Butts County Clerk of Court (Morgan Ward): the county’s recorder of military discharges

The Butts County Clerk of Court - Morgan Ward, 625 West Third Street, Suite 10, Jackson (770-775-8214 or 770-775-8215, weekdays 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.) - is the county's recorder of military discharges under O.C.G.A. 15-6-72 and 15-6-78; the clerk's own site carries the office's divisions and services and prints no discharge line, so the free recording and the 50-year closure rest on the State entries.

Also called: Clerk of Court, Morgan Ward, DD-214, discharge, military discharges, recording, 15-6-72, 15-6-78, 770-775-8214, 625 West Third Street, Suite 10, Jackson, Jackson, Flovilla, Jenkinsburg, Worthville.

For: Veteran or service member, survivor.

Where it applies

Written for the jurisdictions listed here.

Butts County, GACounty

The office. The clerk's own site, buttscountyclerkofcourt.com, opens: "Butts County Clerk of Court - Morgan Ward - Clerk of Court for Butts County, Georgia. 625 West Third Street, Suite 10 Jackson, GA. M-F, 8am-4:30pm. MAIN PHONE: (770) 775-8214 or (770) 775-8215." The site lists the office's work - Calendars, Court Services, Board of Equalization, Child Support Services, Civil Division, Criminal Division, Fees, Jury Information, Notary Public, Real Estate/Personal Property, Tradenames - and links Certified Document Request, FANS and the land-records search; no page prints a discharge line - the recording duty is the statute's. The statute. Georgia's clerks of the superior court record discharges under O.C.G.A. 15-6-78 and keep them confidential for fifty years under 15-6-72, with free copies to the authorized list (the State entries carry the sections and the synopsis); a Butts veteran records the DD-214 at the clerk's Suite 10 office at 625 West Third Street and asks there for copies.

Thresholds

Thresholds for Butts County Clerk of Court (Morgan Ward): the county’s recorder of military discharges
Gate	Rule
Any veteran with a discharge	The recording is free under O.C.G.A. 15-6-78 and the record is closed for fifty years under 15-6-72. No rating is needed.

Sources

Butts County Clerk of Court (the clerk and the office; read 2026-11-03)Official

Updated

Last updated 2026-11-03.

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