St. Johns County Public Records Access and Fee Schedule

• •Photocopies of Board of County Commissioner records cost $0.15 per page.
• •Certified copies of Board of County Commissioner records cost $1.00 each.
• •Photocopies of non-Board records (including court records) cost $1.00 per page.
• •Certification of an entire non-Board document costs $2.00.
• •A name search fee of $2.00 applies per name and per year if no case number is provided.
• •Drafting a statement on office letterhead regarding search results costs $7.00.
• •Drafting a Certificate of Exemplification/Authentication costs $7.00.
• •Credit and debit card payments incur a 3.5% convenience fee.
• •Dismissed criminal cases are removed from public online view only after the Clerk receives notice from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.
• •Active warrants are not published online; they only become viewable after a return of service is filed in the court case.
• •Modern records date from the 1990s to the present; archival records date from 1821 to the 1990s.
• •Archival criminal and civil records are not available online and must be accessed via on-site terminals or a formal records request.

Residents must pay specific fees for document copies and searches, and the document clarifies which court records are accessible online versus those requiring an in-person visit to the Clerk's office.

Patterns POLISCOPE noticed across the record. These are observations to investigate, not conclusions.