How to Check If a Person Has a Warrant in Texas
- 1). Check statewide listings for criminal offenders. The Houston, Dallas and El Paso divisions of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration provides free listings and photographs of Texas fugitives. The Texas Attorney General Website provides alphabetical listings of Texas criminals who evaded paying for child support, along with a listing of the top 10 most wanted child support evaders. The Texas Department of Public Safety has a top 10 most wanted fugitive list.
- 2). Check individual Texas city or county websites for warrants. Each county in Texas is different, but several have websites that allow people to perform free database searches to check for warrants. The cities of Austin and Fort Worth both have warrant databases, and several Texas counties, including Collin, Cameron and Fort Bend have most wanted listings along with warrant databases. This information is usually taken from the public records, though is not always accurate, as sometimes warrants can be cleared and still appear in the listings.
- 3). Contact any local courthouses where the person may have lived or committed an offense. You can either call or visit the courthouse in person to ask them to search for warrants under a specific name. It may be more tedious than doing an online search, but the information directly from the public records of a county courthouse will probably be more up to date than website listings.
- 4). Subscribe to a public record database. It may cost money, but it can be a simpler alternative to visiting individual courthouses. Most public record databases search for warrants on a national level, and can search through all the available public records instantly. This also may be the best option if you don't know where the person lived or committed an offense in Texas, or if they even lived in Texas at all.
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