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Contact the Court by:    Phone | Mail | In Person | Email

When reporting a problem to the court, it helps if you provide as much information as possible:

  • If the inquiry involves a case, please tell us the party name, case title, and/or case number.
  • If the inquiry involves a traffic citation, please include your birthdate and the citation number
  • If reporting a web problem, please provide the URL/web address or title of the page you were on. (For example, the URL/web address of this page is "http://www.scselfservice.org/home/contact.htm" and the title is "Contact Us")
  • If using one of our search pages, please provide the information you entered to search for.
  • If you are having a form problem, refer to our Form Tips page.

Providing this information will help us try to fix your problem as soon as possible. drawing of two people, one on the phone

How to contact the court:

  By phone

Frequently used public phone numbers are on the phone listing page at the main site. The main phone number for Court Administration is (408) 882-2700.

  By mail

The mailing address for all courthouses, with the exception of Palo Alto, South County and Sunnyvale, is 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113. For the three courthouses mentioned above, use the street addresses shown on the courthouse page at the court's main site.

  In person

You can visit the court facilities at the addresses shown on the courthouse page at the court's main site. Other places to get help in person from the court are the Self Service Center, the Family Law Facilitator's Office, the Restraining Order Help Center, and the traveling CourtMobile van.

  By email

You may send email to the court departments listed below. If the question is not related to a specific department, use the "General" email address.

IMPORTANT NOTICE: Judicial Officers cannot accept email from litigants. If you need to discuss an issue with the Judicial Officer in your case, you must file the required court forms to schedule a court hearing. Remember that you have to give notice to all parties and their attorneys of record, by serving them with a copy of the forms after you file them. 

If your situation is time-sensitive and needs immediate attention, do not rely on emailing the court. Even if you email the court, you are still responsible for coming to court, making payments, etc. by the date you have been given by the court. Contact the court in person or by phone (see above) in these cases. To email a court department, use the appropriate email address listed below.

Public Access Case Information Site: If you have a question related to your case on the Public Access Case Information site, http://www.sccaseinfo.org/, email the appropriate department (civil, probate, etc.) using the email addresses below. In your email, please provide the case-related information listed at the top of this page. Use the "General" email address below to report technical problems with the Public Access Case Information site.

Before emailing your question, please click on the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) link below, if available. Your question may already have been answered!

* Inquiries about Civil Assessment should be sent to Traffic Court at the Traffic email address listed above, or to Criminal Court using the Criminal email address above, depending on the type of violation. Do not use the Civil email address.

Use the "General" email address above to report technical web problems with this site, such as a broken link. Please provide the information listed at the top of this page.

 
   

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