Crockett County Criminal Docket Searches
No single countywide criminal database serves Crockett County. Begin at the court level instead. Felony and other district criminal records sit with the Crockett County District Clerk. County-level criminal matters go to the County Clerk or the constitutional County Court. Class C and traffic cases belong to the Precinct 1 Justice of the Peace. This step matters. The right name searched in the wrong court looks like a dead end.
Before you search, gather the cause number, the court, the filing or hearing date, the case type, and the non-sensitive style of the case. The cause number is the strongest key. Skip the Social Security number and full birth date. Then work through each supported channel in order:
- Check re:SearchTX for available public electronic records, while treating a missing result as inconclusive.
- Call the County or District Clerk at 325-392-2022 for routing and current access instructions.
- Email the clerk at ninfa.preddy@co.crockett.tx.us or fax a narrow request to 325-392-3742 after confirming the office accepts it.
- Mail a request to P.O. Drawer C, Ozona, TX 76943, stating the precise docket sheet, order, judgment, or copy sought.
- Ask about inspection at the clerk counter in the Crockett County Courthouse, 909 Avenue D, because current counter hours are not posted.
For a JP matter, call 325-392-2253, email jp@co.crockett.tx.us, or fax 325-392-2365. Mail works too: P.O. Box 2067, Ozona, TX 76943. The GovRec link handles payments, not docket lookup.
Crockett County Criminal Docket Workloads
Texas court statistics explain why a criminal docket in Crockett County is not one list. The fiscal 2024 district report opened with 44 criminal cases. It added 31, disposed of 43, and closed at 37. The constitutional County Court opened with 62. It added 79, disposed of 89, and closed at 45. Justice Court numbers dwarf both. Its report began with 8,851 criminal matters. It added 2,561, disposed of 3,861, and ended at 8,440.
These figures come from the Texas Judicial Branch FY2024 reports. They are aggregate activity counts, nothing more. They are not case results, party lists, or proof that each filing is viewable online. The huge JP number reflects a stream heavy with Class C and traffic work. It is not Crockett County felony volume.
Criminal Dockets: What They Show
Think of a criminal docket as the court's event index, not the whole case file. Texas Code of Criminal Procedure Article 45A.053 sets out the clearest statutory field list. It covers justice and municipal courts. District and County Court registers go further. They may list motions, orders, service events, settings, judgments, and links to documents. Crockett County does not expose its actual public display. So treat these fields as the records to request, not a promised portal screen.
| Style and number | The case caption and docket or file number used to distinguish the matter. |
|---|---|
| Offense | The charged offense or nature of the case as entered by the court. |
| Plea | A recorded plea, when the proceeding and court level call for one. |
| Settings | Trial dates, pleas, pretrial hearings, or other scheduled events. |
| Disposition | The judgment, dismissal, sentence, or other recorded outcome. |
One caution. A docket entry can show an order was filed without giving its full text. Ask separately for the order or judgment when the terms matter.
Crockett County Criminal Docket Vocabulary
The statewide activity reports and one person's Crockett County criminal docket speak different languages. Report labels summarize workloads across a court. Think of terms like "reactivated" and "ending inventory." They never prove that a specific event happened in a case. Docket terms do that work.
- Setting
- A scheduled event, such as arraignment, plea, pretrial hearing, or trial.
- Disposition
- The result recorded by the court, which can include judgment or dismissal.
- Continuance
- A court-approved move of a hearing to a later date.
- Deferred adjudication
- A case outcome that does not make every clerk record confidential; other access laws may still apply.
Read every term with its date and any related order. A setting only proves an event was planned. A reset does not mean the case was dismissed.
Criminal Case Stages on the Docket
A district or County Court criminal case picks up docket entries as it moves. The docket may show a charge or complaint first. Settings come next, then later rulings. The exact path varies with the court and the outcome. A plea case will not carry every entry a tried case does. Lower courts follow their own process and statutory fields.
Docket flow: Filing › Arraignment › Pretrial › Plea or Trial › Disposition › Sentencing
Expect dates to shift. The 112th District Court's court-branded practice site says hearings are generally in person. One monthly Zoom docket is reserved for prove-ups and pleas. The site also posts a prior-day timing rule for continuance motions. That site sits outside a government domain. So confirm current practice with the court before relying on it. Remember, a calendar entry is only a planned event. A docket entry or filed order is the better source for what actually occurred.
Crockett County Criminal Docket Clerk Routes
Crockett County lists Ninfa Preddy on both its County Clerk and District Clerk pages. One shared contact does not merge the offices or their records. Ask each office in its proper capacity. The District Clerk holds district-court criminal records for the 112th District Court. The County Clerk keeps clerk-maintained constitutional County Court criminal records. Precinct 1 JP keeps its own justice docket.
County and District Clerk
Ninfa Preddy
P.O. Drawer C
Ozona, TX 76943
325-392-2022
Fax: 325-392-3742
Email: ninfa.preddy@co.crockett.tx.us
Statewide electronic access supplements the clerk route. eFileTexas is a filing system, not proof of a complete public docket. Its active-court chart marks Crockett search access as limited. re:SearchTX may carry public documents, but a no-result answer still calls for clerk verification.
Crockett County Criminal Docket Courts
One district court handles Crockett County felony work. That is the 112th District Court, which also serves Pecos, Reagan, Sutton, and Upton counties. When you write to that court, say plainly that the case was filed in Crockett County. A bare court number will not tell the clerk where the case lives. Keep two other courts straight, too. The constitutional County Court is its own body. It is not a County Court at Law and not a District Court branch. Beneath those sits the Precinct 1 Justice of the Peace, which carries the county's lower-level justice docket.
| Court | Criminal work | Record route |
|---|---|---|
| 112th District Court | District criminal matters, generally including felonies | District Clerk |
| Constitutional County Court | County-level criminal matters | County Clerk or County Court |
| Precinct 1 JP | Justice-court, Class C, and traffic matters | Justice of the Peace |
Crockett County has no incorporated city, so it posts no municipal criminal docket. Even Ozona, the county seat, counts as an unincorporated community. One caution for docket searches: a result for the City of Crockett points to Houston County, not here.
Crockett County Criminal Docket Search Gaps
A blank screen after a docket search proves nothing. You may have queried the wrong court level. The statewide source may skip local coverage. Or the record may be restricted from public view. Fresh filings are often easiest to trace through the clerk. Bring a cause number and date. Start over using the court named on any notice, bond paper, citation, or prior order you hold.
No cause number? Give the clerk an approximate filing or hearing date. Add the case type and a non-sensitive case style. Then ask what the office can produce: a docket sheet, one named order, a judgment, or a certified copy. Each is a distinct product with its own possible fee. Crockett County publishes no current criminal copy schedule. So get a quote before you send money.
Best next step: Call the proper Crockett County clerk before you travel. The clerk posts no public counter hours or general request form online.
Access Rules for Criminal Dockets
Plenty of criminal docket material is open to the public. Yet the access is not unlimited. Juvenile files, expunction records, sealed material, nondisclosure matters, and protected personal details all call for separate handling. A clerk might redact a document or refuse public access. The clerk might also tell you a court order is needed first. That answer reflects the law and who holds the record, not a failed docket search.
Key rules:
Texas Family Code ยง58.007 limits access to juvenile court, clerk, probation, and prosecutor records.
Code of Criminal Procedure Chapter 55A makes expunction records confidential under the governing order and statute.
Article 42A.111 says a deferred-adjudication clerk record is generally not confidential unless another law provides otherwise.
County administrative records follow a different door: the Texas Public Information Act. That statute opens its own access route. But it never replaces the rules governing court case files. Ask the record custodian which rule controls your request. And remember that a docket is not an arrest list. It is the court's own account of case events.
Crockett County Criminal Docket Copy Fees
Crockett County's clerk pages post no current criminal court-copy fee schedule. The one published fee, six dollars for a marriage copy, sits on a vital-record form. It has no place in a criminal docket request. Statutes frame the rest. District Clerk services fall under Government Code Chapter 51. County Clerk and justice-court services can involve Local Government Code Chapter 118. The exact charge turns on the item and whether you want certification.
Say exactly what you need. Inspecting a record, a plain copy, a certified copy, or one electronic document through re:SearchTX each carry different costs. OCA materials describe public electronic documents in the applicable re:SearchTX framework at ten cents per page with a one-dollar minimum per document. That is not Crockett County's local clerk schedule, though. Before paying, ask for the total, postage, accepted payment method, and delivery options.
Precision pays off in two ways. A request naming one docket sheet and one judgment is far easier to price than a demand for "everything." The same specificity keeps the clerk from searching the wrong Crockett County court.