Boone County Court Dockets
A court docket is the running calendar and event log for a case. In Boone County, that can mean a list of upcoming hearings, a record of past case events, or both, depending on whether the user is viewing a court-date tool, a public case search, or a clerk-provided copy. The docket may show an arraignment, preliminary hearing, pretrial conference, motion hour, civil motion, master commissioner hearing, sentencing, expungement hearing, eviction hearing, probate docket, small-claims hearing, dismissal docket, bench trial, or jury trial. It helps answer when a case is set and what has happened in court.
Boone County dockets are tied to Kentucky's unified Court of Justice. The Kentucky Court of Justice court hierarchy places Circuit Court as the general-jurisdiction trial court, Family Court as a Circuit Court division, and District Court as the limited-jurisdiction trial court. The Boone County Circuit Court Clerk manages local Circuit, Family, District, and Business Court records, so the docket source depends on the court and case type rather than on a separate county clerk office.
- Docket
- A case calendar or event list showing scheduled hearings, filings, and court actions.
- Case record
- The broader court file, which may include pleadings, orders, notices, judgments, and copyable documents.
- Motion hour
- A scheduled court session for requests asking a judge to order or decide something.
- Disposition
- The outcome of a charge, claim, motion, or case event.
Find Boone County Court Dockets
The main online starting point is KYeCourts Public Court Records guest access. The guest page provides free access to public case information throughout Kentucky and directs users to check the public-records square checkbox before continuing. The Boone County Kentucky Court of Justice page also exposes Find a Case, Find a Court Date, and Pay Fine/Fee links for Boone matters. The local clerk pages use the same state court-date route when they tell users to check for an upcoming court date.
For docket access that is not found online, the official fallback is direct contact with the office that keeps the court record. The Kentucky request court records page states that requests for case court records and review of case records start with the clerk of the court that heard the case. In Boone County, that means the Circuit Court Clerk at the Boone County Justice Center for Circuit, Family, District, and Business Court matters. Archived cases may be in the clerk's office, at a state record facility, or destroyed under Court of Justice retention rules. If a stored record is available for public access, the clerk provides case and file locator numbers before the user contacts the State Records Center.
- Identify the court level first. Circuit Criminal, Circuit Civil, Family, District Criminal, and District Civil dockets follow different schedules and phone lines.
- Start with KYeCourts guest access. Check the public-records box and continue into the public application.
- Use the Find a Court Date route when the need is a hearing date rather than a full case-file search.
- Use case number when known. If not, search by party details as the live application allows.
- Call the Boone Circuit Court Clerk department if the docket cannot be found online or if a copy is needed.
- Ask about archive status for older docket records before sending a request to the Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives.
Note: KYeCourts may show public case and court-date information, but it should not be treated as a complete document repository.
Boone County Docket Fields
Boone County docket entries can be read as a field inventory. The exact view depends on whether the record is in KYeCourts, Find a Court Date, ePay, or a clerk-provided copy, but the research identifies the core data points users should expect. Case number is the strongest search key. For payment-linked traffic or citation matters, Kentucky ePay allows citation searches by year, control number, and type, plus party or case-number searches when payment is available.
| Field | What It Shows |
|---|---|
| Case number | The court-assigned identifier used for the most precise Boone County docket and case search. |
| County, court, and division | Whether the matter is in Boone Circuit Criminal, Circuit Civil, Family/Juvenile, District Criminal, District Civil, probate, traffic, small claims, eviction, guardianship, mental health, or Casey's Law routing. |
| Courtroom and judge | The assigned courtroom, judge, or division when that information is public and tied to the listed hearing. |
| Parties | Names such as plaintiff and defendant, petitioner and respondent, Commonwealth and defendant, attorneys, or surety and bond parties if public. |
| Docket dates | Hearings such as arraignment, video arraignment, preliminary hearing, pretrial conference, motion hour, civil motion, master commissioner hearing, bench trial, jury trial, sentencing, or expungement hearing. |
| Charge or claim data | Offense, statute, charge level, arresting agency, warrant or summons, citation number, complaint, petition, motion, order, judgment, or civil relief sought. |
| Bond and financial data | Bond type, bond amount, fines, costs, restitution, payment plan, payment status, or bond-release data when included in a public court record. |
| Restrictions and redactions | Limits on Social Security numbers, dates of birth, financial accounts, minor names, sealed cases, juvenile records, adoption records, mental-health records, and domestic violence-sensitive data. |
The docket field list is also useful for deciding which office to call. For a payable fine, cost, fee, or bond question, Boone Bookkeeping is the direct clerk department. For a court-date-only issue, the court-date gateway or the relevant docket department is the better route. For a document copy, the clerk may need the case number, court, division, and filing date before locating the file.
Boone County District Dockets
District Criminal is central to Boone County court dockets because it handles city and county ordinances, misdemeanors, violations, traffic offenses, arraignments, preliminary probable-cause hearings, pretrial conferences, bench trials, and District jury trials. The local Boone District Criminal page lists Judge Smith for Division 1 and Judge Thomas for Division 2. It also identifies courtroom-based schedules, including video arraignment dockets from the jail and regular arraignment dockets on weekdays.
Traffic and arraignment dockets often begin in District Criminal. A person cited or arrested in Boone County may first see a District Criminal arraignment, then later a pretrial conference, preliminary hearing, bench trial, or motion hour depending on the case. Felony charges may start in District Court for an arraignment or probable-cause hearing and later move to Circuit Criminal after indictment. That makes the docket trail important: one case can have a District Court event before a later Circuit Court case number or schedule appears.
The Boone District Criminal schedule also marks Veteran's Court on the second and fourth Thursday at 2:00 p.m. in Courtroom 2A. Wednesday includes confidential District Juvenile dockets and a dismissal docket. Those entries show why a public docket search may not expose every proceeding. Juvenile matters are not ordinary public calendar records.
Boone County Civil Dockets
District Civil and Circuit Civil dockets serve different case types. The local Boone District Civil page places evictions, small claims up to $2,500, civil suits from $2,500 to $5,000, probate, guardianships, emergency guardianships, mental health, Casey's Law, name changes, student driving privileges, and Orders to Dispense in District Civil. Judge Smith and Judge Thomas are listed for the District Civil divisions.
| Docket Type | Boone County Schedule Detail | Access Point |
|---|---|---|
| Evictions, probate, student driving, minor guardianship | Monday at 1:00 p.m.; Tuesday at 1:00 p.m.; Wednesday at 11:00 a.m. | District Civil, 859-448-2902 |
| Small claims | Wednesday at 11:00 a.m. with the District Civil docket | District Civil, 859-448-2902 |
| Involuntary mental health | Tuesday at 11:30 a.m. as a closed hearing | Clerk guidance required |
| Casey's Law | Thursday at 11:30 a.m. as a closed hearing | Clerk guidance required |
Boone Circuit Civil handles larger civil matters and more complex relief, including civil matters over $5,000, land title disputes, habeas corpus, foreclosures, wrongful death suits, contested probate, injunctions, writs, and appeals from District Court or agencies. The Boone Circuit Civil page lists Judge Brueggemann Division 1 with Master Commissioner hearings on the first and third Tuesday at 8:45 a.m. and civil motions on the first and third Tuesday at 9:00 a.m. For court structure and jurisdiction, the local trial court page uses the resolved Boone County Circuit Court framework.
Boone County Circuit Dockets
Circuit Criminal dockets cover the felony-level side of Boone County court calendars. The Boone Circuit Criminal page states that Circuit Criminal hears capital offenses, felony indictments from the grand jury, and probation or parole violations. Local schedule details identify Judge Brueggemann and Judge Schrand, with pretrial conference, motion hours, expungement hearings, sentencing dockets, and arraignments held on scheduled Wednesdays. The page includes date lists, so users should confirm current dates with the clerk rather than rely on an old calendar printout.
Felony docket history may show more than one stage. A charge can begin with a citation, arrest, complaint, warrant, or District Criminal event. If the grand jury indicts the case, the Circuit Criminal docket can then show arraignment, motion hour, pretrial conference, plea, trial setting, sentencing, probation violation, or expungement hearing. The docket is the timeline. The full criminal file may add the indictment, orders, plea paperwork, sentencing documents, and other filings.
Important: A docket setting is not proof of guilt, liability, or final outcome. Use the disposition and full case record before treating a case event as resolved.
Boone County Docket Access
Boone County court docket access has several documented channels. Online access starts with KYeCourts public guest records and Find a Court Date. Payment-linked searches use ePay. Direct clerk access is still needed when an online record is missing, a copy is required, the user needs a department-specific answer, or the case is older and may be archived. The Kentucky Court of Justice Boone County page identifies the Boone County Justice Center and the Office of Circuit Court Clerk as the local court-record contact.
| Channel | Use It For | Boone County Detail |
|---|---|---|
| KYeCourts public records | Free public case information and online docket search start point | Check the public-records square checkbox and continue through the guest gateway. |
| Find a Court Date | Upcoming public court dates | Linked from Boone and Kentucky Court of Justice pages for court-date checks. |
| District Criminal | Misdemeanor, traffic, violations, arraignment, preliminary hearing, bench trial, District jury trial | 859-448-2903 |
| District Civil | Eviction, small claims, probate, guardianship, name change, student driving, mental health, Casey's Law routing | 859-448-2902 |
| Circuit Civil or Circuit Criminal | Felony, civil over $5,000, contested probate, appeals, motion hour, sentencing, expungement hearing | 859-448-2900 |
| Family and Juvenile | Divorce, custody, support, paternity, adoption, domestic violence, dependency, juvenile-related routing | 859-448-2901 |
| Bookkeeping | Fines, fees, costs, bonds, payments, payment status | 859-448-2905 |
The office location for these court channels is the Boone County Justice Center, 6025 Rogers Lane, Room 141, Burlington, KY 41005. The local clerk office lists public hours of 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. and the main phone as 859-448-2900. If a record has moved to a state record facility, the clerk should provide the case and file locator numbers needed for a state records request. State Records Center records cannot be searched by name or Social Security number, so the locator step matters.
Dockets Versus Case Records
A Boone County docket is best read as a court calendar and event trail. It can tell a user that a hearing exists, that a filing event happened, that a case is set for motion hour, or that a disposition may have been entered. It does not always provide the underlying document. A full case record can include the complaint, petition, summons, answer, motion, order, judgment, indictment, bond order, plea, sentencing order, probation condition, restitution detail, or copyable filing.
| Question | Docket | Full Case Record |
|---|---|---|
| Purpose | Tracks court events, dates, settings, and summary entries. | Preserves the filed papers, orders, notices, judgments, and case documents. |
| Common access | Often checked through KYeCourts, Find a Court Date, or clerk calendar information. | Requested through the Circuit Court Clerk, reviewed in person, or copied when public and available. |
| Best use | Confirming court date, courtroom path, docket stage, or recent activity. | Reviewing legal claims, charge language, orders, sentence terms, and document text. |
| Limits | May omit documents, sealed details, redacted data, or confidential proceedings. | May require clerk review, copy fees, in-person access, archive retrieval, or court permission. |
For a broader document search, the main Boone County court records page covers case-file access beyond docket entries. Docket data is still the practical first check for many users because it narrows the court, date, division, and event type before a clerk request is made.
Confidential Boone County Dockets
Not every Boone County docket is public. The research identifies several limits that affect calendar and docket access. District Criminal lists confidential District Juvenile dockets on Wednesdays. District Civil lists involuntary mental health hearings as closed and Casey's Law hearings as closed. Family and juvenile-related matters can involve adoption, dependency, neglect, abuse, domestic violence, minors, and protected identifying information. Those limits can affect whether a case appears online, what a clerk can release, and whether a hearing detail is redacted.
Kentucky law also treats court records differently from general county open records. KRS 26A.200 places Court of Justice records under Supreme Court control, which is why Boone court files route through KYeCourts and the Circuit Court Clerk rather than the Fiscal Court general open-records process. The research also flags juvenile confidentiality under KRS 610.340 and confidential mental-health court records under KRS Chapter 202B. Public docket access should be read with those restrictions in mind.
Note: If a Boone County court date involves a minor, adoption, mental health, domestic violence-sensitive data, or a sealed case, public docket results may be limited or absent.