Locate Lamar County Clerk Records

About the Lamar County Clerk's Office

Caleb Tyson is the Lamar County Clerk of Superior / Juvenile Court. The county biography says he became clerk on January 1, 2015, after service as assistant clerk, deputy clerk, and chief deputy clerk. The office is located in the Lamar County Courthouse at 326 Thomaston Street, Barnesville, GA 30204. The county page lists office hours as 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday, phone 770-358-5145, fax 770-358-5814, and email Caleb.Tyson@GSCCCA.ORG.

The Georgia Superior Court Clerks' Cooperative Authority Lamar County profile identifies Caleb A. Tyson as clerk and lists Superior and Juvenile as the courts managed.

The GSCCCA profile is useful when confirming the official clerk name, court responsibility, county code, and office contact details.

What the Clerk Does in Lamar County

The clerk is not only a court-record counter. Lamar County lists appointment of notaries, record of discharge of soldiers, civil, criminal, juvenile, real estate recording, plats, liens, and UCCs among the office services. For court-record users, the important split is that Caleb Tyson's office handles Superior and Juvenile Court records, while Probate Court handles estates, marriage licenses, traffic citations, and misdemeanor offenses for Lamar County and the City of Milner.

That other local court office is Lamar County Probate Court, led by Judge Kathryn B. Martin at the same 326 Thomaston Street courthouse address. Its phone is 770-358-5155, and its posted hours differ from the clerk's office: 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday and 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Friday.

GSCCCA also lists office contacts by function: Debra Holmes for criminal and juvenile matters, Danielle Lindsey for civil matters, Tammy Bell for real estate, and Bill Hewitt for UCC and accounting. That division is useful when a request is not a simple case lookup. A divorce decree, felony disposition, juvenile question, property instrument, plat, lien, UCC record, or accounting issue may reach a different deputy clerk even though all remain within the same Clerk of Superior / Juvenile Court office.

• Maintains Superior Court civil and criminal records, including filings, orders, judgments, and docket activity.
• Manages Juvenile Court records through the clerk structure, with access restrictions that differ from adult case records.
• Records real estate instruments, plats, liens, UCC filings, notary appointments, and military discharge records.
• Provides copy, certification, and counter assistance for records held by the office.

How to Request a Certified Copy

Certified copies may be needed for divorce decrees, judgments, orders, liens, property-record instruments, or court filings that must be used outside the courthouse. The research did not locate a standalone Lamar online certified-copy form for the clerk, so the practical channel is to contact or visit the office with enough identifying information for staff to locate the record. For probate, marriage, traffic, and misdemeanor records, use Probate Court instead.

1. Identify the record type and court: Superior civil, Superior criminal, Juvenile, real estate, lien, UCC, or another clerk-held category.
2. Gather case number, party names, filing date, document title, book/page or instrument details, and the number of copies needed.
3. Contact the Clerk of Superior / Juvenile Court at 770-358-5145 or visit 326 Thomaston Street during posted hours.
4. Ask whether the requested copy can be plain or must be certified, and confirm the fee and payment method before mailing anything.
5. For mail requests, include return contact information and any postage or envelope requirements provided by the office.

Records Request Form Fields

Lamar County's open-records page links a county open records form and gives office-specific request routes. The form text was not extractable in the local research environment, so only confirmed request elements should be used. A clear request to the clerk should describe the record, identify the people or case, state the copy type, and provide requester contact details. For Board of Commissioners records, the open records officer is Anita Buice at 790 Veterans Parkway. For sheriff records, the county routes requesters to the Sheriff's Office. For Probate Court records, the county lists records@lamarprobate.com or 770-358-5155.

Lamar County Clerk Fees

The researched materials provide Lamar County's general open-records copy rule but did not publish a complete clerk fee schedule for every certified copy, filing, or recording category. The county open-records page cites O.C.G.A. 50-18-71(b): regular copies are $0.10 per page, and requesters are responsible for search, retrieval, copying, or inspection-supervision time beyond the first 15 minutes, billed at the rate of the lowest-salaried full-time employee capable of performing the task.

Common Clerk and Records Channels

There is no single Lamar County portal for every court record. Use the office that created or maintains the record. Superior and Juvenile Court filings route to Caleb Tyson's clerk office. Probate, marriage, traffic, and county/City of Milner misdemeanor records route to Probate Court. Sheriff's Office records, incident reports, accident reports, bookings, criminal histories, and fingerprints route to the Sheriff's Office at 121 Roberta Drive.

• Lamar County Clerk of Superior / Juvenile Court - official county page for Caleb Tyson's office, address, hours, phone, fax, email, and services.
• GSCCCA Lamar Clerk Profile - state clerk authority profile with office contacts, courts managed, and legal-organ details.
• Lamar County Open Records Requests - county page for BOC, sheriff, and Probate Court request channels and copy-fee rules.
• Lamar County Probate Court - local route for estates, marriage licenses, traffic citations, and county/City of Milner misdemeanors.

Mail and Online Filings

Georgia statewide e-access is provider-based. The Georgia Courts e-access page says users are redirected to provider websites and must have an account to search court records. re:SearchGA is a statewide portal for case information and documents in participating Georgia counties, while PeachCourt is a civil and criminal eFiling portal used in many Georgia courts. Those statewide systems should be treated as account-based access channels, not proof that every Lamar County clerk record is online.

For non-online records, call or visit the clerk. The courthouse address is 326 Thomaston Street, Barnesville, GA 30204. The GSCCCA directions describe the courthouse as being on the left across from First National Bank when approaching downtown Barnesville. If the request involves juvenile records, sealed filings, adoption-related material, protected personal identifiers, or restricted criminal history, expect access limits and possible court-order requirements.

For divorce records, felony criminal case files, and other Superior Court matters, the clerk's office is the better starting point than Probate Court. For estate, marriage-license, traffic-citation, weapons-carry, and county or City of Milner misdemeanor questions, the Probate Court office should be contacted directly at 770-358-5155 or records@lamarprobate.com. Keeping those channels separate prevents a request from being sent to the wrong custodian.