Due to the inclement weather, Cowlitz County Superior and Juvenile Court offices will be closing at 3:00 PM today, Tuesday, December 28, 2021 and for the rest of the week through Thursday, December 30, 2021. The office will be Closed all day on December 31, 2021 due to the New Year's Holiday. There may be some court proceedings which will cont...

Due to the inclement weather, Cowlitz County Superior and Juvenile Court offices will be closing at 3:00 PM today, Monday, December 27, 2021. Early closing will give our employees an opportunity to get home before roads become more difficult and dangerous to travel with temperatures dropping. We will be open on Tuesday and are&n...

RCW 11.130 is the Washington State law that governs appointment of Court Visitors involved in Adult Guardianship/Conservatorship proceedings. RCW 11.130 provides that the court may appoint a Court Visitor to investigate allegations in the petition and provide recommendations to the Court. All Court Visitors under this title must comply with the tra...

Cowlitz County Superior Court experienced a near-total power outage on November 15, 2021 at approximately 12:45 P.M. This affected Court operations at the Hall of Justice, the Event Center Courtroom and the Jail Courtroom. Power was restored at approximately 3:20 P.M. As of this morning, 16 November 2021, power has been restored and all operations ...

As of approximately 12:40 p.m., we lost main power at the Hall of Justice and the Event Center. We are currently on generator power, however cannot access many of our core technology resources for running court. Criminal First appearances and the afternoon child support related dockets should be operating, though may have some limitations...

Sometime Thursday (7/15) afternoon, the Court lost access to our electronic court files due to a Statewide Network problem. Today we learned that the lines are in the process of being repaired, however we do not at this time have an ETA for operability. We will ONLY be conducting criminal and juvenile first appearances, involuntary treatment hearin...