Search the Evansville Court Docket

Searching the Evansville Court Docket

Begin online at the Evansville–Union Joint Municipal Court page. The court offers no searchable case database. Your citation and the municipal clerk are the practical lookup route. Skip WCCA unless the citation or a later notice names Rock County Circuit Court.

A docket search here starts with source documents, not a name-only database. Keep the citation number, court name, issuing municipality, and scheduled appearance together. Add any later clerk notice to the same place. Those fields let Shannon Krueger tell your local matter from someone else's. Lost the citation? Give the clerk your name plus enough nonprotected context. Then confirm which identifier belongs on a payment or written response.

1. Read the court name and issuing authority on the citation.
2. Save the citation number, appearance date, and listed instructions.
3. Check the current Evansville–Union court page and monthly schedule.
4. Contact clerk Shannon Krueger to confirm the case-specific setting.
5. Use WCCA only if the record has moved to circuit court.

Call the clerk at 608-490-0544 or write to court.clerk@evansvillewi.gov. Share only what is needed to locate the local case, and skip protected identifiers the clerk never asked for.

Evansville–Union Serves Two Communities

The joint court serves the City of Evansville and the Town of Union together. A mailing address alone never decides which court owns a citation. The issuing authority and court line do. Per the city, the court hears ordinance and traffic or nontraffic cases. These involve adults generally age 17 and older. Juveniles generally ages 12 through 16 fall in too.

Wisconsin municipal courts are local courts created by municipalities themselves. Their authority comes from Wisconsin Statutes Chapter 800. Anything outside that local authority, including criminal prosecutions, belongs at the circuit level.

Evansville Municipal Court Basics

The formal name is Evansville–Union Joint Municipal Court. Hon. Tom Alisankus sits as judge at 608-882-2279, and Shannon Krueger serves as clerk. Sessions take place on the third floor of Evansville City Hall, 31 South Madison Street, Evansville, WI 53536.

City office hours are not a promise that court is in session. Rely on the citation and the clerk for your actual Evansville docket setting.

The Evansville Monthly Court Rhythm

Evansville–Union follows a plain recurring schedule. Initial appearances land on the second Saturday of each month at 8:00 a.m. Trials sit on the last Wednesday of each month at 6:00 p.m. December has no court at all, per the page. For the live details, see the official Evansville–Union schedule and contact block. The current local information comes straight from the city.

The official page ties the calendar to the clerk's own office. A recurring schedule still cannot reveal a continuance, a resolution, or a special instruction in one case. That is why an individual setting gets confirmed with the same office that posts the rhythm.

Court Dates and Settings in Evansville

Your citation controls the first case-specific date. Treat the monthly pattern as a cross-check, not a substitute. If the date clashes with the posted rhythm, or a later notice changes it, call the clerk.

A continued case may skip the next recurring date entirely. Check with Shannon Krueger before traveling, and never assume a missing listing means the matter ended.

Evansville Schedule Myth and Fact

Myth: Every Evansville case must be heard on the next second Saturday or last Wednesday. Fact: those are regular session patterns. A citation, continuance, clerk notice, or court order controls the individual case.

When a date seems wrong, hold onto the original citation and every later notice. Ask the clerk to confirm the setting type. Ask for the date, time, and third-floor location. Write down whom you called and what you were told. A missing online calendar entry is not a dismissal.

Note: The Evansville court page supplies the monthly rhythm. The citation and clerk carry case-specific authority.

Traffic Tickets in Evansville

A citation from Evansville or the Town of Union should name the joint municipal court. That means it belongs there. Keep the citation number, issuing authority, and appearance date. Keep the plea or response instructions and payment details too. The city page offers a live online-payment link plus jurisdictional code 6845.

Use the current “HERE” button on the Evansville court page. Skip any old saved URL. Confirm the amount and case before you pay. A ticket naming Rock County Circuit Court instead calls for the Rock County traffic ticket route.

Municipal traffic is noncriminal local process. The court page and citation control the plea, payment, appearance, and the consequences of no response.

Evansville Payment Code 6845

The jurisdictional code routes an online payment to Evansville–Union Joint Municipal Court. It is neither a citation number nor a case number. Keep all three straight when the payment screen appears.

Jurisdictional code

The court-routing code, listed as 6845 for Evansville–Union.

Citation number

The identifier printed on the issued citation.

Initial appearance

The first scheduled municipal court step.

Trial

The proceeding used to decide a contested matter.

Enter the code only through the live link on the official court page. A successful transaction should hand you a receipt. If anything mismatches, ask the clerk instead of paying twice.

Where Evansville Cases Go

Municipal ordinance and qualifying traffic matters stay with Evansville–Union unless a valid process moves them. Cases beyond municipal authority file in Rock County Circuit Court. An appeal or separate circuit filing also creates a circuit record you can search through WCCA.

Docket flow: Evansville–Union Joint Municipal Court › Rock County Circuit Court › Wisconsin Court of Appeals, District IV

Which office holds the file depends on which court the notice names. Read that court line carefully. Does the notice point to circuit court? Run a docket search on WCCA. Use Rock County, a party or business name, or a case number. The Rock County Clerk of Circuit Court keeps the circuit file itself. For anything still in the local court, the Evansville municipal clerk keeps that docket.

Evansville Court and County Court

The courtroom sits on the third floor of City Hall. That is not the Rock County Courthouse in Janesville, where the seven circuit branches operate. Show up at the wrong building and you can miss a hearing date you read correctly.

Read the court name, not just “Evansville,” before choosing a building or database.

Evansville Interpreter Requests

Evansville draws a sharp line on interpreters. Adults without disabilities usually arrange their own. A juvenile, or an adult with a disability, can get a free interpreter. Ask the clerk at least ten days ahead. Call Shannon Krueger at 608-490-0544 or write to court.clerk@evansvillewi.gov. Give the court date and the accommodation you need, and leave out private details that do not matter. Waiting until the hearing makes arrangements harder, so use the lead time the court publishes.

Evansville Court Record Access Rules

Start with the Evansville municipal clerk for any public local docket or document. The open-records framework comes from the Wisconsin Public Records Law, sections 19.31 through 19.39. Court statutes, confidentiality rules, and sealing orders still control what a clerk can release. Chapter 800 governs municipal procedure.

Public access still hides plenty. Juvenile records and other protected details stay limited. Redaction masks sensitive facts, and sealing bars access by order. A missing public entry is not proof of any result. Do not read one into it.

The city posts no copy-fee schedule or searchable record portal. Ask the municipal clerk directly about the request method, current cost, and timing. A Rock County circuit case goes through the county clerk instead.

Evansville Docket Numbers in Context

Evansville placed fifth among Rock County cities in the 2020 Census count behind the state population table, with 5,703 residents. The state municipal report shows real volume too: 310 Evansville–Union cases in 2024 and 367 in 2022. For 2023, the table simply shows no count.

That blank 2023 cell may mean a reporting gap rather than an idle court. Municipal statistics measure reported workload only. They say nothing about the facts or outcome of any case. Treat them as background. Clerk-led access does the real work.

The Evansville clerk can also walk you through inspection and copy steps. The clerk cannot give legal advice about your local matter or how it ends.