Searching the Electra Court Docket
The OCA Municipal Courts by City directory is the best official listing for the Electra Municipal Court. The directory is dated August 7, 2025. It gives the mailing address: P.O. Box 1188, Electra, Texas 76360-2603. Call 940-435-2146, fax 940-495-2732, or write to john.prickett@cityofelectra.com. The city itself posts no online docket portal or field list. So use the phone or email for docket questions.
- Read the caption and court number on the citation.
- For Electra Municipal Court, call the OCA-listed number with the citation number and name.
- Ask for the present status, exact date, appearance method, and record-copy route.
- For JP 4, switch to the county Justice Court contact.
- For county or district cases, search the Wichita County portal and contact the assigned clerk.
Calling works best as a first step. Email, fax, and mail are also open to you. Confirm hours, copy fees, counter location, payment methods, and any web link before you send money or a records request. Those details change, and the court can state them in one call.
Electra Directory Entry Is the Portal
Plenty of city websites link straight to a case screen. Electra takes a different path. The OCA directory serves as the locator, not the docket itself. Filter its search by court and county, then look for the current entry. That confirms who the court is and how to reach it. It promises no case details the city never put online.
Try the OCA Judicial Directory Search to see whether the listing has changed. Search Type defaults to Court. County and address-city filters narrow the results fast. Remember what a directory result shows and what it doesn't. A plea, balance, or next setting stays a question for the court. So does a filed document or a disposition. Ask the Electra court contact.
Electra Municipal Court Basics
The directory lists Dan Tompkins as presiding judge. Electra Municipal Court handles city ordinance violations. It also handles state-law Class C misdemeanors filed there. That includes municipal traffic tickets. Those are fine-only criminal charges. The court is not a general civil court, and it does not hold every case that arises inside Electra.
No public city page posts court hours, a counter address, payment instructions, or a field inventory. Treat the mailing address as mail-only, and confirm the current method by phone or email first. Resist filling the gap with Wichita Falls procedures or a private third-party listing. Neither speaks for this court.
Electra Court or JP 4?
Justice of the Peace Precinct 4 also sits in Electra. Its county page names Judge Judy Baker. The address is 2023 SH 25 North, Electra, Texas 76360. The phone number is 940-766-8129, and the fax is 940-495-4098. JP 4 keeps county precinct cases. Electra Municipal Court keeps city filings. A local address alone won't tell you which office owns the docket.
| Court named | Verified route | Typical clue |
|---|---|---|
| Electra Municipal Court | 940-435-2146 | City citation or ordinance case |
| Wichita County JP 4 | 940-766-8129 | JP precinct or county citation |
| District or County Court | County portal and clerk | County cause number |
Read the court caption aloud when you call. The municipal and JP numbers differ. If an office says the record lives elsewhere, get the exact court name and cause number for your next call.
Court Dates and Settings in Electra
Electra Municipal Court publishes no fixed docket day or posted hours. So don't borrow a date from another city, from the judge's work in another court, or from an old web listing. Your assigned notice controls. Confirmation from the Electra court controls too.
| Case or citation | The number the clerk uses to identify the Electra filing. |
|---|---|
| Date and time | The current setting confirmed by the court. |
| Location | The appearance place or method stated by the clerk. |
| Setting type | Appearance, pretrial event, trial, or compliance matter. |
| Status date | The date on which the displayed or stated status applied. |
Always ask whether a later reset replaced the original notice. A reset moves the hearing. It does not dismiss the charge. Ask whether a mailed or emailed follow-up notice will arrive, and keep it with the citation so the case number and date sit side by side.
Electra Docket Counts Need Labels
The OCA 2023 municipal report used a population of 2,291. That sits near the 2020 Census figure of 2,292. The numbers come from a different source and vintage. Its civil and administrative columns opened with 13 active pending matters, added three, moved three inactive, and closed at 16. Criminal columns opened with 4,041 active pending. They reactivated 368, added 71, disposed of 127, moved 107 inactive, and closed at 4,246.
Those report columns are not headcounts of Electra residents, convictions, or people who appeared that year. Carried and reactivated matters are in there too. They say nothing about any single citation. Use them to gauge court activity, then call about the specific docket.
Traffic Tickets in Electra
The court printed on the ticket sets the route. If it names Electra Municipal Court, call the OCA-listed city number. Ask whether a current online payment or case link exists. If it names JP 4, use the county precinct court instead. Never pay an unverified vendor just because a search result mentions Electra.
Paying, pleading, contesting, and pulling records are separate tasks. A payment screen may hide the filed complaint or the full event history. Anyone who wants to contest a charge should ask the named court first. Ask about the plea and appearance process before paying. For the county-wide picture, see the Wichita County traffic-ticket page.
When Electra Has No Web Result
A blank result is normal for Electra citations. The city posts no official case-search form online. It says nothing about the ticket itself. A blank search does not show that the citation was dismissed, sealed, unpaid, or invalid. Before giving up, confirm which court the ticket names, Municipal Court or JP 4, and recheck the spelling, the citation number, the issuing agency, and a date of birth if the clerk asks for it.
Use the verified fallback: call 940-435-2146 for Electra Municipal Court, then ask about phone, email, mail, counter, payment, and copy channels currently available.
When the city clerk cannot match the number, ask two things. Is the filing simply too recent to appear yet? Or does it actually belong to JP 4? County-level cases are a different story. The Wichita County Odyssey Portal covers Smart Search, Search Hearings, and Make Payments for those. It does not fold the separate city and precinct dockets into one system, though.
Where Electra Cases Go
Where a case starts depends on who filed it, not where you live. An Electra city citation begins in Municipal Court. A JP 4 filing begins in the county precinct court. County misdemeanors may run through the County Courts at Law and the County Clerk. Felony, family, and district civil matters go to the District Courts and the District Clerk. Geography alone never moves a case from those offices.
Docket flow: Electra Municipal Court › Wichita County Courts › District Court
One trap to know. An appeal or a later county proceeding can carry a new cause number and a reviewing court. Write down both before you run another docket search. The Wichita County court docket overview walks through the county split in more depth. For Electra, the takeaway is plain enough. Identify the filing court first, then pick the database or clerk.
Electra Court Contact Checklist
A short, specific call beats a vague request for everything tied to a name. Say up front that you are calling about Electra Municipal Court. Then give the citation or cause number. Add the captioned name, the issuing agency, and any date printed on the notice. Finish by saying exactly what you want. That might be a setting, a status, an ordinary copy, or a certified copy.
- Confirm the exact current hearing date and location.
- Ask whether a public portal or payment vendor is now available.
- Confirm counter hours before traveling.
- Ask for copy fees and accepted payment before mailing.
- Request the clerkâs preferred written-request format.
The OCA entry lists email, fax, telephone, and mail identifiers. It does not promise that every channel accepts every filing or payment, so let the clerk state the current procedure.
Electra Court Record Access Rules
Public docket information still answers to Texas court-record rules. A docket is an index of events. It is not the same product as every pleading or a certified judgment. For copies, ask Electra Municipal Court for its municipal file. Ask JP 4 for its precinct file. Sealed, juvenile, expunged, and redacted material may never appear on a public display.
Key rules:
Texas Rule of Judicial Administration 12 governs access to covered judicial records.
Texas Rule of Civil Procedure 21c protects listed sensitive data through redaction.
Texas Family Code Chapter 58 restricts juvenile-record access.
If a record will not come up, ask why. The reason may be venue, age, restriction, or a pending update. The Texas Public Information Act does not build one universal court-file portal, and the judiciary applies its own access rules to judicial records.
Requesting Electra Docket Copies
A written request should name Electra Municipal Court and identify the citation or case. It should also describe the exact item wanted, because a plain docket sheet, a complaint, an order, and a certified judgment are all different products. Electra publishes no official copy fee or turnaround time. So ask for a quote and payment instructions before sending any money. Start by phone or email. Confirm whether mail to P.O. Box 1188 is still the route for record requests. Ask as well whether you can inspect a file in person. If the caption names JP 4, send nothing to the city court. County and district files move through their own clerk channels.