Public records requests for the County Clerk's Office can be submitted by mail, email or in-person.

For court related requests, contact the Clerk of Circuit Courts' Office directly at 608-743-2200.

Records request exceeding $5.00 require prepayment. Rock County Clerk's Office also charges the actual, necessary, and direct costs for copies of records, which are established as follows:

• Location costs. When the cost of locating a record exceeds $50.00, the actual, necessary, and direct cost of locating the record will be charged. See Wis. Stat. § 19.35(3)(c).

• Copying costs. $0.15 per page for the copying of customary and ordinary 8½ by 11 hard copy records. The requestor may request the copying of a large volume of records on an expedited basis by a bonded copying service in which case if approved by the Department, the requestor would pay the rate charged by the service.

• IT costs. The County charges $95.00 per hour for the production of a computer record which is not in a readily comprehensible form to obtain the information from the computer database and assemble and reduce such information to written form on paper.

• Digital formats. The actual cost of purchasing a new digital storage media will be charged to the requestor. Due to security reasons, digital storage media provided by the requestor cannot be used.

• Mailing costs. The actual, necessary and direct cost of mailing or shipping of copies of records shall be paid by the requestor.