Title Info: Island County Superior Court Case Files, 1982-2024

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Record Creator: Island County Government, Clerk
Description:
These records include the official documentation of all types of cases filed and tried in Island County Superior Court, a general jurisdiction court. These case types include criminal, civil, domestic relationships (dissolution), probate/guardianship, adoption/parentage, mental illness, juvenile dependency, and juvenile offender. Public access to proceedings involving adoptions, dependency, and mental competency is restricted, and those files are not available online. Requests for adoption, dependency, and mental competency case files should be directed to the Office of the Island County Clerk.

Each case file contains documents filed by both parties and the presiding judge, including awards, complaints, decrees, depositions, orders, pleadings, sentences, and verdicts. Cases are titled and ordered numerically according to the dates that cases are initiated.
Related Records: To learn about related records, contact the Washington State Archives, Northwest Regional Branch at (360) 650-3125 or email [email protected].
Access Restriction Notes: Access to court records is governed by Washington State Court Rule General Rule 31 (GR 31: Access to Court Records), "personal indentifiers" may sometimes appear in the records. Per GR 31(e)(2), "The responsibility for redacting these personal identifiers rests solely with counsel and the parties. The Court of the Clerk will not review each pleading for compliance with this rule. If a pleading is filed without redaction, the opposing party or identified person may move the Court to order redacti
Sources of Transfer Island County Clerk
Agency History: Island County Superior Court is a court of general jurisdiction. The County Clerk is the official elected by the citizens of Island County to preserve and administer the records of Superior Court.
Preferred Citation: Original records located at the office of the Island County Clerk, Coupeville, WA.
Record Count: 1,544,177