Texas Launches Public Portal to Make Most Civil Court Records Available Online
"We are proud of the greater transparency. We want people generally to see what's going on in their courts. This just enhances that," said Texas Supreme Court Chief Justice Nathan Hecht.
August 21, 2019 at 06:27 PM
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It's taken a lot longer than expected, but Texas has launched full public access to its own statewide court records system, which is similar to the federal courts' PACER portal.
Since 2017, Texas judges, court clerks and attorneys have been able to use re:SearchTX to search for and view court documents that were e-filed in any of the state's 254 counties. However, up until this point, lawyers were limited to viewing only cases in which they were attorneys of record.
Now, the public launch gives lawyers access to every case in the state, except for criminal cases.
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