How to Search Criminal Dockets
The main route into the Custer County criminal docket is the Nebraska JUSTICE one-time search. Pick Custer County and Criminal there. If you do not know the court level, run County Court and District Court as separate searches. JUSTICE is a statewide trial-court index, not a Custer-only database. A hit can open a Case Summary, a Register of Actions, judgment or financial details, and an image when a public document exists.
Enter the party name the way the court does: last, first, middle initial, suffix. A case number, year, judge, or attorney can narrow a Custer County criminal result. County by itself is not a valid JUSTICE search field. And a similar name alone proves little. Compare court, caption, case number, and public details before you trust a match as the right person.
- Accept the JUSTICE terms and select Custer County with the Criminal case type.
- Run the Custer County name or number search in County Court, then repeat it in District Court if the stage is unclear.
- Open the matching Custer County Case Summary and Register of Actions after checking the court and caption.
- Read dated Custer County settings, orders, judgments, and later disposition or appeal entries.
- Ask the correct Custer County clerk for a copy when a filed document or certified record is required.
Custer County Criminal Docket Courts
Custer County Court is the usual starting point for misdemeanors and preliminary felony proceedings. A felony can then move to Custer District Court after bind-over. One matter may therefore have a County Court procedural trail and a later District Court criminal docket. A search that stops at one level can miss part of the sequence.
The official District 8 directory places Custer in a multi-county district. Custer County District Court handles felony trials and general-jurisdiction criminal proceedings, while Custer County Court handles the earlier or lower-level matters described above. The town shown on a citation does not create a separate municipal criminal docket.
Judge Mark D. Kozisek's public profile provides official District 8 context.
Custer County's criminal docket does not sit alone. It operates within the broader District 8 system, and district-wide judicial information helps explain that connection.
What a Criminal Docket Shows
A Custer County criminal result can show the case number, caption, court, classification, filing and closed dates, parties and roles, attorneys, judgment information, costs, payments, Case Summary, Register of Actions, and available document links. Treat the public result as a pointer to court activity. It is not a full narrative. An entry labeled "order" says nothing about the order's contents.
Two views deserve attention. The Register of Actions is the chronological official summary of Custer County case events. The Case Summary is the structured overview. Review both before drawing a conclusion from one Custer County line. For a Custer County criminal docket, a missing image may be restricted, not digitized, or unavailable in that service. It may also be waiting out an update delay.
| Case ID | A court identifier that may follow C 04 CR YY ####### for County Court criminal formatting. |
|---|---|
| Case Summary | The court, county, caption, classification, dates, parties, and disposition fields. |
| Register of Actions | The dated sequence of filings, settings, orders, judgments, and other recorded events. |
| Financial sections | Recorded costs, judgments, payments, or satisfaction entries that must be read with later events. |
| Document image | An available public image, if the particular document is eligible and present. |
Custer County Criminal Docket Code 04
Custer County's JUSTICE county code is 04. The official demonstration combines a court prefix, county number, case-type abbreviation, year, and sequence. A County Court criminal format may resemble C 04 CR YY #######. Keep in mind that this is a format pattern. It is not a live case example or a complete local code list.
Each piece carries meaning. The prefix helps distinguish the Custer County court level. 04 identifies Custer. And CR points to the criminal category. Use the Custer County case number exactly as the court supplied it. Never manufacture an abbreviation from a partial number. And never assume every historic Custer County criminal docket follows the current display pattern.
- Caption
- The formal case title naming the parties or government.
- Disposition
- The recorded resolution or status, best read with the related order or judgment.
- Bind-over
- The transfer of a felony matter from County Court toward District Court after preliminary proceedings.
Stages on a Criminal Docket
A Custer County criminal docket can begin with a complaint, information, or citation. Later entries may show service, a preliminary hearing, arraignment, plea, motion, order, trial, disposition, sentencing, appeal, mandate, or satisfaction. The exact path depends on the charge and court level. Read with care. A pending entry is not a conviction. A charge entry is not the final outcome.
Docket flow: Filing → Arraignment → Pretrial → Plea or Trial → Disposition → Sentencing
For a Custer County felony, County Court may show the preliminary proceeding while District Court holds the later trial record after bind-over. When the sequence suggests that transfer, search both Custer County Registers of Actions. Appeal-related entries can create a further state-court trail.
Reading Custer County Criminal Events
Read a Custer County criminal Register of Actions from the earliest event forward. "Summons issued" does not itself prove service. A motion entry does not reveal the ruling. A judgment, disposition, satisfaction, payment, and appeal entry can each address different parts of a case. Later entries can change an earlier event's meaning.
The District Court records-maintenance rule distinguishes the Register of Actions from the trial docket, judgment index, financial record, and case file. So a Custer County criminal docket answers a different question. A certified order or the full case file answers another.
Note: a current Custer County result can lag a new Custer County filing by about a day. Confirm urgent appearance information with the court clerk.
Which Court Holds Criminal Dockets
Two clerks split the Custer County criminal docket work, and knowing which one you need saves a call. Debra Hansen, County Court Clerk/Clerk Magistrate, handles traffic, misdemeanors, municipal-ordinance cases, preliminary felony hearings, and other County Court records. Amy Oxford, Clerk of the District Court, keeps District Court criminal dockets, judgments, and case records. Both offices are listed at the Judicial Branch's Custer court location.
Check the court level on the Custer County criminal docket before you dial. Facing a misdemeanor or a citation? County Court is the right first stop. A felony trial-stage record belongs with District Court. Clerks maintain the files and can walk you through access routes. They cannot offer legal advice. Nor can they interpret what a case means.
Custer County Court
Clerk/Clerk Magistrate Debra Hansen
604 Heritage Drive, Broken Bow, NE 68822
308-872-5761
Custer District Court
Clerk Amy Oxford
604 Heritage Drive, Broken Bow, NE 68822
308-872-2121
Judge Tami K. Schendt's official profile shows her Custer County Court and North Central Problem-Solving Court connection.
The Custer County Court contact can steer a criminal record request to the right trial-court level.
Custer County Criminal Docket and North Central
The North Central Problem-Solving Court is a regional program. It is not its own public Custer County criminal docket database. The Judicial Branch lists Judge Schendt as one of its judges. A 2025 Supreme Court advisory described a graduation event held in the Custer County courtroom. Eligible nonviolent Custer County drug offenders may qualify. The program mixes treatment, supervision, testing, incentives, and sanctions.
Here is the key point for a docket search. The underlying Custer County criminal case stays in the public trial-court record, while program status and treatment details never show up as a distinct searchable case. Search JUSTICE with the ordinary court and case fields. Do not assume a case qualifies. Do not assume it sits in the program now or appears under a specialty category. The Supreme Court's North Central advisory documents that Custer courtroom event.
The advisory adds local color. It changes nothing about the ordinary Custer County criminal docket search path.
Public Access and Sealed Criminal Dockets
Nebraska public-access rules open party indexes, case summaries, Registers of Actions, calendars, judgments, orders, decrees, and available images. Confidentiality limits still apply. A Custer County criminal docket can be public. Parts can still stay off limits remotely. Some data never appears in ordinary search results. That includes Social Security numbers, witness information, protected victim information, juvenile material, sealed records, and similar protected data.
Adult Custer County cases dismissed or ending in acquittal after December 31, 2016 may be sealed automatically under Nebraska law. Older matters usually need a motion or a formal process. A blank result has other explanations too. It could be a name variation, a system cutoff, a delayed update, or plain search error. Getting a sealed record released means using the court's authorized process, not a public name search.
Key Rules:
Nebraska Court Rules of Public Access, Article 8 describes accessible court-record categories and their limits.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 43-2,108 limits access to juvenile information.
Nebraska adult record sealing information explains automatic and motion-based sealing routes.
The Judicial Branch sealing information spells out the access boundary around a restricted Custer County criminal docket.
Use the sealing rules as a prompt to confirm the applicable Custer County rule with the clerk. Never read a missing result as proof of anything.
Custer County Criminal Docket Privacy Boundary
Custer County juvenile matters run through County Court. No separate juvenile court is listed. That does not make them ordinary public criminal docket material. Nebraska law restricts public access to juvenile information. A calendar or index result cannot identify a child. It also cannot infer an outcome or rebuild restricted details from elsewhere.
Other sensitive fields can be restricted as well. These include protected addresses, medical and account information, victim and witness data, and confidential financial material. A public caption or a listed event on a Custer County criminal docket does not permit republishing those details. Missing an image? Ask the clerk which access rule applies instead of assuming the whole case is secret. Nebraska's juvenile confidentiality statute is the controlling starting point for this Custer County access limit.
The statute drives home a simple split. A Custer County court index and a publicly available record are not the same thing.
Custer County Criminal Docket Timing Limits
JUSTICE results for Custer County update nightly. That means an approximately 24-hour lag. A filing made today may not show up today. The live one-time search showed a $17 charge on August 29, 2026. Older official FAQ material showed $15. Check the live service and terms before relying on any Custer County fee. A no-result search is not necessarily free. Result detail stays available for three calendar days. Save anything permitted right away.
That one-time route is separate from subscriber access and from Nebraska Judicial Branch eFiling. E-filing exists for authorized document submission, not for public Custer County criminal docket viewing. A courthouse JUSTICE terminal and the clerks remain fallbacks when a remote result looks incomplete or a current court obligation needs verifying.
Older Custer County Criminal Dockets
Electronic case files in Custer County only reach back so far. The District Court moved onto JUSTIA-free JUSTICE in March 1998. County Court criminal and traffic cases followed in July 2000. Anything older may live on paper or microfilm. A Custer County criminal docket search for those years can mean a clerk request or historical digging instead of a quick index lookup. These dates set expectations for the search. Bear that in mind. They do not prove a record was destroyed or is unavailable.
Before you contact the clerk about an early Custer County criminal record, gather the basics: the court, the record series, the year, the case type, and the party or caption. History Nebraska helps here. Its Custer County records guide, RG258, lists local holdings. They sit in volumes, boxes, and microfilm. A sweeping request for every document about a person tends to fail. A narrow one points the clerk straight to the right file.
Custer County Criminal Docket Copy Route
A docket entry on your screen will not pass as an official copy. Neither will a downloaded image. For something certified, ask the right clerk. Name the document: the Register of Actions, a judgment, or a filed order. The Nebraska copy-request instructions spell out what to send. Expect to give the court, county, case number, case name, the document or its date, format, and delivery method.
The CC-3-29 form is the usual route for a Custer County copy request. Emailed plain copies, mailed copies, and certified copies each carry their own terms and charges. The form requires prepayment. Be precise. The clerk's job of locating the exact record gets easier while the court's access restrictions stay intact.
A written demand under the Nebraska Public Records Act is a separate channel. Under the court-records search policy, those requests go to the State Court Administrator. A copy of a named Custer County case, by contrast, ordinarily starts with the clerk and the CC-3-29.