Search Broussard Criminal History

How to Check Criminal History in Broussard

Broussard Police Department holds reports created by its officers. Crash copies have a dedicated LexisNexis Police Reports link, while other public records go through the City Clerk or the city request page. Municipal citation matters belong to Broussard Magistrate Court. The sheriff and district clerk depend on whether the arrest occurred in Lafayette Parish or St. Martin Parish.

1. Confirm the exact event address and which parish contains it.
2. Use the BPD crash-report route or ask the City Clerk for the specific police or city record.
3. Contact Broussard Magistrate Court for municipal citation status because it has no docket search.
4. Use the correct parish sheriff for custody and the correct district clerk for filed criminal cases.
5. Use Louisiana State Police Right to Review for a fingerprint-based copy of one’s own statewide history.

The parish check should happen before a jail or felony case search. A Lafayette-side route may yield nothing for a St. Martin-side arrest.

Tracing a Two-Parish Broussard Arrest

Broussard lies in both Lafayette and St. Martin Parishes. That boundary matters after an arrest. For an event on the Lafayette side, the city’s jail information routes custody searches to the Lafayette Parish Sheriff’s current system. An event on the St. Martin side may instead enter that parish’s sheriff and court chain. Research found no standalone Broussard jail roster.

Use the incident address, arresting report, or citation to verify parish. Then match the record to the correct custodian. The same city name is not enough. A person can otherwise spend time searching the Lafayette Parish booking list and ClerkConnect when the actual file belongs across the parish line.

The Broussard Police Department

Broussard Police Department is at 5801 Highway 90 East, Broussard, LA 70518. Call 337-837-6259 or fax 337-839-1219. Office hours are Monday through Thursday from 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Friday from 8 a.m. to noon. Chief Vance Olivier is named on the official site. After-hours nonemergency dispatch uses 337-345-6098.

Dispatch and records serve different needs. Use dispatch for a current nonemergency call after office hours. Use the records or city request channel for an existing report. A dispatcher may not be able to quote a copy charge or process a broad public-record request.

Crash Copy or Clerk Request

The city separates crash access from other records. Broussard’s police site links to LexisNexis Police Reports for crash copies. For another police or city record, contact City Clerk Tina Emert at City Hall, 406 East Madison Street, by calling 337-837-6681, option 3, or use the city public-record request page.

A crash vendor search is not a criminal-history portal. It retrieves a known collision report. A City Clerk request should describe the record, date, address, people involved, and report number when available. Ask for the public initial report if an investigation remains open, and ask for segregable public portions if protected material must be removed.

Arrests and Bookings in Broussard

BPD creates the local arrest or initial incident report. The sheriff creates the booking entry after intake. On the Lafayette Parish side, use the Lafayette Parish custody tools. The entry may identify booking time, arresting agency, intake charge, bond, and release. It does not prove a conviction.

For the St. Martin Parish side, follow that parish’s sheriff and clerk rather than assuming LPSO holds the person. A no-result can also reflect release, transfer, delayed posting, spelling differences, or juvenile confidentiality. The arresting agency field and event address help resolve which chain to follow.

Lafayette-Side Broussard Bookings

Broussard’s city jail page points Lafayette-side users toward the parish sheriff’s JADES/current successor route. The current custody list and a police report cover different phases. Search custody first for a very recent event, then request the BPD report for the account created by the arresting officers.

If prosecution follows, search the court file. A booking charge is the intake accusation; the prosecutor’s filed charge may be amended, reduced, or declined. The disposition is the court’s outcome, such as dismissal, plea, conviction, or acquittal. The Lafayette Parish criminal cases page explains ClerkConnect and direct copy requests.

Note: Release from parish custody does not close the court case.

Broussard Municipal Court Records

Broussard Magistrate Court meets once a month at 5:30 p.m. in the police building. Questions go to 337-837-6259. The court publishes citation-to-court-date schedules, but research found no searchable online docket. Use the phone or counter for status and record questions.

The official Broussard Magistrate Court page shows the local court access point.

The court page is the source for its schedule and payment rules. It does not provide a public name-based case search.

Call Before Paying a Citation

Payments may be made at the counter, by mail, or through the official payment site. Call first to obtain the citation number. In person, the city states that it accepts cash, cashier’s check, money order, and personal check. Never mail cash, and do not use a two-party check.

Payment is not a docket search. It resolves a known citation under the court’s rules. A person seeking more time must appear before the judge on the summons date to request an extension. The clerk or payment screen cannot grant that judicial relief in advance.

No Broussard Case Search

A missing online docket does not mean the city lacks a case record. Contact the Magistrate Court with the citation number, defendant name as written, and event date. Ask for the next setting, present status, disposition, and any available plain or certified copy. A certified copy bears the clerk’s attestation and is the better choice when another agency requires proof of the result.

Felonies and other district matters do not belong in the municipal payment system. Use the clerk in the parish where the event was filed. If a web summary lacks a signed judgment or minute entry, request that source document rather than treating the summary as complete.

Keep a clear line between court status and warrant status. A payment page can fail because the citation is not yet ready, requires appearance, or needs a number supplied by the court. That failure does not establish that the case was dismissed. Call 337-837-6259 and ask what the court file currently reflects. If a warrant or OMV suspension may have issued, consider legal advice before appearing in person and confirm which office has authority to clear the issue.

Where Broussard Records End Up

BPD makes the police report. The sheriff for the correct parish records custody. A prosecutor decides what to file, and the municipal or district court records the disposition. Fingerprints and agency submissions may then update the Louisiana Computerized Criminal History repository maintained by Louisiana State Police.

Record flow: Broussard PD › correct parish sheriff and courts › Louisiana State Police Bureau of Criminal Identification and Information

That flow is not a promise that each system updates at once. For a recent event, start with BPD and the proper sheriff. For the final result, use the court. For a complete Louisiana record about oneself, use the fingerprint-based Right to Review process. Louisiana does not offer unrestricted public LACCH searches by another person’s name.

Côte Gelée to Industrial City

Broussard was first known as Côte Gelée, or “Frozen Hills,” a name associated with its ridge and the severe winter of 1784. Founded in 1884, it took the name of merchant Valsin Broussard. Official history connects him to an early vigilante committee formed after his store was robbed and to Acadian figure Joseph Broussard dit Beausoleil.

The city reached city status in 2002 and now reports more than 1,000 businesses. Its July 1, 2024 Census estimate was 15,312, about 13.7 percent above the 2020 base. These facts describe development, not an offense rate. No current official city offense-count table was located, so growth should not be used to imply a rise or fall in crime.

Public Access Rules

Louisiana’s Public Records Law broadly includes government documentary material unless another rule creates an exception. The custodian for a Broussard police investigation may withhold specified investigative material while releasing the public initial report. Booking records, summonses, citations, and filed bills of information have express access protection. Juvenile identity, protected victim data, medical information, security details, and expunged material may require redaction or withholding.

A clear request helps the custodian separate public from protected content. State that inspection is acceptable if copies are not needed. Public access does not permit harassment, threats, retaliation, or FCRA-regulated screening through this resource.