Luzerne County Courthouse

Contact & location

Address

153 North River Street, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, 18711

Mail-in address

Luzerne County Courthouse200 N River Street, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, 18711

Records for

Luzerne County, Pennsylvania

Phone

570-825-1668

Official site

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Last verified July 14, 2026

Processing times are set at state level — county offices do not publish their own — and are estimates that vary with demand.

• ★★★★★NEPA Verified Local ReviewsGoogle

  They take your phone and put it in a locked pouch. This seems to be to limit the free press. They do it to limit recording courts, but the court doors are closed during hearings. They also search you to get inside, so you have to give up your 4th Amendment rights to enter. It can be done better, and someone needs to challenge these policies. Policy does not trump the Constitution.

• ★★★★★Travis JensenGoogle

  I did not note the name of the clerk for the District Attorney's Office, but she was a breath of fresh air. (Very pleasant)

• ★★★★★AnonymousGoogle

  A Letter to Men Who Refuse to Evolve This is not a gentle letter. It is not padded with comfort, and it is not written to protect egos. It is written because silence has protected you long enough. Too many of you have refused to evolve. Not biologically, not intellectually, and certainly not emotionally. You have inherited a world that bent itself around your comfort, and instead of questioning that privilege, you’ve defended it like a birthright. You call it “tradition.” You call it “how things are.” But what it really is, is fear of looking inward. You avoid introspection because introspection would require accountability. And accountability would mean admitting that much of the suffering in this world—especially the suffering of women—did not come from nowhere. It came from unchecked power, emotional laziness, entitlement, and the chronic refusal to examine your own behavior. Women are exhausted. Not confused. Not overly sensitive. Exhausted. Exhausted from carrying emotional labor you refuse to learn. Exhausted from explaining basic empathy to grown men. Exhausted from being told to “communicate better” while you dismiss, minimize, or weaponize that communication against us. You demand patience while offering none. You demand understanding while practicing willful ignorance. You demand access—to women’s bodies, labor, emotions, and forgiveness—without earning trust or demonstrating growth. And when you are confronted, you deflect. You blame feminism. You blame trauma. You blame women for “choosing wrong,” as if your behavior exists in a vacuum. As if patterns don’t exist. As if accountability is an attack instead of an invitation to grow. Here is the truth you resist:
Your inability to self-reflect is not neutral. It is harmful. It harms your partners, who slowly disappear inside relationships where their needs are treated as inconveniences. It harms your daughters, who learn early that being female means being vigilant.
It harms society, which continues to normalize male fragility while demanding endless resilience from women. Growth is not emasculating. Emotional intelligence is not weakness. Accountability is not oppression. These are lies you tell yourselves to avoid discomfort. The world is changing with or without you. Women are no longer willing to shrink, explain endlessly, or carry the weight of your unresolved inner lives. We are choosing distance over destruction, peace over potential, solitude over suffering. If you are angry reading this, ask yourself why. If you feel attacked, ask yourself what you recognize. If you feel defensive, ask yourself what you’re protecting. This is not a call for perfection. It is a call for effort. For honesty. For the courage to look in the mirror and stop expecting women to absorb the consequences of your refusal to grow. Evolve. Or be left behind—not out of cruelty, but out of self-preservation. Women are done paying the price for your stagnation.

• ★★★★★mattGoogle

  This place is terrible to deal with. No one answers their phone calls or returns calls if you leave a message. I had a lawyer come down here back in Jan 2026 to drop off expungement paperwork. This was the beginning of January, 3 months later they don't know what happened to my paperwork! I was calling them at least once a month to check on my stuff and their response was we dont know anything. I said wheres my paperwork, we dont know anything! Was only supposed to take like a month or two at the latest, now I have to go down in person and refile it. Avoid this place if possible.

• ★★★★★BrandonGoogle

  This establishment definitely deserves a 4 star rating. With everyone disagreeing and fighting in the world it is amazing to see the Judges,prosecution and of course the public defenders office all getting along so well. Seeing them enjoy coffee together and chat with each other. It's an amazing show of camaraderie you just don't see much today. Amazing bravado from the prosecution as well, its not everyday someone so miniscule can stand on a soap box and really belt out how they feel with such top tier depth. Spielberg couldn't possibly write better fiction than these guys. I removed one star for too many stairs and the bathroom could have been cleaner.