Government Records Registry

Because everything is bigger in Texas doing a search for Texas district court records can be quite a daunting task. Consider that there are 443 district courts within the state, each with its own set of records it is easy to see that finding criminal records while doing a background check could take some time and effort.

When you add the fact that there are also 254 county and 917 municipal courts that also hold Texas public court records it is nearly impossible to hunt down criminal and other background information on someone. Or at least that’s the way it used to be until the public record websites came on the scene.

Here’s how finding specific court records used to work. Each court has an employee known as the court retriever whose job it is to search for and find specific records and case reports upon request. After the required paper work is filled out and submitted it can take up to 72 hours before the records are retrieved and ready for you. This can be longer then most people are willing to wait. And when you consider that some people may have records in multiple courts you can see how it may be difficult to find all the records that may pertain to them.

At least that’s how it used to be. Like most states Texas has moved to input all the paper files and micro-fiche records that were kept at each district, county, and municipal court into computerized databases. This makes finding court records and doing background checks much easier when you use a public records search website.

These websites give you access to records that are considered public domain, which most court records fall under. This makes it exceedingly easy to run thorough background checks on just about anyone. In many cases you will also gain access to *** offender records, bankruptcy reports, marriage and divorce records, tax liens, and other publicly available information. These sites do charge a small fee to join but your membership will give you unlimited searches for the lifetime of that membership.

Finding Texas district court records is easy if you use an online public records website and any search you do will be completely anonymous with no one being the wiser.