Records Management

 The Records Management Department is responsible for writing, maintaining and updating the Lafayette Parish Clerk of Court Disaster Plan and in the event of a disaster, coordinating disaster recovery and establishing the continuity of operations; inventory, management, and retention of records in accordance with our Retention Schedule; in-house conversion of civil, mortgage, and conveyance microfilm to image; back scanning criminal, adoption, civil, appeal and juvenile records; and transmittal of media to State Archives for storage.

Additionally, the Records Management Department coordinates outsourced projects for the full preservation and scanning of historical documents and their indices; rebinding and scanning of mortgage and conveyance instruments; and conversion of scanned images to microfilm.


For further information about the Records Management Department call (337) 291-6461.