St. Lucie County Court Case Search and Records Requests

St. Lucie County court cases are searched through the Public Search menu of the Clerk of the Circuit Court and Comptroller at stlucieclerk.gov, which links the Court Case Search alongside the daily court schedule, official records and statewide searches.

The St. Lucie County Clerk's Public Search page says its search engines cover public records, court case information, tax deed sales and foreclosure sales, and that registering for an electronic access account adds search capability and the ability to download public access mail merge data. The same page offers a Redaction Request for Confidentiality form for public employees who qualify to have confidential information removed. The Clerk Locations and Hours page lists the general line, 772-462-6900.

The St. Lucie County Clerk's records request form says that without a case number or an Official Records book and page, a request needs party names and the document year, and it points requesters to the online Court Case Search to find the case number (Clerk public records request page). Last verified: October 22, 2026, after re-reading the Clerk public search, records request, fees and locations pages and Florida Statutes 28.2221 and 119.07.

Each tool on the St. Lucie County Clerk's Public Search menu covers one kind of record, from court cases and the daily court calendar to deeds, plats, tax deed auctions and County Commission minutes.

The St. Lucie County Clerk Public Search page also links statewide searches of Florida official records. Official Records cover recorded land and marriage documents rather than court files, and Florida law treats the two differently online, as the next section explains.

Florida law keeps family, juvenile and probate court files, military discharges and death certificates off public websites, so those St. Lucie County records are not shown in the open online view.

Section 28.2221, Florida Statutes sets those limits in subsection (5)(a), and it requires each county recorder to keep a current online index of official records from no later than January 1, 1990, limited to grantor and grantee names, party names, date, book and page, comments and record type. It also lets any affected person ask in writing for exempt information to be removed from the public website, with no fee charged for the removal. The St. Lucie County Clerk records request page adds that some information may be redacted under Florida Rule of Judicial Administration 2.420 and several statute chapters, and offers a User Agreement Form for enhanced access to select court records.

One more limit applies to printouts from the St. Lucie County online records. The same section of Florida Statutes 28.2221 says that, unless otherwise provided by law, information retrieved electronically under it is not admissible in court as an authenticated document.

Records that are not online are requested from the St. Lucie County Clerk's Research Department through an online form, by fax or in person, and usually take 2 to 7 business days.

The St. Lucie County Clerk acts as records custodian, and its Public Records Request page names the Research Department as the unit that fills copy requests, citing F.S. 119.12. The form asks for the documents wanted, a case number or book and page when known, and whether copies must be certified. A price quote comes back before any search is finished. Copies can be paid by credit card over the phone, with transaction fees, or by business check, money order or cashier's check sent by mail to the Research Department in Fort Pierce. Requests can also go by fax to 772-462-6908, and the Clerk asks that each request be sent through only one channel.

State law frames the request. Section 119.07, Florida Statutes says every person who has custody of a public record shall permit it to be inspected and copied by any person, at any reasonable time, under reasonable conditions and under supervision, and that a custodian who claims an exemption must redact only that part and produce the rest. The same section sets default copy charges only where a fee is not prescribed by law; the St. Lucie County Clerk fee schedule instead cites section 28.24.

A records search at the St. Lucie County Clerk costs $2.00 per year searched, a standard copied page $1.00 and a certification $2.00 per document, all drawn from Florida Statutes section 28.24.

Because the St. Lucie County fee schedule warns that amounts can change with state law, the Clerk asks payers to confirm the total on the day they pay, and card payments add a service charge. For certification handled by a deputy clerk, the records request page lists a $2 statutory fee, a $1.50 Clerk service fee and $1 per page.

Under Florida law a court record is the whole contents of a court file, including progress dockets, filed transcripts, documentary exhibits held by the clerk and recordings of proceedings, and the St. Lucie County Clerk certifies copies of them for a statutory charge.

Section 28.24, Florida Statutes defines the term that way and says a clerk's charges may not exceed the amounts it lists, including $2.00 for certifying a copy of a court record, of which the clerk remits 0.50 to the Department of Revenue for the General Revenue Fund, $3.50 a page for verifying an instrument prepared by someone else, and $1.00 a page for photographic copies up to 14 by 8 1/2 inches. The St. Lucie County Clerk fee schedule lists the same three amounts and says fees are set by the Florida Legislature.

For visits in person, the St. Lucie County Clerk Locations and Hours page lists court case filings, payments and copies at the Main Office in Fort Pierce, and the same services at the St. Lucie West Branch in the South County Annex, Port St. Lucie, for county civil, small claims and traffic cases. Hours are weekdays from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Court and jury duty are listed at the Fort Pierce Courthouse on South 2nd Street, while traffic and small claims proceedings are held at the annex.