Sumter County Clerk of Superior / State Court (Cortisa E. Barthell): the county’s recorder of military discharges

The office. The county's Clerk of Superior / State Court page, sumtercountyga.us, lists the responsibilities: "Maintains civil and criminal files for the superior and state courts of Sumter County; Maintains traffic cases in the County (no city offenses); Records all real estate transactions; Maintains Uniform Commercial Code (UCC-1) Filings; Records Trade Names; Records liens from judgments reached in our courts as well as lower courts; Commissions Notary Public applicants who reside in the County; Process passport applications as an official acceptance agent for the U.S. Department of State." The page prints no discharge line - the recording duty is the statute's. The page's notice carries the Board of Equalization Alternate application route through the clerk's office. Where and who. The Georgia Superior Court Clerks' Cooperative Authority's clerk roster seats Cortisa E. Barthell, Clerk of Superior Court, elected 2017, at "500 W. Lamar St., P.O. Box 333, Americus, GA 31709", phone (229) 928-4537, fax (229) 928-4539, "9:00am - 5:00pm Monday - Friday", courts managed Superior and State. A Sumter veteran records the DD-214 at the clerk's courthouse office and asks there for copies. 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).