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Bulloch County Clerk Office

The Bulloch County Clerk of Superior, State and Juvenile Courts is Heather Banks McNeal. The office is listed at the Bulloch County Judicial Annex, 20 Siebald Street, Statesboro, Georgia 30458. The phone number is 912-764-9009, fax is 912-764-5953, and email is clerkinfo@bullochcounty.net. GSCCCA lists office hours as 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday. The courts managed by this clerk structure are Superior, State, and Juvenile Courts.

Heather Banks McNeal was first elected in 2014 and took office May 27, 2014. The Clerk biography describes her education at Statesboro High School, Georgia Southern University, and Nova Southeastern University, plus completion of the Superior Court Clerks' Certificate Program through the University of Georgia Carl Vinson Institute of Government in 2018. Those biography facts support the office profile, but record seekers usually need the request rules more than the biography.

The Clerk's official records and court links page is the local source for copy requests, e-filing links, and court division routing.

That page is especially useful because it gives a plain records-request instruction instead of only linking statewide portals.

Bulloch County Clerk Duties

The Clerk receives, manages, and processes court documents for Superior, State, and Juvenile Courts. The office collects and disburses court fees, fines, and costs; provides public access to court records; protects and permanently maintains property deeds and liens; manages trial and grand juries; supports the Board of Equalization; appoints notaries public; registers trade names; issues subpoenas; and supports Superior Court and State Court judges. The same office also links filing paths for plats, liens, deeds, UCCs, civil filings, criminal filings, and traffic citation payment.

• Superior Court files, including felony, divorce, family, major civil, and general jurisdiction records.
• State Court files, including misdemeanor, traffic, civil damages, and some lower-court appeal records.
• Juvenile Court records, with access limited by Georgia juvenile confidentiality rules.
• Real estate, lien, UCC, notary, trade-name, subpoena, jury, and appeal-record support functions.
• Copy requests, certified copies, eCertification, and filed-record confirmation channels.

The Clerk biography and duties page gives the office background and official duty summary.

The duty list helps separate Clerk records from Probate Court, Magistrate Court, Sheriff, and municipal records that use other offices.

Bulloch County Clerk Request Fields

The Clerk homepage gives a practical request rule: include as much information as possible. For court records, that means names, a case number if known, and requester contact information. For deed or property records, book and page can be important. The Clerk says requests submitted by email are processed within 3-5 business days after receipt, and the requester should include name and contact information so the office can follow up if needed.

Note: The 3-5 business day processing statement applies to received Clerk email requests, not to every portal or outside agency record.

Request Bulloch County Certified Copies

Certified copies are used when a plain photocopy is not enough, such as a divorce decree, order, deed, or other filed record that must prove official status. The Clerk copy request page says filed records can be purchased in person or electronically through GSCCCA eCertification. For digital certified documents, the eCertification portal requires account registration or login for new document requests. A public authentication-code lookup is available for a document that has already been issued.

1. Identify the court or record type first, such as Superior Court divorce, State Court criminal, deed, lien, or filed civil document.
2. Gather the names, case number, book and page, document type, and requester contact information.
3. Choose the channel: in person at 20 Siebald Street, email to clerkinfo@bullochcounty.net, or GSCCCA eCertification for eligible digital certified documents.
4. Ask for a certified copy and confirm the page count and fee before payment.
5. Use the authentication-code lookup only to verify a certified document that has already been issued.

The GSCCCA eCertification portal is the statewide certified-document channel linked by the Clerk for electronic copies.

eCertification can help with eligible digital certified copies, while in-person and email requests remain important for record identification and local questions.

Bulloch County Clerk Fees

The inspected Clerk fee sources list copy, certification, subpoena, notary, real estate, UCC, and appeal-record fees. Official pages showed conflicting trade-name amounts, so trade-name filing fees are not repeated here as a firm number. The copy fees below are the most relevant for court record seekers. Certified divorce decrees and other certified court records use the certified-copy schedule unless the Clerk quotes another lawful fee for a specific document type.

Bulloch County Clerk Forms

The Clerk maintains a forms and links area for common court needs. The forms page points users toward official court forms, costs, copy requests, and other court links. It is a better source than a copied form list because court forms and filing procedures can change. For a record request, the core fields still come from the Clerk's homepage instruction: name, case number or book/page, and requester contact information.

• Copy request information for filed records and certified copies.
• Court costs and recording fee references.
• Superior and State Court civil and criminal filing links.
• Real estate, plat, lien, deed, and UCC filing links.

The Clerk's forms and links page gathers official form paths and court links in one location.

The forms page supports record access, but it does not replace the Clerk's request process when a specific filed document is needed.

Bulloch County Clerk Online Channels

Several online systems support Clerk records, but they do not work the same way. PeachCourt is linked for e-filing and filed-record confirmation, and the Clerk's Superior Court Criminal FAQ says records filed in Superior Court can be verified by locating the case in PeachCourt. Kofile QuickLink covers Bulloch historical land index books from 1796-1977. GSCCCA search covers real estate index records from 1976 to present and other statewide Superior Court clerk categories such as UCCs, liens, plats, PT-61, notary, and certified search products.

The PeachCourt platform is one of the main electronic filing and document systems linked from the Clerk's site.

PeachCourt is useful for e-filed matter workflows, while the Clerk request process remains the fallback for copies and local record questions.