Lodi Court Docket Searches
Lodi sends its municipal cases to the Eastern Columbia County Joint Municipal Court. It is known as ECCJMC. Its payment search requires a first name, a last name, and a date of birth. You can add a citation number too. An initial appearance date is another optional field. For a circuit matter, WCCA offers the public Columbia County case summary.
- Read whether the issuer is City of Lodi, Town of Lodi, or another unit.
- Use ECCJMC for the municipal citation and preserve its number.
- Choose the secure not-guilty form to contest or the AllPaid route to pay.
- For state criminal traffic or another circuit case, search WCCA with Columbia County selected.
- Call the proper clerk when the date, venue, or online match is unclear.
Finding no online match proves nothing about how a case ends. Call ECCJMC at 608-429-2323 with the citation details, or mail the joint court instead. Circuit files, copies, and certifications come from the Columbia County Clerk of Circuit Court. What if WCCA will not load at home? A courthouse terminal and the clerk counter both work.
Lodi Uses a Joint Court
There is no standalone Lodi municipal court docket. Lodi shares ECCJMC with other member municipalities for traffic and ordinance cases. The office sits at 165 East Dodge Street in Wyocena. Mail goes to P.O. Box 108, Wyocena, WI 53969. Clerk Jodi M. Wade and Judge William Breunig are the named officials.
Eastern Columbia County Joint Municipal Court
165 East Dodge Street, Wyocena, WI 53969
Phone: 608-429-2323
Email: clerk@eccjmc.com
Hours: Monday through Thursday, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Keep in mind that the office address may not be the hearing venue. Trust the location printed on the latest citation or clerk notice.
Inside Lodi Municipal Court
The municipal layer handles local ordinance and non-criminal traffic matters within ECCJMC authority. Felonies and misdemeanors do not belong here. State criminal traffic, civil suits, family cases, small claims, and probate are out too. Those records live with the circuit court or the probate office.
A 2022 joint-court agreement spells out shared authority under Wisconsin municipal and intergovernmental cooperation statutes. City of Lodi and Town of Lodi appear as separate members. Both use the same joint court. Yet each issuing jurisdiction stays distinct on forms and records.
Lodi Mailing Address Changes
The official Lodi FAQ still tells readers to mail a traffic citation to 248 West Stroud Street in Randolph if the officer's envelope is missing. That instruction predates the current setup. ECCJMC materials now give the Wyocena office and the P.O. Box 108 mailing address. Follow the current joint-court route first.
The official FAQ page shows why a Lodi reader should weigh older city directions against the citation and the current joint-court contact.
Before mailing: read the return address on the citation and confirm it with ECCJMC when older Lodi instructions point to Randolph.
An outdated address does not mean the record moved courts. It only means a timely plea or payment could land at an obsolete destination, so confirm before sending.
Finding Lodi Court Dates
The citation itself holds the first reliable Lodi appearance date, time, and place. ECCJMC tells cited drivers to read it closely. The administrative office is not always the hearing room. Call the clerk when the venue is missing, an online calendar differs, or a newer notice hints at a reset.
| Date | The citation's initial appearance or the latest date set by ECCJMC. |
|---|---|
| Time | The time on the current notice. |
| Location | The hearing venue printed on the citation, not an assumed office address. |
| Judge | William Breunig is listed by ECCJMC. |
| Setting Type | Initial appearance, plea, pretrial, trial, or payment-related review. |
Lodi Payment Search Fields
ECCJMC's AllPaid location code is 6569. First name, last name, and date of birth are required. Middle name, citation number, and initial appearance date can narrow the match. Check the court and amount on screen before paying.
| Field | How it helps |
|---|---|
| Name and birth date | Required identity search. |
| Citation number | Connects payment to the specific Lodi citation. |
| Appearance date | Helps distinguish similar records. |
| Issuing community | Confirms City of Lodi on the plea form. |
No record showing? Call the court. Never swap in a parking-ticket number or a WCCA case number.
Lodi Traffic Ticket Lookups
A Lodi municipal traffic citation goes to ECCJMC. Online payment and mail are the documented channels. To fight the citation, use the secure not-guilty form, which asks for email, appearance date, name, address, phone, and issuing community. Pick City of Lodi only if that is what the citation actually shows.
Paying is not the same as contesting. A not-guilty filing starts the court process and keeps the scheduled date unless the court changes it. State criminal traffic runs through WCCA instead. The Columbia County traffic court records page covers all three county traffic layers.
Lodi Parking Tickets Stay Separate
Lodi's official FAQ keeps parking tickets separate from the traffic citations that go to ECCJMC. A parking ticket follows whatever route its issuing department printed. Both happened in Lodi, so paying at the joint court feels natural. Sending every city parking payment there is still a mistake.
The split affects lookups too. A joint-court vendor may not recognize a parking number. Contact the issuing department when the ticket lacks ECCJMC information. Was a later municipal citation issued? Search with that newer citation number and the current court directions.
How Lodi Cases Reach County
Municipal ordinance and non-criminal traffic citations stay with ECCJMC. Criminal traffic, misdemeanors, felonies, civil suits, small claims, family cases, and probate travel through Columbia County circuit or probate channels. Where an event happened does not pick the tier.
Docket flow: Lodi through ECCJMC › Columbia County Courts › Wisconsin Circuit Court, Columbia County (5th Judicial District)
WCCA carries the public circuit summaries. Julie Kayartz, Clerk of Circuit Court, handles documents and certified copies. For the wider process, see the Columbia County court docket overview.
City and Town of Lodi
Two governments share the name Lodi. The City of Lodi and the Town of Lodi each belong to the joint-court agreement. Picking the wrong one on a form is easy to do. The fix is simple. Copy the issuing community straight from the citation. Do not just choose the first Lodi option by habit.
The city is the larger of the pair. Lodi's population was 3,189 in the 2020 Census county-subdivision table. That ranked third among Columbia County's incorporated cities. The regional court model serves the city while each member keeps its own citation identity. That matters most when you ask the clerk to pull an older docket entry for one specific Lodi.
Lodi Joint Court Timeline
Lodi's 2022 agreement spells out how member communities split municipal-court power. The current ECCJMC site reflects the court as it runs today. The Lodi FAQ, though, still lists an older Randolph address. Check the dates on those sources. That keeps you from treating a past mailing instruction as the venue now.
A new citation works differently from old research. For a fresh case, the paper notice and the current clerk control. For a historical docket lookup, include the year and the issuing unit in your request. That lets staff check the right Lodi record period. Staff will not assume every file sat at today's address.
Who Can See Lodi Records
Where you ask depends on the court layer. Route Lodi municipal records to ECCJMC and Columbia County circuit records to the Columbia County Clerk. Wisconsin law backs inspection and copying of existing public records. Confidentiality, sealing, and reasonable administration still apply. Give the issuer, the citation or case number, names, and the date when you know them.
Key Rules:
Wisconsin Open Records Law favors broad public access while preserving lawful exceptions.
Wis. Stat. § 19.35 generally permits inspection or copying of existing records.
Wis. Stat. § 801.19 protects specified personal identifiers.
Some Lodi files simply are not open to everyone. Juvenile, adoption, guardianship, commitment, and sealed records may be missing or restricted. WCCA also keeps a limit of its own. It offers no general public document images. A public summary is never a certified copy. When only part of a file is confidential, ask whether a redacted record exists.
A strong Lodi request avoids guesswork. Say whether the City or the Town of Lodi issued the case. Include the citation number and date. Then name the exact entry, judgment, or copy you want. That precision matters in a court shared by many members. Before chasing a large file, ask about the format, the delivery method, and the charge.
Each office holds its own piece of the docket. ECCJMC serves as custodian for its municipal entries. Julie Kayartz, Clerk of Circuit Court, holds the public Columbia County circuit files. Visit her counter at 400 DeWitt Street in Portage, or mail P.O. Box 587. A public terminal at the courthouse supports a case-summary search for anyone without home internet.
Know what WCCA is and is not. It draws on court-entered CCAP data. Yet it is not the official judgment and lien docket. For a public circuit matter it can display parties, case type, events, dates, and disposition. The actual filed documents are another matter. Those come from the filing county. WCCA neither sells nor displays them to the general public.
Most search trouble comes from picking the wrong court layer. Switching WCCA from Columbia County to Statewide will not make a municipal citation appear. A parking number may fail in the ECCJMC payment form. An older Lodi mailing instruction may not match the current office anymore. Any of these mismatches calls for a clerk check, not the conclusion that the record is gone.
With a court date near, confirm by phone even when the calendar looks clear. A continuation or reset leaves the earlier dates sitting in the record. The newest court direction controls. Keep the citation, payment receipt, plea confirmation, and any later notice in one place. A clerk can trace the sequence fast.
Read any Lodi court docket as a procedural history. A charge or citation is an allegation, nothing more. What followed appears in a plea, judgment, dismissal, or other disposition. Check the latest entry first. When the summary alone does not answer the question, request the underlying order.