StrikeServe is based in downtown Sacramento, a short walk from the new courthouse, and court filing is most of what we do. We e-file through a court-approved electronic filing service provider, walk paper to the counter at 500 G Street, Ridgeway or Carol Miller when the court requires it, and return the file-stamped copy electronically.
Civil filing left the Gordon D. Schaber Courthouse and the Hall of Justice for the new Tani G. Cantil-Sakauye Sacramento County Courthouse on April 13, 2026, and the criminal courtrooms followed on April 20. The court's April notice kept Departments 1, 2, 3, 4, 8 and 12 at Schaber (720 9th Street) during the transition; that building no longer appears on the court's locations page, so we confirm the location before every run.
500 G Street, Sacramento 95814; public entrance at 5th and G. Civil and criminal counters on the second floor, appeals and exhibits on the sixth. Civil counter Monday to Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. General civil, complex civil, writs and law and motion; e-filing exemptions go to the civil front counter here.
3341 Power Inn Road, Sacramento 95826. Family Law and Probate divisions, Departments 120 to 135. Business hours 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., Monday to Friday.
301 Bicentennial Circle, Sacramento 95826. Small claims up to $12,500, unlawful detainer up to $35,000 and traffic. Counter 7:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday to Thursday; closed Fridays, so a Thursday deadline has no Friday fallback.
The court expanded electronic filing to civil cases on January 16, 2024, and accepts it only through a certified electronic filing service provider (EFSP) on its approved list; the clerk returns the endorsed copy, or a rejection with a reason, through the same provider. StrikeServe submits through an approved EFSP.
Unlike Los Angeles, Sacramento has not made e-filing mandatory. The court says e-filing is permissive for all parties until further notice and that a public notice will go out 30 days before it becomes mandatory. Paper is still accepted at the civil counter, by mail and in the court's designated drop box; the court asks for an original and one copy, and conforms one.
E-filing is open 24 hours. A document received between 12:00 a.m. and 11:59 p.m. on a court day is deemed filed that day if accepted; one received on a weekend or holiday is deemed filed the next court day. The court aims to process e-filings within three business days. Ex parte cutoffs under the local rules still apply, and an ex parte application cannot ride along with a new complaint because a hearing has to be reserved first.
The court's exemption list includes peremptory challenges, bonds and undertakings, transfer-in documents, out-of-county abstracts of judgment, bench warrants, gun violence restraining order papers, Department 59 settlement conference documents and ADA requests. For anything lodged or submitted conditionally under seal, the motion or notice of lodging is e-filed and the documents themselves are walked in with a conformed copy attached. All of these go to the civil front counter at 500 G Street.
Sacramento generally does not require printed courtesy copies of e-filed documents, but individual departments and judges can. When one is required, we confirm delivery instructions with the courtroom and run it.
Filing fees follow the court's fee schedule and are collected by the EFSP at submission with its own service fee; a paper filing without the right fee is returned unfiled. Fee waiver applications can be e-filed in the same envelope as the initiating document. We pass court and EFSP fees through at cost.
Accepted e-filings come back through the EFSP with the endorsement; counter filings are scanned at the window. Either way the copy is uploaded to your order the same day. A rejection on a deadline day is a missed deadline, so we check each envelope against the reasons the court lists most:
Several documents merged into one PDF, or one split into several; scans that are not text-searchable; more than one lead document in an envelope.
Wrong filing document name, such as "Notice of Motion" instead of the motion itself, which also miscalculates the fee; wrong case number, case type, category or jurisdictional amount; data fields that do not match the document.
Wrong payment type, such as a fee waiver or government exemption that is not on file, or a fee that does not match the document name.
Upload each document as its own text-searchable PDF, with the case number if the case exists, the courthouse and department, the deadline, and whether it needs a courtesy copy run. Tell us which document is the lead document. Include a proof of service if required, or order the serve with us.
Signed PDFs, courthouse and deadline.
We confirm the location, method and fees, quote in minutes, and start when you approve.
Through the EFSP, or at the counter at 500 G Street, Ridgeway or Carol Miller, with courtesy copies to the department.
Uploaded to your order the same day; rejections are corrected and resubmitted.
Deadline today? Call and we will confirm the cutoff for your courthouse.
Order both and the file-stamped complaint goes straight to a registered process server in Sacramento; for evictions, see unlawful detainer service in California.
The other filing counter we run to every day is the Secretary of State at 1500 11th Street, a few blocks from the courthouse. Statements of Information, articles, amendments, dissolutions, certificates of status and preclearance or expedite requests go there or through bizfile Online; see Secretary of State filings in Sacramento. If the entity you are suing is served through its agent, most of those agents are downtown as well: serve a registered agent.
Order online in a few minutes, or call and we will confirm the cutoff for your courthouse.