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Criminal Courts Division

County Criminal Courts Division
County Clerk as Clerk of County Courts (Criminal):  Government Code, Local Government, Rules of Criminal Procedure

Frank Crowley Courts Building - 133 N. Riverfront Boulevard, 2nd Floor, Room A-1, Dallas, TX 75207
Phone: (214) 653-7099
Hours: 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m., Monday - Friday (except for court approved holidays)

What’s New at the County Clerk's Criminal Courts Division:

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The Dallas County Clerk is now offering Electronic Certified Official Public Record (OPR) Documents for purchase on the Clerk's website. Each electronic certified document uses advanced encrypted features to produce a tamper proof electronic certified document that will include a unique County Clerk digital signature.

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Note: This service is not the same as the Online Public Record Search; the Online Public Record Search documents are non-certified.

 
 

As the clerk of county courts the county clerk is responsible for maintaining the records of the criminal courts. Dallas County has eleven (11) county criminal courts that hear Class A and B misdemeanor offenses and two (2) criminal courts of appeals that hear appeals from both justice of the peace courts and city municipal courts.

The criminal division, which is the largest of the county clerk’s office processes approximately 32,500 cases each year and have approximately 72,000 cases pending.

In accordance with the Texas Penal Code, a Class A misdemeanor shall be punishable by:

  1. a fine not to exceed $4,000;
  2. confinement in jail for a term not to exceed one year;  or
  3. both such fine and confinement.

Class B misdemeanor shall be punishable by:

  1. a fine not to exceed $2,000;
  2. confinement in jail for a term not to exceed 180 days;  or
  3. both such fine and confinement.

Class C misdemeanor shall be punishable by a fine not to exceed $500.