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Separate misdemeanor, felony and statewide records

Travis County criminal records are divided between custodians. The County Clerk searches Class A and B misdemeanors and Class C cases appealed from municipal or justice courts. The District Clerk maintains adult felony files. An original municipal or justice-court case, a jail booking and a statewide Texas history are not all included in either clerk’s search. Identify the court from the citation or case paperwork first.

Use full name, date of birth, known aliases and the case number where available. Ask for a named document if you already know the case; order a name search when locating cases is the actual task. Match identifiers before attributing a result, because the County Clerk warns that inaccurate source data or data entry can produce erroneous returns.

Use the misdemeanor date range, not the civil one

The County Clerk’s record-type table lists misdemeanor case data from January 1981 onward and only some documents online. The same page’s introductory June 1986/December 2005 dates correspond to civil records in that table; do not apply them as blanket criminal coverage. Online printouts are free but carry an unofficial-copy watermark. A missing image does not mean the case or paper document never existed.

Save the complete case number and identify the desired judgment, dismissal or other filing. Keep a note of the period searched, especially for a pre-1981 event. An index tells you about a record; the document is what lets you confirm its wording and the charge’s outcome.

Price County Clerk searches and copies separately

Clerk-made and emailed misdemeanor copies are $1 per page; certification adds $5 per document. Self-service copies are 20 cents per photocopied page or 25 cents per microfilm/computer-printed page. Credit-card payments add $3 below $100 or 3% at $100 and above. These are County Clerk rates, not a quote for a District Clerk felony file.

The specific misdemeanor-search instructions say a 1981-onward name search with up to three aliases is free apart from copies; a pre-1981 search is $10 plus copies, with extra aliases $10 each. However, the separate misdemeanor fee schedule also lists a generic $5 record-search charge. Ask which search category applies before paying; do not silently combine the generic and specific prices.

Treat felony portal coverage as a starting point

The District Clerk’s criminal division describes public Odyssey access to a register of actions, with document access depending on the user’s access level. Its case-information page instead advertises free public digital records for criminal cases from 2008 onward, while its criminal-history page warns that pre-2004 felony records may be archived. These statements do not establish one complete historical online range.

For an older file, a missing PDF or an access-profile problem, use the clerk’s records request instead of repeatedly changing search services. Do not conclude that a 2004–2007 case is absent merely because the newer portal description starts in 2008. Ask the clerk which collection holds the case and whether the specific document is public.

Request the felony file through the District Clerk

The Criminal Division requires its Records Request form for copies. Start from the District Clerk’s Case Information & Records page and follow Court Records Request Form. The older direct records-request link returned only the site feedback shell during this review; if the form does not load, call 512-854-9420, option 3, for the current route rather than sending personal data through a generic website-feedback form.

The published alternatives include mailing a specific request to Travis County District Clerk, Records Request, P.O. Box 679003, Austin, TX 78767, or visiting the felony records office at 501 W. 11th Street, second floor, Room 2.300, Austin. State the case number, defendant, exact document, copy count, certification and delivery preference. Public counter hours are Monday–Friday, 8 a.m.–4:30 p.m.

Use the District Clerk’s 2026 price information

The 2026 District Clerk fee page lists records searches at $5 per cause/name or item, paper copies at $1 per page and certification at $5 per document. Credit-card charges are a non-refundable 3% with a $3 minimum. Its non-certified electronic-document wording needs a clerk quote for the requested page count; do not assume the County Clerk’s email-copy calculation applies.

An older District Clerk PDF remains indexed with different certification and emailed-copy rates and a 7–10-business-day processing estimate. Use the current form and invoice, and confirm delivery timing for your file. The old document’s printed 2015 date makes it unsuitable as a guaranteed current price or turnaround promise.

Know what a positive or negative felony letter establishes

The District Clerk offers certified positive or negative search letters, but the certification covers Travis County felony cases only. It does not clear misdemeanor, federal or statewide records. If the recipient needs Texas criminal-history information, the clerk directs readers to Texas DPS rather than treating a county felony letter as a statewide report.

Similarly, an inmate search answers a custody question, not whether all charges ended in conviction. Use the criminal court’s final order for a disposition question, and keep a search letter’s county, record class and date with the result. Ask the recipient whether the letter or a certified case document is required before ordering both.

Resolve a discrepancy with the office that supplied it

Compare the original charge, amended charges and final disposition for each count. If a County Clerk return contains wrong identifiers, raise that issue with the misdemeanor records office; if a felony filing or outcome is wrong or missing, take the case number and supporting document to the District Clerk. The criminal records line is 512-854-9420, option 3.

Keep the unaltered response and the clerk’s reply together. A corrected court file may need separate follow-through with a background-report provider or repository that copied older information. Do not represent a restricted file, an online gap or a clerk’s pending response as proof that no criminal event exists.

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