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Huntington County Clerk Contact

The official Huntington County Clerk page identifies Shelley Septer as Clerk. The Clerk's Office is in Room 201 of the Huntington County Courthouse at 201 N Jefferson St, Huntington, IN 46750. The county page lists phone (260) 358-4817, fax (260) 358-4880, and hours from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday. The Indiana directory also lists Shelley M. Septer at the same office with phone (260) 358-4819 and fax (260) 358-4880.

The Clerk's official page is assigned as a manifest image source for this record category.

The office location matters because Room 201 is also the filing point for completed self-service forms, marriage licenses, genealogy research, and many copy requests.

What the County Clerk Does

Huntington County uses a unified County Clerk structure. The Clerk is the practical hub for court filings, fee intake, certified copies, marriage licenses, traffic and criminal violation payments, small claims and superior court filings, circuit and probate filings, genealogy research, child support, passport links, and protective-order links. The Clerk is also the fallback when MyCase shows a public case summary but does not link the document a requester needs.

• Accept court filings and completed self-service forms in Room 201.
• Collect fees for civil, criminal, juvenile, probate, small claims, traffic, and marriage-license workflows.
• Provide certified copies when a public record is available and certification is appropriate.
• Handle traffic and criminal payment channels listed by the county.
• Support genealogy research during the posted genealogy window.
• Route users to MyCase, state forms, and official record-holding offices when the Clerk is not the right source.

Certified Copy Step Block

Certified copies are often needed for marriage proof, legal filings, name change support, and official court-record use. A printed online case page is not the same as a certified copy from the record-holding office.

1. Identify the record type: marriage license, divorce decree, probate filing, civil order, criminal judgment, traffic record, or older genealogy record.
2. Search Indiana MyCase or the marriage lookup when that helps identify the case number, party names, year, or issuing county.
3. Contact the Huntington County Clerk with the case number or complete names, document type, and year range.
4. Ask whether the document is public, whether it is available online or only from the Clerk, and what current copy and certification fee applies.
5. Submit the request in person, by the written route the Clerk allows, or through the relevant public-records channel when the record is not a court case file.
6. For mailed genealogy copies, include a self-addressed stamped envelope and the published copy fees.

APRA and Request Form Inventory

For general county records, Huntington County's public records request page offers an online form, a printable form, and in-person requests through the Commissioners' Office in Room 103A. Court records have separate court-access rules, so court case copies still usually begin with MyCase and the Clerk.

The assigned manifest includes the Huntington County online public records request form.

The form is a county APRA channel, not a replacement for the Clerk when the requested item is an official court case record or certified court copy.

Huntington County Clerk Fee Schedule

The research file identifies several fee groups published by the Clerk, marriage, traffic, genealogy, Circuit and Probate Court, and small claims pages. A general all-purpose county APRA copy fee was not located in the extracted research, so the table uses only amounts tied to identified office workflows.

Self-Service Legal Forms

The Clerk's self-service legal forms page tells filers to bring completed forms and the correct number of copies to Room 201. The page also warns that state forms do not explain the law, that some courts may have their own procedures, and that pro se litigants are held to the same standards as attorneys.

That local instruction is important because downloading a form is only one part of filing; the completed paperwork, copies, fee, and service requirements still matter.

What Clerk Staff Cannot Do

Clerk staff can identify filing windows, fee routes, record availability, copy options, and official office contacts. They cannot give legal advice, choose forms for a person, explain strategy, decide whether someone qualifies to access a restricted record, or predict what a judge will do. Huntington County research also notes that Circuit and Superior Court pages describe those courts as courts of record, so written communication is required for filings or information supplied to the court.

Restricted categories include juvenile records, adoption records, mental-health matters, protection orders, sealed records, expunged records, and confidential identifiers. A Clerk response that a document is not online should not be treated as a legal denial of all access. It may simply mean the record must be requested from the Clerk, is available only to parties or attorneys, is not public, or requires a court order.