Baker County Clerk Records Access

Baker County Clerk Contact

The Baker County Clerk of Superior and Juvenile Court is Stephanie Key. The deputy clerk named in the local research is Sheila Hudson. The office is at 167 Baker Place, Newton, GA 39870, with mailing address P.O. Box 10, Newton, GA 39870. The phone number is 229-734-3004, fax is 229-734-7770, and the listed email is stephanie.key@gsccca.org. Office hours are Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Stephanie Key's biography states that Clerks of Superior Court have been elected county constitutional officers since 1798. She was born and raised in Baker County, began in the clerk's office in 2003, served 17 years as Chief Deputy Superior Court Clerk, was appointed Superior and Juvenile Clerk on July 1, 2019, was elected in 2020, and took office on January 1, 2021. The clerk's role is broader than a copy counter because the office receives filings, manages fees, protects court and land records, and supports jury functions.

The clerk biography and duty page identifies Stephanie Key and summarizes the Baker County clerk's public-record and court-support work.

That office profile explains why Baker County court records and land records often start with the same constitutional clerk.

Baker County Clerk Duties

The clerk receives, manages, and processes court documents for Superior and Juvenile Court. The office collects and disburses court fees, fines, and costs, provides public access to court records, and maintains property records such as deeds and liens. It also manages trial and grand juries, supports the Board of Equalization, appoints notaries public, registers trade names, and issues subpoenas for court appearances.

• Superior Court civil, criminal, and divorce filings, including public case-file access where the record is open.
• Juvenile Court filings, with access limited by Georgia confidentiality rules and court practice.
• Real estate records, deeds, liens, plats, surveys, UCC filings, trade names, and partnerships.
• Jury administration, subpoena processing, notary applications, and Board of Equalization support.
• Copy, certification, appeal-record preparation, and filing-fee collection under the local fee schedule.

The Baker Clerk real estate page describes deeds, liens, plats, military discharges, partnerships, trade names, and UCC recording.

Real estate records use clerk and GSCCCA channels, while case-file copies still depend on the relevant court record.

Request Baker County Certified Copies

A certified copy is a clerk-authenticated copy used when a court, agency, lender, school, employer, or other official recipient needs proof that the copy matches the court record. Baker County's research did not locate a separate clerk public-record request form, so copy requests should be made directly through the clerk's office by phone, mail, email, fax, or in person. Avoid sending sensitive identifiers by plain email unless the clerk directs a secure method.

1. Identify the record type: Superior Court case, divorce decree, civil filing, criminal file, appeal record, deed, lien, plat, UCC, trade name, or notary item.
2. Gather party names, case number or book/page if known, approximate filing date, document type, and copy type.
3. Call 229-734-3004 to confirm whether the record is open, whether older files need retrieval, and what the cost will be.
4. Submit the request by the channel the clerk confirms: in person, mail to P.O. Box 10, fax, or email.
5. Pay the applicable fee and ask whether the copy will be plain, certified, exemplified, faxed, electronic, or mailed.

Certified divorce decrees are requested from this clerk, while marriage certificates are requested from Probate Court. That split matters because the two offices have different names, phone numbers, hours, and record responsibilities.

Baker County Clerk Request Fields

The clerk site footer includes a general contact form, but the research does not identify it as a formal records request form. A useful Baker County clerk request should include enough detail for staff to identify the file without guessing. For court files, the case number is best. For land records, recording data such as deed book, page, grantor, grantee, or instrument type can help.

Baker County Clerk Fees

The Baker Clerk cost and fee schedule is detailed. It covers civil filings, sheriff service, subpoenas, publications, appeal records, real estate recording, UCC filings, partnerships, notary public, trade names, and copies. The table below highlights common record-access and filing items rather than every line on the schedule.

The local fee schedule image comes from the clerk's official cost page.

Fee and e-filing details work together because filing method, service, and copy type can all affect the total cost.

Baker County Clerk Online Access

Baker County does not have one all-purpose clerk database for every case and property record. The clerk site links to several official or statewide systems. Georgia Courts e-access routes users to court-record vendors and says an account is required to search court records. PeachCourt is identified by the Baker Clerk as the Superior Court civil e-filing vendor. GSCCCA supports real estate, lien, UCC, PT-61, and related clerk-record workflows.

The Baker Clerk also posts a jury-services page and a Board of Equalization page that show non-case duties tied to the same office.

Jury administration is part of the clerk's Superior Court role, even though it is not a normal case-copy request.

The Board of Equalization source shows that board members are appointed by the Grand Jury, must meet local eligibility rules, and that a taxpayer may appeal a BOE decision in Superior Court within 30 days through the Board of Assessor's office.

That Board of Equalization material is a county-specific bridge between property disputes, clerk duties, and Superior Court appeals.