Searching Clallam County Criminal Dockets
Venue comes first. Felony matters for Clallam County Superior Court run through Odyssey Portal. For misdemeanors, gross misdemeanors, criminal traffic, and probable-cause cases, use the Washington Courts Case Records Search. Then choose the right bench. District Court I covers Port Angeles, Sequim, and the central and eastern county. District Court II covers Forks and the West End.
A case number narrows results best. With only a name, copy the spelling straight from the court paper. Then add the court, case type, and year to cut down false matches.
- Select Superior Court or District and Municipal Courts.
- Choose Superior Court, District Court I, or District Court II.
- Search by case number or filed party name.
- Match the caption, date, location, and criminal type.
- Read Events, Disposition Events, and Hearings, then confirm key facts.
Clallam Felony Docket Route
The Clallam County Clerk of Superior Court files, indexes, keeps, and certifies the felony record. In Odyssey Smart Search, enter a case number or a party name in Last, First Middle order. Then select Clallam as the location. Case type, status, file dates, and judicial officer work as optional filters. Anonymous users see public case information and the register of actions. Filed document images stay out.
A few search tricks help. Results cap at the first 200. A trailing asterisk widens a partial name or number. Sounds Like helps with odd spellings, though the two cannot be combined. Read the Case Information and Party sections before the events. That way, a similar name will not pass for the Clallam County criminal case you actually want.
Remember that Odyssey's public index is not a certified judgment. The Clerk controls copies of filed documents.
Inside a Clallam County Criminal Docket
A Clallam County criminal docket is a timeline, one entry at a time. A filing gets a line. A hearing gets another, a signed order another. Reading them together into one conclusion is a mistake, and the public view itself varies by court and access role.
| Case number | A court identifier such as 24-1-00097-05; a legacy cross-reference may appear. |
|---|---|
| Case and parties | File date, criminal type, location, caption, roles, counsel, and public status. |
| Charges | Complaint, information, citation, probable-cause event, or amended charge where public. |
| Hearings | Arraignment, pretrial, plea, trial, sentencing, courtroom, judge, date, and time. |
| Disposition | Dismissal, plea, verdict, judgment and sentence, appeal, or later vacation as separate events. |
| Limits | Sealed data, protected identifiers, and images may be withheld from anonymous access. |
Status labels help, but the signed judgment controls. A motion entry is a request, not proof it was granted. A hearing line shows the setting was entered, not that it happened on the first date set.
Clallam District Criminal Court Split
District Court I handles central and eastern Clallam County, including Port Angeles and Sequim. District Court II handles the West End: Forks, Neah Bay, Clallam Bay, Sekiu, and LaPush. Both courts hear misdemeanors, gross misdemeanors, criminal traffic, and other limited-jurisdiction matters.
On the statewide CLJ form, pick Criminal Non-Traffic, Criminal Traffic, Probable Cause, or another broad category. Search the exact court and year. For a hearing still ahead, Find My Court Date pulls from a real-time court database. Ordinary Case Search refreshes roughly daily. It counts as reference information only.
How a Clallam Criminal Case Moves
The register builds as staff docket each event. Early lines might be a complaint, information, citation, warrant, or probable-cause filing. Arraignment records the plea and rights process. Pretrial entries then stack up: counsel appearances, release terms, discovery, motions, competency work, plea talks, continuances, and a trial setting.
Docket flow: Filing › Arraignment › Pretrial › Plea or Trial › Disposition › Sentencing
A plea hearing, trial, verdict, or finding shows up later, and disposition and judgment are separate events. More lines can follow, covering restitution, financial obligations, review, compliance, appeal, remand, or reopening. When an appeal or transfer creates a cross-reference, search both numbers.
Clallam Criminal Entries Explained
Clallam County posts no full list of its local short codes. Read the whole portal label, and ask the court directly when a code stays unclear.
- Arraignment
- The appearance where the charge is stated and the plea and rights process begins.
- Continuance or reset
- A scheduled event moved to another date.
- Disposition
- The recorded outcome of a charge or case.
- Judgment and sentence
- The formal criminal judgment and sentencing record.
- Sealed or restricted
- A record withheld under a rule, law, or order.
Labels like dismissed, acquitted, convicted, deferred prosecution, warrant, appealed, and vacated have to be read in order. A dismissal event is not the same as a judgment and sentence. When you need proof, order the signed document.
Courts That Hold Criminal Dockets
Superior Court holds the felony dockets, and the District Courts hold the lower criminal dockets. A citation from city police does not create a city portal. County sources send Port Angeles and Sequim criminal work to District Court I, and West End matters to District Court II.
| Venue | Docket | Custodian |
|---|---|---|
| Superior Court | Felony and Superior appeals | Suite 9, 223 E. 4th St., Port Angeles; 360-417-2231 |
| District Court I | Central/eastern misdemeanors and criminal traffic | Suite 10; 360-417-2560 |
| District Court II | West End misdemeanors and criminal traffic | 502 E. Division St., Forks; 360-374-6383 |
| Juvenile Court | Matters under special access rules | 1912 W. 18th St.; 360-417-2282 |
Tribal courts are separate sovereign systems and do not belong in the county search.
Clallam Criminal Docket Volume
The 2025 state report counts 309 new Clallam Superior criminal filings, and a proceedings report lists 3,132 criminal proceedings. One case can carry many hearings, so proceedings are not new cases.
District I also reported 191 DUIs and 118 criminal-traffic misdemeanors, while District II reported 140 criminal misdemeanors and 41 criminal-traffic matters for 2023.
Clallam Therapeutic Criminal Calendars
A program label does not always mean a separate case number exists. Adult Drug Court shows up inside the underlying Superior case. District Court I's Mental Health Court dates to 2022. The District Court therapeutic court page documents that program.
The program page offers context, but the underlying docket controls status and disposition. The Youth Court page describes a youth-run diversion option for misdemeanor matters.
Diversion is confidential and is not the same as an open formal docket.
Sealed Dockets and Public Access
General Rule 31 presumes public access while recognizing legal limits. General Rule 15 covers sealing and redaction. RCW 13.50.050 governs juvenile offender records, which public websites do not display under GR 31 policy.
Access limit: A blank search can mean the wrong court, a spelling issue, an older file, or a restriction. It does not prove no case exists.
Anonymous Odyssey users hit a wall with restricted cases and document images. The clerk keeps those out of public view. Confidential material includes some reports and statements, protected identifiers, and juvenile or family case files. Authorized access may exist, though, and redacted copies are sometimes an option. Email the Superior Clerk with the case name, case number, and the exact item you need. District Court matters go through their own channel. Curious what each court level opens up? The Clallam County case lookup walks through both.
Clallam Criminal Record Requests
A blank Odyssey result does not end the search. Check the statewide index next, and confirm the matter is not sitting in District Court. Older felony files that are closed or archived often require direct help from the Clerk. When you email, list the case name and case number. Then name the precise document, such as the information, the plea, a no-contact order, or the judgment and sentence. District users should contact whichever court actually holds the case.
Copying fees differ by court. A plain Superior copy, paper or electronic, runs $0.50 per page. Certification adds $5 for the first page plus $1 for each added page. It means the court seal plus a deputy clerk signature. District Court I charges $0.50 per page on paper and $0.25 per page by email. The certification schedule is the same. Do not assume those District I prices carry over to District II.
The Clallam access-to-court-files form lets you target one item at a time. Options run from a complaint, citation or information, judgment and sentence, no-contact order, plea agreement, stipulated continuance, protection-order papers, or an electronic docket. It asks for an identifying combination that works. Try a case number, or a party name paired with another listed identifier. One warning from the form is worth heeding: copies left unclaimed expire, and you must apply fresh after 30 days. Hearing recordings take a separate path. District Court I sells a CD at $10 per hearing. A verbatim Superior Court transcript must come from the court reporter or a certified transcriptionist.