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Grant County Court Docket Searches

Start any Grant County court docket search at Kansas CaseSearch. Accept the terms first. Then pick District as your court level. Choose a search type. You can hunt by case number, party name, business name, party-as-business name, or citation number. Set the location to Grant County so broad results stay close to home. Narrow things further with filters. Sort by Criminal, Civil, Family, and Probate or Mental Health cases, filing dates, or an optional date-of-birth field.

A human check guards the search. If it fails, the absence of results means nothing. Try again, and double-check the spelling and the number format. Then turn to the District Court Clerk or the courthouse terminal. City ordinance and city traffic matters belong to Ulysses Municipal Court instead.

1. Select the correct court layer.
2. Use the exact case number when known.
3. Choose Grant County and case type.
4. Read events in date order.
5. Confirm key dates with the clerk.

Search Grant County in CaseSearch

Before searching, the Kansas portal agreement sets the ground rules. Only records cleared for internet display appear online. The agreement also cautions that what you see on screen is not the official record. A courthouse terminal may hold more.

The official CaseSearch screen opens with that terms notice and blank statewide search controls.

That explains why access starts with accepting terms and why the portal never promises every document. Grant County cases carry the acronym GT. Newer case numbers may look like GT-YYYY-CASE-######, while older ones may lack that prefix entirely.

Court Dockets: What They Show

Think of a Grant County court docket as an events index. It is sometimes called a register of action. It can list the case number, filing date, court, case type, and parties and their roles. It also covers attorneys, judicial officer, status, charges or claims, future settings, docket events, disposition, and links to public documents. Every line answers a question. Which judge is assigned, when was it filed, what happens next?

Keep three layers apart. A filed document is not the same as its docket line, and a certified copy is different from both. The index locates the case; the document holds the actual filing or order; certification is the clerk's formal attestation that a copy is true.

Grant County Has Two Clerks

Grant County has two clerks, and they serve different masters. The District Court Clerk is the judicial custodian. Reid Borchetto keeps district criminal, civil, domestic-relations, probate, juvenile, mental-health, small-claims, and county traffic records. That office sits on the second level at 108 S. Glenn in Ulysses. Call 620-356-1526 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays.

The County Clerk is Anita Lane. She handles county government work like elections, budgets, minutes, and administrative records. Court dockets are not her office's business.

The official page makes the administrative role plain. For a case, hearing, filing, or certified court copy, ask for the District Court Clerk.

Grant County Courts and Their Dockets

The Kansas District Court in Grant County is the trial court of general original jurisdiction. Its docket spans state criminal, civil, domestic, probate, guardianship, juvenile, mental-health, small-claims, and county traffic cases. It serves as one venue within the six-county 26th Judicial District.

The county government home page routes people to public offices.

The navigation helps, but office names still matter, because the County Clerk does not replace the District Court Clerk.

Grant County Courthouse Terminal Access

Kansas Rule 22 requires every district and appellate court to maintain a public terminal. A public record left off the internet portal may still be viewable there. Case-type rules apply. So do document limits, redaction, and sealing orders. The terminal is a real access channel. This county profile supplies the official courthouse image.

The public terminal sits with the District Court Clerk on the second level of the courthouse at 108 S. Glenn, Ulysses, Kansas 67880. The court posts no details on terminal count, printing, parking, security screening, or the accessible entrance. Call ahead if any of that affects your visit.

Court Dates in Grant County

A court setting is scheduled activity, not a judgment. It may not even be a trial. District settings can surface in CaseSearch as hearing events or notices. Grant County District Court publishes no official daily calendar, so check the docket, read the newest notice, and confirm with the clerk.

Read each field with care. The date and time tell you when to appear. The event type may read arraignment, pretrial, motion hearing, trial, sentencing, or status conference. A judge or courtroom field helps route your appearance, though official Grant sources publish no fixed courtroom chart. When a reset or amended notice changes an older setting, the later docket entries control.

Ulysses Municipal Court keeps a separate 2026 hearing-date list. Sessions start at 3 p.m., and dates can change. The list is a calendar, not a case database. Call 620-356-4600 to connect a city case with its date. Remember that a continuance moves an event without dismissing the case. A missed date can carry serious case effects, so contact the correct clerk promptly instead of waiting on the next online update.

Two Grant County Ticket Routes

The county FAQ draws a firm local split. Tickets issued outside Ulysses city limits go to Grant County District Court at 108 S. Glenn. Tickets written inside city limits go to Ulysses Municipal Court at 115 W Grant Ave. The Central Payment Center may locate an obligation, but it is not the full docket.

Use the court printed on the citation. If that is unclear, call before searching or paying, because a wrong system can look empty even when a case exists.

Docket Access Under Kansas Law

Kansas Rule 22 controls public electronic district and appellate records, separating internet access from terminal access. Rule 106B covers electronic access and register limits. Rule 24 governs protected data and redaction.

The Kansas Open Records Act adds a public-record framework on top of those court rules. Judicial files follow court rules and court custodian procedures. Administrative requests go to the county KORA officer. Neither route opens sealed files.

Request Grant County Filed Records

Need more than an event line? File the Kansas Request Form for Court Records and name Grant County District Court. The form wants your contact details, a clear description of the record, and how you want it delivered. Choose email, mail, pickup, or fax. It also needs your signature and a statement on commercial use.

Grant-specific copy and certification fees are not published. Ask the clerk about cost, payment, and timing. For administrative county records, take the county Freedom of Information route instead.

The county's instructions should not be read as the automatic route for judicial files.

How the Clerk Keeps Docket Records

Kansas eFlex serves authorized filers only. It feeds the case-management system behind the scenes. Yet it is not a public Grant County court docket search. For public material not online, the public uses CaseSearch, then the courthouse terminal or the clerk. Filing and viewing are two different acts. A lawyer may file a paper through eFlex. The system may log an event on the register. Public access to that document still turns on Kansas rules, the case category, redaction, and any court order.

The District Court Clerk can locate the public file, explain inspection, quote copy costs, and certify copies. Reid Borchette is the clerk named on the county court page. Mary Nieto is the listed deputy. No official source assigns them separate case-type desks. Describe your case and the record you need rather than assume a staff assignment. The clerk can also tell a docket printout apart from other items in the file. A copy of the judgment is different. Nor is a transcript or an exhibit.

Coverage varies for older cases. Grant County bought digital court-recording equipment in 2004, and statewide eCourt modernization arrived later. Kansas reported that the final district and the appellate courts joined the centralized system in 2024. That came after cybersecurity recovery work. No official source gives Grant's first online docket date, first e-filing date, or full document cutover. For older material, try an older number format and use the courthouse. A gap in online images may reflect timing, not access status.

Grant County Docket Scale

Grant County sits in the High Plains. It has one incorporated city and one District Court venue. The 2020 Census counted 7,352 residents across about 574.81 square miles. Ulysses had 5,788. The county profile puts the west edge about forty miles from Colorado. The south edge sits about sixty miles from Oklahoma. That geography can make terminal access a real trip. It says nothing about workload, though. It cannot prove any type of suit is common.

The civil total breaks into 22 regular, 139 limited, and 49 domestic-relations filings. Regular actions included contract, other, real-property, and tort matters. Most limited actions were contract cases. On the criminal side, Grant County saw 51 felony and 19 misdemeanor filings. The traffic table lists 121 motor-vehicle violations and two parking violations in its district-court row. Remember what these fiscal-year counts are not. They are not live inventories. They do not equal unique people. And they cannot predict the path of a single case.

Scale is where the numbers help. They cannot identify a case's result or explain why a matter sits pending. For that, open the individual Grant County court docket and follow the event dates. Then read the filed order. Statistics and case records answer different questions.

City-by-City Court Dockets in Grant County

Ulysses is the county seat and the only incorporated city in the Census place table. Its Municipal Court handles city ordinance and city traffic cases, keeps its own docket, and publishes dates rather than a public case-search database. The official city website supplies city government and court routing.

The city view leads to its court, contact form, codes, and calendar. For District Court matters, though, it does not replace CaseSearch.

Verify Grant County Docket Results

A sound docket check ends at the source. Use the docket to locate the case and follow its order. When the exact ruling matters, read the filed order itself. Ask for a certified copy if you need formal proof. Confirm any near-term hearing, since schedules change. Before relying on an event, check the details. Confirm the court name, county, case type, parties, and case number. Similar names and old number formats can pull you to the wrong match.

Keep the tools distinct. A KBI history is not the District Court docket. The Central Payment Center is not a full traffic file. The Ulysses hearing list is not a name search. eFlex is not public access. Each answers a narrow question only. The docket stays the event map for the court case. A federal case belongs in the District of Kansas and PACER. That is not the Grant County state search. An appeal can pick up a separate number in the Kansas Court of Appeals.

If a setting looks wrong, hunt for a later notice, reset, or continuance entry. If a public document link is missing, ask about terminal viewing or a written request. If the matter is a city citation, stop and call the Ulysses clerk. These checks beat repeating the same portal query. Vary the court, format, or access channel.

Note: Official interfaces, access rules, and calendar entries can change. Verify important information with the originating clerk.

Map and Directions to the Grant County Courthouse

District Court criminal, civil, domestic-relations, probate, juvenile, mental-health, small-claims, and county traffic records are kept on the second level of the Grant County Courthouse, 108 S. Glenn, in Ulysses. The County Clerk's separate administrative office for elections and county records is on the main level of the same building, so ask specifically for the District Court Clerk.

Official sources do not describe parking, security screening, or an accessible entrance for this courthouse, so calling 620-356-1526 first is the practical way to plan around those gaps. A ticket written inside Ulysses city limits instead belongs at Ulysses Municipal Court, 115 W Grant Ave.