How to Search the Castroville Court Docket
Start with the official Castroville Municipal Court page. The court posts docket PDFs there by date. The page also tells you how the clerk handles citation questions. Before you call or visit, gather your citation number, the issuing agency, and your appearance date. That much is enough. Leave your birth date, license number, and home address out of any request for help.
- Read the ticket and confirm that Castroville Municipal Court is the named court.
- Check the city’s current docket list for the date printed on the citation.
- Match the citation or case number without republishing a party’s private data.
- Call Municipal Court Clerk Stella Contreras at (830) 931-4089 if the date or entry is unclear.
- For a county-level matter, use the Medina County Tyler portal or the correct county clerk instead.
- Confirm the live setting before appearing because a docket can be reset or replaced.
Need the city directly? Call (830) 931-4070. The counter sits at 1209 Fiorella Street. One caution: a citation filed with the Justice of the Peace will not appear on the Castroville docket, so check which court issued the paper first.
Castroville Docket PDFs by Date
The city posts its docket as separate PDFs, each labeled with a date. A 2026 run of these files covers settings from January through August. Some months hold more than one setting. There is no single monthly rhythm you can count on. Trust the live city list. Do not assume an old pattern still holds for a coming month.
Treat each dated PDF as a snapshot of the court calendar. A setting may appear there with no trace of the full filing history. It also leaves out the judgment, a payment, or a later reset. Note the file's title and posting date. Then confirm with the clerk that no newer docket controls. If a list names people with warrants, do not copy or share those names. Never treat an old list as proof of anything current.
The Castroville Municipal Court
Castroville Municipal Court handles local cases. It hears Class C criminal, traffic, and ordinance cases that the city itself filed. Stella Contreras, the Municipal Court Clerk, is the person to ask about local court records. The court sits at 1209 Fiorella Street. That address is not the same office as Medina County's JP Precinct 2. Both offices serve the Castroville area, though.
For a Castroville police citation, start with the municipal court. A state highway case or anything else routed to Justice of the Peace Precinct 2 belongs at 8366 FM 471 South, Suite 107. That JP office answers at (830) 931-4010. The court named on your paper is the one that controls, wherever the stop happened. The city's municipal court page names the clerk and shows the route to the docket.
Castroville routes its court docket through the municipal clerk, so the city itself, not a county case portal, is the place to ask.
Castroville Citation Five-Day Wait
Holding a fresh Castroville ticket? Give it five business days. The city asks citation holders to wait that long before contacting the court, because the citation needs time to move into the municipal system. A docket search that comes up empty during this window means nothing. The case may simply not have posted yet. Hang onto the ticket and let its appearance date guide you until the record shows up.
Timing matters. Wait the city’s stated five business days, but do not ignore the appearance date printed on the ticket.
If the date arrives first or the record still does not appear, call the Castroville clerk.
Signing a Castroville citation is a promise to appear. It is not a guilty plea. Searching the docket, calling the clerk, or asking about the case does not enter a plea either.
Castroville Court Dates and Settings
Treat each Castroville setting as a planned court event, nothing more. Match the current PDF against the citation. Then confirm any change with the clerk. Hearing times are not fixed across every setting. The ticket, the current docket, or a direct call to the court will supply that detail.
| Date | The scheduled Castroville setting shown on the current docket or ticket. |
|---|---|
| Time | The appearance time stated by the court; do not infer it from an older PDF. |
| Courtroom | Castroville Municipal Court at 1209 Fiorella Street unless current notice says otherwise. |
| Judge | The judicial officer assigned to the city setting; verify the current listing. |
| Setting Type | A docket call, plea, pretrial, trial, compliance, or other city event. |
A setting on the Castroville court docket is only a plan. Hearings get reset, passed, continued, or dropped, so check the latest written notice with the clerk before you drive over.
Castroville Citation Appearance Rules
Your ticket has the answer. The appearance date is printed right on the citation, according to the Castroville citations and appearances page. Showing up on that date is a promise to appear, nothing more. It is not an admission of guilt. The distinction matters when you read a Castroville court docket. A citation entry only states an accusation; it shows no conviction and no final result.
The city procedure page gives local instructions that a broader Medina County docket simply cannot. Need a continuance? Put the request in writing and send it by fax, mail, or hand delivery. The judge resets a case once only. A phone call cannot substitute for the written request. It will not change the setting on its own.
Castroville Traffic Tickets
A Castroville police ticket usually starts in the municipal court. Paying by phone or online is an option. Have your citation number handy plus the Castroville jurisdiction code 6964. Mail and in-person payments take a money order or cashier's check only. The city warns against personal or company checks. Confirm the current amount and payment method directly before you send any funds.
Paying and contesting are two different choices. A payment screen is not a neutral docket lookup. Read the plea and appearance instructions first. Moving-violation convictions get reported to the Texas Department of Public Safety. Fail to appear and you risk license problems plus an added charge. For the bigger picture on city-versus-JP routing, see Medina County traffic court records.
Castroville Written Reset Procedure
Castroville allows just one reset on request, so checking dates matters here more than usual. Asking is not the same as receiving. The judge still has to grant it. The new date should then show up in a court notice or on the current docket. Hold onto a copy of whatever was filed. Then check with the court that it actually arrived.
| Action | What It Does | What It Does Not Do |
|---|---|---|
| Written continuance request | Asks the judge to move the setting | Does not change the date automatically |
| Clerk confirmation | Checks receipt and current docket status | Does not replace a judicial ruling |
| New notice or docket | Shows the updated setting source | Does not prove the event later occurred |
If the old court date is still near, do exactly what the clerk tells you, because silence from the court never means the reset went through.
Castroville Court Building and Counter
The court building and its records counter sit right in Castroville. Walk in and you can ask about the municipal docket, any public record, or the proper way to file a request the website leaves unanswered. Phone ahead, though. Hours and counter access change, and a quick call saves a wasted trip. The official Castroville site points to the city government source and gives the building context.
That city source keeps the Castroville counter distinct from county offices and JP Precinct 2.
Where Castroville Cases End Up
Class C cases and ordinance violations stay with Castroville Municipal Court unless an appeal or some other lawful step moves them. A JP matter belongs to its assigned precinct instead. Anything above a Class C, including felonies and wider civil disputes, goes to Medina County courts even when the events happened inside Castroville.
Docket flow: Castroville Municipal Court › Medina County Courts › 454th Judicial District Court
Treat this as a search route. It does not mean every municipal case climbs through all three levels. For county-level custodians and the Tyler access path, see the Medina County court docket overview.
Castroville Warrant Lists Need Fresh Checks
The municipal page posts warrant lists for current and archived periods. Those lists age fast. A payment or a recall can change things. New court action can also make an old list wrong the same day. Never copy names from one. Also, never treat a stale list as proof of present status.
Suppose a docket or list shows a warrant or a failure-to-appear entry. Contact the Castroville court for current status and instructions. An online label can lag behind reality. When rights or enforcement action are at stake, get licensed legal advice.
Public Access to Castroville Court Records
Direct record requests for Castroville to the city court clerk. Say which citation or case you need. Give a date range and name the specific public item. Then ask how it is available: at the counter, by written request, or through the posted docket. A docket line can be public. The document behind it may still be restricted or offline.
Key Texas rules:
Texas Judicial Branch Open Records Policy explains that judicial records do not follow the ordinary agency-request model in every instance.
Texas Family Code Chapter 58 limits access to juvenile records.
Texas Rules 21c and 76a address sensitive-data redaction and sealed civil records.
Never try to slip past a restriction. Instead, ask the clerk whether a redacted public copy or an index entry can be provided.
For any Castroville request, write down the source and the date you checked it. City docket PDFs, citation instructions, personnel listings, and payment paths each change on their own schedule. A careful record trail should state whether a fact came from the ticket, the current city docket, the clerk, or a filed court document. Conflicts happen. When they do, the newest signed court notice plus direct clerk confirmation wins. Keep a plain copy of your request and the response. Strip private identifiers before sharing anything publicly. That habit keeps a Castroville court docket useful without letting a short calendar entry carry more weight than it can bear.