Searching Woodson County Criminal Dockets
Kansas Case Search is the main online tool for a Woodson County criminal docket. Pick District from the menu. Choose Case Number, Party Name, or Citation Number, set the case type to Criminal, and select Woodson County. A full case number works best. A citation helps when a traffic stop led to a criminal charge. Names are trickier, since common names and spelling variants return broad or incomplete results.
The county runs no separate online criminal docket database. When the state portal comes up empty, use the public terminal at Woodson County District Court. You can also call the clerk at 620-625-8610. Some older converted filings sit at the courthouse without showing up online. Need a specific pleading, judgment, or certified record? Send a focused request to the court custodian.
- Confirm that the case belongs to Woodson County District Court.
- Search the complete case number, then try a name or citation number.
- Choose Woodson County and Criminal before opening a result.
- Read the status and events, then compare a future setting with the calendar.
- Ask the clerk for the filed order when the exact outcome matters.
Woodson Criminal Case Markers
Woodson calendar entries carry the county marker WO plus criminal category markers like CR. These tags separate a district criminal case from a city ordinance citation. Treat them as structural clues, never as a way to guess a full identifier. Copy the complete number from an official notice or portal result whenever you can.
A failed docket search can stem from a format error, a municipal case number, or an older pre-Odyssey record. It may also point to a protected case type. It does not prove the case never existed. Check the cited court and filing year, then contact the district clerk. Or use the courthouse terminal.
Best search key: Use the complete court case number exactly as printed. County and criminal markers narrow the result far more than a surname alone.
Inside a Woodson County Criminal Docket
Think of the Woodson County criminal docket as an events index. It names the court and case type. Filing date, status, and assigned judge appear too. Public party roles, attorneys, and the chronological events round out the index. Some public documents may be linked too. A blank field could mean not displayed, not entered, not public, or unavailable through that portal. When a summary and the filed record disagree, the signed journal entry or judgment controls.
| Case number | Woodson and criminal identifiers, often including WO and CR. |
|---|---|
| Charge | The filed accusation and statute when public, not a finding of guilt. |
| Settings | First appearance, arraignment, status, motion, trial, disposition, or sentencing. |
| Parties and counsel | Public roles and attorneys; protected identities can be masked. |
| Disposition | Dismissal, plea, judgment, sentence, diversion event, or another result to check against the order. |
Costs, restitution, or balances appear only when the authorized system exposes those fields. The local fee schedule is not an individual account ledger.
Woodson Charges Are Not Convictions
A charge is an allegation filed in court. It is not a conviction. An arraignment label tells you nothing about the plea. A disposition setting does not show what the judge decided. Read the Woodson County criminal docket as a sequence, not a verdict. The complaint, motion, journal entry, and judgment hold the legal detail behind each short event label.
Dismissals deserve the same caution. One entry may not say whether all counts were dismissed. Was it with or without prejudice? The entry may not say. A case marked closed can still see later payment, appeal, or post-judgment activity. Find the signed filing rather than inferring an outcome from a single label.
Note: A public calendar setting shows scheduled court activity. It is not proof that the event occurred or produced a final ruling.
How a Criminal Case Moves
A Woodson County criminal docket tracks the case through its assigned proceedings. The exact route depends on the charge and the rulings along the way. The official Woodson calendar uses First Appearance, Arraignment, Status Conference, Diversion - Status, and Motion. Bench Trial, Disposition, and Sentencing complete the set. Each label names an event. The result or filed order confirms what happened.
Docket flow: Charge Filed › First Appearance › Arraignment › Pretrial › Plea or Trial › Disposition › Sentencing
- Arraignment
- An appearance for advice and plea under criminal procedure.
- Disposition
- An event at which a charge or case may be resolved.
- Diversion status
- A check tied to a diversion agreement, not disclosure of its outcome.
- Bench trial
- A trial decided by a judge rather than a jury.
Woodson Criminal Hearing Checks
The 31st Judicial District Woodson page links a weekly court calendar. It also links a Court Days document. Both help confirm a coming setting. The district warns, though, that the calendar is updated weekly and may change. Before traveling, call 620-625-8610. Do this if a date was reset, a portal result differs, or the calendar omits an expected case.
Remote-hearing instructions rely on a standing order, division link, meeting ID, or password. They offer a way to attend an authorized setting. They do not replace the docket, prove the outcome, or open a sealed event.
Courts That Hold Criminal Dockets
State felony and misdemeanor cases have one home. They belong to Woodson County District Court in the 31st Judicial District. Under K.S.A. 20-302b, a magistrate judge may handle preliminary examinations, arraignments, misdemeanor and traffic work, and other assigned matters. District judges take felony trials, sentencing, and other proceedings.
Municipal courts keep their own city ordinance dockets. Yates Center has an official municipal court, so check which court issued the citation. Federal cases go through the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas.
| Court | Docket covers | Search route |
|---|---|---|
| Woodson County District Court | State felonies, misdemeanors, assigned criminal traffic | Kansas Case Search, terminal, clerk |
| Yates Center Municipal Court | City ordinance violations | Municipal clerk |
| District of Kansas | Federal criminal matters | PACER or federal clerk |
Woodson Criminal Docket Fees
The fee amounts come from one source. Woodson County posts its criminal docket fees in the official local fee schedule. The docket line runs $158 for a misdemeanor and $193 for a felony. Murder cases sit at $202.50. A traffic row is $108, and an expungement row is $195. None of those numbers is a bill. Fines, court costs, restitution, and supervision charges ride on top, and every case is different.
Other rows prove the point. Correctional supervision is $120 for a felony and $60 for a misdemeanor. A municipal court appeal adds $94.50. Fish, game, and watercraft matters get their own lines too. So a schedule row never predicts a balance in a Woodson County court docket. Want to know what a specific case owes? Read the docket, the judgment, and the payment record side by side.
Record services carry separate prices. Copies cost $0.50 per page, certification is $1, and authentication is $2. Clerk-assisted searching runs $12 per hour, and faxing costs $1 per page. Get an estimate before a large request. Convenience fees can sit apart from the docket fees. Have the clerk or an authorized payment center confirm the full total and the right case number before sending money.
Sealed Dockets and Public Access
A terminal at the courthouse can open more public detail than the internet does. Still, no terminal turns a nonpublic record public. Woodson calendars sometimes swap a protected entry for a sealed marker. Juvenile, adoption, and protection files may be restricted or missing from online court records entirely. Mental-health, grand-jury, search-warrant, and expunged matters may be too.
Key rules: Rule 22 recognizes online and nonpublic limits. Rule 106B limits electronic identifiers and warns that an electronic copy is not necessarily official. K.S.A. 38-2310 governs juvenile confidentiality. K.S.A. 21-6614 limits disclosure of qualifying expunged matters.
The official expungement statute is preserved in this source image.
This is also why a qualifying older docket can drop out of public view. The official juvenile records law sets out those limits.
Its limits are why a juvenile or sealed placeholder must not be reverse engineered.
Woodson Criminal Document Requests
The docket itself is just the index. Each entry points to an actual document. The complaint, motion, journal entry, judgment, sentencing record, or transcript sits behind it. Older public records live on the courthouse terminal; copies come from the clerk. The Kansas court-record KORA form starts with a requester name. Name Woodson County District Court, describe the exact record, and pick email, mail, pickup, or fax.
Clerk of Court Lisa Page's office confirms delivery at 620-625-8610. The court fax line is 620-625-8674. Not every request gets confirmed by fax, though. Keep the ask tight: case number, document name, date range. The Woodson County case lookup can pull those details together first.