Search Roosevelt County Court Dockets

How to Search the Roosevelt County Court Docket

Start your Roosevelt County docket search at the free New Mexico Case Lookup. It pulls public case information from District, Magistrate, Municipal, Metropolitan, and appellate courts across the state. Got the full case number? Use it. Without one, try a party name, pick the right court type and location, and tighten a crowded result with a filing or hearing date range. What you get can identify the case and its events. Filed document images are not included.

Venue trips people up in Roosevelt County. A felony can leave a preliminary case in Magistrate Court and then open a District Court file. Traffic citations may land in the Magistrate Court, the Portales Municipal Court, or the Elida Municipal Court. Check the court named on your citation or notice. No single court holds every Roosevelt County docket.

1. Find the case number, citation, party name, and approximate filing year.
2. Open Case Lookup and select the court type and location that match the filing venue.
3. Use the case number or name search, adding a date range only when it helps narrow results.
4. Read the case title, status, hearing entries, events, and assigned court before relying on a result.
5. Use the clerk, re:SearchNM, or a records request for a document, a certified copy, or an older missing file.

The Case Lookup entry screen is where a public Roosevelt County case search begins.

The image reflects the statewide interface that precedes a court-specific Roosevelt County docket result.

Roosevelt County Case Lookup Routes

Case Lookup is one layer of the Roosevelt County docket system, not the whole record. For a deeper search, re:SearchNM serves as the registered Odyssey interface, offering broader case information plus document images for eligible user profiles and cases. Its tools reach across cases, hearings, and filings. They can even search text inside documents where access allows. A free Case Lookup result may pin down a case number and court. A closer look takes re:SearchNM or the filing clerk.

The public-access rules keep these channels separate. Registering does not lift a seal, a confidential category, a redaction, or a document-security setting. Identify the court first. Then ask that clerk which route opens the actual file you need.

The re:SearchNM portal shows the registered access route for Odyssey case information.

Its account gateway is distinct from the free public Case Lookup path.

What a Roosevelt County Court Docket Shows

A Roosevelt County docket is the running register of a case, not merely a calendar. In New Mexico's Odyssey system, you will see labels for case details, events, filings, and hearings. A result can show the title, number, location, category, type, filing date, judge, status, parties, attorneys, and related cases. Criminal views may add charge, plea, disposition, sentence, conditions, or fine fields when the viewer has access. Civil views often cover party roles, motions, hearing results, and later judgment events.

Read the event history in order. A scheduled hearing is not proof it happened. A closed status is not a certified judgment. A document-security label can mean the image stays off limits to that user. Before calling a clerk, save the filing court. Save the complete case number too. Those two details matter most.

The official re:SearchNM User Guide walks through the case-details and events model behind Roosevelt County records.

The public-access material helps separate an online case summary from a complete court file.

Roosevelt County Case Number Terms

New Mexico's published legacy instructions describe a four-part case-number pattern. The sample D-101-CV-200600001 shows the structure, but it is not a Roosevelt-specific sample. The opening letter marks the court level. The category segment notes the broad case type, and the location segment pins down the court location. Roosevelt's current location code is not published there. Copy the full number straight from a court notice or the clerk. Do not guess at a local code.

D

District Court in the legacy case-number format.

M

Magistrate Court in the legacy case-number format.

U

Municipal Court in the legacy case-number format.

CR, CV, TR

Criminal, civil, and traffic category markers.

Hearing date

A scheduled event date, different from the date the case was filed.

New Mexico's Case Lookup instructions lay out the searchable case-number structure. They also explain how filing date filters differ from hearing date filters.

Those instructions support a careful name or number search. They also warn against assuming a generic code belongs to Roosevelt County.

Which Roosevelt County Courts Keep Dockets

Roosevelt County court records sit with more than one office. The Ninth Judicial District Court of New Mexico sits as Roosevelt County District Court. It takes felonies past the preliminary stage. Major civil cases, domestic relations, juvenile, mental-health, probate-related District filings, and lower-court appeals belong there as well. The Roosevelt County Magistrate Court handles traffic, DWI/DUI, misdemeanors, felony preliminary hearings, and civil matters within its limited jurisdiction. Portales and Elida each run a separate municipal court. Their dockets cover local traffic, DWI/DUI, petty-misdemeanor, and ordinance cases.

The elected Roosevelt County Clerk keeps real records too. It is just not the District Court clerk. It holds County Clerk and County Probate records, including probate indexing and certified probate material. That split causes a common Roosevelt County docket mistake. Sharing a Portales street address does not make the County Clerk the keeper of a District Court file.

The Ninth Judicial District court map is the official starting point for sorting out the Roosevelt County court hierarchy.

State court resources tie together the District, Magistrate, municipal, and appellate layers. Any Roosevelt County docket search can run into all of them.

Roosevelt County Seven-Day Calendar

The Ninth Judicial District posts separate Roosevelt District Court and Roosevelt Magistrate Court docket pages. These dynamic viewers work best when a hearing is close. The viewers cover the current day and six more. They offer no public name-search field, no export control, and no full case history. The district also posts a warning. Hearing detail can contain omissions.

Treat the calendar as a schedule check once you know the case and venue. A blank short-range calendar does not end the story. It does not mean a Roosevelt County case is closed, dismissed, or missing from the court system. When a setting looks unclear, check further. The fuller case events and the clerk's record are the safer source. The Ninth District Court Dockets page states the local schedule-viewer policy.

A full case search and a seven-day schedule answer different Roosevelt County docket questions.

Finding Roosevelt County Court Dates

Need a Roosevelt County court date? Begin with the case notice, then verify it against the case record itself. The Roosevelt County court calendar page covers each route in more depth. re:SearchNM's hearing view can display the date, time, hearing type, judge, location, and result. It also shows a reschedule or cancellation reason when one is recorded. The Ninth District calendar works well for confirming a near-term District or Magistrate setting. Portales and Elida municipal matters are different. They go straight to the municipal clerk, since the statewide municipal data does not add up to a complete local calendar.

Keep the field meanings straight, too. A filing date marks when a case opened. A hearing date marks when a specific event is set. A reset or continuance moves a date but decides nothing about the case itself.

Roosevelt County Remote Hearing Notices

The Ninth Judicial District has a remote and hybrid hearing plan. It adds a practical check for anyone reading a Roosevelt County docket. A proper remote-hearing notice should carry a Google Meet link. It should also carry a QR code. If the notice lacks both, the plan treats the setting as in-person. Follow the notice for your own case. Do not rely on a generic web link found somewhere else.

The District splits phone calls by topic. Criminal, domestic or child-support, juvenile, civil or probate, domestic-violence, and general questions each get their own line. Calling the court to confirm a setting is fine. Contacting a judge directly about a pending case is not. The plan mentions public kiosks. It publishes no Roosevelt kiosk count, location, or hours.

Public Access to Roosevelt County Court Dockets

New Mexico's Inspection of Public Records Act gives people a right to inspect public records. It covers records the courts hold. Court access also follows the New Mexico Supreme Court's rules and its Case Access Policy. That framework is why an online Roosevelt County docket can appear redacted. The court file itself may still be generally public. The same rules protect personal identifiers. They keep sealed or confidential material out of view. So a public case result never promises that every filing can be downloaded.

New Mexico Courts public-record guidance lays out the official statewide access route behind a Roosevelt County docket request.

That statewide page complements the local clerk rather than replacing the office that actually holds a given Roosevelt County case file.

Roosevelt County Restricted Docket Results

A missing online result has several possible causes. The search may use the wrong venue, spelling, category, or date. The case may predate the online index, sit pending entry, fall into a protected category, or be sealed. New Mexico public-access materials note that juvenile criminal cases stopped displaying through the Judiciary in 2007, and Family Violence Protection Act order cases stopped displaying in 2008. Municipal online data is limited too. It is not a complete traffic or ordinance archive.

Inside re:SearchNM, a gavel icon can mean the current user lacks access. It can block a case or a document. That is an access signal, not a case outcome. A sealed record stays under the court's control. An IPRA request cannot override a sealing order. Ask the filing clerk which request or court procedure applies. Do not try to reconstruct protected information from an absence in search results.

The legacy Secure Odyssey Public Access entry documents the registered-access layer. It was kept in place during the transition to re:SearchNM.

Registered-access screens show that what a docket search reveals can depend on the user profile and the record-security rules in force.

The Roosevelt County Clerk and Docket Records

The Roosevelt County District Court Clerk's Office is the local counter for District Court dockets, case files, and certified copies. You will find it at the Roosevelt County Courthouse, 109 W. First Street, Portales, NM 88130. The court phone is 575-359-6920. No named individual clerk is published, so the office name is the reliable contact. Magistrate cases go to a separate clerk. The Roosevelt County Magistrate Court clerk sits at 1630 N. Boston Avenue, Portales, 575-356-8569.

Ask by name for what you need. Options include the docket/register, a plain copy, a certified copy, an order, a filed pleading, or an audio record. Mail requests follow the Ninth District's payment directions: a money order or cashier's check, a self-addressed stamped envelope, and time for processing. The elected County Clerk, Mandi Park, is a different office entirely. She handles County Clerk and County Probate material.

Roosevelt County Copy Counter Fees

A web result is never a certified court record. The Ninth District's published fee page lists photocopies at $0.35 per page, certification at $1.50 each on top of the copy charge, and tape or CD duplication at $4 each. No fixed search, exemplification, microfilm, fax, or online-document fee is published for the District clerk, so ask for a quote before ordering an uncommon record type.

County Clerk fees sit on a separate schedule. Those rates cover County Clerk-controlled records such as recorded documents and certain probate materials, not a Roosevelt County District or Magistrate docket by default. Whoever holds the case controls both the request route and the applicable fees.

Court Dockets by City in Roosevelt County

Roosevelt County counts five incorporated places in the 2020 Census. These are Portales, Elida, Dora, Floyd, and Causey. Portales and Elida both have named municipal courts. They are listed in the official New Mexico Municipal Courts directory. The other three towns do not. Dora, Floyd, and Causey have no separate municipal court page. No docket channel exists for them either. A city citation can come from anywhere in Roosevelt County. Start by reading which court issued it. From there, that venue's clerk is your first stop for a case lookup. Use the Magistrate calendar for a confirmed Magistrate matter. Or file a specific records request when the docket search comes up empty.

Roosevelt County Ninth District Context

Roosevelt County shares the Ninth Judicial District with Curry County. That matters for docket math. The district's FY25 statistics are pooled. They do not separate Roosevelt County cases from Curry County cases. Across the whole Ninth District, the report counts 1,310 active pending civil cases. It counts 592 active pending criminal cases too. Ninth Magistrate adds another 108 active pending civil filings and 710 active pending criminal ones. Keep the court location with the case number. A Ninth District entry is not automatically a Roosevelt County filing when you run a docket search.

The FY25 Judicial Statistical Addendum is where those districtwide numbers come from. Read it as a two-county total, not a count of Roosevelt County court records alone.

Map and Directions to the Roosevelt County District Court

Roosevelt County's District Court file — felonies after bind-over, civil suits, real property, domestic relations, juvenile, and estate matters — is kept at the courthouse at 109 W. First Street in Portales. The Roosevelt County Magistrate Court, which handles misdemeanors, traffic/DWI, and lower-dollar civil claims, sits at a separate address, 1630 N. Boston Avenue, across town.

The courthouse phone menu routes by department (jury, criminal, domestic matters, juvenile, civil/probate, domestic violence, general information), which can save a trip if the question can be answered by phone first. Fax is 575-359-2140. The building's parking, security screening, and accessibility details are not published by the Ninth District, so confirm those with the clerk before arriving.