San Bernardino County Dockets

San Bernardino County Superior Court handles court dockets for the largest county in the United States by land area. Over two million people live here. The court operates multiple courthouse locations across the vast geography. You can search court dockets online through the Court Access Portal. This system covers civil and criminal cases filed at courthouses in San Bernardino, Rancho Cucamonga, Victorville, and other locations. The portal charges fees for downloading documents but case searches by case number are free. You can find docket information for recent cases without visiting a courthouse in person.

Online Court Docket Search

The Court Access Portal operates at cap.sb-court.org/search. You can search by case number, party name, or attorney name. Case number searches work best if you already know the number from a prior court appearance or document. Name searches pull up all cases involving that person or lawyer in San Bernardino County.

Results show basic case info. You can see the parties, case type, filing date, and current status. Click on a case to view the full docket register. The register lists every filing, motion, hearing, and order in chronological order. This gives you a complete history of what happened in the case from start to finish.

Document images are available for many filings. The court charges fifty cents per page to download documents through the online portal. The maximum cost for any single document is fifty dollars. This fee applies only to remote access. If you view documents at a courthouse terminal, you pay nothing unless you want printed copies.

San Bernardino County Courthouses

The court system runs fourteen courthouse locations spread across the county. The main civil courthouse sits in San Bernardino. Criminal cases get processed at a separate building also in San Bernardino. Rancho Cucamonga has a large courthouse serving the western part of the county. Victorville handles cases from the High Desert region. Other courthouses operate in Barstow, Big Bear, Chino, Fontana, Joshua Tree, Needles, Redlands, Twentynine Palms, Yucaipa, and Yucca Valley.

Each courthouse has a clerk office where you can search for cases on public terminals. Staff can help you find what you need. They can print copies for fifty cents per page. Certified copies add a forty dollar certification fee on top of the per page charge. Many people use the online portal first to locate the case, then visit a courthouse if they need certified copies for court or other official purposes.

You can call the civil division at (909) 708-8678 for questions about civil cases. The Rancho Cucamonga courthouse phone is (909) 350-9764. Victorville can be reached at (760) 245-6215. Each location has different hours and handles different case types, so check the court website at sanbernardino.courts.ca.gov before you visit.

Court Docket Case Types

San Bernardino County Superior Court dockets cover all trial court matters. Civil dockets track lawsuits between private parties. These include contract disputes, personal injury cases, property claims, and business litigation. A civil case can run for years with hundreds of docket entries before it settles or goes to trial. The docket shows every motion filed, every hearing held, and every ruling made by the judge.

Criminal dockets list prosecutions by the District Attorney. They show arraignment dates, bail amounts, preliminary hearings, plea deals, and sentencing. Traffic cases appear in the criminal system. You can look up a traffic ticket online to find your court date and see if any fines or warrants are pending. Family law dockets handle divorce, custody, support, and domestic violence restraining orders. These cases often involve many court appearances over months or years.

Probate cases manage estates after someone dies. They also cover conservatorships for adults who cannot care for themselves and guardianships for children. Small claims dockets allow disputes up to ten thousand dollars. Parties represent themselves in small claims. Cases move quickly from filing to hearing to judgment.

Court Record Fees

San Bernardino County charges for remote document access. Downloading a document costs fifty cents per page. The fee caps at fifty dollars per document. Case searches by case number are free. Name searches may cost money depending on how the court implements fees for database queries. Most people search by case number once they know it to avoid search fees.

In person access at courthouse terminals is free. You only pay if you want printed copies. Clerks charge fifty cents per page for regular copies. Certified copies run forty dollars plus the per page fee. If staff need to spend more than ten minutes searching for an old case, the court can charge a fifteen dollar search fee under California law.

Coverage Area

San Bernardino County covers over twenty thousand square miles. It stretches from the Los Angeles County border east to Nevada and Arizona. The county includes urban areas like San Bernardino and Rancho Cucamonga. It also has vast desert regions with small towns and rural communities. This huge geography means people in different parts of the county use different courthouses. Check which courthouse serves your area before filing a case or searching for records.

The Fourth Appellate District handles appeals from San Bernardino County. If you appeal a Superior Court decision, the case goes to the Court of Appeal in Riverside or San Bernardino. Appellate cases use different docket numbers and a separate online system. You can search appellate dockets at appellate.courts.ca.gov. Very few trial court cases get appealed. Most end with the Superior Court judgment.

Major Cities in San Bernardino County

Several large cities sit within San Bernardino County. Court dockets for residents of these cities are maintained by the county Superior Court system. Select a city below to find local court information:

Nearby Counties

San Bernardino County borders several other counties. Each maintains its own court system: