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Shoshone County Clerk Office

Lori Osterberg is listed by official county sources as the Shoshone County Clerk. The 2026 fee resolution identifies the office as Clerk District Court, Auditor and Recorder, which matches Idaho's unified county clerk structure. The county Clerk page also lists Timmie Hunter as Chief Deputy Clerk. This office is the local point for court clerks, recorded documents, marriage licenses, elections, passports, auditing, payroll, accounts payable, accounts receivable, county budgeting, and year-end financial reports.

For court records, the office provides clerical support for the courts, processes and maintains court case filings, and supplies in-court clerks who support judges. For recorder work, the clerk records property-related documents, acts as custodian of recorded documents, issues local liquor licenses, and issues marriage licenses. The clerk's historic record dates are useful: deeds and other land records from 1871, miscellaneous records from 1871, mining location records from 1883, and marriage records from 1875.

The official Clerk page is the county source for court, recorder, marriage-license, passport, election, and historic record functions.

Idaho public records law works alongside court-specific access rules when records are held by a county agency instead of the judicial case file.

Shoshone County Clerk Duties

The Shoshone County Clerk's court duties center on case filings and courtroom support. The office receives and maintains case filings, supports judges with in-court clerks, and helps route requests for court documents that are not available through the public iCourt portal. For online case summaries, use Idaho iCourt first. For certified copies, older files, full documents, or documents not shown online, contact the local court clerk function at the courthouse.

• Maintain Shoshone County court filings and provide in-court clerks for local judges.
• Record property-related documents and serve as custodian of recorded documents.
• Issue marriage licenses and local liquor licenses through the recorder function.
• Act as auditor for payroll, accounts, budgets, and year-end financial reports.
• Serve as chief elections officer and execute passports during passport issuance hours.

Passport issuance hours are 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., which differs from general clerk office hours. Birth and death certificates are not held by the Shoshone County Clerk; the official clerk page directs those records to Idaho Vital Statistics in Boise.

Request Shoshone Certified Copies

Certified copies are needed when a court record must carry official force, such as a judgment, decree, order, or filing used with another court, agency, employer, school, or financial institution. A public iCourt summary is not the same as a certified copy. For Shoshone County court records, identify the case in iCourt if possible, then ask the court clerk for the document by case number, party name, document title, and filing date.

1. Search Idaho iCourt by case number or party name and confirm the Shoshone County case caption.
2. Write down the record number, document name, filing date, party names, and whether a certified copy is required.
3. Contact Shoshone County Clerk/Courts at (208) 752-1266 or visit the courthouse counter during office hours.
4. Ask whether the document is available electronically, at a courthouse kiosk, from an older paper file, or by clerk processing.
5. Confirm the current fee, prepayment requirement, pickup, mailing, or fax handling before submitting payment.

Note: Judicial case documents should be requested through the court clerk and ICAR 32 process, not treated only as a generic county-agency public records request.

Shoshone Records Request Fields

The county public records request form is useful for county-agency records, sheriff records, recorder materials, email searches, and nonjudicial county records. The form asks requesters to identify the department, date range, whether a minor is involved, whether the request follows an earlier request, and whether the request would be used to create a mailing or telephone list. Sheriff or 911 requests use a law-enforcement addendum. Court case records, however, should be routed through the clerk's court-record channels when the file is a judicial record.

The Shoshone County public records request form includes granted, denied, partially denied, delayed, ambiguous, no-known-record, not-custodian, and advance-payment response language.

Law-enforcement requests can be narrowed or withheld under Idaho Code 74-124 when an active investigation or prosecution is affected.

Shoshone County Clerk Fees

Shoshone County Resolution 2026-15 adopted the county's unified fee schedule effective March 24, 2026. The research confirms the fee policy, but the fee exhibit was not text-readable, so exact court-copy amounts should be confirmed with the clerk rather than guessed. The resolution states that requesters may have to prepay estimated fees, unused fees may be refunded, excess costs may require additional payment before service completion, outside professional-service costs may be charged, and public-notice, publication, or mailing costs may be assessed.

The official fee schedule resolution should be checked before ordering records with copy, certification, mailing, or staff-time costs.

Shoshone Clerk Forms and Records

The county documents and forms page is the main county source located for public records request materials and county fee documents. For court filings, Idaho Judicial Branch forms and the local court clerk should be used because court case records are governed by judicial rules. For marriage licenses, the clerk page publishes the local requirements rather than a separate online application form in the research.

• Shoshone County documents and forms - county forms, public records request materials, and fee schedule links.
• Idaho Judicial Branch - statewide court forms, iCourt access, payments, and court resources.
• Idaho iCourt Portal - public case search, hearing search, and payment lookup.

Birth and death certificates are filed with Idaho Vital Statistics, not with the Shoshone County Clerk. Marriage and divorce certificates from May 1947 forward are handled by Idaho Department of Health and Welfare, while county marriage records and divorce decrees follow local clerk or court channels.

Online and Counter Access

For public case lookup, start with iCourt Smart Search. Public users and media do not need to register for basic public access, and electronic records cover all Idaho counties, generally from 1995 forward. Full access to some records may require a courthouse kiosk, clerk request, or approved extended-access account for officials. The portal recommends Microsoft Edge or Mozilla Firefox, warns that payments can be difficult on mobile screens, and may require CAPTCHA during use.

The Idaho Public Records Act response statute sets timing and copying rules for public-agency records, while the county form notes delayed-response timelines of ten working days for residents and thirty-five days for non-residents in delayed-response circumstances. For Shoshone County court records, call the court clerk line when the needed item is a judicial case document, certified copy, sealed-record question, or older court file.

Idaho response and copying rules help set expectations, but court records still require the judicial access path when the file is a case record.

Recorder and court records should not be mixed in the same request without a clear reason. A deed, mining location, or recorded marriage record follows the clerk-recorder side of the office. A divorce decree, criminal judgment, probate order, civil judgment, or traffic disposition follows the court side and may require the case number or iCourt record number. If a requester is not sure which side holds the record, the safest first step is to describe the record by event, names, date range, and desired use, then let the clerk route the question to the correct counter or phone line.

Shoshone Clerk Record Dates

The Shoshone County Clerk page gives unusually specific historic record dates. Deeds and other land records date to 1871, miscellaneous records date to 1871, mining location records date to 1883, and marriage records date to 1875. These dates matter for genealogy, mineral and timber history, old property research, and family-record searches in the Silver Valley. They also show why a modern iCourt search is not the only route for older Shoshone County records.

Older recorder records may be held as county records rather than electronic court case records. Older court files may require clerk help even when a case number or party name is known. A request for historic records should include all known names, approximate dates, record type, location or legal description if land is involved, and whether the requester needs a plain copy, certified copy, or only a search result.