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Harris County Clerk Office

Stacy K. Haralson is the Harris County Clerk of Superior Court. The county page describes the clerk as a constitutional officer elected for four-year terms, and the GSCCCA profile states that Stacy K. Haralson has served as clerk since 2005. GSCCCA identifies Harris County as county code 72 and lists Superior and Juvenile as the courts managed by the clerk. The office is the local records hub for Superior Court and Juvenile Court administration, but it does not replace the Probate Court for probate, marriage, weapons carry, or unincorporated traffic matters.

The clerk's public duties are broad. The office files criminal and civil cases, records real estate transactions, records liens, collects child-support payments, issues notary appointments, manages juries, assists the public with court records, and supports the Board of Equalization. Court users who need felony files, divorce decrees, domestic-relations records, land-title cases, probation-revocation records, lower-court appeals, or certified copies usually start with this office.

The county clerk page gives the official clerk contact and duty summary.

Use it to confirm courthouse contact details before requesting copies or searching older records.

Harris County Clerk Record Duties

The Clerk of Superior Court keeps records that move through Superior and Juvenile Court. The research identifies criminal and civil division contacts on the GSCCCA profile, including Criminal Division and Juvenile Court contacts, Civil Division, Real Estate Division, and Jury. That division structure matters when calling about a file, because a felony case, a divorce decree, a real estate index, and a jury summons question do not route to the same desk.

• Filing criminal and civil court cases in Superior Court.
• Managing Superior and Juvenile records for public access and copy requests.
• Recording deeds, mortgages, plats, liens, and related real estate transactions.
• Managing juries, notary appointments, and child-support payment records.
• Providing administrative support to the Board of Equalization.

The GSCCCA clerk profile confirms county code, staff contacts, and managed courts.

County-level context can matter when municipal, probate, and Superior Court records are being sorted by place and court type.

Search Harris County Clerk Records

The standalone Clerk website links to Case Search, Court Calendars, Legal Notices, eJuror, Jury Instructions, Property Search, e-certified copies through GSCCCA, Notary, Judges, real estate links, jury links, and court links. The research found that some calendar and legal-notice content loads dynamically, so a blank or loading screen should not be treated as a final answer. If an online search does not show the record, call the office and ask which division holds the file.

The standalone Clerk of Court website hosts the local search and calendar links.

County closure notices and dynamic calendar pages can affect when in-person copy work can be completed.

Request Harris County Certified Copies

Certified copies are requested from the office that owns the file. For Superior Court divorce decrees, felony files, civil orders, land-title cases, and juvenile clerk-administered records, that office is the Clerk of Superior Court. The research did not verify a full local certified-copy fee schedule from static county text, so the safe process is to identify the record, contact the clerk for cost and delivery method, and use GSCCCA e-certified copy channels where the record type is supported.

1. Identify the court, case name, party names, and approximate filing or disposition date.
2. Check the Clerk case-search or calendar links when the record is a Superior or Juvenile file.
3. Call 706-628-4944 if the result is missing, old, restricted, or needs certification.
4. Ask whether the copy can be issued at the counter, by mail, or through GSCCCA e-certification.
5. Confirm the fee before sending payment because the local static research did not publish the amount.

Note: Probate records, marriage licenses, and unincorporated traffic records route to Probate Court, not the Superior Court clerk.

Harris County Clerk Request Fields

A written request should give the clerk enough detail to identify the file without guessing. Use a case number when available. If not, provide the party names, record type, approximate filing or hearing date, and whether a plain or certified copy is needed. For real estate indexes, include party names, book and page if known, record type, and date range.

Harris County Real Estate Indexes

Real estate records are a major clerk function. The research lists warranty deeds, right-of-way deeds, quit-claim deeds, mechanic liens, property tax liens, security deeds, assignments, easements, property plats, and powers of attorney as examples of records connected to the clerk's office. Kofile QuickLink is the remote index-book channel for Harris County Plat Index books from 1905 through 1999 and Deeds and Mortgage Index book review.

The clerk's budget role also appears in county budget material. The proposed county budget language in the research says the Clerk of Superior Court maintains Superior Court records, transmits appeals to the Georgia Court of Appeals and Georgia Supreme Court, and records real estate instruments such as warranty deeds, quitclaim deeds, security deeds, assignments, right-of-way deeds, easements, property plats, and powers of attorney. That confirms that the clerk's records role is not limited to courtroom case files. It also covers long-term land-record custody and appeal transmission.

The county SPLOST and budget pages show continuing courthouse and public-safety funding connected to record operations.

The FY 2026-2027 budget approval page is one county source showing court and clerk operations as active funded functions.

Budget pages do not provide case access, but they support the local context for clerk, court, sheriff, jail, and courthouse operations.

The SPLOST courthouse announcement identifies courthouse renovation and public-safety projects that affect the same local justice complex.

Those official updates do not replace record portals, but they help explain active courthouse operations and renovation funding.

Records Outside the Harris County Clerk

The clerk is not the custodian for every Harris County record. Probate Court maintains estate, guardianship, will, marriage-license, weapons-carry, and unincorporated traffic matters. Magistrate Court handles warrants, first appearances, and small civil matters. The Sheriff's Office handles open-records requests for law-enforcement reports, incident reports, jail records, and app-supported public-safety features. State agencies handle GDC offender searches, DDS driving histories, and GBI criminal-history restriction information.

That division should shape each request. A person asking for a divorce decree should not start with Probate Court merely because marriage licenses are issued there. A person asking for a jail incident report should not expect the Clerk of Superior Court to provide the Sheriff's Office file. A person asking for an estate search should use Georgia Probate Records and the Probate Court phone line. When the record path is unclear, name the event, the court date if known, and the agency involved so the receiving office can route the question.

The Sheriff open-records route is a separate agency records path.

Use the sheriff path for law-enforcement records, and use the Clerk of Superior Court for court case files held by the clerk.