Hendricks County Docket Basics
Indiana court dockets are commonly called the chronological case summary, or CCS. The Indiana Office of Judicial Administration describes Odyssey as the system that maintains court dockets and CCS records for participating courts. In Hendricks County, a CCS is the running list of case events in Circuit Court, Superior Courts, and town courts when those events are public and available through MyCase.
A docket is not the full case file. It is a timeline. It may show that a motion was filed, a hearing was held, a judgment was entered, or a sentence was imposed, but it may not display the actual motion, exhibit, transcript, or order. MyCase can link some public documents, but the official record and copies of documents not available online come from the court or the Clerk of the Circuit and Superior Courts.
Find Hendricks Dockets Online
Use MyCase for public Hendricks County docket searches. The Hendricks County Courts page links Public Access Case Search, and the Indiana Judicial Branch Hendricks County page links Search court cases. MyCase is statewide for Odyssey courts, so a search should be narrowed to Hendricks County or the relevant town court when possible.
- Open MyCase.
- Choose Case when the case number is known, Name for a person or business, or Attorney for counsel-based searching.
- Use Case Number for a known file, Citation Number for a ticket, or Cross Reference for another agency or legacy number.
- Use the Court dropdown to select Hendricks County, Avon Town Court, Brownsburg Town Court, or Plainfield Town Court.
- Open Advanced Search Options to narrow all, open, or closed cases and filing-date ranges.
- Open the result and read the CCS or events area for filings, hearings, dispositions, judgments, sentencing, violations, and payment entries.
If captcha appears, complete the prompt. MyCase help states that captcha is used to deter data mining and may appear more often after repeated searches. If the docket is missing, sealed, confidential, or not updated enough for the intended use, contact the maintaining court or Clerk.
Sample Hendricks CCS Fields
The research inventory identifies public MyCase fields rather than a selected live case. A Hendricks County docket or CCS entry may include the case header, case events, hearing events, documents when public, charge-related events, judgment events, sentencing entries, financial entries, and converted events from older systems.
| Field | What It Shows |
|---|---|
| Entry Date | The date an event, filing, hearing, order, judgment, payment, or disposition was entered. |
| Event Type | The category of docket action, such as hearing, filing, order, disposition, sentencing, violation, or payment. |
| Court / Judicial Officer | The Hendricks Circuit, Superior, magistrate, or town-court assignment when visible. |
| Hearing Detail | The hearing date, time, type, court, judicial officer, or courtroom when available. |
| Document Link | A public online document if MyCase provides one; otherwise request through the Clerk. |
| Disposition or Judgment | The outcome entry for a charge, claim, judgment, or case when the court has entered one. |
| Financial Entry | Amounts owed, credits, payments, or a payment button, with balances subject to MyCase warnings. |
Courts With Hendricks Dockets
Hendricks County is part of Indiana Judicial District 16 with Morgan County. The local trial-court structure is centered at the Hendricks County Courthouse and includes Hendricks Circuit Court, Hendricks Superior Courts 1 through 5, two county magistrates, and town courts in Avon, Brownsburg, and Plainfield. Indiana does not use a county-level District Court label here; Circuit Court and Superior Court are the county trial courts of record. The Clerk of the Circuit and Superior Courts, Marjorie Pike, is the county-level record keeper, while Sheriff Jack Sadler's office handles sheriff records outside the court docket.
- Hendricks Circuit Court: one of the county-level courts of record, with civil, criminal, domestic, and other assignments under local rules.
- Hendricks Superior Courts 1-5: county-level courts handling case types assigned by local rules, including civil, domestic, probate, criminal, small claims, evictions, traffic, and ordinance matters.
- Magistrates: listed for Superior Courts 1 through 5 and tied to county court operations.
- Brownsburg Town Court: listed in the state directory and in MyCase choices for town-level matters.
- Plainfield Town Court: listed in the state directory and in MyCase choices for town-level matters.
- Avon Town Court: appears in MyCase dropdown and local rules, though the research did not locate a full 2026 state-directory address entry.
Hendricks Court Routing
Local rules matter because a docket search should be aimed at the court that likely received the case. Civil plenary cases route to Superior Courts 1 and 4; civil tort matters go to Circuit and Superior 1; civil collection cases go to Circuit, Superior 4, and Superior 5. Mortgage foreclosure goes to Superior 2, while small claims and evictions are spread across Superior Courts 1, 3, 4, and 5. The Hendricks County local rules document is the county-specific routing source identified in the research.
Domestic relations with or without children can go to Circuit and Superior Courts 1 through 4. Juvenile paternity cases are generally filed randomly in Superior Courts 1 through 4, but juvenile paternity involving children in pending juvenile cases goes to Superior Court 3. Probate case types AD, ES, EU, EM, GM, GU, and TR generally go to Superior Court 2, while minor guardianships tied to pending juvenile matters go to Superior Court 3.
Criminal felony and misdemeanor assignments follow weekly rotations. Domestic-violence cases under listed statutes go to Superior 5. Search warrants tied to a pending criminal case are filed in the court presiding over that criminal case. If a prosecutor declines charges after arrest, the research notes that a notice of declination is filed as an MC case type.
Town Court Docket Routing
Town courts are important for Hendricks County docket searches because local rules send some town-level matters outside the county courthouse case flow. Infractions from Danville Police go to Superior Court 5. Avon Police infractions go to Brownsburg Town Court. Other infractions go to the appropriate Town Court. Ordinance violations from Amo or Danville go to Superior Court 5; Avon ordinance violations go to Brownsburg Town Court; other ordinance violations go to the appropriate Town Court.
Brownsburg and Plainfield town courts handle certain Class C misdemeanor cases within town limits, but local rules exclude OWI and listed domestic-violence offenses from that town-court path. This distinction matters when a ticket, ordinance case, or misdemeanor does not appear under the Hendricks County court filter. Repeat the search under Avon, Brownsburg, or Plainfield when the citation, police agency, or location points to a town-court venue.
Dockets vs Full Records
A docket is best for tracking progress. A full case record is needed when the user must read the legal document itself. A criminal CCS may show charges filed, hearing held, plea entered, sentence imposed, and bond status, while the full criminal case file may include the charging information, motions, orders, and final judgment. A civil docket may show that a judgment was entered, while the document itself may require a Clerk copy request.
| Docket / CCS | Full Case Record | |
|---|---|---|
| Format | Chronological list of events. | Filed pleadings, orders, judgments, and other documents. |
| Best Use | Track activity, hearing dates, dispositions, and public timeline. | Review legal text, attachments, evidence, or certified-copy needs. |
| Online Access | Often visible in MyCase when public. | Some public documents may be linked, but many require Clerk access. |
| Official Source | Maintaining court or Clerk for official records. | Maintaining court or Clerk for copies and certifications. |
Read Hendricks Docket Entries
Start with the case header, because the court, case type, status, file date, and case style determine how the entries should be read. Then move through the CCS in date order. For criminal cases, look for charging entries, hearings, plea entries, disposition entries, sentencing entries, bond entries, and warrant issuance or recall if shown. For civil cases, look for complaint, service, motion, order, judgment, payment, and dismissal entries.
Common terms in Hendricks County records include motion, order, judgment, disposition, plea, conviction, sentence, probation, bond, bench warrant, continuance, dismissed with prejudice, and dismissed without prejudice. The docket may show a result without explaining the legal strategy behind it. If the entry affects rights, deadlines, sentencing, payment, custody, or a certified-copy need, verify the official record with the Clerk of the Circuit and Superior Courts or the specific town court.
Restricted Hendricks Dockets
Not every docket is public online. Juvenile delinquency, CHINS, termination, adoption, mental-health, sealed, and expunged records may be absent or limited. Protection-order protected-party names and identifying information are excluded from online public access, and protection orders use a separate search. Some records can exist at the court even when the public sees no MyCase result.
MyCase is also not a federal docket system. Federal cases involving Hendricks County parties are separate from Hendricks Circuit, Superior, and town-court dockets. Indiana DOC, INjail, BMV driver records, marriage lookup, and protection-order tools are separate statewide systems and should not be treated as the Hendricks court docket itself.