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Elliott County Circuit Court Clerk

The Kentucky Court of Justice Elliott County page identifies Wm. Jason Ison as the Circuit Court Clerk. The clerk's office is at the Elliott County Courthouse Annex in Sandy Hook, and the official county elected-officials page lists the public phone numbers, fax, and office hours. This office is the local point of contact for Elliott County Circuit, District, and Family Court case records. It is also the place to ask about certified court copies, payment options, case-file availability, and where an older file may be stored.

The Kentucky Court of Justice Elliott County page adds court-specific details that the local county listing does not always show. KCOJ lists local payment options as cash, local check, and money order, with eligible online payments through ePay. It also notes parking at the back and side of the building. Those details make the KCOJ county page the best source before a courthouse visit.

Elliott County Clerk homepage source

The County Clerk site is useful for the separate county-record side, but court case copies still route to the Circuit Court Clerk.

Elliott County Court Clerk Duties

The Circuit Court Clerk manages the court-record side of the local Kentucky Court of Justice system. That means the office is the first local contact for Circuit Court, District Court, and Family Court records in Elliott County. Court-record duties include filing support, docket and case-file access, copy requests, payment processing, and records-location guidance when files are no longer in the local office. For public online case information, KYeCourts is useful, but the clerk remains the local fallback when the portal does not answer a certified-copy or older-file question.

• Case records for Circuit Court, District Court, and Family Court matters.
• Copy and certification instructions for public court case files.
• Local payment handling for eligible court costs, fines, and fees.
• Older case-file location help, including records facility or KDLA routing when applicable.
• Case and file locator numbers for State Records Center requests when a file has moved.

Note: Saturday hours are listed for the office, but filing deadlines, hearings, and specialized copy work should be verified before relying on Saturday service.

Request Elliott County Court Copies

Certified copies are often needed when a court order, decree, judgment, or disposition must be used outside the courthouse. The Circuit Court Clerk should be asked which copy format is needed, what the current fee is, and whether the document can be copied from the local file. If the case is old, Kentucky Court of Justice record-request instructions say the local Office of Circuit Court Clerk is still the starting point because the clerk can tell whether the file is local, at a records facility, at KDLA, or destroyed under retention schedules.

1. Identify the court case by case number if known, or by party names, case type, and approximate filing year.
2. Call or visit the Elliott County Circuit Court Clerk to confirm whether the case is available locally.
3. Ask for the exact fee, payment method, and whether certification is required for the intended use.
4. If the file is offsite, request the case and file locator numbers before contacting the State Records Center.
5. Submit the copy request by the method the clerk gives, then pick up or receive the copy as instructed.

Elliott County Clerk contact page source

The contact-page image documents the County Clerk side of Elliott records, which helps prevent requests from being sent to the wrong clerk.

Elliott County Records Request Fields

A court-record request works best when it gives the clerk enough detail to find the file without guessing. The State Records Center has an even stricter rule: it requires case and file locator numbers and cannot search by name or Social Security number. That is why the Elliott Circuit Court Clerk should be contacted before any older-record request is sent to a state records facility.

Elliott County Clerk Fee Limits

The research did not locate a complete Elliott Circuit Court Clerk copy-fee schedule. KYeCourts displayed a June 2026 notice that civil filing fees for Circuit and District Courts increase effective July 1, 2026, so court filing amounts should be checked with the clerk before quoting. The County Clerk fee table is better documented, but it applies to recorded instruments, not to all court case copies. Keep those fee sets separate.

Circuit Clerk vs County Clerk

Kentucky does not use a Texas-style district clerk and county clerk split for trial-court files. In Elliott County, Jason Ison's Circuit Court Clerk office handles court case records. Jennifer Carter's County Clerk office handles county records and services outside the court case file. The County Clerk site lists election results, county records, delinquent tax services, records, motor vehicles, candidate filings, polling location and sample ballot information, land titles, deeds, delinquent tax sales, and vehicle transfers.

Elliott County Clerk records page source

The County Clerk records page is the source for eCCLIX, DOC ALERT, e-recording, and the recorded-instrument fee table.

Elliott County eCCLIX and DOC ALERT

eCCLIX is the vendor-hosted Kentucky county clerk indexing and document-viewing system linked by the Elliott County Clerk. Private citizens searching for personal reasons with no commercial gain may search Elliott County only and are limited to five searches per day at no charge. Commercial users use a subscription path and can add other searchable counties. These limits apply to County Clerk records, not KYeCourts case files.

DOC ALERT is a free mortgage and deed fraud notification service linked by the Elliott County Clerk. Registration is described as requiring only a name and email, and the service sends an email alert when a mortgage or deed bearing the registrant's name is recorded. It does not replace the Circuit Court Clerk for case records, but it is useful for property-record monitoring after probate, divorce, or other court events that affect deeds.