Search the Hood County Court Docket

Searching the Hood County Court Docket

Start with the court name on your paperwork. A notice, citation, bond, or filing points straight to the office that holds the Hood County court docket. District dockets have one home. The 355th District Court docket belongs to the Hood County District Clerk. County-level records belong to the Hood County Clerk. Justice and municipal courts keep their own lower-court dockets.

1. Identify the Hood County court and gather the cause number, public case style, and approximate year.
2. Search re:SearchTX in Cases mode, then try Filings or Hearings when the task requires them.
3. Review the court, filing date, status, and last Hood County docket event before opening documents.
4. If the result is missing, contact the correct Hood County clerk by phone or at the counter.
5. For an unavailable or historic Hood County record, ask about mail, inspection, plain copies, and certified copies.

City citations stay with their municipal court. A ticket off a county road may instead name a JP precinct, so do not force every Hood County matter into one portal.

Hood County Dockets Have Two Clerks

Two clerks split Hood County records. Melanie Graft serves as Hood County District Clerk, per the August 2025 Texas Judicial Branch directory. That same dated listing names Christine C. Leftwich as Hood County Clerk. Older material may still name Katie Lang. Check the date before trusting any staff listing.

Check the court first. That habit keeps you from asking the right question of the wrong Hood County office.

Inside a Hood County Court Docket

Think of a Hood County court docket as a timeline. It lists the cause number, case style, court, judge, filings, settings, orders, and disposition. It is not the full case file. A one-line status can point to a signed order, and that order spells out the exact terms. This is the record you read first. It tells you where a case stands right now.

“Filed” does not mean granted. “Notice of setting” does not prove a hearing occurred, and “dismissal docket” does not mean dismissed until a Hood County order or disposition says so.

The Hood County Docket Search Ladder

Climb a simple ladder. The statewide re:SearchTX portal comes first. Its official guide offers Cases, Filings, Text, and Hearings modes, then filters and links to case detail. Coverage varies by clerk and case type. A login helps with account functions. It unlocks nothing sealed and promises no document image.

Next comes the official Hood County Tyler-hosted page, labeled a County Clerk and Recorder index. Its own disclaimer compares the index to a library card catalogue that points toward the underlying record, not a complete Hood County District Court register. When the online routes run dry, call the District Clerk, County Clerk, JP clerk, or municipal clerk.

Courts That Keep Dockets in Hood County

Hood County runs several trial-court lanes. The 355th Judicial District, composed of Hood County, takes the district assignments. Two county courts share county-level duties. The County Court at Law and the Constitutional County Court fill that role. Four Justice of the Peace precincts hear justice matters. City cases go to the municipal courts, and appeals route to the Second Court of Appeals at Fort Worth when appellate law allows.

The court name is a search filter, not background detail. A felony case will not share a custodian with a Granbury city citation.

Hood County Dockets in re:SearchTX

re:SearchTX gives Hood County docket work a statewide layer. Pick a mode first. The public interface accepts a keyword, party, attorney, or cause number, then narrows results by court, document, hearing, or date. Save what it shows. Write down the Hood County court, number, filing date, status, and last event. You can open the portal through the Texas Judicial Branch source, which displays the official interface itself.

The portal is a start, not a finish. The clerk settles completeness, current settings, and certification. Official guidance says civil and family case notices began for integrated records in 2025. Criminal notices depend on clerk and case-type integration. A missing Hood County result is a cue to try the clerk ladder, not proof that no case exists.

How to Find Court Dates and Settings

A Hood County setting can show up in the case docket or in re:SearchTX Hearings mode. Write it all down. Capture the court, cause number, date, time, courtroom, judge, setting type, and the newest reset note. Each label means a different procedural event, whether docket call, pretrial, motion hearing, plea docket, jury announcement, or trial. Know which one you face.

The 355th District Court has a listed coordinator. The dated judicial directory gives Penny Weisend at (817) 579-3233 and pweisend@co.hood.tx.us. No public daily calendar covers all Hood County courts. Confirm any urgent date with the clerk or coordinator. The full Hood County court dates process covers resets and missed settings.

Never guess. A clerk's address will not reveal the courtroom, and business hours will not reveal the time. A later reset or signed order can replace the first Hood County date you found.

Hood County Courts Cluster on Pearl

Many Hood County courts share one roof. The cluster sits at 1200 W Pearl Street in Granbury, where the official directory places the 355th District Court, District Clerk, County Court at Law, County Clerk, and two JP precinct contacts. Sharing a building does not merge their dockets. Suite numbers matter. So do the mailing suffix, phone, and custodian.

Call the right office first. A copy, a historic file, or a record outside the public index can take time at any Hood County clerk.

Public Access to Court Dockets

Texas treats court records as several different things, not one. In Hood County, a clerk handles most case records under the common law, statutes, and court rules. Judicial work governed by Rule 12 sits elsewhere. That material follows its own custodian and its own request process. The Texas Public Information Act still reaches public information held by the county, but it is not a blanket route to a judge’s case docket.

A Hood County clerk is not required to invent a record or assemble an open-ended custom compilation. So ask for something specific: a named docket sheet, an order, a judgment, or a particular filing.

Hood County E-Filing Is Different

eFileTexas is the gateway that moves documents into the Texas court system. Think of it as the front door for lawyers and filers. It connects to re:SearchTX account access, but it is not itself a public Hood County docket anyone can browse. A filing only becomes a docket event once the clerk processes it and accepts it. The official eFileTexas source lays out the filing and account environment.

Electronic filing and public search are two different things. Filers push paperwork through the gateway; readers pull Hood County docket information from re:SearchTX or from the office that keeps the record, depending on what each covers. The county's electronic-filing rules were approved in 2011. Integration has grown far past that early setup, but old rules and vendor history are no promise that every historic Hood County docket sits online. Older files may still live only in the clerk's paper or scanned holdings.

Docket Records at the Clerk's Office

When online access runs out, the Hood County clerk's office is the next stop. Staff can check the register, let you inspect a file, or explain how to order a plain or certified copy. Come prepared with the court, the cause number, the case style, the approximate filing year, and the exact item you want. A narrow request for one docket sheet or one signed judgment gets routed faster than a demand for "all records" on a topic.

The clerk posts no current fee schedule for plain pages, certified docket sheets, certified filings, exemplified copies, or search work, so call before you mail any payment. Ask about the fee itself, accepted payment methods, delivery, certification, and turnaround. If a Hood County record is old or missing, ask whether the file sits on paper, has been scanned, is archived, or is held elsewhere. One caution: the County Clerk's Social Security number redaction form is narrow. It hides a number. It does not seal a Hood County lawsuit or wipe routine docket facts from view.

Hood County Index Is a Catalogue

Hood County posts an official disclaimer worth heeding. An index, it says, works like a library card catalogue. It points you to a document. It is not the document itself. Indexed data in Hood County can shift without warning too, so treat any result as a lead rather than a certified court docket. The same access and verification limits appear in the official electronic-access terms statewide.

That notice points to a sound Hood County workflow. Search first. Write down the source and date. Then confirm any key setting, status, or document with the clerk who holds the file, because the index alone settles nothing. A blank docket search can stem from spelling, the wrong court selection, access restrictions, the case's age, or incomplete integration. Test the case number, loosen any narrow filters, and call the right Hood County office before assuming the record does not exist.

Restricted Hood County Docket Material

Public access never trumps confidentiality. A Hood County portal may skip a restricted case entirely. It may also display limited metadata, or flag a document as unavailable. Treat juvenile and child-protection records as closed unless the clerk confirms otherwise. A family case can carry a public caption. Its sensitive filings stay sealed from view.

Restricted or sealed

Access is limited by law, rule, or court order.

Certified copy

A Hood County clerk-authenticated copy for an official purpose.

Plain copy

A reproduction without clerk certification.

Docket entry

One chronological procedural line, which may point to a separate document.

Disposition

A brief outcome status that may require the signed order for full terms.

Hood County offers a redaction form for one narrow problem: a Social Security number visible in a filing. It does not expunge a case or seal a whole record. For any restricted court record, ask the responsible court which procedure governs it.

Hood County Docket Counts Differ

Hood County keeps several separate dockets, and the FY2024 Texas court statistics show why. The 355th District civil inventory opened at 625 cases. It ended at 550, after 488 new filings and 564 dispositions. Criminal inventory moved the other way. It climbed from 775 to 826, with 333 additions against 244 dispositions. Justice courts reported an ending inventory of 11,737. That figure comes from a different reporting universe, so it cannot sit beside the district numbers as if they matched.

Treat these numbers as administrative flows, not a roster of unique people or upcoming hearings. Municipal, justice, county, and district figures each answer to their own clerks, so adding them together will never yield one reliable Hood County case count.

Hood County Court Dockets by City

Five incorporated places make up the Hood County city pages: Granbury, DeCordova, Tolar, Cresson, and Lipan. Each page points readers to the court that actually handles the matter. That court may handle a municipal ticket or offer a local route. Granbury offers a verified citation search. Tolar and Lipan each list distinct payment contacts. DeCordova and Cresson publish no official municipal docket portal, so call the court first to confirm anything. County-level and district cases still run through the Hood County clerks. That holds no matter which city you start from.

Population figures on those cards use different vintages than the administrative values the courts report. The point is access, not arithmetic: the cards steer Hood County readers to city-specific docket options without passing off a city payment system as the county docket.

Hood County Docket Request Packet

A written request works best when it spells out the basics. Give the Hood County court, the cause number, the public case style, and the rough year. Say exactly which Hood County record you need. Want the full run of events? Ask for the Hood County docket sheet. Need the words themselves? Name the order, judgment, notice, or filing. If you want a Hood County certified copy, state that certification is required and ask the Hood County clerk for the current fee.

Help the clerk understand what you already tried. Note which Hood County portal you checked and when you searched. If the online Hood County result came back blank, restricted, or short a document, say so. Does the Hood County case sit in a city or JP court? Then route the request to that Hood County lower-court clerk. This compact Hood County packet works by phone, at the counter, or by mail, and it never asks a clerk to build a new compilation.

Send each question to the right office. A Hood County setting belongs with the court or coordinator. A Hood County filing belongs with the clerk. A Hood County city citation belongs with the city court. Keep the Hood County cause number attached to every reply, and later Hood County docket checks will trace the same record with no guesswork.

Map and Directions to the Hood County District Clerk's Office

The 355th Judicial District Court's docket, covering major civil, felony, family, and juvenile matters, is kept by the Hood County District Clerk at 1200 W Pearl Street in Granbury. The same Pearl Street address also holds the County Clerk (County Court at Law and Constitutional County Court records) and JP Precincts 1 and 2, so confirm the correct clerk before standing in line. No suite, floor, or room number is documented for the District Clerk's counter.

No public daily-docket posting, parking, security-screening, or ADA-accommodation policy is published for this address, so call (817) 579-3236 before a visit to confirm what the District Clerk's counter can search while you wait.