Bullitt County Court Records Search
The main online access point for Bullitt County court records is KYeCourts Public Court Records. The Kentucky Court of Justice guest page states that it provides free public case information throughout Kentucky. For Bullitt County, that means a search can point to public case information from Circuit Court, District Court, and Family Court when the record is not sealed, confidential, or otherwise limited. The visible guest entry page is gated by a CAPTCHA checkbox and a Continue button, so exact post-login search fields should not be assumed from the public landing page alone.
Use Kentucky Court of Justice record request guidance when the goal is a copy of a filed document instead of a quick case lookup. That state page explains that circuit court clerks manage Circuit, Family, District, and Business Court case records. In Bullitt County, the local record counter is the Office of Circuit Court Clerk at the Bullitt County Judicial Center. The County Clerk is a different office and is used for land records, marriage records, vehicle records, elections, and County Clerk open records, not ordinary court case files.
- Open the KYeCourts guest entry page and complete the visible CAPTCHA checkbox.
- Select Continue to enter the public court records search area.
- Use the case information available after entry, but do not treat a public case lookup as a certified background check.
- Use the ePay route for fines, costs, restitution, prepayable citations, and traffic-school payments.
- Use the Kentucky docket portal for hearing-calendar checks and the Circuit Court Clerk for certified copies or files not available online.
The Kentucky Court of Justice background checks page is the better route when an official criminal record report is required. A case search may show court activity, but it is not the same as a statewide criminal background report.
Bullitt County Court Records Search Fields
KYeCourts has two useful public entry points for Bullitt County court records. The guest court records page exposes only the entry gate before CAPTCHA completion in the captured research. The separate KYeCourts ePay portal has visible case, citation, and party search modes. ePay is most useful for payment tasks, traffic citations, costs, restitution, and eligible traffic-school selections, but its visible fields also show how Kentucky routes payment-linked case searches.
| Field Label | Type | Required | Notes / Format |
|---|---|---|---|
| reCAPTCHA square checkbox | Checkbox/CAPTCHA | Yes | Required before the guest court-record search continues. |
| Continue | Submit button | Yes | Opens the public records search after the entry gate is complete. |
| County | Dropdown | Yes for ePay case search | Select BULLITT for local case or payment searches. |
| Case # | Text | Yes for ePay case search | Max length captured as 20 characters. |
| Year / Control # / Type | Text and dropdown | Yes for citation search | Used for citation or control-number searches in ePay. |
| First Name / Last Name / Birth Date | Text/date | Yes for party search | Party search requires all three values plus CAPTCHA. |
Types of Bullitt County Court Records
Bullitt County court records are split by the court that creates the case. Bullitt Circuit Court handles felony criminal cases, larger civil lawsuits, foreclosures, land-title disputes, contested probate matters, and appeals from District Court. Bullitt District Court handles traffic offenses, misdemeanors, violations, felony preliminary matters before grand-jury action, small claims, evictions, probate filings, name changes, guardianships, Casey's Law matters, and mental-health or disability proceedings. Family Court operates within the circuit-level system for divorce, custody, support, juvenile, adoption, and protective-order matters.
The local Circuit Court Clerk site separates service information into Circuit Civil/Criminal, District Civil/Probate, District Criminal/Traffic, and Family Court pages. Those same divisions are a practical way to think about Bullitt County court records. A traffic citation, small claim, felony indictment, divorce decree, probate estate, and eviction judgment may all be court records, but they do not have the same access limits or request route.
- Civil records may include complaints, summonses, service returns, motions, judgments, garnishments, satisfaction filings, and foreclosure papers.
- Criminal records may include complaints, citations, indictments, bond orders, warrants, arraignment entries, pleas, dispositions, sentences, court costs, and probation terms.
- Family records may include divorce petitions, custody orders, support orders, protective orders, and post-decree motions, with juvenile and adoption limits.
- Probate and District Civil records may include estates, wills, guardianships, name changes, minor settlements, evictions, and small claims.
- Traffic records may show a citation, charge, agency, court date, fine, costs, State Traffic School selection, CATS status, failure to appear, or warrant activity.
The Kentucky Revised Statutes search page is one assigned source for Bullitt County court records. The Kentucky Revised Statutes search helps place public access, confidentiality, juvenile limits, and expungement topics in the correct legal context.
State statutes matter most when a Bullitt County court record involves confidentiality, redaction, juvenile access, public-record exemptions, or a later expungement request.
What Bullitt County Court Records Show
A Bullitt County court record is more than a case name. Public case information may show the court, division, filing date, parties, attorneys, judge, case status, hearing history, and docket entries. Some documents may be available only by clerk request, and some images or personal data may be withheld. The research did not capture a fixed Bullitt case-number format after the KYeCourts CAPTCHA gate, so case-number formats should be read from the actual portal or clerk copy, not guessed.
| Field | What It Shows |
|---|---|
| Case number | The court-assigned identifier for the case, as shown by KYeCourts or the clerk file. |
| Court and division | Whether the case is Circuit, District, Family, District Civil/Probate, or District Criminal/Traffic. |
| Parties | Names such as plaintiff and defendant, petitioner and respondent, Commonwealth and defendant, or decedent and estate. |
| Docket entries | Filings and case events such as motions, orders, continuances, pleas, judgments, bond action, or dismissal. |
| Financial fields | Court costs, fines, restitution, public defender fee, bench-warrant fees, bond posting, or bond refund status. |
| Status or disposition | Pending, dismissed, diversion, conviction, probation, judgment entered, closed, or another case outcome. |
Public Access to Bullitt County Court Records
Public access depends on the record owner. Court case information is searched through KYeCourts and obtained from the Bullitt County Circuit Court Clerk. County Clerk records go through the County Clerk. Sheriff records go through the Sheriff's Office. Jail and booking records go through the Bullitt County Detention Center. This office-by-office split is important because a single event can create several records: a jail booking, a sheriff process record, a District Court criminal case, a Circuit Court felony case, and a later probation or expungement record.
Kentucky's Open Records Act is found in KRS Chapter 61. KRS 61.870 defines public records and key terms, while KRS 61.878 lists exemptions. Those statutes do not make every court file visible online. They set the larger public-record framework, while court rules, juvenile statutes, sealing orders, expungement law, and redaction practice control many case-file details.
Note: Certified court copies should be requested from the Circuit Court Clerk, not downloaded from a docket or payment screen.
The KRS Chapter 61 source assigned to this page is a useful starting point for open-records rights and limits. The KRS Chapter 61 index lists the public-record sections most often cited for inspection, copying, fees, and exemptions.
For Bullitt County, the practical result is simple: start with the office that owns the record, then use the statutes and court rules to understand what may be inspected or copied.
Restricted Bullitt County Court Records
Some Bullitt County court records are public only in part, and some are not public at all. Juvenile dockets and juvenile case records are restricted by KRS 610.320 and KRS 610.340. Family Court handles juvenile dependency, neglect, abuse, status offenses, and adoptions, so those records require care. Adoption files should be treated as restricted unless a court order or statute allows access.
Other restricted records include sealed or expunged cases, mental-health and disability proceedings, adult guardianship files with sensitive medical facts, public defender files, personal identifiers, Social Security numbers, financial account data, and law-enforcement records withheld under statutory exemptions. Kentucky Court of Justice expungement procedures can remove eligible cases from ordinary public view after the proper certification and court petition process. In Bullitt County, local Circuit Civil/Criminal guidance says expungement petitions and proposed orders must be on AOC forms, placed on motion hour, and filed with a separate motion.
Bullitt County Court Record Requests
When KYeCourts does not provide enough detail, the local access channel is the Circuit Court Clerk. The Kentucky Court of Justice Bullitt County page lists the Bullitt County Judicial Center as the official court location and identifies Paulita A. Keith as Circuit Court Clerk. The office handles local Circuit, District, Family, probate, traffic, civil, and criminal court case files. Requesters should be ready to provide a party name, case number if known, court division, filing date or approximate year, and the kind of copy needed.
The KCOJ background checks page is another assigned source for this page. It is relevant when the needed product is an official criminal record report, not a Bullitt County case-file copy.
That distinction helps prevent a common error: a public court-record search can show case history, but a formal background check follows a separate Kentucky Court of Justice process.
Bullitt County Circuit Court Clerk
250 Frank E. Simon Ave., P.O. Box 746
Shepherdsville, KY 40165
502-543-7104 / 502-955-7764
Monday-Friday, 8 a.m.-4 p.m.
Use the Bullitt County Clerk open-records route only for County Clerk records, such as land, marriage, election, vehicle, or County Clerk administrative records. That office is led by County Clerk Kevin Mooney at the Nina Mooney Annex Building and is not the main custodian for court case files.