Contact the Issaquena County Clerk

About the Issaquena County Clerk's Office

Issaquena County runs a consolidated clerk's office. Mississippi usually splits two clerk jobs. The Circuit Clerk keeps the Circuit Court papers, while the Chancery Clerk keeps the Chancery Court files and the county land records. In most counties these are two separate elected officials. Issaquena County is different. Official county and state directories list one elected official, Ronda Delaney, as both Circuit Clerk and Chancery Clerk. She is also named as the county Purchase Clerk and Board Secretary. For a resident, that means a single office and a small set of named staff handle nearly every county record request.

The clerk's office is the public counter for court filings and copies. It receives and files court papers, keeps the official record, issues certified copies, and collects the fees set for those services. Issaquena is one of the smallest counties in Mississippi, so there is no large multi-building complex. The same Mayersville courthouse address serves the Circuit Court, the Chancery Court, and the Board of Supervisors. A call ahead is wise before any trip for a specific file, certified copy, or older paper record.

The Mississippi Chancery Clerks Association keeps a public listing for each county. Its directory entry for Issaquena County names Ronda Delaney and gives the same mailing address, phone, fax, and email used for clerk business.

That listing confirms the consolidated setup, because the same person appears as the county's chancery contact and the circuit contact. It is a good place to verify the Issaquena County clerk's details before mailing a request to Mayersville.

What the Issaquena County Circuit Clerk Handles

Mississippi Circuit Clerks receive and maintain the papers for Circuit Court. Circuit Court is the venue for felony prosecutions, civil lawsuits not assigned elsewhere, and appeals from the lower courts. So the Circuit Clerk side of the office is the right starting point for serious criminal and civil files. The Issaquena County Circuit Court is listed at 129 Court Street in Mayersville, phone 662-873-2761, with hours of 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. The court joined Mississippi Electronic Courts in July 2018. The clerk files and stores the documents that make up each of these cases.

Several record types route through this channel. The list below shows the main duties the Circuit Clerk side carries for Issaquena County.

• Filing and keeping felony criminal case papers for Circuit Court.
• Recording civil lawsuit pleadings, motions, and judgments.
• Logging indictments, pleas, dispositions, and trial settings.
• Tracking bonds reflected in a case file.
• Receiving appeals bound over or appealed from Justice and Municipal Court.
• Issuing marriage licenses, which Mississippi assigns to the Circuit Clerk.

Together these filings make up much of the county's Issaquena County court records. When a felony, a civil suit, or a lower-court appeal is involved, the Circuit Clerk holds the official file and can certify copies from it.

What the Issaquena County Chancery Clerk Handles

The Chancery Clerk side carries a wider mix of court and county work. Mississippi Chancery Clerks maintain Chancery Court records and also handle county land records and board functions. The office attends Chancery Court sessions, keeps the minute books, and records and preserves land records such as deeds, deeds of trust, mortgages, mineral leases, and plats. It also receives bills, petitions, motions, accounts, inventories, and other papers filed on behalf of the county. The Issaquena County Chancery Court is listed at 129 Court Street, phone 662-873-6297, and it moved onto Mississippi Electronic Courts in February 2017.

Chancery Court hears the family and estate matters that touch many households. The clerk keeps those files alongside the land and county records.

• Keeping case files for divorce, custody, and guardianship.
• Recording wills, estate filings, and conservatorship papers.
• Preserving deeds, mortgages, mineral leases, and plats in the land records.
• Attending Chancery Court sessions and keeping the minute books.
• Receiving petitions, accounts, and inventories filed for the county.
• Handling Board of Supervisors paperwork as Board Secretary and Purchase Clerk.

Estate and family filings sit in the county's Chancery Court records, which the same clerk manages. That overlap is why one office in Mayersville can answer questions about a deed, a divorce decree, and a probate estate.

Ways to Reach the Issaquena County Clerk

No county-built online clerk request form, fee schedule, or local records portal was located in official sources. That is a useful fact, not a dead end. It simply means the working channels are the statewide court system, the courthouse counter, the mail, and the phone. The table below lays out each channel and how it works for Issaquena County.

Note: Issaquena County has no standalone case-search portal, jail roster, or clerk search page, so the courthouse and the statewide system carry the load.

Issaquena County Clerk Records Online

The official online route for Circuit and Chancery records is Mississippi Electronic Courts and its public side, known as PAMEC. Issaquena County Circuit Court appears on the Ninth Circuit Court District system, and Issaquena County Chancery Court appears on the Ninth Chancery District system. Public access is not a simple anonymous search box on the county website. PAMEC requires a registered public account for remote document access, and that account differs from an attorney filing login. Recent state announcements confirm that Mississippi has finished statewide electronic filing across Circuit, Chancery, and County Courts.

A registered user accepts the terms before viewing case documents. The PAMEC non-attorney terms page sets out the rules for a public, non-filing account.

Those terms govern how a public user views Issaquena County clerk records from a home computer. For anyone who does not want to register or pay online viewing charges, the courthouse stays the fallback, where staff can pull a public file or point to a public terminal. Older, sealed, or non-digitized records still call for direct contact with the clerk.

How to Request a Certified Copy

A certified copy carries the clerk's seal and is the version courts, employers, and agencies accept. An uncertified printout from a public terminal does not carry the same weight. Both the Circuit Clerk and the Chancery Clerk can certify copies from the files they hold. Because Issaquena does not publish its copy fee, a quick call settles the cost before anything is mailed.

1. Decide which court holds the record. Use the Circuit Clerk for felony, civil, and appeal files, and the Chancery Clerk for divorce, estate, guardianship, and land records.
2. Gather the identifiers. Have the case number if known, the party names, the record type, and the date range ready.
3. Call the clerk to confirm the certified-copy fee and the accepted payment method, since the Issaquena amount is not posted online.
4. Submit the request. Mail it to P.O. Box 27 or bring it to the counter at 129 Court Street with the copy details and payment.
5. State that you need certification and choose pickup or mail delivery, then wait for the office to process it.

Note: Keep the case number and party names exact, since a small spelling difference can slow a search for an older Issaquena County file.

Issaquena County Records Request Checklist

No Issaquena-specific clerk request form was located in official sources, so the office does not appear to publish an online form to fill out. A clear written request still works well by mail or at the counter. The fields below act as a checklist for what a strong request should include, not as an official county form.

Issaquena County Clerk Fees

Fees fall into two groups. The statewide electronic-court fees are reported in public coverage, while the county's own copy fees were not found in official Issaquena sources. That gap matters. Rather than guess an amount, the safe step is to call the clerk for the exact certified-copy and plain-copy charge before sending money. The table marks which figures are reported and which remain unconfirmed for Issaquena County.

The PAMEC registration fee buys a year of remote public access, and the per-page viewing charge applies to documents pulled online. A courthouse public terminal may avoid the online viewing fee. None of these state figures should be read as the county's certified-copy price, which the clerk sets locally.

Marriage and Probate Requests in Issaquena County

Two of the most common clerk errands are marriage licenses and probate paperwork, and they land on different sides of the consolidated office. Mississippi issues marriage licenses through the Circuit Clerk, so a couple applies on that side of the counter in Mayersville. A certified copy of a county marriage record also comes from the Circuit Clerk, while the Mississippi State Department of Health offers a statewide certified marriage record when the county cannot pull one quickly. The local Issaquena license fee was not found online, so confirm it before applying.

Probate runs through Chancery Court rather than a separate probate court. Wills, estate administrations, guardianships, and conservatorships are opened and stored on the Chancery Clerk side. The clerk can confirm the required filings, whether a case can be viewed in PAMEC, and what an older estate file contains. Sensitive matters, such as guardianships involving minors, may carry restricted details even when a case exists.

Note: Marriage records belong to the Circuit Clerk and probate records to the Chancery Clerk, yet both reach the same Mayersville office under one elected official.

Public Records Act Requests in Issaquena County

When no online form exists, the Mississippi Public Records Act is the backstop. The law, found at Miss. Code Section 25-61-1 and following, makes public records open for inspection unless a statute or exemption says otherwise. A related section requires public bodies to keep reasonable procedures for access and allows them to charge actual costs where the law permits. A request goes to the public body that actually keeps the record, which for court files is the clerk and for law-enforcement records is the sheriff.

The Mississippi Ethics Commission explains how the act works and handles complaints about access. Its public records overview describes the right of access and the Commission's role.

That overview is a fair starting point for an Issaquena County clerk request that runs into delay or refusal. The act does not override sealing orders, expunctions, youth court confidentiality, or required redactions. For everyday court papers, deeds, and copies, though, it supports a written request to Ronda Delaney's office at P.O. Box 27 in Mayersville.