Monroe County Clerk of Courts
Monroe County lists George Warden in the combined court-office group, but the Clerk of Courts role is functionally distinct from the Prothonotary. The Clerk of Courts handles criminal Common Pleas filings and criminal court financial obligations. The Prothonotary handles civil filings. The Clerk of Orphans' Court handles marriage and Orphans' Court filings. That split matters because a criminal docket, a civil judgment, and a marriage license are not requested from the same record track.
Criminal Common Pleas records include the case events created after a criminal case reaches the Court of Common Pleas. The research identifies criminal complaints, OTN, docket number, charges, arraignment events, bail, informations, motions, pleas, trial events, verdicts, sentencing, restitution, fines, costs, bench warrants, and appeals as fields that can appear in the record. Docket sheets are available through statewide UJS access, while local certified-copy and financial questions may require the Clerk of Courts.
Monroe County Clerk of Courts
Clerk: George Warden
610 Monroe Street
Stroudsburg, PA 18360
570-517-3385
Fax: 570-517-3582
Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
Monroe County Criminal Clerk Records
The Clerk of Courts records criminal Common Pleas activity for Monroe County. These records are not the same as police incident reports, jail custody records, or civil cases. The case file follows charges after the case enters the court system and can show the formal charge path, court events, disposition, sentence, and financial obligations. Magisterial District Courts also handle preliminary arraignments, bail, warrants, preliminary hearings, summary offenses, and traffic cases, but those lower-court docket sheets are searched in the statewide portal.
Monroe County is in Pennsylvania's 43rd Judicial District, so criminal Common Pleas dockets should be filtered to Monroe County when using statewide search tools. The District Attorney's case-information page directs the public to the Pennsylvania Judiciary Web Portal for case information, calendars, local rules, and ePay. The Public Defender office serves eligible defendants charged with crimes against the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, which is useful context when a record search is tied to an active case.
The District Attorney's office is at 701 Main Street, Suite 200 in Stroudsburg and is led by Mike Mancuso according to the research file. The Public Defender's Office is at 701 Main Street, Suite 301 and lists Jason A. LaBar as Chief Public Defender. Those offices are not the record custodians for Clerk of Courts files, but they often appear in criminal dockets because prosecutors file or handle charges and eligible defendants may receive appointed defense counsel.
Search Monroe County Criminal Dockets
Criminal Common Pleas, Magisterial District Court criminal, summary, and traffic dockets are searched through Pennsylvania UJS Case Search. Searchers can use participant name, docket number, citation number, OTN, complaint number, incident number, SID, organization, attorney, calendar event, date filed, parcel, or appellate search paths depending on what is known. UJS docket sheets are public summaries, not certified copies from the local office.
| Search Field | Best Use | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Docket Number | Known criminal case | Most precise when the CP or MDJ docket number is known. |
| Participant Name | Name-based lookup | Use county and court filters where available. |
| OTN | Criminal charge tracking | Useful for Pennsylvania criminal records tied to an arrest or complaint. |
| Complaint Number | Criminal complaint search | May connect the filing to law-enforcement or charging documents. |
| Citation Number | Traffic or summary cases | Often tied to Magisterial District Court matters. |
| SID | State ID search | Use only when the identifier is known. |
Request Monroe County Criminal Copies
A certified copy of a criminal Common Pleas record should be requested from the Clerk of Courts. The statewide docket can help identify the case and event history, but it does not replace the local custodian when a certified record, sentence order, disposition, or payment record is needed. If the record is a civil case, use the Monroe County Prothonotary instead.
- Search UJS Case Search for the Monroe County docket number, participant name, OTN, or complaint number.
- Open the docket sheet and identify the document, order, disposition, sentence, or cost entry needed.
- Contact the Clerk of Courts at 570-517-3385 to ask whether the record can be copied or certified.
- Provide the docket number, party name, document type, and requested copy type.
- Confirm payment method and whether pickup, mail, or another delivery option is available.
Monroe County Criminal Request Fields
The most useful criminal copy request is precise. The Clerk of Courts can usually work faster when a request includes a docket number or OTN rather than only a name. If the request concerns a county agency record instead of a court case record, Monroe County Open Records uses a separate written process and a separate address.
| Field | Required | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Docket number | Recommended | Use the CP or MDJ docket number from UJS when available. |
| Participant or defendant name | Yes | Include spelling variants if the docket is hard to find. |
| OTN or complaint number | Recommended | Helps distinguish criminal cases with similar names. |
| Document type | Yes | Examples include disposition, sentencing order, docket sheet, or payment record. |
| Copy type | Yes | State plain copy or certified copy. |
| Requester contact | Yes | Needed for fee, pickup, or mail instructions. |
Monroe County Clerk of Courts Fees
The research did not capture a full Clerk of Courts criminal copy fee schedule, so exact copy and certification amounts should be confirmed with the office. The Prothonotary page did capture payment rules for the combined office group: e-filing payments are made by credit card, while non-e-filing payments are by cash, money order, or certified check. No coins over $5 are accepted.
| Item | Amount / Rule |
|---|---|
| Plain criminal copy | Confirm with Clerk of Courts |
| Certified criminal copy | Confirm with Clerk of Courts |
| Criminal financial obligation payment | May be available through PAePay if approved for online payment |
| PAePay transaction maximum | $2,500 for fines, costs, and restitution payments |
| Non-e-filing payment at office | Cash, money order, or certified check |
| Coins | No coins over $5 accepted |
Monroe County Criminal Costs
Criminal docket sheets can show fines, court costs, restitution, bail, payment plans, or balances when those fields are public and approved for display. PAePay covers approved Common Pleas and Magisterial District Court obligations, but not every obligation appears online. The UJS pay-online page also notes the $2,500 transaction maximum for fines, costs, and restitution payments.
Financial entries can be sensitive because a docket balance may not show every local payment detail or recent update. For a certified payment record, payoff figure, or dispute over costs, contact the Clerk of Courts. For state-level or MDJ payment portal questions, use UJS and PAePay support paths.
| Financial Field | What It May Show |
|---|---|
| Fines | Court-imposed monetary penalty tied to a conviction or disposition. |
| Costs | Fees assessed as part of the criminal case. |
| Restitution | Money ordered paid to a victim when listed publicly. |
| Payment plan | Installment or balance information when approved for public docket display. |
| PAePay eligibility | Whether the obligation is approved for online payment. |
Monroe County Criminal E-Filing
The Monroe County court notice states that criminal e-filing through PACFile is mandatory for criminal matters, with exceptions in local rules. That criminal e-filing track is separate from Monroe County C-Track civil e-filing through the Prothonotary. The distinction is easy to miss because both systems involve court filings, but the Clerk of Courts side is criminal and the Prothonotary side is civil.
The manifest includes a court-structure source for Magisterial District Judge jurisdiction, which explains why many criminal and traffic records start in the lower courts before moving to Common Pleas.
That jurisdiction source supports the local record split between MDJ preliminary proceedings and later Common Pleas criminal filings.
Restricted Monroe County Criminal Records
Public criminal docket access has limits. UJS warns that docket sheets are not a substitute for a Pennsylvania State Police criminal history background check and that recent entries may not appear right away. Juvenile records are generally confidential under Pennsylvania law. Expunged records are removed from ordinary public access. Limited-access records may be shielded from the public while remaining available to criminal justice agencies.
Sealed records, victim-sensitive data, confidential identifiers, and some warrant or juvenile information may not be available from the public docket or from a routine counter request. If a record has been sealed, expunged, or restricted, the Clerk of Courts cannot treat it like an ordinary public copy request.