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Carver County Court Administrator

Carver County District Court uses a Court Administrator rather than a traditional Clerk of Court title. The Carver County Court Administration page names Mary Dalbec as Court Administrator. The office serves the public, attorneys, judges, and other judiciary members, and it supports the case work of Minnesota District Court in Chaska.

Court Administration processes filings for civil, criminal, traffic, family, probate, and juvenile matters. It also handles case flow management, jury management, and revenue collection and disbursement for items such as fines, fees, and restitution. For marriage certificates or marriage-license records, use Carver County Land Records & Vitals instead. For sheriff reports, jail records, or law-enforcement data, use the Sheriff Records Unit.

Carver County Court Administration Duties

The Court Administrator's office is the local administrative side of the District Court. It is not the judge, prosecutor, sheriff, or legal adviser. Its role is to keep court case processing moving, receive filings, support hearings and calendars, manage jurors, and handle payments that flow through the court system.

• Process filings for civil, criminal, traffic, family, probate, and juvenile cases.
• Manage case flow, docket activity, hearing support, and court calendar coordination.
• Support jury management for Carver County District Court.
• Collect and disburse court revenue, including fines, fees, restitution, and related payments.
• Provide copy and records service for public court records and certified court documents.

Because the office works across many case categories, a request should name the case number, case type, party names, and exact document needed whenever possible. That helps avoid broad requests for all documents, which the Carver copy page warns may return more than the requester needs.

Use MCRO Before Copy Requests

Carver County copy instructions point users to MCRO before making a copy request. The Carver copy request page explains that MCRO helps identify the case and specific document. It also warns that criminal cases without a conviction must be searched by case number because a defendant-name search will not return the case.

Carver County copy request instructions connect local copy work to MCRO search steps.

That local instruction is important for non-conviction criminal files, older cases, and any request where the document name is not clear.

1. Search MCRO by case number when available. Use name, citation number, or attorney search only when the portal supports the needed case.
2. Limit the search to Carver County when a statewide result list is too broad.
3. Open the Register of Actions and note the exact document title, filing date, and case number.
4. Decide whether a plain, certified, exemplified, or exemplified and certified copy is needed.
5. Contact Carver County Court Administration with the case number, document request, copy type, and payment plan.

Carver County Court Copy Types

The state copy-help topic defines the main copy types used by Minnesota courts. A plain copy is an ordinary copy of a court document. A certified copy has a court stamp or seal and is often needed for official use. An exemplified copy has additional authentication, and a combined exemplified and certified copy is used when both forms are required.

Minnesota court copy request guidance explains plain, certified, and exemplified copies.

The state copy guidance also warns that removing the staple from a multi-page certified document means it is no longer considered certified.

Carver County Records Request Fields

The research did not locate a separate local court copy form with a fixed field list, so the field inventory below is drawn from the official MCRO and copy-request process. The goal is to give Court Administration enough information to find the correct file and avoid an overbroad request.

Note: Court Administration can provide court records, but it cannot give legal advice or select documents for a legal strategy.

Carver County Court Administrator Fees

The Carver County District Court fee schedule includes filing fees and copy charges that Court Administration collects or processes. Filing fees vary by case type. Some records work is free when it is an uncertified copy or screen print, while certified and exemplified documents have set charges.

Carver County District Court fees show filing, copy, probate, dissolution, expungement, and report charges.

These amounts are useful for planning a court copy request, but the current fee page should control before payment is sent.

Court Administration vs Sheriff Records

Carver County Court Administration and the Sheriff's Office keep different record systems. Court Administration is the source for District Court case files, hearing records, court orders, judgments, certified court copies, divorce files, probate files, traffic cases, and other court case material. The Sheriff Records Unit is the fallback for police reports, public-safety records, call data, jail records, warrant records, and law-enforcement data that are not court case documents.

The sheriff request channel accepts phone requests at 952-361-1105, email at Sheriff-Records@carvercountymn.gov, mail to Carver County Sheriff's Office, ATTN: Records Unit, 606 East 4th Street, Chaska, MN 55318, and in-person requests at the Justice Center during weekday business hours. Sheriff record fees and redactions follow the Minnesota Government Data Practices Act and law-enforcement data rules, not the court copy schedule.