How to Search the Otterbein Court Docket
Begin with the court and county listed on the citation, summons, order, or filing. For a Benton Circuit Court matter, search online through MyCase. Pick Benton County and enter the full case number if you have it. Name searches work with a last name or business name, and you can narrow the results with a first name, birth date, case status, filing dates, or category.
- Read the notice for the county, court name, and case or citation number.
- If it says Benton Circuit Court or begins 04C01, open MyCase and select Benton County.
- Search by the full case number, citation, party name, business name, or attorney data that is known.
- Read the CCS entries for filings, settings, orders, and disposition rather than relying on status alone.
- If the notice names Tippecanoe County or another court, change the MyCase court filter and follow that clerk's route.
- Confirm a near-term setting with the court that actually holds the case.
The full Benton County case search walks through the MyCase controls in more depth. Before any name search, make sure the county is right, because that choice drives the whole Otterbein lookup.
Otterbein Court Docket County Line
Otterbein is unusual: the incorporated town spans both Benton and Tippecanoe Counties. The official Otterbein profile covers the town's civic services, factories, banks, school, library, post office, and its proximity to Purdue. None of that decides court venue, though. It is local color, not a routing rule.
The profile describes the town but assigns no court. A street address can point one way. A police agency, a filing court, or an event location can each point somewhere different. The case notice and its court identifier control where the public docket lives.
A Benton-side cause carries a telling prefix. If the matter sits on the Tippecanoe side, do not force the search into Benton. The mailing address says Otterbein, but that alone settles nothing. Search the named court, then call its clerk if the case does not appear.
The Otterbein Municipal Court
Check the official lists and one fact stands out. No separate Otterbein municipal court appears in the Indiana Court Directory, the Administrative Rule 8 court list, the MyCase court menu, the CourtCal participating list, or the official town profile. Treat that carefully. It means no Otterbein court portal exists. The town council should not be mistaken for a court.
Indiana law can authorize city and town courts. Yet Otterbein's town council, clerk-treasurer, administrator, marshal, and utilities are civic offices. Town Hall at 111 S Main Street handles town business only. It is not the Benton County Clerk of Circuit Court. The town profile offers no docket searches, certified court copies, or hearing confirmation.
Routing rule: Treat "Otterbein Municipal Court" as an anchor topic, not a claim that such a court exists. Follow the court printed on the record.
Otterbein Cases with 04C01
A Benton Circuit Court case number follows the pattern 04C01-YYMM-TT-SEQUENCE. The first two digits stand for Benton County. The C stands for Circuit Court, and 01 for the listed Benton court. Next comes the filing year and month. Then a case-type code and a six-digit filing sequence. The official Odyssey court coverage list shows Benton Circuit Court joining the system on March 1, 2010.
Odyssey powers both the CCS and the MyCase public display. It does not settle the county-line question, though. A different prefix points away from Benton even when the party lives in Otterbein. MyCase tolerates missing hyphens and leading zeroes. Entering the full number first cuts the ambiguity.
Note: The teaching number 04C01-2402-PL-000002 is synthetic, not a live Otterbein case.
Otterbein Court Dates and Settings
Read the newest notice alongside the CCS entry. CourtCal lists Benton as a county choice but shows no participating Benton court, so a missing Otterbein hearing does not prove that no setting exists. For a Benton cause, call Benton Circuit Court at 765-884-0370 or the Clerk at 765-884-0930. For a Tippecanoe cause, call the court named on the notice.
| Date | The scheduled day, checked against later CCS entries and orders. |
|---|---|
| Time | The start time and time zone stated by the court. |
| Courtroom | The hearing location or remote appearance detail, confirmed with the named court. |
| Judge | The judicial officer assigned to the setting. |
| Setting Type | The event description, such as initial hearing, pretrial, motion hearing, trial, or sentencing. |
A continuance moves a setting, and a reset supplies another date. Neither one is a final result. The entry text and any later order will tell you what actually occurred.
Reading an Otterbein Court Docket
Indiana calls the official trial-court event list the Chronological Case Summary, or CCS. Every dated line records a filing, court event, order, judgment, or other action. The entry date is not always the hearing date or the date a document was signed. Pair the text with any linked public document. The Indiana court glossary defines court terms in plain language.
The source helps decode an Otterbein result without inventing a local meaning.
- Filed
- The clerk accepted a document; it does not mean the judge granted it.
- Order
- A judicial direction or ruling, unlike an unsigned proposed order.
- Continuance
- A setting moved to another date.
- Disposition
- The recorded way a case or charge ended.
- Venue transfer
- A move to another court or county, which matters greatly in cross-county Otterbein.
Otterbein Traffic Tickets
An Otterbein traffic citation may be searchable through Indiana ePay. Search by ticket number, driver's license number, or name and birth date. When the ticket and court participate, ePay can show the UTT number. It can also list the police agency, court, case number, offense description, and balance. It is a payment and citation tool, not the complete CCS.
Check the court printed on the ticket before choosing a county. A Benton 04C01 infraction may also surface in MyCase. If the ticket names another county court, follow that route instead. Paying and contesting are different choices. No Otterbein-specific deferral program applies, so ask the listed court directly. Contact that court before a deadline; town hall cannot alter a judicial setting.
The county-wide distinction between a citation and its case file is covered in Benton County traffic court records.
Otterbein Town Hall or Court Clerk
Town Hall sits at 111 S Main Street, PO Box 215, Otterbein, IN 47970, and answers the phone at 765-583-4944. That office handles municipal business like permits, utility accounts, council minutes, and marshal records. It is not the clerk of the court named on a docket, and none of those town papers count as a CCS event.
| Question | Best Starting Office |
|---|---|
| Town utility, council, or local service | Otterbein Town Hall |
| Benton 04C01 docket or public filing | Benton County Clerk of Circuit Court |
| Benton hearing date or courtroom | Benton Circuit Court or Clerk |
| Tippecanoe case | The Tippecanoe court and clerk printed on the notice |
| Eligible traffic payment | Indiana ePay and the ticket's named court |
So an Otterbein court search stays at town altitude while still respecting the county boundary.
Where Otterbein Cases End Up
Do not assume Otterbein has its own city-court stage. A criminal, civil, family, probate, small-claims, traffic, or infraction cause on the Benton side files in Benton Circuit Court. A matter tied to the Tippecanoe side may file there instead. Appeals get their own appellate cause number and docket.
Docket flow: Otterbein notice or citation › named county trial court › Benton Circuit Court when the filing is 04C01 › Indiana appellate court if appealed
Federal cases run on a separate system and never appear in MyCase. For an ordinary local lookup, name the trial court first. When the cause clearly sits on the Benton side, the Benton County court docket lays out the county route.
Missing Otterbein Court Documents
MyCase shows public case data plus certain public documents. Older cases often have less online material. A missing image can reflect access rules, conversion limits, or filing status rather than proof the document does not exist. Before calling the right clerk, jot down the case number, the CCS entry date, and the document title. For Benton causes, the Clerk works from 706 E. 5th Street in Fowler, weekdays from 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Eastern, except major holidays. Official sources disagree on the clerk room, so call 765-884-0930 before you go. Benton publishes no mail-in copy form and names no public-terminal policy, so ask about request format, payment, postage, and certification. A certified copy carries the clerk's authentication. An online image does not. Check what authentication the receiving office demands before you pay for a copy.
Public Access to Otterbein Court Records
Indiana Rule 4 opens court records. Rule 5, another law, or a court order can carve them out. A clerk's physical file can hold material that is not viewable remotely. Juvenile, adoption, mental-health, sealed, and other protected information may be restricted. A public search can also change after expungement.
Key Rules:
Indiana Rule on Access to Court Records 4 states the public-access baseline.
Indiana Rule on Access to Court Records 5 identifies confidential and excluded records.
Indiana Administrative Rule 9 governs remote access and compiled-data routes.
Indiana's Access to Public Records Act covers many agency records, yet it cannot override a sealed court file. Route any CCS, filing, order, or certified-copy request to the clerk of the court that holds the case.
Verify an Otterbein Court Record
Check the county, court prefix, parties, case type, filing date, and newest CCS events. Do this before trusting a match. An Open or Closed filter is not a legal conclusion. A setting is not a disposition. A filed motion is a request, not a granted order. Those distinctions keep the cross-county location from compounding a record-reading error. When a result stays uncertain, treat the notice as the routing document. Ask the listed clerk whether the case number is valid. Ask whether a public document exists, and whether a setting changed. Staff can explain records and procedure, though not legal advice. Otterbein's spot near Lafayette and Purdue is useful local context. It does not select venue. The filed case number remains the clearest public clue.
Otterbein Docket Boundary Checklist
Work from three independent clues before choosing a clerk. First, read the court name and number printed on the notice. Second, note which agency or party issued the paper. Third, compare the filing county in MyCase. All three matter more than the town name in a mailing address. A prefix of 04C01 points to Benton Circuit Court as the local trial court. Any other prefix means using the county and court tied to that code. Transfers can complicate the path. The CCS may log a venue transfer or a special judge assignment, and a later hearing may happen somewhere other than the original filing place. Follow the newest entry and order. Do not assume every event tied to an Otterbein resident stays in one county for the life of the case. If a record is missing, give the clerk the full number, the party or caption if public, the document title, the entry date, and whether you need a plain or certified copy. That focused request gives staff enough to act on without exposing protected personal data. Skip birth dates, minors' information, medical details, and sealed content unless the court requires them through an authorized process.