Onondaga County

Phone: (315) 435-2234

A $210.00 check payable to the Onondaga County Clerk for assigning an index number, starts a civil action proceeding.
A civil action file may include court orders, affidavits, summons, complaints or any document pertaining to that action and bearing the assigned index number. If you do not know the index number assigned to your action, a $5.00 fee will be charged for every two years searched.

Common Questions:

How do I view Civil Action files?
Files can be viewed in person in the Civil Action Department. Cases are put together on respective files. Confidential files are not open to the public, however, indexes of these records are available for viewing. Other Civil Action cases include: orders, summons, judgments, complaints and foreclosures and are available for public viewing.

Who has access to these files?
All civil action files are open to public view – with the exception of confidential files, records sealed by court order, and matrimonial files are available to husband, wife and attorney of record