and it lists the same address for the 34th Judicial District Court. The parish government, by contrast, works out of a separate complex on West Judge Perez Drive. For contact details across the state, see the Louisiana Clerks of Court directory.
Court records in St. Bernard Parish
The clerk takes civil and criminal filings for the 34th Judicial District Court. Civil suits, successions, domestic cases, and criminal matters all end up in this office's records, along with jury administration; the clerk's website posts a jury FAQ and a juror handbook for people who receive a summons.
A recent notice on the clerk's site changed how lawyers file. As of January 1, 2026, the clerk discontinued fax filing, and attorney pleadings may now be filed only electronically or in person. Electronic filing runs through COTTFile, which replaced the clerk's earlier Tybera system. Pleadings that once went by fax now have to take one of those two routes.
For searching, the clerk offers STBNet, a Cott eSearch portal that covers civil records, criminal records, and criminal minutes, along with land records. Users sign up for a User ID and buy access by record type. According to the portal (viewed October 2026), a one-day pass costs $20.00 for any single department, and a month of civil, land, or criminal access costs $40.00 each, or $70.00 for all three together. Annual plans run $400.00 for one department and $600.00 for all three, and printing is $1.00 per image. There is also a three-month civil and land package for $150.00.
Not everything in the system is open to every requester. Louisiana's Public Records Law lets any person get a copy of a public record unless the law makes an exception, and the burden is on the custodian to show an exception applies. Juvenile court records are confidential, and an expunged record is removed from public access while still existing for law enforcement. The State Police describe Louisiana's central criminal history file as closed to the public, and they say a missing disposition can be obtained from the clerk of court, the district attorney, or the city prosecutor in the parish of conviction. The guides to Louisiana court records and criminal records explain those limits in detail.
Land, mortgage, and property records
The clerk records mortgages, conveyances, and UCC filings and issues conveyance and mortgage certificates. Its mortgage fee page (viewed October 2026) charges $105 to record a mortgage or UCC filing of up to five pages. Longer filings step up to $205 and then $305 for the next two page bands, with $5 for each page beyond 50. The clerk says those charges include indexing up to 10 names, one certified copy, and the LCRAA portal fee. A single cancellation or partial release costs $55.00, and a general conveyance or mortgage certificate is $20.00 for one name and one tract.
Land records are part of STBNet, either on their own or bundled with civil records. The clerk's pages reviewed for this guide did not name an electronic recording vendor, so call the office before assuming a document can be eRecorded here. State law requires every district clerk to support electronic filing, recording, and remote access through the statewide LCRAA portal, and eClerks LA, the portal's public face, indexes land records for all 64 parishes.
Title searches on the parish edge often need a second stop. Under Civil Code article 3346, each act affecting land goes into the records of the parish where the land sits. Property on the Orleans side of the line is recorded with the Orleans Parish clerk's Land Records Division on Poydras Street, and land across the Plaquemines line belongs in the books of the Plaquemines Parish Clerk of Court in Belle Chasse. The property records guide covers searching technique.
Marriage licenses and family records
St. Bernard's clerk issues marriage licenses on weekdays from 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. only, according to the clerk's marriage license page (viewed October 2026). The fee is $32.00, and the office takes cash, check, or money order only. Each applicant needs a certified birth certificate (or a waiver from a justice of the peace or district judge), a Social Security number (or a passport, or a visa with Form I-94), and a driver's license. Anyone previously married brings a certified divorce judgment or death certificate. Applicants under 18 must come with both parents.
The license is good for 30 days in any Louisiana parish. Louisiana requires 24 hours to pass between issuance and the ceremony, and the clerk notes that a district judge or justice of the peace in the issuing parish can waive that wait. The clerk suggests waiting two weeks after the wedding before ordering a certified copy, and it posts a mail-in request form for copies. Louisiana Vital Records holds marriage records only for Orleans Parish licenses, so St. Bernard marriage records come from this clerk.
Divorce, custody, and support judgments from the 34th Judicial District Court are also kept here. A certified divorce decree comes from the clerk in the parish where the divorce was granted. The clerk's quick links also point to birth and death certificate services. More on statewide rules is in the guides to marriage records and divorce records.
Courts that serve St. Bernard Parish
St. Bernard Parish is a judicial district of its own, the 34th Judicial District Court, set up under R.S. 13:477. The clerk's judges page lists Divisions A through E. The clerk's site links an outside page as the district court's website, but that page did not load when this guide was researched, and no official court website could be confirmed, so the clerk's office is the reliable starting point for case information.
Appeals from St. Bernard go to the Court of Appeal, Fourth Circuit in New Orleans. That circuit hears appeals from only three parishes, St. Bernard, Orleans, and Plaquemines, under R.S. 13:312.
Visiting the St. Bernard Parish courthouse
The clerk's office and the district court share the courthouse address at 1101 West St. Bernard Highway in Chalmette. Plan around the marriage license cutoff, which comes half an hour before the office's general closing time. If you are paying for a license, bring cash, a check, or a money order, since the marriage page does not list cards.
Mail has one quirk. The clerk's site footer gives the post office box ZIP code as 70044, while its contact block shows 70043; the LCCA directory agrees with 70044. The clerk's website itself loads at its plain http address, http://stbclerk.com/, and did not connect over https during research, so type the address exactly if a browser refuses the secure version.
Other St. Bernard Parish offices
The Louisiana Sheriffs' Association lists James Pohlmann as St. Bernard Parish sheriff, with the office online at sbso.org. Outside Orleans, the sheriff is ex officio collector of state and parish taxes under R.S. 13:5539, so in St. Bernard the sheriff, not the assessor, collects property taxes. See Louisiana sheriff's offices and inmate search.
Jaylynn Bergeron Turner is the assessor. Her office's website (stbassessor.com) lists office hours of Monday through Thursday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., and states that the assessor does not set millage rates or collect taxes. The tax assessors guide explains assessed value and exemptions. St. Bernard Parish Government is based at the Government Complex, 8201 West Judge Perez Drive in Chalmette (sbpg.net).