La Crosse County
La Crosse County is located where the Black, Mississippi, and La Crosse Rivers meet in southwestern Wisconsin. It is home to more than 118,000 residents. La Crosse County was founded in 1851 and covers 452 square miles of land area. Its county seat is La Crosse.
There are three courts in La Crosse County. These courts make up the trial court system in the county. There are two municipal courts in La Crosse and Onalaska, and one circuit court in La Crosse. The municipal courts have exclusive jurisdiction over local ordinance violations such as traffic violations and non-jury trials for first offense drunk driving. Requests for jury trials are transferred to the circuit court in the City of La Crosse.
The circuit court is vested with original jurisdiction over all civil and criminal cases. Civil cases heard by the court include civil equity cases, probate matters, juvenile cases, and general civil cases.
There are three treatment courts in La Crosse County offering specialized community courts to help participants stop drug abuse, alcohol, and related criminal activity. The specialized treatment courts are drug treatment court, OWI treatment court, and Veterans court.
Apart from managing court business operations, the La Crosse County Clerk of Court maintains court records in the county. Public court records are information, files, documents, related to the proceedings held in the courts in the county. Per Section 814.61 (11), you can perform a court record search for a $5 fee. To request a search, send a written request with the $5 to the La Crosse Clerk of Courts at 333 Vine Street, La Crosse WI 54601, or by email at Lacrosse.Clerk@wicourts.gov.
Alternatively, you can perform the public court record search yourself. To do so, use a public access computer at the office of the Clerk of Courts. It costs $1.25 per page to copy a public court record via a public access terminal at the Clerk of Courts office.
To view La Crosse County public court records (from 1993) online, use the Wisconsin Circuit Court Access (WCCA). To access public court records documented before 1993, use the public access terminal at the La Crosse County courthouse.
