How to Search the Longton Court Docket
Start with the Longton City Departments page, the city's own portal for court business. It names the clerk and the judge. It offers no case-search fields. Before you call, gather the ticket or notice, the exact name on it, the issuing agency, the event date, and any citation number, since the clerk will ask for those to pull a Longton court docket entry.
- Read the notice for “Longton,” “municipal,” “Elk County District Court,” or a Kansas statute.
- For a city matter, contact Longton City Hall and ask for the municipal case number.
- Ask the clerk to confirm the date, time, setting type, location, and official payment or contest route.
- For a state case, open Kansas CaseSearch, choose District, and select Elk County.
- When remote detail is incomplete, contact the Elk district clerk or arrange courthouse terminal access.
Searching by name alone can pull up the wrong person. Check the court, case number, case type, and dates before you trust a Longton docket entry.
Longton Departments Start the Docket
The city's departments listing names Bonnie Foged as Longton city clerk. Her office is the practical first stop. Ask there for a municipal case number, a current court date, or the way to request an open city record. The same page names Robert Lattin as the municipal court judge, which confirms a sitting city court but gives no calendar or searchable docket register.
The official page behind this listing shows the departments route for municipal docket questions.
It confirms who holds the clerk and judge roles. It does not confirm any courtroom or online docket.
The Longton Municipal Court
Longton Municipal Court handles cases that break city ordinances. Its authority comes from K.S.A. 12-4104. This is a city court, not a branch of Elk County District Court. Both courts serve residents of the same county. Each court keeps its own records through its own clerk.
Elk County District Court takes the bigger load. State felonies, misdemeanors, and Kansas traffic charges land there. Civil suits, family matters, probate, juvenile cases, and magistrate issues all land there too. Erin Meador, the Elk County Clerk of the District Court, keeps that docket. A Longton city clerk cannot hand you a state case file. The district clerk does not hold Longton ordinance records just because the city sits inside Elk County. Knowing which court docket holds your case saves a wasted trip.
Longton Judge Is Publicly Identified
The city departments page names Robert Lattin as the municipal court judge. Seeing his name helps you recognize the city court on a notice. It proves nothing more. The name alone does not fix hearings to one day each month, place every setting at City Hall, or let you reach the judge outside the clerk's process. For anything about a court docket entry, the clerk's office remains the starting point.
Practical point: Direct docket, scheduling, and copy questions to the Longton clerk, not to a judicial officer personally.
Clerk staff can tell you what the register shows and how the court sends notice. They cannot go further. No one in the office will advise which plea to enter, predict a ruling, or explain the legal effect of a docket event. Those questions belong to a lawyer.
Longton Court Dates and Settings
The city posts no public court calendar. So the date printed on your ticket or a later court notice is your main written source. Back it up with confirmation from the clerk. When you call, ask staff to read back each part of the setting. A vague question like whether "court is this week" can leave you missing the exact date, time, or place of your hearing.
| Date | The date printed on the notice or entered in a later court update. |
|---|---|
| Time | The stated appearance time, not City Hall's office hours. |
| Location | The venue supplied by the municipal court; no courtroom was verified in research. |
| Judge | Robert Lattin is the published municipal judge, subject to the current notice. |
| Setting Type | First appearance, plea, hearing, trial, compliance, or another named event. |
A reset or continuance on the Longton court docket simply moves an event to a new date. It does not dismiss the case. Hold on to the newest notice and ask the clerk when the change was entered.
Longton City Hall Is Not a Calendar
The Longton homepage lists City Hall at 404 Kansas Avenue, with city office hours of Monday through Thursday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. That is contact information, pure and simple. Nothing there makes the room a courtroom. A hearing could fall outside those hours, or somewhere else entirely, so treat the schedule as a phone number and an address rather than a court calendar.
Confirm the real Longton court venue and hearing time through the clerk. A general city schedule is never a stand-in for your individual notice.
Longton Traffic Tickets
One Longton traffic ticket may cite a city ordinance. A second ticket from the same stretch of road may charge a violation of Kansas law instead. The court named on the citation and the legal citation on its face set the path. For a municipal notice, ask the Longton clerk. A state-law citation goes through the Elk district route under K.S.A. 8-2106.
| Ticket clue | Custodian | Next step |
|---|---|---|
| Longton ordinance or municipal court | Longton city clerk | Request city number, date, and instructions |
| Kansas statute or Elk District Court | Elk district clerk | Search CaseSearch and confirm the setting |
| Court not clear | Office named on notice | Ask for a custodian referral before payment |
Paying a Longton traffic ticket does not close out every obligation, so get the court's confirmation in writing and keep the receipt.
Longton Report Rows Need Care
The FY2023 municipal report lists three filed matters for Longton. The FY2022 row shows zero. Treat these as dated aggregate counts, not an online docket index and not evidence that any specific case exists or how it turned out. A zero row never means Longton had no court cases that year.
Longton counted 288 residents in the 2020 Census, yet a small population or a thin report total tells you nothing about whether a public web portal exists. The city itself routes record requests through the clerk first, and that remains the access model.
Where Longton Cases End Up
A Longton ordinance case file stays with the municipal clerk. Criminal charges under Kansas law, traffic matters, civil suits, family cases, probate, juvenile matters, and other state issues all belong to Elk County District Court. For eligible district cases and documents, Kansas CaseSearch provides access under Kansas access rules.
Docket flow: Longton Municipal Court › Elk County Courts › Kansas District Court, Elk County District Court, 13th Judicial District
This flow is only a routing aid, and no city matter moves on its own. If the notice or the Longton clerk points to a district case, search the Elk County court docket there.
Longton County Fallback Leads to Howard
Longton has no county courthouse of its own, so municipal and district business flows to Howard. The Elk County homepage lists the courthouse at 127 N. Pine, Howard, with the district court upstairs on the second floor. Call the clerk at 620-374-2370. Mail goes to P.O. Box 306, Howard, KS 67349-0306. To review a file, book an appointment and bring a case number, because the clerk needs one to pull the docket you want.
Howard serves as the fallback for district court records, not proof of where Longton holds a municipal hearing.
Public Access to Longton Court Records
Two offices split the work in Longton. Ask the Longton city clerk for municipal records and the Elk County district clerk for state court records. A good request names the court, the case or citation number, the event date, and the record wanted, plus whether you need inspection, a plain copy, or a certified copy. If a request stalls or a cost estimate appears, get the explanation in writing. K.S.A. 45-218 governs how inspection requests are handled.
That statute keeps requests orderly but never overrides a court's sealing rules. For copy fees and actual costs, see K.S.A. 45-219.
Ask Longton directly for the city's own charge instead of assuming the district schedule applies. K.S.A. 45-220 covers agency procedures and whom to contact.
That rule reinforces why the correct city or district custodian must receive the request.
Key rules: The Kansas Open Records Act supports access to open agency records; Kansas eCourt Rule 22 governs district electronic access; sealing and privacy rules still control restricted material.
Longton Restricted Records Stay Protected
For Longton, a current written notice beats any old report, office-hours listing, or search-engine summary. Keep it with every clerk response.
Longton's FY2022 and FY2023 rows show exactly why a report is not a live calendar. The zero row and the later three-matter row count aggregate filings across two reporting periods. Neither one gives a name, citation number, hearing venue, or next court date. Bonnie Foged's office holds those case-level facts. Treat the report as a summary of published city activity and nothing more.
The city departments page names Robert Lattin as municipal judge. But it publishes no standing procedure for contacting him or adding a matter to a docket. Route scheduling and record requests through the clerk instead. Ask whether the judge or the city attorney issued a later setting. Request the written notice when one exists. That approach follows the published roles without inventing a docket-call practice.
City Hall keeps Monday-through-Thursday hours. That schedule can help you plan a clerk call. Those hours still say nothing about when court convenes. If a call or email produces a venue, repeat it back with the date and time. Then ask about early check-in. Ask too whether the notice requires any documents in hand. The city alone can supply those details.
Public access does not open every case or document. Sealed material, protected identifiers, juvenile information, and other exempt records stay closed under governing law and court rules. A remote Kansas search can also show less than a courthouse terminal. That gap reflects the access channel, not a clerk withholding an open Longton municipal record.
When a request is denied, ask which office made the call. Where the law requires it, ask the legal basis too. If part of a record is open and part is closed, request the open portion. Trust a filed order for current status. The same goes for a clerk confirmation. A blank result is not a legal conclusion.
Court Services files draw another boundary. Kansas Rule 106 treats court-services case notes and officer files as confidential. A public register may confirm that a hearing, order, or disposition occurred while the supervision file behind it stays shut. Longton city records carry their own lawful limits too. Ask for the specific docket event or public order you need rather than demanding every record tied to a person.
Since no Longton docket sits online, write down what the clerk tells you. Note whether the office confirmed a city case. It may have referred you to Elk County, requested a written application, or flagged a restriction. That brief record of your search path prevents later confusion and changes nothing on the official docket.