Adjudicated Properties Program
Welcome to the Adjudicated Properties Webpage. The District Attorney and her Civil staff spent a considerable amount of time researching the best practice methods for development and implementation of an adjudicated properties program that would prove successful in St. John the Baptist Parish. While the District Attorney had the expertise and knowledge in her office to develop and implement an adjudicated properties program, she did not have the required staff to fully implement the complexities involved. As a result, the District Attorney decided to partner with Civic Source, an auction house who specializes in online property auctions. As irony would have it, the District Attorney was informed that Civic Source had previously reached out to Parish Administration in mid-2015 to offer its services of assisting with the Parish’s adjudicated properties program; however, Civic Source failed to receive any communication from the Parish. Dinvaut’s decision to utilize the online auction process offered by Civic Source was based two criteria: 1–the online auction is the fairest, most transparent manner in which to conduct an auction because all bids are time stamped with the date, hour, minute and second of the bid being placed, and 2–the online auction opens the process to an exponentially larger group of individuals to participate.
Dinvaut’s goal is not to assume perpetual administration of the Parish’s Disposition of Adjudicated Properties Program. Rather, she wants to provide the Parish with legally sound ordinances and appropriate procedures so that the Parish may resume its administrative posture over its adjudicated properties program. The primary purposes of this endeavor are to collect the delinquent property taxes owed by the property owner and to get these properties back onto the revenue generating Parish tax rolls. With a substantial loss in revenue each year from the non-payment of property taxes, the District Attorney seeks to do her part in preventing the loss of future property tax revenue for St. John the Baptist Parish.
A property is adjudicated to the Parish when the property taxes have not been paid – becoming delinquent – and the Sheriff is unable to sell the tax sale interest in the property during his annual tax sale. In attempts to collect property taxes, the Sheriff would have previously sent multiple notices of tax delinquencies to the property owners, prior to the property being adjudicated. The District Attorney will only list for sale, those properties where five (5) or more years have elapsed from the date of an attempted tax sale. Each property listed on the adjudicated properties’ website is plotted on a map and includes a detailed description. The District Attorney encourages all of St. John the Baptist Parish citizens to visit www.CivicSource.com to check out the current listings of available properties, and place their deposits and bids while the inventory still consists of desirable properties.
To date, this program has sold approximately 33 properties, 8 redemptions and they are over 660 properties listed to be sold.
If any property owner, or otherwise interested party, receives a notice regarding the potential sale of their property, please contact the St. John the Baptist Parish Sheriff’s Office at (985) 652 – 9513 or St. John the Baptist Parish District Attorney’s Office (Darryl A. Isom) at (985)652-9757 for information on how to redeem property in order to keep it from going to sale.
If you would like to participate in the auctions, please register for your free username and password at www.CivicSource.com.