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New Orleans Criminal Records
Choose New Orleans court records or NOPD incident reports by the document you need, and distinguish Municipal and Traffic Court from Criminal District Court.
New Orleans criminal records split across court and police custodians
Municipal or traffic case
Start with New Orleans Municipal and Traffic Court when the matter is in that city court. Its case route is separate from Orleans Criminal District Court.
Orleans Criminal District Court case
For an Orleans criminal district matter, use the Clerk of Criminal District Court. The clerk links Clerk Connect for docket information and is located at 2700 Tulane Avenue.
Police report or NOPD record
Use NOPD Records and Identification for releasable police or accident reports and NOPD records products. A police report is not a court disposition.
Use the document type to decide what to request
| You need | Custodian to start with | Ask for |
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| Case status or docket in Criminal District Court | Criminal District Court Clerk / Clerk Connect | The specific case using defendant name and case number when known. |
| Certified disposition or other certified criminal-court document | Orleans Criminal District Court | The court directs certified-document, background-check and disposition requests to the Clerk of Criminal District Court at 504-658-9000. |
| Police or accident report | NOPD Records | The incident/report record. NOPD lists Records & Documents at 504-658-5455. |
| Letter of good conduct or NOPD background check | NOPD Records | The named NOPD service, not a court docket search. |
Build the Criminal District Court request around one case
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Locate the docket
Use Clerk Connect from the official Clerk page. Retain the case number, defendant name and section/court shown on the result.
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Name the issued record
If the goal is proof of outcome, ask for the disposition or other exact filed document. The court specifically routes certified documents and background checks through the Criminal District Court Clerk.
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Contact the clerk if the portal is not enough
The Clerk page lists 2700 Tulane Avenue, New Orleans, LA 70119 and 504-658-9000. Confirm current format, copy charge and certification requirements for the exact item before payment.
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Keep court and police references linked
When an incident report and a prosecution concern the same event, keep each source labeled. The police report documents the law-enforcement record; the court docket and filed disposition document the prosecution.
For NOPD records, provide incident-specific identifiers
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Use the Records & Documents channel
NOPD contact information lists 504-658-5455 and 1615 Poydras Street, 5th floor. The public counter is listed Monday-Friday, 9:00 a.m.-2:45 p.m.
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Describe the report rather than the person generally
Provide the report or item sought, approximate incident date, location, and report number when known. This is more useful than requesting an undefined “criminal record.”
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Do not confuse filing a new report with obtaining an old one
NOPD’s reporting channels and its records-release functions are different tasks. For an existing report, use the records/public-records route.
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Treat release limits as record-specific
NOPD describes its service as providing releasable reports. Do not promise that every law-enforcement record or detail will be public.