How to Check Criminal History in Dalhart
No single Dalhart database contains the whole trail. Begin with the Dalhart office closest to the event, then move forward to booking and court records. A Dalhart police narrative can exist before any prosecutor accepts a charge. A Dalhart jail entry can document custody without proving guilt. A Dalhart court file begins only when a charge is filed. Use this Dalhart sequence to avoid asking one office for another office's record.
- Request the incident or arrest report from Dalhart Police through its online open-records form.
- Call the Dallam-Hartley County Jail at 806-244-2541 for recent custody, booking, bond, and releasing-court facts.
- Ask Dalhart City Court about a city citation, ordinance case, or fine-only warrant.
- For Class A or B misdemeanors and felonies, identify the county side and contact the correct county or district clerk.
- Use the Texas DPS public name search only for the statewide public conviction and deferred-adjudication product.
The broader Dallam County criminal history overview explains the state repository and county channels in more depth. At Dalhart altitude, the vital first fact is which office made or filed the record.
Dalhart Police Form Fields
The Dalhart Police Open Records Request is Dalhart's clearest direct channel. The Dalhart form does not require an account; signing in only saves or fills some details. The form asks for contact information, a specific description, the desired form of access, and an electronic agreement. Dalhart Police staff may clarify a broad request but cannot require the reason for it.
| Form Field | Requirement | Dalhart Use |
|---|---|---|
| First and Last Name | Required | Requester identity and contact |
| Phone and Email | Phone required; email optional | Questions and delivery |
| Mailing Address | Required | Address, city, state, and ZIP |
| Request Method | Required choice | Inspect, copies, mail or email, or DVD |
| Description | Required | State date, time, place, incident number, and exact records |
| Electronic Agreement | Required | Submit with “I agree” |
Ask for an existing item, such as an offense report, arrest report, dispatch entry, or identified audio or video. “Dalhart criminal history” is too broad because police do not hold the clerk's final judgment or DPS's statewide history.
The Dalhart Police Department
Dalhart Police works at 609 Liberal Street, across from City Hall. The department publishes a non-emergency line at 806-244-5544, an administration and animal-control line at 806-244-5546, and weekday hours from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. It creates city incident reports and arrest reports. Its official history dates the department to 1902, near the start of Dalhart's growth as a rail center.
The official Dalhart Police page gives the current building and contact information.
The Dalhart page confirms the current Liberal Street location, which matters because an older Dalhart printable request form names a former Rock Island delivery address.
Dalhart Police Department
609 Liberal Street
Dalhart, TX 79022
806-244-5544 non-emergency
806-244-5546 administration
Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Dalhart Records Cross Two Counties
Dalhart straddles Dallam and Hartley Counties. That fact trips up record searches more often than a lack of data. Dalhart Police keeps its own report regardless of which side of town generated it, but a later county prosecution belongs in the county with jurisdiction. The city name alone cannot identify the clerk, court, or cause file.
Ask the Dalhart police report or jail entry for the incident location, filing county, charge, and holding or releasing court. For a Dallam felony or Class A or B misdemeanor, the combined County and District Clerk can be reached at 806-244-4751 or clerk@dallam.org. A Dalhart matter on the Hartley side must be routed to Hartley County instead. Fine-only Dalhart cases stay at City Court regardless of this county-level split when the municipal court has jurisdiction.
Note: An office can confirm its own record without having the documents created by the other county's court.
Arrests and Bookings in Dalhart
Dalhart Police creates the arrest record. The shared Dallam-Hartley County Jail creates the booking and custody entry. Call 806-244-2541 for a very recent arrest because no official online Dalhart booking log or public roster was found. Ask for current custody, booking date or number, charge as entered, bond, court, and release status. Staff may limit personal information.
Dalhart booking usually adds fingerprints, a photograph, property inventory, screening, the intake charge, warrant checks, classification, and a magistration record. These Dalhart booking facts are not a court judgment. The prosecutor may reject or alter the intake charge, and the clerk will create a Dalhart court file only after filing. A reader following the Dalhart case beyond custody can use the county's criminal court case records route.
The shared jail is also not the TDCJ Dalhart Unit. The state prison is west of town in Hartley County and belongs in the TDCJ inmate search. The jail phone is the relevant Dalhart channel for local, recent custody.
Dalhart Jail or Dalhart Unit
The matching Dalhart names hide two different systems. Dallam-Hartley County Jail handles Dalhart booking, pretrial custody, and applicable short local confinement for the two-county area. The TDCJ Dalhart Unit is a state prison at 11950 FM 998 in Hartley County, four miles west of Dalhart. Its official Dalhart profile lists male G1, G2, and G4 custody and a capacity of 780.
Dallam-Hartley County Jail
Recent Dalhart booking, bond, local custody, and release
806-244-2541
No official roster located
TDCJ Dalhart Unit
State-prison placement after a qualifying sentence
Use the TDCJ Online Inmate Search and official unit profile
A “no” from the jail does not rule out state prison, release, or a past court case. A TDCJ result does not supply the Dalhart police narrative or the county clerk's full case file.
Dalhart Municipal Court Records
Dalhart City Court handles municipal ordinances, traffic matters, and fine-only offenses within its jurisdiction. It does not hear Class A or B misdemeanors or felonies. No public party-name or case-number lookup was found, so call 806-244-5511 or contact muni@dalharttx.gov. The court mailing address is P.O. Box 2005, Dalhart, TX 79022-2005, and the fax is 806-244-4414.
| Court Name | Dalhart City Court, also described as Dalhart Municipal Court |
|---|---|
| Case Types Heard | Municipal ordinances, traffic, and fine-only matters within city jurisdiction |
| Case Lookup Channel | Call or contact the court; no public party search was located |
| What the File Shows | Citation or complaint, plea, settings, payment, disposition, and warrant events when applicable |
| Copies & Fees | Confirm copies with the clerk; online payment adds $2.50 |
| Published Sessions | Monday through Wednesday, 9 to 11 a.m. and 2 to 4 p.m., subject to change |
The official Dalhart City Court page distinguishes clerk payment hours from judge matters.
The Dalhart court page is the right place to recheck Dalhart session times before travel because the published windows are subject to change.
Dalhart Citation or County Charge
The offense level determines the route. A Dalhart city citation or fine-only municipal matter belongs at City Court. A fine-only county matter may belong with the Dallam Justice of the Peace. Class A and B misdemeanors on the Dallam side go through Dallam County Court and the combined clerk. Felonies go to the 69th District Court, with Dallam files kept by the combined clerk in Dalhart.
- Citation
- A written notice directing a person to answer a fine-only allegation in the named court.
- Complaint
- A sworn accusation that can begin a criminal matter.
- Capias
- A court command to take a person into custody, often tied to an existing case.
- Disposition
- The recorded outcome, such as dismissal, plea, trial result, or judgment.
Do not use the Dalhart online payment page as a warrant search. Dalhart says a person with a warrant, juvenile matter, or code case may be unable to use online payment. Call the issuing Dalhart court to verify status and permitted next steps.
Where Dalhart Records End Up
A Dalhart police event can create several distinct records. The police report remains with Dalhart Police. A local booking belongs to the Dallam-Hartley County Jail. A filed case belongs to the court clerk with jurisdiction. Reportable Class B or greater arrest, prosecutor, and disposition transactions then move to the Texas Department of Public Safety Computerized Criminal History system.
Record flow: Dalhart Police › Dallam-Hartley County Jail › Correct County Court › Texas Department of Public Safety
The steps do not always move at the same speed. DPS completeness material lists Dalhart Police as ORI TX0560100 and shows 27 DWI charges reported for 2024, while later prosecutor and court reporting totals were lower. Those figures describe reporting rows, not unique people or the full rate of crime. They illustrate why a new Dalhart arrest and its final disposition may appear in different places at different times.
The Dallam County Attorney page identifies the local misdemeanor prosecution contact.
The county attorney's office is part of the charging route, while filed public case documents remain a clerk request.
Dalhart Record Fees and Formats
Dalhart's police form offers inspection or viewing, ordinary copies, mailed or emailed copies, and digital copies on DVD. It labels a request over 25 pages as voluminous. The printed terms list ten cents per page plus fifty cents per hour of labor for voluminous work, postage for mailed copies, and one dollar for a DVD plus fifty cents per hour of labor.
| Dalhart Police Option | Published Charge |
|---|---|
| Inspection or viewing | Request through the form; confirm access arrangements |
| Paper copies | $0.10 per page |
| Voluminous work over 25 pages | $0.50 per hour labor plus copy charges |
| Mailed copies | Copy charges plus postage |
| DVD | $1 plus $0.50 per hour labor |
Audio and video review can take longer because redaction may be needed. Ask for an itemized estimate when a request is broad or media-heavy. Use the online form or call before hand delivery because the live police page and older PDF show different Dalhart addresses.
Dalhart Court Numbers in Context
The Office of Court Administration's activity data is a statistics tool, not a Dalhart case lookup. For fiscal September 2023 through August 2024, the official municipal table began with 727 active pending matters, reactivated 49, added 1,002, disposed 389, placed 44 inactive, and ended with 1,342 active pending. These are case-status counts across a reporting period. They do not equal unique people and do not measure Dalhart crime.
Whole-city Census figures also span both counties. The 2020 Dalhart population was 8,447, while the Dallam portion in the redistricting table was 5,484. That is another reason not to assign every Dalhart event to Dallam County based on the city label alone.
The official state economic-development record supplies government context for Dalhart and the county.
That source is useful for place and government identification, not for claims about any person's criminal history.
Public Access Rules
Dalhart Police records are subject to the Texas Public Information Act, but a request must describe existing records. The city need not answer questions or create a new history. It may redact or withhold active-investigation facts, juvenile information, protected victim data, criminal-history information, and personal identifiers when law requires. Court records follow judicial access rules, so send a City Court or county case request to the clerk rather than treating it as a police PIA request.
Key Statutes:
Texas Government Code Chapter 552 gives the public a route to existing government records and sets procedures for production or withholding.
Texas Government Code Chapter 411 limits dissemination of confidential criminal-history record information while authorizing specific public products.
Texas Code of Criminal Procedure Chapter 55A governs expunction and the handling of covered records.
A written Dalhart request can be sent through an approved city channel. State law generally requires a timely response framework, but ten business days is not a universal production deadline. The city may state when records will be ready or seek an Attorney General ruling.
Dalhart Federal Record Boundary
A federal charge does not appear in Dalhart City Court or a Texas county clerk file. Dalhart lies in the Northern District of Texas, Amarillo Division. PACER is the official electronic docket route, while federal custody is checked through the Bureau of Prisons locator. The Amarillo federal courthouse sits at 205 SE 5th Avenue and has its own access and security rules.
The Northern District's Amarillo courthouse page confirms the federal office serving the area.
The federal page belongs in the lookup only when the event or charge was federal; it does not replace Dalhart Police, City Court, jail, or county channels.