Hinds, Madison, Rankin, Copiah, Holmes, Scott, Simpson & Yazoo Counties

Jackson, Mississippi Skip Tracing Services

Mississippi does not have a recorder of deeds. It has a Chancery Clerk, and that one elected officer records every deed in the county while also serving as clerk of the Chancery Court — a separate court of equity that hears the divorces, the guardianships and the estates. Inside Hinds County the arrangement doubles again: two judicial districts, two county seats, and two staffed clerk’s offices in two different towns. Search only Jackson and you have searched half a county.

A lawful purpose is settled in writing before work begins Each address arrives with the office and the date behind it Public-records research; no investigative license is claimed
8Counties in the Jackson metro area
6Chancery districts those eight sit in
2Judicial districts and county seats inside Hinds County
4Metro counties that also run a county court

Central Mississippi, condensed

The Chancery Clerk is the land-record custodian. Hinds County’s own office describes its duties as recording and preserving all deeds, deeds of trust, powers of attorney, Uniform Commercial Code filings, federal tax liens and military discharges — there is no separate recorder to visit. The same officer is clerk of a separate court. The Chancery Court is a court of equity handling divorce, child custody, land matters, probate of estates and mental health cases, and the Chancery Clerk receives and files all of it. Hinds County is split in two. A First Judicial District seated at Jackson and a Second Judicial District seated at Raymond, each with its own staffed Chancery Clerk and Circuit Clerk counter. The metro’s eight counties do not share a court map. They fall across six chancery districts and six circuit districts, and those two maps do not line up with each other.

Watch: how a Hinds County file gets read

A short walk through the counters we open first when a request names Jackson, Clinton, Raymond, Ridgeland, Brandon or anywhere else inside the eight-county area.

Central Mississippi overview

One clerk keeps the deeds and the equity docket

The structural fact that shapes every central Mississippi file, and the one no commercial page competing for this search bothers to explain.

Most American counties separate two jobs. A recorder, register or registry keeps the instruments that touch land; a clerk of court keeps the litigation. Mississippi does neither of those things by those names. The office that holds both is the Chancery Clerk, and understanding what that title actually covers is the difference between a Jackson search that lands and one that returns a polite nothing.

Hinds County publishes the duty list itself, and it is longer than most people expect. The Chancery Clerk there — the office is held by Eddie Jean Carr — is described on the county’s own site as recording and preserving all deeds, deeds of trust, powers of attorney, Uniform Commercial Code filings, federal tax liens and military discharges. In the same breath the county lists the same officer as Clerk of the Board of Supervisors, as County Treasurer, as County Auditor, as the office that allows or disallows homestead exemption applications and prepares the assessment rolls, and as the office that collects and disburses all prior-year delinquent taxes. That is five distinct record-generating functions under one elected officer.

The court is separate. The clerk is not.

Here is where searchers get it wrong. The Chancery Court and the Chancery Clerk are not the same institution, and Mississippi keeps the distinction sharp. The Chancery Court is a constitutional trial court of equity presided over by chancellors, and it hears a defined and unusually address-rich set of matters: divorce, child custody, equity and land matters, probate of estates, and mental health commitments. The Chancery Clerk is the elected county officer who serves as that court’s clerk — receiving, filing and maintaining every paper in those cases — while simultaneously running the land-records room down the corridor.

So a chancellor decides the divorce; the Chancery Clerk holds the file, and holds the quitclaim deed that moved the marital home three months later, and holds the deed of trust the new owner signed. Three documents, three different legal characters, one custodian. Copiah County describes its version of the office in almost the same terms, calling the Chancery Clerk’s office the official record keeper for the county and listing deeds of trust, oil leases, lis pendens and construction liens alongside wills, estates, guardianships, conservatorships, divorces and commitments. Scott County’s office opens its own description by calling the Chancery Clerk perhaps the most unique and diverse office in all of Mississippi government. That is three separate counties characterizing the same statewide arrangement, and it is why a national vendor’s coverage table — which typically has a column for “recorder” — produces the wrong instruction for this state.

The custodian will not do the search for you

One further point from Hinds County’s own guidance deserves quoting because it surprises people who assume a records office is a research service. On the subject of title, the county states plainly that it is illegal for the Chancery Clerk’s Office to search these records or prepare your deed, and directs the public to an attorney or a title company instead. The office is a custodian and an indexer, not a searcher. Anyone planning to telephone the courthouse and ask a deputy clerk to run a name is planning something the office is not permitted to do.

The compensating fact is retention. Hinds County states that chancery cases are kept indefinitely, on the reasoning that any of them may be reopened for contempt or modification at any time. A custody modification from a decade ago is therefore still a live file with a live address on it. For heir and estate work in particular that permanence is the whole value — the mechanics of working an estate matter through a court file are set out in our notes on locate work for probate and estate practitioners.

Two county seats, and two of every clerk’s office

The single most expensive assumption in a Hinds County search: that there is one courthouse.

Hinds County is one of a small number of Mississippi counties divided into two judicial districts, and unlike most such arrangements this one is not a historical curiosity that has quietly collapsed into a single office. It is fully operational on both sides. The Mississippi Judiciary publishes the local rules for the district that covers Hinds, and the title page of that document names both seats in its own heading: the Fifth Chancery District of Mississippi, First Judicial District, Hinds County, Jackson, and Second Judicial District, Hinds County, Raymond.

Both clerks keep two staffed offices. The Chancery Clerk operates at 316 S. President Street in Jackson under one mailing address and phone number, and separately from the Annex Building on Main Street in Raymond under a different mailing address and a different phone number. The Circuit Clerk — the office held by Zack Wallace, which keeps the record of all judgments and executions, issues marriage licenses and registers voters — does exactly the same thing, with a Jackson box and a Raymond box and no shared line between them. These are not satellite windows. They are two counters that between them hold one county’s records.

What the district split does to a name search

A judgment docketed in the Second Judicial District is a Hinds County judgment. A deed recorded at Raymond is a Hinds County deed. But the index a searcher pulls at Jackson does not automatically surface either. The practical result is the quietest kind of false negative there is: a name is run, the office reports nothing, and the requester concludes the person has no filings in Hinds County. The person has filings in Hinds County. They are on the other side of it, at Raymond.

The county’s own description of the split lists the First Judicial District as covering Jackson, Terry, Byram, Clinton and Pocahontas, and the Second as covering Edwards, Bolton, Utica, Pocahontas and Raymond. Two things about that list are worth flagging honestly rather than smoothing over. Pocahontas appears in both of the county’s lists, and Clinton — which sits west of Jackson — is in the First District rather than the Second. Anyone who has internalized the split as a simple eastern-half, western-half line will get those two wrong. We treat the district question as something to be settled per filing against the index, not deduced from a map.

The Raymond docket runs on terms

There is a scheduling consequence too, and it is published in the same local rules. The Fifth Chancery District sits in four divisions, and the rules set fixed court terms for the Second Judicial District at Raymond — one per division, spread across February, June, August and October. A matter filed at Raymond is therefore working toward a term date, not simply toward the next available slot in Jackson. The rules also spell out how a case gets its number in the first place: general docket civil actions and probate actions are given a sequential number by the Chancery Clerk in filing order and then divided in rotation among the divisions, so the division that ends up hearing a case is a function of when it was filed rather than what it is about.

None of this appears on a national database record, which will report “Hinds County, MS” and stop. Where the object of a search is a recorded instrument rather than a case file, the general method for working backwards from a property is covered in our guide to identifying an owner from a street address, and the Mississippi variations described here sit on top of it.

Eight counties, six chancery districts, six circuit districts

And the two district maps do not nest inside one another, which is the part that catches experienced searchers.

The Jackson metropolitan statistical area is built from eight Mississippi counties: Hinds, Madison, Rankin, Copiah, Holmes, Scott, Simpson and Yazoo. That is a large county count for a metro this size, and those eight do not answer to one court administration. The Mississippi Judiciary publishes the constituent counties of every trial-court district, and reading the metro against the state’s list of chancery court districts produces a scatter.

Six chancery districts cover the eight counties. Hinds sits alone in the Fifth. Rankin sits alone in the Twentieth. Holmes, Madison and Yazoo share the Eleventh with Leake. Copiah shares the Fifteenth with Lincoln. Scott shares the Second with Jasper and Newton. Simpson shares the Thirteenth with Covington, Jefferson Davis, Lawrence and Smith. Count the districts named there and you get six: the Second, Fifth, Eleventh, Thirteenth, Fifteenth and Twentieth.

Now overlay the circuit courts, which handle the felony prosecutions and the larger civil suits, and the picture changes rather than repeats. Hinds again stands alone, this time as the Seventh Circuit Court District. But Madison, which shares a chancery district with Holmes and Yazoo, shares a circuit district with Rankin — and Rankin, which had a chancery district to itself, does not have a circuit district to itself. Holmes and Yazoo move into the Twenty-Second alongside Humphreys. Copiah moves into the Twenty-Third with Claiborne and Jefferson. Scott moves into the Eighth with Leake, Neshoba and Newton. Simpson stays numerically in the Thirteenth, but its circuit Thirteenth contains Jasper while its chancery Thirteenth does not — the same number, different member counties. Six circuit districts again, grouped differently from the six chancery ones.

A third tier that only half the metro has

Mississippi also runs county courts, and they exist only where the state has established them. Of the eight metro counties, the judiciary’s list of county courts includes exactly four: Hinds, Madison, Rankin and Yazoo. Copiah, Holmes, Scott and Simpson have none. Where a county court exists it takes a share of the civil business that would otherwise sit in circuit court, and in Hinds the Circuit Clerk serves both courts. Where it does not exist, that business is distributed differently. A checklist that says “search the county court” is therefore correct in Ridgeland and Brandon and meaningless in Hazlehurst and Lexington.

The reason any of this matters to a locate is movement. Somebody who leaves Jackson for Brandon or Madison has not left the commuting area, has probably not changed jobs, and may not have changed a single thing a marketing database would notice — but they have crossed into a different chancery district, a different circuit district and, depending on direction, into or out of county-court coverage. Searching Hinds harder will never find them. The statewide picture beyond these eight counties is laid out on our Mississippi skip tracing overview.

What each route actually returns on a Jackson-area name

Six routes. Two of them are honest recommendations to do something other than order a search.

Where the question can be takenWhat it returns on a central Mississippi nameThe limit you hit
People Locator Skip TracingThe right custodian, the right judicial district, and the recorded or filed instrument standing behind the addressSourcedNothing is reported that a named Mississippi office or a licensed dataset will not carry, and open questions are labelled as open
Consumer people-search sitesAn address list built from marketing and header data; a reasonable first hypothesisNo recording date, no cause number, no way to separate a 2018 address from a current one
Calling the Chancery ClerkAuthoritative confirmation of an instrument you can already identifyHinds states it is illegal for that office to search the records for you, so a bare name gets you nowhere
Visiting the courthouse yourselfEverything the index holds, for that one district, that dayHinds alone means Jackson and Raymond; the full metro means eight counties and several hours of driving
A national call-center skip traceFast turnaround and a confident-looking reportIts coverage grid still asks which “recorder” to pull, and Mississippi never created that office
Not searching at allSometimes the right answer. If there is no permissible purpose for the request, or if there is any indication the person is protecting their location from the requester, the correct step is to stop and speak with counsel or law enforcement rather than order a search from anyone.

Where a request runs past locating a person into asset, business or enforcement work, the full range is described on our skip tracing services overview, which sets out what each product does and what evidence it returns.

The residence signals central Mississippi actually publishes

Four record types this state generates that carry a dated, first-person statement of where somebody is.

The homestead exemption application is the strongest of them. In Hinds County the Chancery Clerk is the office that allows or disallows those applications and prepares the assessment rolls that follow. A homestead claim is not a data-broker inference; it is a person going to a county office, in writing, and asserting that a specific dwelling is their home, with a tax consequence attached to getting it right. It is dated and it is attributable. It is also not proof of present occupancy — a claim can outlive the move that ended it, and nothing about the roll re-verifies each year that the claimant is still sleeping there. It goes in a file as a strong lead that requires an independent second source, never as the answer on its own.

Delinquent tax redemption is the second and it is underused. Mississippi puts parcels that fall behind through a tax sale, and the Chancery Clerk is the office that collects and disburses all prior-year delinquent taxes and handles the redemption. Hinds County explains the mechanism on its own pages: an individual has two years from the date of the sale to redeem the property, and if that window closes the property matures to the State or a tax deed issues to the purchaser. A redemption is a voluntary, dated, verifiable act by a named person who cared enough about one parcel to pay money for it — occasionally the only recent contact a hard-to-reach subject has had with any public office.

The judgment roll is the third. The Circuit Clerk keeps the record of all judgments and executions, and a judgment record names a party and, usually, an address that somebody swore to at the time of service. That makes it doubly useful: it is a location signal and, for a creditor, it is the instrument itself. Mississippi’s enforcement framework and what a judgment holder can actually do with a located debtor are set out separately in our notes on collecting a judgment under Mississippi law.

Vital records are the fourth, and they are state-level rather than county-level here. The Mississippi State Department of Health Bureau of Vital Records maintains births, deaths and other vital events for the whole state, from an office on Marketridge Drive in Ridgeland. Marriage licenses, by contrast, are issued and kept by the Circuit Clerk at county level. So a name change following a marriage is a county question and a death is a state question, and a searcher who assumes both live in the same building loses a day finding that out.

Motor vehicle files, forwarding orders and employment data sit behind all four of these and are used wherever the law and the stated purpose allow. They get no section of their own on this page because they behave the same in Jackson as in any other state capital. The four records above are the ones Mississippi’s own structure produces, and they are the reason a central Mississippi file is worth opening at the counter rather than at a search box.

Six ways a Jackson search quietly returns nothing

None of these is bad luck. All six follow directly from how Mississippi arranges its offices.

Half a county searched

The name is run at Jackson, the index is clean, and the requester is told there is nothing in Hinds County. The filing is at Raymond, in the Second Judicial District, in a different office with a different phone number.

Asking for a recorder Mississippi does not have

A checklist written for a register-of-deeds state sends the searcher looking for an office that does not exist here. Every deed in the county is with the Chancery Clerk, filed alongside the divorce that prompted it.

Expecting the clerk to run the name

Hinds County states outright that it is illegal for the Chancery Clerk’s Office to search its records or prepare a deed. The office indexes and certifies; it does not research. A phone call with only a name produces a polite refusal.

A short move across two district lines

Somebody relocates from Jackson to Brandon or Madison and stays inside the same commuting area. They have also changed chancery district and circuit district. Searching the county of origin harder cannot find them.

Looking for a county court that was never created

Four metro counties run one and four do not. The same instruction that works in Ridgeland or Brandon describes a court that does not exist in Hazlehurst, Lexington, Forest or Mendenhall.

A homestead roll read as a current address

An assessment record is treated as confirmation that somebody lives somewhere today. It is a dated, first-person assertion of residence and it is genuinely strong — but nothing in the process re-checks occupancy after the claim is allowed.

How a file moves through this desk

Four steps, in this order, with the jurisdiction question settled before anything is searched.

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Settle the lawful basis first

Nothing is searched until a permissible purpose is on record in writing: service of process, enforcement of a judgment, an estate or heir matter, a due-diligence question. Requests without one are declined, as are requests where the stated reason does not fit the surrounding facts.

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Decide which district owns the filing

Which of the eight counties genuinely applies, and inside Hinds which of the two judicial districts. We settle that against the index rather than deducing it from a city name, because the county’s own city lists do not divide cleanly.

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Read the chancery side against the circuit side

Deeds, deeds of trust, liens, estates and commitments sit with the Chancery Clerk; judgments, executions and marriage records sit with the Circuit Clerk. Laying the two indexes on one timeline is what turns a list of documents into a sequence of moves.

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A second source has to agree before it leaves

No conclusion rests on a single record. Where a request is workable the first substantive read comes back within 24 hours; a file that has to cross into the Second Judicial District, or out into one of the seven other counties, takes longer than that and is said to take longer at the start. What arrives is the address, the Mississippi office or licensed dataset behind each element, the date it was entered there, and a plain account of anything still unresolved.

What this practice is, and the lines it does not cross

Set out here rather than buried, because most of the pages competing for this search do not set it out anywhere.

The work here is documentary, not investigative. This is a public records and lawfully supplied data research firm, and Not one person working on these files holds a private investigator’s license, and none is claimed on this page. Competing pages for this same Jackson query tend to lead with investigative credentials; this one leads with the custodian map instead, and that is a deliberate statement about what is being sold. Nobody in central Mississippi needs to be told that an address exists somewhere. What they need is to be able to say which office holds the paper it came off, under which cause or instrument number, and on what date it was entered there. That is the product, and a licence would not add anything to it.

Deception is never a method here. . Mississippi’s own counters make the argument better than an ethics paragraph can. Hinds County has published, in terms, what its Chancery Clerk may and may not do for a member of the public, and the only way to get anything out of an office whose duties are drawn that tightly is to ask it, as yourself, for something it is permitted to give. A story told at a counter does not enlarge what that counter is allowed to hand over. It only produces a document that can never afterwards be accounted for.

Everything read on this desk was handed to an elected Mississippi officer to keep. That is the boundary stated positively, and the negative version follows from it. A deed of trust recorded with the Chancery Clerk, a lis pendens, a construction lien, a judgment entered on the Circuit Clerk’s roll — each of those was filed, indexed and made public by a custodian who can be named, and each is read closely here. A balance, a transaction history and an account number were filed with nobody and indexed nowhere. They are outside what this practice touches, whoever is asking and whatever the reason.

This is not a consumer report, and the giveaway is what the answer is going to be used for. No consumer reporting agency status is held here and the file you receive carries none of that standing. The test is not how public the underlying record is — the Circuit Clerk’s judgment roll is thoroughly public — it is whether the answer is being used to find a person or to decide something about their future. The Fair Credit Reporting Act reserves that second kind of decision to regulated reports, and this research is barred from every one of them: selecting a tenant for a unit, hiring or promoting or dismissing an employee, extending or repricing credit, writing or rating an insurance policy, granting a professional license, together with the further purposes the statute itself lists at 15 U.S.C. § 1681b. Where the real need is screening an applicant for a tenancy or a job, that is a consumer report, and it belongs with an agency holding consumer reporting agency status and running adverse-action notices as routine. We will name that as the right route and decline the locate rather than take the fee for it.

Chancery subject matter makes the safety line load-bearing

Requests that would put the person at risk are declined, and this subject matter makes that risk unusually concrete. The Chancery Court is the court that hears divorce, child custody and mental health matters in Mississippi, and the Chancery Clerk holds every paper filed in them. Those are precisely the files in which somebody who has left a dangerous household may have had to state where they went. A page explaining how to read those records has an obligation to say what it will not help with.

So the decline is set out plainly rather than hinted at. A request carrying any indication of domestic violence, stalking or harassment is not worked. Neither is one with a protective order anywhere in its history. Neither is one where nobody can articulate a lawful reason, fitting the facts around it, for wanting one named person’s location. In each of those cases the work stops at that point, nothing at all goes back to the requester, and the person being sought is never informed that an inquiry was made. Intake gets slower on a request of that shape rather than faster, and an account that arrives already polished against every objection is a reason for more questions, not fewer. Being hard to find is not treated in this office as evidence of anything: people live where they live, and some of them have arranged it carefully and for reasons that are their own. Where the matter underneath is custody, protection or safety, it belongs in front of the chancellor, with counsel, or with law enforcement — not with a commercial locate service.

Finally, none of this is legal advice, and the distinction matters more than the disclaimer suggests. Everything above is general information about how Mississippi arranges its record custodians and its trial courts; it is not advice about your matter, reading it forms no professional relationship of any kind, and the question of what the law permits you to do with an address once you hold one is one for your own attorney. Where the object is service rather than enforcement, our page on locate work built around service of process describes what a server actually needs delivered and in what form.

Who sends us central Mississippi work

Six recurring requesters, and the specific deliverable each of them is actually after.

Mississippi trial counsel

A service address that survives a challenge, with the district and the filing date behind it

Chancery estate and heir matters

Heirs traced through probate files the clerk has kept indefinitely, and the deeds that followed

Enforcing a docketed judgment

Where the debtor is now, and which instruments moved after the judgment was entered

Servers crossing a district line

A corrected address plus which of the two Hinds districts, or which of the eight counties, governs it

Closing desks missing a signatory

An absent grantor or unlocated party holding up a central Mississippi closing

Relatives trying to reconnect

Someone located discreetly, with the approach left entirely to the person who asked

Rental-property owners across Hinds, Madison and Rankin send one recurring version of this work: the occupant who moved out owing money and left nothing behind by way of a forwarding address. Because that relationship is FCRA-covered, the boundary set out above travels with it. The occupant who has already gone can be found. The applicant who turns up next cannot be assessed on a single line of that file, and the volume of repeat work from this metro has never changed the answer.

An answer we cannot point at is an answer you do not pay for

Every element handed back names the Mississippi office or licensed dataset it came from and the date it was entered there. Where these eight counties’ records simply will not carry the conclusion you need, that is the answer you get, and the locate is refunded — an inference does not get dressed up here as a finding. Refunding an honest dead end costs us less than a confident wrong address costs you.

People Locator Skip Tracing Investigation Team has worked records-based locates since 2004. The Mississippi material above was compiled from the state judiciary’s published trial-court district lists and the Fifth Chancery District’s local rules, from the Hinds, Copiah and Scott county clerk offices’ own descriptions of their duties, and from the Department of Health’s vital records guidance; last reviewed 2026. Elected officers, office locations and court terms change, so each of these is re-checked when a Mississippi file opens.

Jackson and Hinds County locate questions

Which office holds deeds and land records in Jackson, Mississippi?

The Chancery Clerk. Mississippi does not have a recorder or a register of deeds; the Chancery Clerk is the county’s land-record custodian. Hinds County describes its own office as recording and preserving all deeds, deeds of trust, powers of attorney, Uniform Commercial Code filings, federal tax liens and military discharges. Copiah and Scott counties describe their Chancery Clerk offices in the same terms. Any guide written for a register-of-deeds state will send you to an office Mississippi does not have.

What is the difference between the Chancery Clerk and the Chancery Court?

One is an elected county officer, the other is a court. The Chancery Court is Mississippi’s trial court of equity, presided over by chancellors, and it hears divorce, child custody, equity and land matters, probate of estates and mental health cases. The Chancery Clerk is the county officer who serves as that court’s clerk, receiving and filing all of those papers, while separately running the county’s land-records room and serving as Clerk of the Board of Supervisors, County Treasurer and County Auditor. The court decides; the clerk records and keeps.

Why does Hinds County have two judicial districts?

Hinds is one of the Mississippi counties divided into two judicial districts, and both halves are fully operational. The Mississippi Judiciary’s local rules for the Fifth Chancery District name both in their own heading: First Judicial District, Hinds County, Jackson, and Second Judicial District, Hinds County, Raymond. In practice that means two staffed Chancery Clerk offices and two staffed Circuit Clerk offices, with separate street addresses, separate mailing addresses and separate telephone numbers. A search run only at Jackson has covered one of the two.

Can I just tell which district applies from the town name?

Not reliably, and it is worth knowing why. The county’s own listing puts Jackson, Terry, Byram, Clinton and Pocahontas in the First Judicial District and Edwards, Bolton, Utica, Pocahontas and Raymond in the Second. Pocahontas appears in both of those lists, and Clinton, which lies west of Jackson, is in the First rather than the Second. Anyone applying a mental east-west line will get those wrong. We settle the district against the index for the specific filing rather than inferring it from geography.

Will the Chancery Clerk search the records for me if I call?

No, and Hinds County says so directly. On the subject of buying property the county states that it is illegal for the Chancery Clerk’s Office to search these records or prepare your deed, and directs the public to an attorney or a title company instead. The office is a custodian and an indexer: it will certify and produce an instrument you can identify, but it cannot take a bare name and run a search on your behalf. That work has to be done by someone else, in person or through the index.

Which counties and court districts does this cover?

All eight counties of the Jackson metropolitan statistical area: Hinds, Madison, Rankin, Copiah, Holmes, Scott, Simpson and Yazoo. Those eight fall across six chancery districts, with Hinds alone in the Fifth and Rankin alone in the Twentieth, and across six circuit districts, with Hinds alone in the Seventh. The two maps do not match each other: Madison shares a chancery district with Holmes and Yazoo but a circuit district with Rankin. Four of the eight counties also run a county court, namely Hinds, Madison, Rankin and Yazoo.

Does Mississippi require a private investigator’s license for this?

Not for records research, and none is held here. Reading public records and lawfully supplied data to locate someone for a legitimate reason is permitted work, and no Mississippi file opens here until a permissible purpose is documented in writing. There is no private investigator’s license on this team and none is claimed. . The output is public-records research, not a regulated consumer report — which is why the Fair Credit Reporting Act bars it from tenant screening, hiring decisions, credit and insurance underwriting alike.

Are there requests about Jackson you will turn down?

Yes, and this subject matter makes them more likely rather than less. The Chancery Court hears divorce, custody and mental health matters, which are exactly the files in which someone who left a dangerous situation may have had to state where they went. A request carrying any sign of domestic violence, stalking or harassment is not worked; neither is one with a protective order anywhere in its history; neither is one where nobody can give a lawful reason, fitting the surrounding facts, for needing one named person’s location. In each case we stop, hand over nothing, and never tell the subject that an inquiry was made. Intake gets slower on requests of that shape, not faster.

One name, one lawful purpose, and the right Mississippi counter

Give us the name, whichever address you last had reason to trust, and the lawful purpose behind the request. Anything that runs into a boundary is told to you the same day, at no charge. Would rather talk it through first? Reach the central Mississippi desk here and you will get a straight read on whether these eight counties’ records can carry your question at all.

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