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Civil / Family

In order to better protect court documents, we now require you to have a registered login with our site. All public case information is still available to everyone, once they login, and can be viewed FREE of charge

All Government and Law Enforcement agencies must click here to access our records.

Criminal
In order to better protect court documents, we now require you to have a registered login with our site. All public case information is still available to everyone, once they login, and can be viewed FREE of charge.
Party Inquiry
Search for detailed case (cause) information such as court costs, documents, case details, parties, and the location of a case (cause) file within our office by Party type. Only public cases (causes) will be shown from this search, however no family documents will be available for review.

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Background Check

HARRIS COUNTY RECORDS, ONLY


Searches return Harris County data, only. No federal or other County's records, or Justice of the Peace or other Municipalities Class C Misdemeanors will be searched.

ACCURACY


Data returned relies on the information obtained and entered. Inaccurate data obtained or entered will result in erroneous data returned. Please, provide as much criteria as necessary for more reliable results.

If data is returned, click the "ADD TO BASKET" icon to save background data for the specified individual. If First Name, Last Name and Date of Birth are entered and no data is returned, a Certified Letter of Disposition may be requested by providing additional required information. Only public criminal cases (causes) will be shown via this search.

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Verification Check:

You are forbidden to access this site using an automated program. Please type the word you see to the left of the verification text box and then click on the Search button to process your request.

Historical

The District Clerks Office observes the recommendations from The Texas State Library Archive Commission for preservation of historical records. Our preservation efforts focus on records dating from 1837-1951. We are also in the process of digitizing these records to make them easily accessible online.


Historical Records

To search historical records, select a type of case (Civil/Family or Criminal):
Civil / Family Criminal
Information required for search
  • Case (cause) number
  • Style (person(s) involved in a case)
  • Date Range

If required information listed above is not available, a primary information search is necessary. This search involves an additional $5.00 fee. Click here to conduct primary information search.


Naturalization Records:

The Harris County Naturalization Records Index dates from 1837-1913.

Note: For research of Naturalization records after 1913, Please Contact the USCIS, federal government: www.uscis.gov

To request a Tour please email us at: HistoricalReadingroom@hcdistrictclerk.com
Trial Judgments

This search feature will allow users to search for judgments entered after both jury and non-jury trials. This feature does not provide a list of all jury and non-jury trials that have been conducted or all jury verdicts returned or accepted. For information on the number of trials or verdicts, please contact the court administrator's office.

Users may search for both jury and non-jury trial judgments by judgment date range, court, public image number, judgment type, or case number for Civil public non-Family cases only.

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Dockets

QUICK DOCKET SEARCH


SEARCH CRITERIA FOR ALL DOCKET SETTINGS


If a date range is not specified, results start from today. To view past dockets, please specify a date range.
Select Court Type to display Case/Offense Type and to filter the Court list.
To view past dockets, please specify a date range.

Verification Check:

You are forbidden to access this site using an automated program. Please type the word you see to the left of the verification text box and then click on the Search button to process your request.

Attorney Kiosk Features
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Check the boxes to register for notifications on changes or new items in the following areas on cases for which you are the . Family data will be available subject to Texas Family Code provisions.

- receive automatic e-mail notification on Thursday night regarding all case settings for the upcoming week for the and receive automatic daily e-mail notifications if any changes occur to the docket settings during the week.
- receive automatic e-mail notifications of new filings in a case in which you are the Attorney of Record (all non-confidential public filings in Civil cases; select enterable paper filings and all e-filings in Family cases, and Motions only in Criminal cases).
- receive automatic e-mail notification when a new Judgment or Order is signed in a case in which you are the Attorney of Record.
Manage Email Addresses

Case Subscriptions

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You can subscribe for notifications to a specific case for which you are not the Attorney of Record to receive automatic e-mail notifications of new events pertaining to that case. You can select which events (Dockets, Documents/Filings, and/or Judgments/Order).
Note: You can have a maximum of 30 active notifications.
Manage Case Subscriptions

Client/PartyNotifications

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Build a Client/Party list and receive an automatic e-mail notification when a new petition is filed with our office that names a Client/Party identified on your Client/Party list.
Note: You can have a maximum of 50 active notifications.
Manage Client/Party Notifications
Several County Criminal Courts at Law and District courts have reported intermittently slow system performance for Harris County District Clerk web site users. These slowdowns are causing longer than usual wait times for external users such as public users, law firms, and commercial vendors. We ask commercial customers who run data scraping scripts to help ease the system slowdown time by instead using our Public Datasets that provide a large quantity of information for download. If there are additional elements of data not currently within the datasets that you would like to see added, you may contact using the information in the “Contact Us” link at the bottom of the page.

Note: The Public Access to the Harris County District Clerk Court Electronic Records, its Help Desk, its Call Center and/or the Harris County District Clerk reserves the right to suspend/reduce service or restrict access to any account causing an unacceptable level of congestion or disrupting operations for the following:
-- Harris County District Clerk Court Electronic Records
-- the Court system The District Clerk supports
-- its Call Center
-- its Help Desk
-- Another Public user

If you have an uncontested Statement of Inability to Afford Payment of Court Costs in this case, you are entitled to receive copies and other documents without being charged under Texas Rule of Civil Procedure 145. This website does not yet have the capability to provide you with free documents. To receive copies and other documents without being charged, please contact the clerk at 832-927-5800 or support@hcdistrictclerk.com or appear at the clerk’s office.