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1836 – present
North Liberty has never kept its own court of record. Felonies committed in Liberty Township are St. Joseph County cases — investigated by the county sheriff and the Indiana State Police alongside the town's own small police force, charged by the county prosecutor, and tried at the courthouse in South Bend. That is why the town's one fully documented serious case survives as a state appellate opinion rather than as a town record. The succession of town marshals and police chiefs, whole, was not established in the sources reached; it stands as a named gap, its settlers the North Liberty Town Council minutes and the town clerk-treasurer's records. The first jail, first indictment and first term for this township likewise stand unsettled here; their settler is the St. Joseph County commissioners' and circuit court order books at the county archives.