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Ulysses Court Docket Searches

Start at the City of Ulysses Municipal Court page. It names the court and its staff and lists the address, hours, code links, a contact form, and the hearing calendar. Party-level docket results are not part of it. So work from the ticket through the clerk's channels instead of expecting a database to do the search.

1. Read the ticket for “City of Ulysses Municipal Court.”
2. Note the citation number, party name, charge, and appearance date.
3. Check the public hearing-date list for the relevant 3 p.m. session.
4. Call 620-356-4600 for a case-specific date or payment instruction.
5. Use the city contact form for a written, nonurgent question.
6. Visit 115 W Grant Ave for in-person access or a copy request.

Check where your ticket belongs before you go further. If it names Grant County District Court, the Ulysses municipal route is the wrong door. County traffic and city traffic are different court files.

Ulysses Contact Form Route

The Contact Municipal Court form takes a name, email address, subject, message, and an optional attachment. It suits a focused written question. It also works for a readable copy of a notice. The form will not search a case or place a copy order. And the court promises no response time. The form itself makes that limited role plain.

Keep any message short. Give the citation number and ask one clear question, such as the current setting or the way to request a public copy. Hold back sensitive personal data unless the court asks for it.

Inside the Ulysses Municipal Court

Ulysses Municipal Court is the city's own judicial branch. It handles violations of City of Ulysses ordinances. Local traffic matters fall here too. Peggy Alford sits as the listed municipal judge. Sarah Britton serves as Municipal Court Clerk, and David Black is the listed prosecuting attorney. Each of these names appears in an official public capacity.

The clerk wears several hats. She prepares hearing papers, files and preserves case papers, dockets and sets cases, receives fines and forfeited bonds, and makes the required reports. Ulysses Chapter 10 spells out these duties. The city administrative clerk's office has a wider government-record role, but it is no substitute for the municipal court clerk on a city case.

Ulysses Is the Only City

Ulysses is the county seat and the county's only city. The official 2020 Census table lists it as Grant County's single incorporated place, home to 5,788 residents. That leaves one court on the municipal docket directory, though city and county jurisdiction stay separate.

The official Census incorporated-place table supplies that local context.

A headcount is not a caseload count. The court publishes no annual filing total, so guessing one from city size would be a mistake. Treat the population figure as geography, not court statistics.

Finding Ulysses Court Dates

The Ulysses Hearing Dates page posts the general municipal session calendar. Sessions start at 3 p.m. The city cautions that dates can change. No names, citation numbers, charges, or case statuses appear there. Use it as a calendar. Then confirm your case with Sarah Britton.

A listed date proves nothing about any single case. The court record controls.

Ulysses Calendar, Not Case Search

The city publishes dates but no public name or citation database for Ulysses cases. That gap trips people up in two ways. Some scan the date list for a name that will never appear, and others read a missing date as a dismissal. Neither reading holds. Confirm the actual court record with the clerk.

Phone the clerk when a date shifts, a ticket is unreadable, or a payment search comes up empty. That call settles what no calendar can.

Ulysses Traffic Ticket Lookups

A ticket citing a Ulysses ordinance belongs on the city docket. Start with the citation number. The Kansas Central Payment Center can match an eligible obligation by citation or case number, name, business, license, or vehicle, but that payment site is not the official Ulysses docket. Paying and contesting are separate roads. Read the notice and ask the court how to enter your chosen response before the deadline passes. A payment can carry a plea or judgment consequence. A contest requires the appearance and setting process the court lays out. The Grant County Traffic Court page develops the county-wide distinction. Chapter 10 section 10-108 adds a $34 assessment after a guilty finding, guilty plea, no-contest plea, bond forfeiture, or diversion, on top of the fine and state fees. One dollar of it goes to Crime Stoppers. This is not a copy fee.

Ulysses Chapter 10 Docket

Ulysses Chapter 10 sets the city court's basic record rules. Section 10-101 establishes the municipal court for ordinance violations. Under section 10-104, every commenced case goes into the judge's docket. Section 10-106 hands the clerk real work. The clerk issues process, preserves papers, docks and sets matters, receives funds, and reports information.

Docket

The court's indexed record of each case and its events.

Setting

The date and purpose assigned for a court appearance.

Disposition

The recorded result of the case or charge.

Bond forfeiture

A court action applying a posted bond under the governing rules.

Those provisions point to one practical answer. Sarah Britton, not a state portal, is the direct source for a current Ulysses municipal file.

How Ulysses Cases Reach the County

The two courts split the work by territory and subject. Ulysses Municipal Court takes city violations. Grant County District Court handles county-level civil, criminal, probate, small-claims, and traffic matters outside city limits, and it receives a municipal appeal once the required filing creates a District Court matter.

Docket flow: Ulysses Municipal Court › Grant County District Court › Kansas Court of Appeals, where authorized.

Ulysses lets a losing party appeal a municipal judgment. The appeal requires written notice within 10 days, plus bond and fee steps, according to the city's rights brochure. That brochure quotes a $62.50 filing fee, an old figure. Confirm the current cost with the receiving court. No appeal truly exists until a District Court record shows it on file.

Ulysses Municipal Appeals

An appeal moves the paperwork to a different office. The city clerk keeps the municipal record. The Grant District Court clerk keeps the new District Court appeal file. So ask Ulysses for the judgment and notice details first. Then ask the county clerk whether the appeal was actually docketed.

Deadlines can cost you real rights. Check the current appeal procedure and fee with the court rather than trusting an old brochure amount.

Who Can See Ulysses Court Records

Kansas leans toward openness in its record policy, though exemptions, redaction duties, and court orders still limit what gets released. K.S.A. 45-216 lays out that openness policy in plain terms. K.S.A. 45-221 lists the exemptions and allows protected details to be separated from material that can be released. A sealing order or another law can also close a municipal record.

Ulysses publishes no current copy-fee table, production time, or certified-copy order form. Name the exact item you want, ask for a quote, and pick whichever delivery route the clerk offers.

Ulysses Records Beyond City Court

Ulysses municipal jurisdiction ends where federal cases begin. Two official-source references mark that boundary. They are not extra city search tools. A federal filing tied to a Ulysses person or event belongs to the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas, through its clerk, PACER, or a federal public terminal. CourtListener's RECAP archive may hold a free contributed copy of some federal filings.

RECAP is not the official Ulysses docket and can never replace the municipal clerk. The U.S. Attorney for the District of Kansas lists federal prosecutor offices in Kansas City, Topeka, and Wichita.

Those prosecutor offices keep no Ulysses Municipal Court records. For a city citation or ordinance file, the city clerk is still the right contact.

Ulysses Court Copy Requests

A strong Ulysses request names the party, cites the citation or city case number, identifies the paper you need, and gives a date range. Ask whether a plain copy will do or whether the clerk can certify it. The city posts no copy price, order cart, or firm turnaround time. Get an estimate before you authorize any work.

The contact form, phone, and counter each fit a different need. Use the form for a clear written question. Call when a setting is time-sensitive. Visit in person only if the clerk says review must happen that way. Protected details may be redacted or withheld under governing law.

Ulysses Court Record Verification

A Ulysses docket entry is just one piece of the municipal file. A charge is not a finding, and a hearing is not a trial result. A payment search is not the full judgment either. Confirm the latest status with the clerk before you rely on an old notice or calendar date.

Old cases need the same care. Ulysses was founded in 1885. The city publishes no full municipal archive, retention schedule, first digital-record date, or court-building history. Give the clerk an approximate year. Ask what older index or storage format can still be searched.