Commissioner's Court Resolution Supports
Free e-Filing Portal for Harris County

Your Support is Critical

Help Us Make a Free Electronic Filing Portal a Reality for Harris County

The Harris County District Clerk’s Office (DCO) continues to promote the value and benefits that e-filing could deliver to our Court System, our legal community and to our Harris County Taxpayers.

The District Clerk’s office worked closely and diligently with the Civil and Family Court judges to create new Local Rules that would enable the office to build its own e-filing portal.To that end, the Harris County Commissioner’s Court passed a resolution in support of those efforts. We are now very close to the goal of providing fast, easy and free electronic filing a service that will greatly benefit your law practice and significantly reduce the costs to Harris County taxpayers.

I am happy to announce that if the Texas Supreme Court approves the changes made to Local E-Filing Rules by the Harris County Civil District Courts, the Harris County District Clerk’s Office will be able to build a free open e-filing portal enabling documents in Civil cases to be filed electronically directly to our office. The Family District Courts also anticipate passage of changes to Local Rules that will allow for a free open portal for filing Family documents in the near future. The move supporting e-Filing is an effort to further increase judicial efficiency, significantly reduce costs to Harris County taxpayers, and increase transparency in the judicial system by promoting greater public access to court documents and records.

Among several benefits to be delivered by the implementation of the new technology, e-filing will contribute to the reduction of paper printing, cost of processing and storage, and will help attorneys reduce the number of unnecessary trips they make to the courthouse.

The free e-filing portal will also speed up the court document filing and workflow process enabling the Public, Judges, and Attorneys the ability to view filed documents much quicker than is possible with paper-filed documents.

We need your help to make this dream become a reality! Join me now in calling for approval to create a free electronic portal that will greatly benefit Harris County. It is time for your voice to be heard on this issue. By working together, we can ensure that Harris County will be the first and only county in Texas with a free, open e-filing portal.

Please sign the District Clerk’s petition urging the Supreme Court of Texas to approve the new local rules adopted by the District Judges that would allow the creation of a free electronic portal for filing documents within the county. We encourage everyone to sign this petition, Attorneys and all other Harris County Citizens. Help us to increase efficiency, give you greater access to court documents and cut associated filing costs by signing this petition today!

I hereby join the Harris County District Clerk’s call for the approval of the new local rules adopted by the Harris County Civil District Judges allowing for Harris County to build its own Free Electronic Portal for filing Civil and Family documents within the county.

The creation of a free electronic filing portal would be of great benefit to the citizens of Harris County, as it will reduce document filing costs, improve judicial efficiency, and significantly reduce costs to taxpayers.