Garrison Court Docket Searches
Garrison posts an official municipal-court page plus a separate Court Docket resource. That docket route fits a city citation or a fine-only municipal matter. The page shows no clear name-search option or citation format. Use only the fields you can actually see. Rules from another Texas city may not apply here.
- Read the citation for the Garrison court name, citation number, and appearance date.
- Open the official Garrison Court Docket page and inspect its current controls.
- Match only the identifiers the Garrison interface requests.
- Call Garrison at 936-347-2201 if the entry, date, or search method is unclear.
- If the citation names a county JP, stop using Garrison route and contact that precinct.
When the online docket fails, call the Garrison municipal clerk and ask about phone, counter, mail, or email access. A written request often works too. The Garrison contact form reaches city staff, but sending it does not prove a tracked court-record request was ever opened.
Garrison Municipal Court Team
The official Garrison Municipal Court page lists Judge Frederick and City Attorney Herbert Hancock. It also names Municipal Court Clerk Myke Chandler. Those names set the Garrison court route apart from the four county JP courts. They also separate it from the Nacogdoches city court. The page posts no street address, counter hours, citation-number pattern, or copy fee. Call 936-347-2201 first. Ask for the Garrison municipal clerk before you visit or mail anything. Confirm the current location, hours, docket date, and how the clerk accepts requests. A staff listing helps you route a question. It says nothing about the content or status of any private case.
Inside the Garrison Municipal Court
Garrison Municipal Court hears the matters Texas law assigns to it. Those are city ordinance violations and fine-only Class C cases within its jurisdiction. It does not hold a docket for everything that happens in Garrison. A county JP keeps its own Class C, traffic, eviction, small-claims, and debt cases. Higher-level matters sit with county or district clerks. The city court page names the team, and the docket page gives a public route. Neither publishes a set docket day, remote-hearing option, address, or search fields. Ask the Garrison clerk which identifier to use. Also ask whether the page lists every current setting.
Garrison Court Docket Portal
The official Garrison Court Docket page is separate from the staff page and the payment service. It states no search fields. So claim nothing about name, driver-license, vehicle, or citation-number searching until the page or the clerk confirms it.
| Garrison control | Verified status | Use |
|---|---|---|
| Court Docket | Official page or link | Start the current public docket inquiry |
| Citation number | Format not exposed | Use the exact value from the citation if requested |
| Name or vehicle search | Not verified | Do not assume it exists |
| Judge and clerk | Published on court page | Confirms the municipal team |
| Address and hours | Not published in inspected text | Confirm at 936-347-2201 |
Check the date on any docket result you see. City pages keep dated postings, and an old page can stay reachable after a setting changes.
Finding Garrison Court Dates
Your citation or latest court notice is the first place to find a Garrison court date. Compare it against the current docket page. Then ask the municipal clerk whether a reset, continuance, or later order superseded it. A payment page proves nothing about a hearing date.
| Date | The current day stated by the Garrison court, checked against later notices. |
|---|---|
| Time | The appearance or docket-call time supplied by Garrison Municipal Court. |
| Courtroom | The current location confirmed with Garrison because a separate address was not published. |
| Judge | Judge Frederick is named on the official court page; confirm current assignment. |
| Setting Type | The Garrison court's label for appearance, pretrial, trial, compliance, or another event. |
Garrison's agendas and resources carry dated postings, including one rescheduled agenda. That is not a court reset. But it shows why you should verify current dates instead of treating any city page as permanently current.
Garrison Contact Fallback
The city contact page lists 936-347-2201 as Garrison's general number. Ask for the municipal clerk. Give the citation number, court name, and appearance date. State the exact record or setting you need too. Hold off on payment or sensitive material until the clerk confirms the channel.
Missing a docket result? Ask Garrison whether the matter is municipal or belongs to a named Nacogdoches County JP, then contact that custodian directly.
The contact form has Name, Phone, Email, Message, and Submit fields. It is not a docket search, and it does not prove a records request was received under any court procedure. If staff routes your request to mail or email, ask what information, fee, ID, and delivery method they require.
Garrison Traffic Ticket Lookups
Use the Garrison municipal docket route only if the citation names that court. Keep the citation number and appearance date exactly as printed. Does the paperwork name JP1, JP2, JP3, or JP4? Then the county precinct holds the Garrison court record, not the city court. Garrison's official Pay Citation page is a separate action route. It displays “Pay A Full Payment.” Treat it as a payment tool, not a full case history. Paying, entering a plea, and contesting a charge are separate requests. So are finding a hearing and getting a certified disposition. Ask the clerk how a payment affects the case before you use it. Garrison publishes no current fine schedule, plea deadline, deferred option, or driver-safety term. It lists no convenience fee or failure-to-appear amount either. The county traffic court overview explains the separate JP layer. But the Garrison clerk controls the city-specific answers.
Garrison Docket Versus Payment
A Garrison docket and a payment page do different jobs. The docket is the court's running log of events. A payment page only processes a transaction someone is authorized to make. A plea, in turn, is a formal answer to a charge. The three can overlap, but none stands in for the others.
So begin with what you actually need. Want a court date? Ask the clerk for the latest setting. Want the outcome? Request the final docket entry or a certified judgment. If payment is the goal, confirm the amount, the effect of the plea, the deadline, and the accepted method first. That matters here because Garrison keeps its docket and its pay routes separate rather than combining them in one interface.
How Garrison Cases Reach the County
Garrison city cases stay apart from Nacogdoches County clerk records unless a procedure moves them. An ordinance violation or fine-only matter begins in Garrison Municipal Court. Under Texas procedure, a municipal appeal can open a county-court record. A case may be filed straight into a JP court, County Court at Law, or District Court. That case never touches the Garrison docket.
Docket flow: Garrison Municipal Court › applicable Nacogdoches County receiving court › District Court when jurisdiction requires it
Two clerks split the county work. The County Clerk keeps County Court at Law and probate-related files, while the District Clerk holds records for the 145th and 420th District Courts. The County Clerk's Publicsearch interface sits inside its Real Property department. It is not a Garrison ticket search. Once the matter is clearly not municipal, the county docket routing map will point you to the right office.
Garrison Court Program Numbers
Garrison's official financial statement for the year ended March 31, 2024 lists municipal-court expenses of $63,364, charges for services of $85,488, and net revenue of $22,124. Those are program finance numbers, nothing more. They do not count citations, cases, people, convictions, dismissals, or pending dockets.
The figures do confirm a reported municipal-court function in Garrison. They offer some administrative context for the city. What they cannot do is estimate how many matters appear on the Garrison court docket or how any case ended.
Garrison Records Maintenance History
An official FY2022 financial report flagged a municipal-court record-maintenance and training deficiency. Remediation was under way at the time. That is an administrative history point. It is not proof that today's Garrison docket is wrong or unavailable. Judge current record access through current city sources and a direct call to the clerk.
The finding also argues for a simple habit. Keep the written response to any request. Note the date of contact, and ask whether the docket page is current. If a document link is missing, request the specific public item. Give the citation number, date, and title. An old audit note should never become a claim about one case or the present court team.
Who Can See Garrison Court Records
Access to Garrison court records runs through Texas rules and court orders. The Texas Public Information Act covers many government records. Judicial Branch policy, though, treats case records and judicial records differently from ordinary agency material. For case files, the request goes to the Garrison court clerk. Rules, statutes, and orders govern that court. Rule 12 covers judicial records outside the case-record category.
Key rules: Texas Judicial Branch access policy explains the case-record and Rule 12 distinction.
Texas Rule of Civil Procedure 21c requires sensitive-data redaction, and Rule 76a governs sealing of civil court records.
Texas Family Code Chapter 58 and Code of Criminal Procedure Chapter 45A restrict juvenile and certain fine-only youth records.
A public docket entry is not a certified disposition. Sealed, expunged, juvenile, or protected material may be missing or redacted. Ask Clerk Myke Chandler which portion is public. If a staffing change brings a new face to the municipal clerk post, ask that person instead. Ask how the Garrison court issues plain or certified copies. Ask about the copy fee and turnaround at the same time.