Union County Criminal Docket Searches
Union County Circuit Court keeps the felony criminal dockets, and Circuit Clerk Donna Treadaway runs that office. The court sits in the Third Circuit District. For remote work, the Third Circuit MEC login is the entry point. You need a Public Access to MEC account, called PAMEC. That page is a restricted login screen. It is not a free public search form. Without credentials, you must register before searching the circuit criminal docket from home.
Start with the court that originally handled the matter. Lower-level charges often sit elsewhere. A Union County citation or preliminary proceeding can belong to Justice Court or a municipal court. Circuit sees it only on appeal or transfer. For circuit files, visit the Union County Circuit Clerk at 114 E. Bankhead Street in New Albany. Justice Court questions go to Justice Court Clerk Mary Katherine Hale at 662-534-1951.
- Identify the Union County court, case number if known, and approximate filing year before attempting a Union County criminal docket search.
- For a Union County circuit felony matter, register for PAMEC and use the Third Circuit MEC route after the account is active.
- Search the correct Union County court using the authenticated fields, then compare the case number, court, and event dates before relying on a result.
- For Union County Justice Court or municipal matters, call the proper clerk or court because those records are separate from Union County Circuit Court.
- Ask the Union County holding clerk for inspection, a docket printout, a document copy, or a certified record when the screen does not answer the question.
Union County PAMEC Criminal Access
PAMEC is the public side of Mississippi Electronic Courts. It powers remote Union County circuit research. Registration asks you to pick an account type: Attorney, Non-Attorney, or Firm Administrator. Most public researchers choose Non-Attorney. The account costs $10 per year. Search results bill by the page, and even a no-match result bills one page. The terms also cover quarterly billing and restrictions on unpaid charges.
Signing up is separate from searching. The registration screens collect account details before you ever reach the court system. Expect the Union County criminal docket fields to appear only after you log in. One more warning matters here. Do not attempt automated collection from MEC or PAMEC. The terms prohibit that kind of use. Even with an active account, some documents stay off limits. The official PAMEC registration screen shows the account-type choice. You must make that choice before remote Union County criminal court docket access opens up.
The screen sets your access path. It does not show a Union County criminal case, a case status, or any docket entry. Case details appear only after a real search. Note: A paid PAMEC account can still hit document permissions, sealed material, or an older record that needs clerk help.
Criminal Dockets: What They Show
An authorized Union County case view organizes a lot. Expect the case number, court and district, case type, and filing or opening date. It also lists the assigned judge, party and attorney roles, and charge or indictment details. Events, settings, filings, notices, costs, flags, and the disposition round it out. This inventory comes from the MEC protocol and CourtInfo material. Exact on-screen labels may vary. Treat a Union County label as reliable only in an authorized view. Otherwise, wait until the clerk confirms it.
A docket line is a chronological case index. It is not the paperwork itself. A line may say a motion was filed. Or it may say an order was entered. Either way, the text stays off the line. Getting the document can take a PAMEC page charge. It may take a clerk copy request, a redaction, or attorney-of-record permission instead. Read the newest entries for the current posture. Then work back through earlier ones to see how the Union County case got there.
| Case and court | Case number, Union County court, district, case type, opening date, and assigned judge identify the Union County record. |
|---|---|
| Charge information | Charge or indictment information helps distinguish the criminal matter, but the signed record remains the controlling source. |
| Docket events | Entries can reflect filings, motions, notices, orders, and procedural events in date order. |
| Settings and documents | Hearing information and linked filings may be present, subject to access permissions and restrictions. |
| Status and outcome | Flags, costs, disposition, and appeal information require context from the entries and any signed order. |
The official Third Circuit CourtInfo page supplies Union County court metadata and the published status vocabulary. That vocabulary helps you interpret the expected field inventory.
Union County criminal docket entries follow a shared vocabulary, and CourtInfo helps explain what each term on a criminal court docket actually means.
Union County Criminal Flag Meanings
Third Circuit MEC publishes flag vocabulary for Union County criminal court dockets. Each flag is a case-management indicator, nothing more. It is not a final legal finding. Arraignment Pending signals an active arraignment workflow, and Trial Pending means trial work remains. CLOSED reflects the system status. It replaces neither a signed order nor the disposition. When a flag affects a court appearance or a record request, confirm the current status with the clerk.
- BOUND OVER
- A lower-court criminal matter sent forward for further prosecution.
- Nolle Pros Pending
- A prosecution-abandonment or dismissal workflow that is not necessarily a final disposition.
- Pretrial Interv Pending
- A pretrial intervention status; it is not itself a conviction or a dismissal.
- Probation Viol Pend and PRS Viol Pend
- Pending probation or post-release-supervision violation workflows.
- SEALED, Sealed_Case, and EXPUNGED
- Access-restriction vocabulary that must not be read as a description of private facts.
The published vocabulary goes further. Union County flags also include Bench Warrant Issued, Capias Pending, Plea Pending, Justice Court Appeal, and Municipal Court Appeal. INTERPRETER, MOTREF, CASREF, and Vault_In or Vault_Out appear there too. Confirm any bench-warrant flag with the court or clerk. A stale screen proves nothing. No status word settles guilt or the full outcome. The access warning on the Union County Circuit MEC entry explains the rest. It shows why a Union County flag can be visible while its document stays unavailable.
Permission limits are built into the docket system. So a missing document alone never proves that no case or event exists.
Criminal Case Stages on the Docket
Read a Union County criminal court docket as a timeline, not a single label. Entries usually run from charge or indictment through arraignment, plea activity, and motions. Trial settings, sentencing, and a final disposition follow. The dates in the actual Union County case always control. The newest entry shows the current work. Older ones often explain a referral, a lower-court appeal, or a continuance. They can also reveal a later shift in the case posture.
Docket flow: Filing → Arraignment → Pretrial → Plea or Trial → Disposition → Sentencing
A docket line reading “motion filed” is only a request. It does not show the court granted anything. Likewise, “order entered” may not include the order text. To get a complete Union County result, note the document date or number. Then ask the Circuit Clerk for the signed order, sentencing order, certified judgment, or the full file available for inspection.
Union County Criminal Court Routing
Criminal docket routing in Union County depends on court level. Felonies and appeals from lower courts go through Union County Circuit Court. Union County Justice Court keeps its own records for limited criminal matters. It handles citations and preliminary proceedings too. New Albany, Blue Springs, Myrtle, and Sherman each run municipal-court channels for local ordinance matters. A case born in municipal or Justice Court does not become a Third Circuit MEC case. That rule holds even when the case arose in Union County.
| Court channel | Union County criminal docket route | Best first contact |
|---|---|---|
| Union County Circuit Court | Felony cases and lower-court appeals; MEC/PAMEC since September 26, 2022. | Circuit Clerk or Third Circuit MEC |
| Union County Justice Court | Separate lower-court criminal, citation, and preliminary records. | Justice Court Clerk Mary Katherine Hale |
| Municipal courts | City ordinance, traffic, and municipal matters in the issuing city. | The city court or municipal clerk |
The Third Circuit District Attorney service-area page lays out the district that the Union County circuit criminal docket sits in. That district map gives helpful routing context for the circuit channel.
District context helps you find the right circuit channel. Still, the clerk holds the record for any specific Union County circuit case, so the clerk is who to ask.
Union County Criminal Docket Courts
Union County Circuit Court is the county's general-jurisdiction criminal court, not a “Union County Court.” The 2026 statewide directory lists no separate Union County Court. Circuit Clerk Donna Treadaway keeps the circuit criminal docket. Her office sits at 114 E. Bankhead Street, New Albany. The current directory names the Third Circuit judges. They are Grady F. Tollison III, Kent E. Smith, and Kelly Luther. For felony filings and circuit appeals, start there. That Union County court and clerk are the right opening for both.
Union County Circuit Clerk
114 E. Bankhead Street
New Albany, MS 38652
662-534-1910
Union County Justice Court Clerk
P.O. Box 27
New Albany, MS 38652
662-534-1951
The Union County justice clerk’s public directory listing shows a mailing address. Confirm the counter location before you travel. For municipal citations or ordinances, contact the issuing city’s court or clerk directly. Payment portals help with a payment workflow. They do not replace a criminal docket, an appearance date, or a certified court record.
Union County Criminal Docket Gaps
Several things can keep a Union County criminal docket from showing up remotely. The searcher may be sitting at the anonymous MEC entry. Or the searcher may be in an active PAMEC account instead. The matter may sit in Union County Justice Court, a municipal court, or another state. It may also be an older paper or archived record. A document may be limited to attorneys of record. Or the case may be sealed, expunged, juvenile, or otherwise protected.
A fruitless Union County search does not mean the record never existed. Check the court and the filing year. Check the spelling and the case number. Also check whether an appeal is involved. Then call or visit the clerk who holds that Union County court’s record. Ask what is actually available. Options include docket-only inspection, public or redacted copy, certified copy, legacy-file lookup, or no public access. The clerk can also tell you whether a transcript must go through the court reporter.
Note: A case can show a visible docket event. The underlying document image may stay off limits under a court rule or permission limit.
Access Rules for Criminal Dockets
Union County criminal court dockets are public court information. Access changes only if a statute, court rule, order, or privacy restriction limits it. These files follow the Mississippi judiciary’s access policy and MEC procedures. They do not follow an executive-agency public-records process. A written request for a Union County administrative record should name the court or public body. Include the case number, document, date range, and format. Say whether a certified copy is needed. Ask for a fee estimate, and get a written reason if access is denied.
Certain Union County material can be limited or unavailable. That covers sealed, expunged, juvenile, adoption, medical or mental-health, minor-child, financial-account, home-address, and attorney-restricted items. A docket may show a redacted event or a restriction flag. The document image can still be blocked. Ask for the public or redacted portion that exists. Never use a request as a way around a restriction.
Key Rules:
Mississippi Public Records Act sets procedures, timing explanations, and actual-cost principles for records requests to the proper public body.
Mississippi Judiciary Public Records Policy is the court-specific access source for judiciary records.
MEC privacy and access materials warn against exposing protected identifiers and explain record-access limits.
The official PAMEC personal-information screen shows the kind of account data PAMEC collects. That is why Union County account details and Union County court-record data must stay distinct.
Account registration information is never a criminal docket result.
Union County Criminal Record Copies
A Union County criminal docket and a certified judgment are not the same thing. One tracks the case. The docket is the running index of filings, events, settings, and status. A certified judgment or sentencing order is instead a clerk-certified copy of one signed document. For a certified judgment, a sentencing order, or a full file, the Union County Circuit Clerk is the office to contact. Want a transcript instead? That goes through the court reporter as a separate process, not the docket sheet.
The clerk posts no current copy-price schedule. There is no downloadable request form or email intake address either, and no same-day certification promise. So ask before you pay. Get the exact charge, the accepted payment method, and the retrieval time. Also ask whether any redaction is required for your copy. For wider options, the Union County court case records page covers request channels. It serves both circuit and chancery files.