How to Search the Bentonville Court Docket
Bentonville District Court offers a city-linked Tyler Municipal Record Search. It covers local cases from May 2013 forward. You can query it by name, citation number, docket number, police-department case number, or several other listed identifiers. Felonies, larger civil cases, domestic matters, probate, juvenile cases, and District Court appeals live at the county level instead. For those, start with Search ARCourts and pick the right Benton County court.
- Read the full court name and case number on the citation, summons, or order.
- For a local case, open the Bentonville municipal case search.
- Choose one search path and preserve all letters, hyphens, and number segments.
- For a county case, search the statewide portal and narrow by court, type, status, or date.
- Confirm the newest setting with the clerk responsible for that court.
The word "Bentonville" alone won't settle it. Several Circuit divisions sit in the city, yet they are county courts. Match your notice to the court, division, and case number before choosing a counter.
Bentonville District and Circuit Dockets
The most common Bentonville search error is treating Bentonville District Court and Benton County Circuit Court as one office. They are not. District Court, Division 2, Bentonville Department handles traffic, ordinance, misdemeanor, and qualifying civil or small-claims matters. Circuit Court takes felonies, major civil cases, domestic relations, juvenile matters, probate subject matter, and appeals from District Court.
| Record | Likely court | Custodian |
|---|---|---|
| City ticket or ordinance case | Bentonville District Court | District Court clerk |
| Felony or major civil case | Benton County Circuit Court | Circuit Clerk |
| Probate case | Circuit Court Probate Division | Benton County Clerk Probate |
| District appeal | Benton County Circuit Court | Circuit Clerk |
The official Bentonville District Court source supplies the local court details shown below.
The Bentonville court page helps separate municipal services from the county courthouse route.
The Bentonville Municipal Court
The court's formal name is Bentonville District Court, Division 2, Bentonville Department. Judge Ray Bunch presides. Jaime White serves as chief clerk. You will find the court at 2706 S. Walton Boulevard, Bentonville, AR 72712. Call 479-271-3120. Choose option 1 for traffic or criminal questions, or option 2 for civil questions. Hours run Monday through Friday, 7:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. This clerk maintains and certifies the Bentonville District Court record. A Search ARCourts printout may help you locate an entry. It is no substitute for a certified copy from the clerk.
Bentonville District Court
2706 S. Walton Blvd.
Bentonville, AR 72712
479-271-3120
Option 1 for traffic/criminal; option 2 for civil.
Bentonville Docket Search Fields
The municipal system offers more local search routes than most Benton County city courts. A name search uses last name and date of birth. First name is also available. Other paths accept a citation, docket, police case, warrant, license plate and state, or vehicle identification number. Stick to identifiers tied to your own case or lawful public research.
| Search path | Input | Use |
|---|---|---|
| Name | Last name and date of birth | Find a likely participant match |
| Citation | Full citation number | Locate a local ticket |
| Docket | Displayed docket number | Open a known court record |
| PD case | Police-department case number | Alternate local identifier |
| Vehicle | Plate and state, or VIN | Portal-supported alternate lookup |
The official-city-linked case interface is shown below.
Those fields make Bentonville's local tool genuinely useful. Court and case identity still drive the result.
Treat the municipal form and Search ARCourts as separate layers. On the Bentonville form, pick one supported route and enter the data exactly as printed. In Search ARCourts, choose Participants or Cases. Then narrow a Bentonville-connected result by court, location, case type, status, or date. A public circuit number may follow a format such as 04CR-YY-sequence, 04CV-YY-sequence, or 04DR-YY-sequence. The whole value matters. Never force a Bentonville citation number into a circuit format. Never treat a circuit number as a municipal docket number.
When the Bentonville search returns several records, compare the court, case description, type, status, and dates before opening one. Inside a public result, check Case Summary, Case Participants, Case Events, Docket Entries, and any relevant offense or sentence tab. A Bentonville event date can mark a filing rather than a hearing. The newest future setting is the useful calendar item. The full event trail shows how the case got there.
Bentonville Court Dates and Settings
Bentonville's Upcoming Dockets view can be sorted by date, docket, courtroom, and judge. Public rows may show date, time, docket, courtroom, judge, and actions. Work from the newest entry. Then confirm with the Bentonville clerk. A posted downtown list or courtroom-door sheet is only a day-of-court aid. It may miss a change entered elsewhere.
| Date | The current listed setting date, subject to a later reset. |
|---|---|
| Time | The docket-call or individual hearing time. |
| Courtroom | The room shown by the municipal view or current notice. |
| Judge | The presiding judge named for the setting. |
| Setting Type | The docket, arraignment, pretrial, trial, or compliance purpose. |
A continuance keeps the former date as history while a later event supplies the new one. If the portal and the paper notice disagree, call the clerk before you travel. Circuit settings require the assigned Circuit division, not the municipal clerk.
Four Bentonville Circuit Court Addresses
Seven Benton County Circuit divisions list four Bentonville street addresses. Divisions 1, 4, 5, and 7 use 102 NE A Street. Division 2 sits at 201 NE Second Street. Division 3 sits at 1301 Melissa Drive, Suite 5. Division 6 sits at 215 E. Central Avenue. So a Bentonville address proves nothing about city District Court ownership.
The case notice and division assignment control your destination. Circuit Court staff direct numbers appear on the Benton County Circuit Judges page. Call the assigned division for a live calendar question. For the case record, or a plain or certified copy, use the Circuit Clerk.
Routing check: Match the exact court and division before leaving. “Bentonville courthouse” is too broad for a reliable docket visit.
Bentonville Traffic Tickets
Most Bentonville citations begin in Bentonville District Court, since that court is the one printed on the ticket. The city-linked case portal lets you run a docket search by citation number or another supported field. What turns up can include the charge, the plea, settings, orders, costs, and disposition. Remember one thing. A search result never proves an appearance was excused.
Paying and contesting are separate roads. Read whether payment works as a plea or waiver before touching any amount or payment button. Want to fight the ticket, or ask about deferred disposition or driving school? Call Bentonville District Court before the stated deadline. Eligibility depends on the case, and paying first can close a door you meant to keep open.
No one fine fits every Bentonville citation. The offense and the court set the amount. A vendor confirmation is just a payment receipt, not a certified disposition.
Bentonville Probate Court Record Route
Probate sounds like a Circuit Court matter, and it is. But Benton County hands administration to the elected County Clerk. That makes Bentonville unusual. The Probate counter sits in Room 206 at 102 NE A Street. The phone is 479-271-5727. Hours run 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., closed noon to 1:00 p.m.
Do not assume the Circuit Clerk's civil desk certifies probate documents. Start with Search ARCourts for public case information. Then ask County Clerk Probate for the official copy. A public case header may appear. Restricted probate or protected family content still follows access rules.
Note: “Circuit Court probate” names the court level. The Benton County Clerk names the local records counter.
Where Bentonville Cases End Up
Bentonville District Court keeps the local traffic, ordinance, misdemeanor, and qualifying civil dockets. Cases under general jurisdiction start at the county level instead. Appeal a District Court case and you create a Circuit Court trail. That trail often means trial de novo. Search that new circuit record through Search ARCourts and request copies from the Circuit Clerk.
Docket flow: Bentonville District Court › Benton County Courts › Circuit Court
After an appeal, the municipal case tool is not enough on its own. Search the circuit case under its new number and watch for references to the lower-court matter. The Benton County case search walks through the statewide filters at county depth.
Bentonville Specialty Court Dockets
Benton County runs Adult Drug Court, Veterans Treatment Court, and Mental Health Court. All sit at 1204 SW 14th Street, Suite 7, Bentonville. The Specialty Courts office answers at 479-696-9970. Hours run 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. These programs attach to an underlying criminal case. They do not create a separate docket for the public to browse.
The specialty-court calendar offers agenda, month, week, day, grid, box-grid, and map views with filters. An empty view can be truthful. It does not mean the programs stopped or the case disappeared. Check the base case docket. Call the program too, and respect the limits around treatment records and assessments.
- Review hearing
- A progress or compliance setting that often appears in specialty work.
- Docket call
- A readiness and placement check, not necessarily the trial.
- Public event
- A released calendar or case event that does not expose confidential clinical detail.
Bentonville Court Docket City Context
Bentonville ranked second among the five incorporated cities in the shared 2020 Census comparison, counting 54,164 residents. That figure measures city scale, not annual court filings. For a docket search, the county seat role matters more, because local District Court, Circuit Court, probate, and specialty functions all sit at Bentonville addresses.
The official Bentonville city source supplies the city-government setting pictured below.
City context explains why a Bentonville address alone is never enough; pair it with the exact court name.
Public Access to Bentonville Court Records
Where you ask depends on the record. Local records belong to the Bentonville District Court clerk. Circuit records belong to the Benton County Circuit Clerk. Probate requests go to County Clerk Probate. Document images appear online only when the originating court assigns public security. So a missing PDF does not mean the filing or docket entry fails to exist.
Key rules:
Administrative Order No. 19 is the primary rule for public access to Arkansas court records.
Arkansas FOIA, Ark. Code Ann. § 25-19-105 governs public records generally, subject to exemptions and the judiciary's court-record authority.
Arkansas Code § 9-27-309 protects juvenile records in the circumstances stated by law.
Some Bentonville files stay closed. Sealed cases, juvenile records, protected identifiers, and confidential family material may be limited or left out entirely. When you ask for copies, include the full Bentonville case number. Add the exact court, the event or document date, the copy type you want, and your contact details. Certified records have to come from the office that actually holds the file.
Benton County puts free civil and criminal indexes online, along with public images from January 1, 2014 forward. Anything older than that online coverage is not lost. A Bentonville Circuit Court record from an earlier year may need the Archives desk at 479-271-1710. A Bentonville municipal record goes through the District Court clerk instead. Treat the 2014 date as a marker for online coverage, nothing more.
Fees differ by office. The county schedule for circuit copies lists plain pages at $0.25 each. Certification costs $5 plus copy pages. That schedule does not carry over to a Bentonville District Court request. Ask the Bentonville clerk directly about the municipal copy charge, certification cost, accepted payment, and how copies get delivered. The clerk can also tell you which option fits your need. A public image, counter inspection, mailed copy, or certified record may each serve a different purpose.
Be specific with every label. Name the Bentonville court, not just the city. Copy the Bentonville case number exactly, and state the event or document and its date. A municipal record belongs to District Court. A felony or major civil file belongs to the Circuit Clerk, and probate goes to County Clerk Probate. If the setting sits in a numbered circuit division, call that division for the live date. Ask whether the copy is public, whether an image can be sent, and what certification costs. A clear request also gives a return address and a cost threshold. That step keeps a Bentonville District Court search from being confused with a county docket order.
Keep the reply and its source notice. A municipal quote should state its own fee, while a circuit quote should follow the Circuit Clerk schedule. Probate copies should come from County Clerk Probate. A reset needs court approval. Match any online image to its event. Make sure a certified copy bears the proper Bentonville clerk attestation. Track an appeal under its new circuit number. These checks keep a docket search, a calendar result, and an official court record distinct.