Search the Dade County Court Docket

Searching the Dade County Court Docket

Know which court and which record type you need before you type a name. In Dade County, felony cases and major civil matters live with the Superior Court of Dade County. So do major civil matters. Its Clerk connects the public to the local Court Docket. It posts calendars and routes civil filings through PeachCourt. Criminal e-filing runs on a separate system, so attorneys use the EZ-Filing registration route. Note that a filing account is not a public case-search tool.

Bring the case number if you have it. If not, gather the case style. Add the rough year and the court. Note the document or hearing you want. The calendar PDFs list case number, style, date, cause or charge, parties, counsel, and notes. A lower-court case sits with a different office. A Trenton citation starts with the city court named on that citation.

1. Choose the court that created the record. Use Superior for a felony or broad civil case, Magistrate for its lower-court matters, Probate for estates and guardianships, Juvenile for child-related proceedings, and Trenton Municipal for a city citation or ordinance case.
2. Use the official online route when it fits. The Dade Superior Court Docket link leads to Icon, civil records are routed through PeachCourt, and calendar searches use the Clerk’s dated PDF index.
3. Search with a case number or carefully checked case style. A calendar PDF is a list of selected settings, not a full history of every filing.
4. Compare the newest calendar with any amended version. Then confirm the date, time, location or remote note, setting type, and printed date on the PDF.
5. Ask the owning clerk for the document, certified copy, or older record when the online route does not show it. Phone, counter, mail, public terminal, and written request options remain available.

Searching the Dade Icon Court Docket

The official Court Docket link leads to an Icon Case Management login screen. You will see a UserID field prefilled with VIEW. A password field sits beside it, along with a Remember User Name checkbox and a login control. There is no public name search. No case-number search, date filter, or guest button appears on that screen. The link points to the portal; it does not promise open access to results.

For a Superior case, open the Dade Superior Court Docket link first. If the trail stops at login or a result looks incomplete, turn to the Clerk. Public terminals offer another local channel. Staff can tell you where a record is kept. They cannot give legal advice. Nor can they run broad criminal-history searches.

View the official Dade County portal for the county route. That page is not an authenticated result or a clerk-certified copy.

Start with Icon or the Clerk's calendar. Then confirm the exact file, any access limit, and copy needs with the office that holds the record.

Inside a Dade County Court Docket

Dade's public calendars give a helpful field map. That holds even without a full Icon result. Civil calendars list case number and style. They also list hearing and filing dates, cause, parties, service and answer dates, counsel, and notes. Criminal calendars add count, charge, classification, offense date, bond, bondsman, and sometimes a bench-warrant date. None of these setting fields prove a final ruling happened.

When a document itself matters, request it instead of trusting a short docket line. The final disposition form adds a disposition date, case style, counsel or self-represented status, trial or alternative dispute resolution selections, and interpreter or referral fields. A docket entry, a pleading, an order, and a certified copy are separate layers of the court record.

Dade County Court Docket Calendar PDFs

The Dade Clerk's Court Calendars page is a static index of dated PDF links. It is not a date-range database. Civil labels include Circuit, Pre-Trial, Amended Pre-Trial, Hearing, Trial, and Non-Jury calendars. Criminal labels cover Arraignment, Felony Calendar Call, and Misdemeanor Calendar Call.

Open the Dade Clerk Court Calendars page and pick the civil or criminal group. Then check the newest dated PDF. Always read any amended pre-trial version. A revised calendar does not mean the case vanished or ended. It only means the setting list changed.

The page listed no video conferences at the 2026-08-20 update. That status is not a promise about a future setting. Check the current page and the Clerk. Never assume a hearing is in person or remote.

Courts That Keep Dockets in Dade County

Georgia has six trial-level court classes, but current Dade listings show Superior, Magistrate, Probate, Juvenile, and Trenton Municipal Court offices. No separate Dade State Court appears in the county or e-access listings. Do not send a Dade request to an unnamed State Court office.

A look at the court offices explains why routing matters so much here. Several custodians serve the county, yet their dockets are not one database. See Dade County court departments for the official office map.

Use the court named on the citation, case paper, or prior order. A Superior case, a Magistrate matter, and a Trenton citation can all involve the same county and still be different records.

Which Dade Court Owns the Docket?

Felony, civil action, divorce, title dispute, or domestic matter? Start with Superior Court and its Clerk of Superior and Juvenile Courts. A smaller civil claim, preliminary hearing, bond matter, or county-ordinance case may belong to Magistrate. Estates and guardianships point to Probate. A child-related case points to Juvenile, where the usual public access rules do not apply.

Dade shares the Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit with Catoosa, Chattooga, and Walker Counties. Circuit calendars are organized by county. Terms of court are not daily hearing dates. Dade's terms fall on the first Monday in April and the second Monday in October. Clerk PDFs list settings all year.

Federal records sit with the Northern District of Georgia's Rome Division. A Trenton citation goes to the city court named on the citation. Getting the ownership right matters. It keeps a calendar absence from being mistaken for a missing case.

How to Find Court Dates and Settings

A Dade docket search for a hearing date starts with the local calendar index. It is not just a name lookup. Find the case number. Then open the newest PDF and read the printed date, since that line controls. On the civil side, a setting can list service, answer, cause, counsel, and notes. A criminal setting may add count, charge, offense date, bond, attorney, and calendar-call notes. Want the full walkthrough? The Dade County Court Dates page covers it. If the case is missing, work through the other calendar family, an amended file, the circuit calendar, and the owning clerk. The Clerk's phone and counter remain the fallback.

Dade Courthouse and Microfilm Records

Dade County was carved out of Walker County in 1837. Salem took the county seat in 1839. The town got a new name, Trenton, in 1840. A brick courthouse built in 1926 still stands on the town square as a landmark. Day-to-day Clerk service now happens at the Crabtree Street court address.

According to the Clerk, civil and criminal case indexes reach back into the 1920s, and older paper records have been moved onto microfilm for permanent keeping. Imaging and indexing work continues. Just remember the limit. An index line or image reference does not put every historic document at your fingertips. When you ask, say which layer you need. Your choices are an index entry, an imaged filing, the paper file, a certified copy, or a microfilm record. The official Dade County history explains the civic background behind the county's locally routed record system.

Format is not the same as ownership. A record can be paper, an index line, an image, microfilm, a portal entry, or a PDF, yet the same court and clerk stay responsible for it.

Public Access to Court Dockets

Georgia's Open Records Act covers records that already exist. It lets you ask for a docket index, a calendar PDF, a filed document, or a case record. But it forces no one to build a new report. Some material stays off limits. That includes sealed filings, protected identifiers, juvenile records, restricted criminal-history material, and records held back by court order.

The Dade County open-records route works as a fallback for an existing county record. For a court document, a clerk copy or certification request is usually more direct. Name the court, the case number or style, the year, the record type, the format, and whether you need certification.

Dade Docket, Document, or Certified Copy?

Four layers of court records answer four different questions. A calendar lists selected settings. A docket or case index logs events and basic case data. Behind each entry sits the filed document itself: a pleading, motion, order, judgment, or exhibit. A certified copy is different still. The Clerk authenticates it and may charge a separate fee.

Each layer has limits. A calendar can show the next hearing without listing every filing. An Icon or PeachCourt result may identify a case while keeping a restricted document out of view, and a plain public copy may fall short of what a court requires in certified form. So ask for the exact layer you need. Leave docket interpretation to the court, not to the Clerk's counter.

Amended calendar

A revised setting list that replaces or updates an earlier published calendar.

Case style

The caption or short description of the parties or matter.

Calendar call

A criminal circuit setting used to call cases, assess readiness, and organize jury-week work.

Disposition

The recorded resolution or status of a case or claim.

Public access terminal

A courthouse computer used to view electronic public records during the available office access period.

Restricted record

Material whose public visibility is limited by statute, rule, order, or a record-restriction process.

No verified table of hidden disposition codes exists in Dade's public materials. When a short status line on a court docket is unclear, trust the Clerk's label and ask for the underlying record.

Docket Records at the Clerk's Office

The Dade County Clerk of Superior and Juvenile Courts is where those dockets live. Filings for both courts sit in one office. The span covers criminal, civil, domestic, adoption, appeal, garnishment, and related records. The Clerk also coordinates calendars. It preserves court records through indexing, imaging, paper files, and microfilm. Staff will tell you where a record or form is kept. They cannot give legal advice. Go to the counter or mail a request. Either way, identify the court, case number, style, year, record type, and copy type. The public counter sits at 255 W. Crabtree Street, Suite 103, Trenton, Georgia 30752. Mail instead goes to P.O. Box 417, Trenton, Georgia 30752, and the main Clerk phone is 706-657-4778. Check the dated fee schedule again before you pay.

Copy costs follow the Clerk's fee inventory. An uncertified copy runs $0.50 per page without help and $1.00 with assistance, while a certified or exemplified copy costs $2.50 for the first page plus $0.50 for each additional page. A criminal disposition carries its own $1.00-per-page policy on top of certification amounts. Expect to pay in advance.

PeachCourt for Dade Civil Cases

Dade Superior is a mandatory PeachCourt county for civil e-filing and e-access. That platform is separate from Icon and from the Clerk's calendar index. Registration covers both attorney and non-attorney accounts. It asks for a name, email, password, recovery question, PIN, terms acknowledgment, and a human check. Review PeachCourt registration before any Dade civil search. An account does not mean every filing is free. It does not mean every historic image is online or a sealed document can be viewed. If a docket search comes up empty, ask the Clerk. Describe the record you know exists. The civil filing form itself uses court and county, party rows, case category, related action, redaction certification, interpreter language, and accommodation fields. A related action can point to a second case number, so a name-only search may miss part of the case story.

Dade Court Records: Three-Business-Day Route

A written request works best when it is precise. The Dade form asks you to describe the record, give your name, phone, email, mailing address, signature, and the date. Ask for something that already exists. A calendar item, a docket entry, a case-index line, a filed document, or a copy all qualify. A request for a new report will not fit this route.

1. Name the owning court and record category: Superior, Magistrate, Probate, Juvenile, Trenton Municipal, or another identified office.
2. Add the case number, case style, filing year, setting date, document type, and preferred format when known.
3. State whether an uncertified or certified copy is needed. Certification can change the fee and the proper production route.
4. Keep the description and watch for an estimate, prepayment request, timetable, exemption statement, or redacted response.

Plan on a response within three business days. If the office needs more time, it must give you a timetable; that is what the county form and Georgia guidance describe. The first 15 minutes are free. Pages cost $0.10 each unless another law sets a different rate. Digital media carries its own cost. An estimate kicks in above $25, and prepayment is required above $500. Sealed, juvenile, and restricted records stay off limits no matter how the request is framed.

Dade County Court Dockets by City

Dade County has a single incorporated city: Trenton. Rising Fawn and Wildwood are unincorporated communities, so neither gets its own municipal court page. If you hold a city citation, the municipal court named on that citation comes first. It does not go straight to Superior Court.

The 2020 Census puts Trenton's population at 2,195. Trenton Municipal Court sits inside Trenton City Hall. The address is 12882 N Main Street, Trenton, Georgia 30752. The city directory lists Judge Joel McCormick and Clerk Kathleen Reed, phone 706-657-4167, fax 706-657-7228. There is no local search grid or payment link.

Check Trenton Municipal Court for the city route to a Dade County court docket entry. Georgia keeps no statewide citation database. State instructions call for a name, the issuing city or county, and a date of birth. They also warn that results may lag 7-21 business days. Call the court if you missed a date or must appear.

The official record layout keeps three layers separate: Trenton Municipal, Dade County Magistrate, and Superior Court each hold their own files. View Dade County communities for the county's own list of cities and unincorporated places.

Start with Trenton Municipal Court for any city citation or city court docket question. Move to the county Clerk only when the citation itself, or a later filing, points to a county-level court.

Dade's Federal Cases Are in Rome

Federal cases never touch the Dade County court docket. They run through a separate system entirely. Dade County sits in the Northern District of Georgia's Rome Division, and those court records live in PACER and CM/ECF rather than in Icon, PeachCourt, or the Clerk's calendar.

Start with the PACER Case Locator, which lets a docket search by party name, case number, court, region, or date. Pick the Northern District of Georgia, then Rome, when the prompts ask. The fees in August 2026 were $0.10 per page for documents and reports, capped at $3.00 per document, while audio and transcripts are priced separately. The clerk can confirm anything a federal docket search turns up.

A county map showing Dade's size adds context only. It says nothing about caseload. For the official numbers behind the local court system, the county's own demographics and community information page covers population and other community details.

The trick to a Dade County court docket search is matching the office to the case. Name the right court and the right record layer, and you stay tied to the source that actually holds the file.

Map and Directions to the Dade County Clerk of Superior and Juvenile Courts

Superior and Juvenile Court filings and dockets for Dade County are kept at the Clerk's public counter, 255 W. Crabtree Street, Suite 103, in Trenton. Magistrate Court and Probate Court are also listed at the same 255 W. Crabtree Street address, so the building serves several county courts at once. Confirm the suite or office name at the desk if a request belongs to a court other than Superior or Juvenile.

Dade's public materials do not describe a specific visitor parking, entrance, or security-screening policy for the Crabtree Street building, so calling the Clerk's office at 706-657-4778 before a visit is the safest way to confirm current access rules.