Contact Stevens County Clerk

Stevens Clerk Contact Card

The official Stevens County court page identifies the Clerk of the District Court as the local court-record office. It names Chief Clerk Kelsee Burnett and Deputy Clerk Jayme Brack, gives the court phone and fax, and lists office hours split around the noon hour. The page also states that Stevens County is one of six counties in the 26th Judicial District, along with Grant, Haskell, Morton, Seward, and Stanton counties.

The Stevens County County Clerk page is separate from the District Court clerk page and is assigned here only to clarify the split between court records and county administrative records.

The County Clerk handles elections, tax rolls, county commission records, payroll, and KORA requests for county administrative records, not District Court case files.

Clerk Duties in Stevens

Kansas research for Stevens County quotes K.S.A. 20-3102 in substance: clerks of district courts perform duties required by law, rule, and practice, and safely keep and preserve papers, process, pleadings, and awards filed or placed in their offices. In practical terms, the Stevens County Clerk of the District Court is the counter and records custodian for court case files and many court payments.

• Accept and preserve District Court pleadings, papers, and case records.
• Assist with court records that do not appear in public online search results.
• Provide certified court copies when available and legally releasable.
• Route marriage license assistance for the Kansas online marriage process.
• Collect or process court fees listed by case type on the local court page.
• Support jury duty, court services, and local District Court contact needs.

The Stevens County forms page is assigned to this page because it lists county forms, public-record request material, and court-adjacent forms.

The forms page is useful, but the research could not verify the full contents of the linked Request for Public Records PDF, so field claims must stay narrow.

Request Certified Court Copies

Certified copies are usually needed when a court document must prove an official filing, order, judgment, decree, or other case action. In Stevens County, the request should go to the Clerk of the District Court when the document is a court case record. KDHE handles state vital-record certificates, the Register of Deeds handles recorded land instruments, and the County Clerk handles county administrative records.

1. Identify the record type: criminal, civil, probate, divorce, traffic, marriage license, expungement, or another District Court file.
2. Search Kansas CaseSearch for the case number, party names, filing date, or public case status when available.
3. Call the Clerk of the District Court at 620-544-2484 to confirm whether the record can be copied, certified, mailed, faxed, or picked up.
4. Ask for the exact copy cost, certification cost, payment method, and whether a written request is needed.
5. Submit the case details and payment through the channel the clerk confirms. Do not fax payment or sensitive data unless the office instructs you to do so.
6. For sealed, expunged, juvenile, adoption, or protected documents, ask what court order or party status is required before access.

Verified Request Form Fields

The research found a Stevens County "Request for Public Records" listing under Public Information Request Forms and a County Clerk FAQ instruction saying a requester can fill out the Stevens County open request form and email or fax it to the County Clerk's Office. Direct inspection of the linked PDF returned a 404 during research. Because the form fields were not verified, the inventory below only states what was confirmed from official page context.

Stevens Court Fee Table

The local District Court page publishes a broad fee table and instructs users to call 620-544-2484 to verify current fees. The table below focuses on common court-record and filing categories that a clerk page user is likely to need. It does not add copy or certification amounts because the research did not provide verified copy-per-page or certification fees.

Forms, Jury, Court Services

Stevens County forms and court-adjacent notices should be read by source and office. The county forms page lists a Request for Public Records under public information request forms and a Diversion Application under attorney forms, but direct PDF inspection failed during research. The District Court page provides court-specific details for marriage license assistance, jury duty, probation, and hotline resources.

Jury panel selection is by lot from county residents with a valid driver's license or Kansas ID card. Once a person appears for jury duty, the local page says the requirement is fulfilled for one year. A summoned juror who does not appear may later be summoned into court and fined up to $100 per day for each missed day. Court Services for the 26th Judicial District monitors probationers and covers court responsibilities, with Jean Lamatsch listed at 200 E. 6th, Hugoton, phone 620-544-2339, fax 620-544-2528.

Record routing is part of the clerk task. Court case files, probate filings, divorce and paternity files, traffic court files, criminal case files, expungements, and marriage license help route to the Clerk of the District Court. County commission records, elections, tax rolls, payroll, and county administrative KORA requests route to the County Clerk. Deeds, mortgages, oil and gas leases, plats, UCC fixture filings, liens, powers of attorney, military discharges, and old school records route to the Register of Deeds.

The Stevens County contact page supplies the county contact directory used to separate court, attorney, sheriff, register of deeds, and county clerk channels.

That directory helps prevent a common request error: sending a court case copy question to the county administrative clerk or a land-record question to the court clerk.

Note: The research did not verify e-filing availability or a local online certified-copy order form for Stevens County District Court.