Friendship Court Docket Searches
The official MTAS Friendship profile names the city court but offers no docket form, citation lookup, payment tool, calendar, or document viewer. A Friendship court docket search still works fine. You simply make the request by phone, mail, or a visit to the recorder.
- Check that Friendship issued the citation or city notice.
- Gather the citation or case number, violation date, court date, and offense description.
- Contact the City Recorder/City Court Clerk at 731-677-2396.
- Ask for the present setting, status, public docket, and copy process.
- If the matter moved to a county court, request the new Crockett County case number.
A name by itself can pull up too much. The exact citation number is what lets Friendship's clerk zero in on the court record fastest.
Friendship's Main Street Recorder Route
Friendship City Hall sits at 631 Main Street. Mail goes to PO Box 265, Friendship, Tennessee 38034. Call 731-677-2396. The recorder email is debra@friendshipcity.net. The profile lists Debra J. Butler as City Recorder and City Court Clerk. Casey Burnett appears as City Judge. Staff changes happen, so confirm those names before you rely on them.
Friendship City Court
631 Main Street
PO Box 265
Friendship, TN 38034
731-677-2396
Recorder and clerk route for city citations and municipal records.
The manifest image comes from the officially maintained municipal directory.
It supports the local recorder route without implying that a browser search exists.
Inside the Friendship Municipal Court
Friendship's code profile points to Title 9 for Motor Vehicles and Traffic. It also lists Title 10 for Offenses. Those headings map the municipal subject matter. They do not show a live court docket, a current fine, or a hearing date. The city court record itself may hold the citation, the appearance, a plea or payment event. It may also show the judgment and the disposition.
Census 2020 counted 613 residents. That makes Friendship third among Crockett County's five incorporated places. The small scale explains why public access runs through a recorder contact rather than a big search portal. Population has nothing to do with the access rules that govern court records.
Friendship Title 9 Traffic Records
Title 9 marks the traffic section of the municipal code profile. For a Friendship traffic record, hand the clerk the citation number plus the wording or code reference on the ticket. Ask whether the court docket is open for inspection. Also ask about a plain or certified copy.
- Citation number
- The exact key printed on the city citation.
- Violation date
- The date of the cited event, useful for narrowing a search.
- Appearance date
- The court date on the citation or latest notice.
- Disposition
- The court's outcome entry, distinct from a payment receipt.
Friendship publishes no online fine page or payment method, so pay nothing based on another city's terms.
Finding Friendship Court Dates
The court posts no public daily calendar. Your citation or latest notice gives the first court date, but the recorder can tell you whether that setting changed. Ask for the date, time, location, judge, setting type, and any reset.
| Date | The appearance date on the notice or clerk-confirmed update. |
|---|---|
| Time | The time printed on the current city record. |
| Location | The place stated by Friendship's current notice or clerk. |
| Judge | The listed city judge, subject to current confirmation. |
| Setting type | Appearance, plea, trial, status, or another city event. |
Never build a Friendship court schedule from a town meeting notice or an old code profile. Neither source proves when court actually meets.
Friendship's 1992 Code Date
The MTAS profile shows a May 4, 1992 code-update marker. Treat that date as a prompt to verify current ordinance text, fines, deadlines, and court practice. It does not mean the court closed or that the whole code is invalid.
Verify before relying: ask the Friendship recorder for the current ordinance, procedure, fee, and setting rather than treating an old profile date as current law.
The personnel directory can change faster than the municipal code page. A quick phone check saves you from stale names or instructions.
Friendship Traffic Ticket Lookups
A Friendship traffic ticket lookup stays a clerk-based task. The city offers no public party-name field, citation field, hearing filter, online payment form, or downloadable docket. Ask whether you can inspect the file at city hall, get a mailed copy, or use some other current channel.
| Identifier | Format | Why it helps |
|---|---|---|
| Citation or case number | Exact text | Finds the city file |
| Citation date | Date | Narrows the record |
| Court date | Date | Confirms the setting |
| Title 9 or 10 description | Text | Identifies the municipal subject |
For the wider city-by-city route, the Crockett County traffic court records page covers it while keeping Friendship's separate clerk clear.
Friendship Title 10 Offense Records
Title 10 is the profile heading for offenses. A Title 10 city matter is not automatically a Crockett County Criminal Court prosecution. The issuing authority, charging document, and court name decide which docket holds the case. Ask the Friendship clerk whether the city kept it.
If a separate county charge or appeal exists, get that court and case number too. The county clerk cannot pull the Friendship citation from a broad city description alone. Keep both identifiers. The municipal file and the county file stay distinct even when they are related.
Note: a code heading names a subject area. It is not a current charge, a case status, or a public access decision.
No Friendship Online Docket Exists
Friendship offers no public online docket or payment form. Say that plainly. It does not mean the clerk holds no record; it means the working access chain is a phone call, a letter, or a trip to city hall. For context, Tennessee's Find a Court Clerk guidance explains how to reach the right office for any docket question.
That state guidance confirms clerks manage dockets. It also confirms Tennessee keeps no single central repository for all trial records.
How Friendship Cases Reach the County
A Friendship city record stays at the municipal layer unless another process creates a county matter. If the case is appealed or transferred, ask for the new Crockett County number. Friendship publishes no appeal deadline, so do not borrow Alamo's ten-day rule here.
Docket flow: Friendship Municipal Court › Crockett County Courts › Circuit Court of Crockett County
Circuit-related requests start with Kim Kail, Circuit Court Clerk, at 1 South Bells Street, Suite 6, Alamo, 731-696-5462. Chancery files start with James Stephenson, Jr., Clerk and Master, in Suite 5 at 731-696-5458. The full county route is laid out in the Crockett County court docket overview.
Friendship Clerk Versus County Clerk
Four names, four jobs. Debra Butler handles Friendship city matters on the municipal side. Kim Kail keeps the county office that holds Circuit court files. James Stephenson, Jr. covers Chancery. Dana Branch appears as the current County Clerk on the county and Revenue pages. That post is administrative. Do not assume she holds every docket in Crockett County.
| Record | First route | Search key |
|---|---|---|
| Friendship citation | City Recorder/Court Clerk | Citation number |
| Circuit or criminal case | Circuit Court Clerk | County case number |
| Chancery case | Clerk and Master | Chancery number |
| State appeal | Public Case History | Appeal number or style |
Route by court, not by a job title that happens to include the word clerk.
If Friendship Records Move on Appeal
Call the city recorder first. Ask whether an appeal was filed and, if so, which court took it. Keep the city citation number and the filing date. Ask for any new county number too. An appeal that reaches the state level can show up in Tennessee Public Case History. The tool searches by case number, case style, party name, and business or organization.
One limit matters here. Public Case History covers appellate courts only. It will not search the original Friendship municipal docket. Still, an appellate entry often lists the trial court and trial number. That points you back to the local office that holds the file.
A blank search proves nothing. Most city matters end without any appellate record. Treat a missing result as just that. It is missing, not proof the Friendship case never existed.
Who Can See Friendship Court Records
Public access to court records in Tennessee rests on . The rule allows access within reasonable limits and confidentiality rules. Sealed documents, protective-order material, restricted judicial records, and anything shielded by other law stay closed.
Key access rules:
Rule 34 governs public court-record inspection and exceptions.
Tennessee Public Records Act guidance sends a detailed request to the record custodian.
Rule 114 protects dependent and neglect juvenile records and allows other juvenile restrictions.
Request the public or redacted version, since the lawful response may omit private identifiers or restricted documents.
Friendship Record Request Checklist
Write it all down before you dial. Note the exact city and the citation number. Add the date, the appearance date, and the code description. Say up front what you need. Do you want to inspect the record, get a plain copy, or need a certified copy? Friendship publishes no fee schedule. Ask the clerk for the current cost and the accepted way to submit the request.
- Citation or case number
- Issuing date and stated court date
- Title 9 traffic or Title 10 offense description
- Requested docket, judgment, or other public item
- Preferred inspection or copy form
If Friendship turns out not to hold the record, ask which named clerk does. A request that specific lets the office pull an existing file instead of trying to build some new report for you.
Track the Friendship Clerk Reply
Save the clerk's reply and mark the confirmation date. A later notice may carry a new setting or a new number. When that happens, follow the newer court record. Ask whether the first entry was reset, transferred, or replaced. That paper trail beats an old directory page. It is not a live Friendship docket.