How Do I Find Out If I Have A Warrant In Austin Or Travis County?

The first and easiest way to find out if you have a warrant in Austin or Travis County is to contact an attorney and have the attorney look it up. The attorney will look you up through Travis County’s online system. If you do a Google search for “Travis County warrant search”, the first result will allow you to search for warrants yourself. You can also search for Austin warrants through an Austin Municipal Court Records inquiry.

The difference between Travis County and Austin cases is that Travis County cases will be for higher-level cases. Class C tickets, however, will depend on what part of the county you are arrested in. If you are arrested within Austin city limits, you should expect the warrant or the citing to be through Austin Municipal courts. You could also go to Austin Municipal Court in order to check for warrants. If you were there dealing with warrants, I would not expect that you would be arrested on them.

If you were cited outside the city limits of Austin but well within Travis County, then your case would be assigned to one of the individual Justices of Peace courts. There are five of them in Travis County and in addition to being able to look your warrants up through the Travis County general warrants websites, you could look them up through the Justices of Peace portals as well. The easiest way is to contact an attorney or a bail bondsman, who would be able to look up those warrants and also help you in resolving them.

What Should I Do If A Warrant Is Issued For My Arrest

If a warrant has been issued for your arrest, it helps to be proactive. If you do nothing, then you will eventually be picked up on the warrant. You should contact an attorney or a bail bondsman and they will be able to do a walkthrough. A walkthrough is a personal bond or a surety bond, just like you would get if you were already in custody in jail and ordered to be released on that bond. The bond is secured and prepared in advance of your being arrested so that when you are turned over to law enforcement, your bond will be turned in and you will walk out at the same time that you walk in.

For class C misdemeanors and lesser tickets, an attorney can also help you resolve them. Typically, hiring an attorney on those cases or signing up for a payment plan will result in a warrant being recalled and allowing you to either show up in court or pay the ticket if you want to take that option. Paying the ticket typically results in it being on your record. Generally, the municipal court judges will allow the warrant to be recalled without needing to do any bond, if an attorney puts in a letter, saying that they are going to show up for any appearances that come up on that case.

One circumstance in which you would do a walkthrough and you would need to stay in custody is in a family violence case or in another case where there was a request for an emergency protective order. If the state did ultimately pursue an emergency protective order and there was one associated with the warrant, then you would need to sit and wait to be served with that emergency protective order, and that could mean waiting in custody for up to 48 hours.

You could also simply turn yourself in. While people think that they will get some credit for facing up to the charges, by turning yourself in, you are actually removing all the leverage you have to get yourself out. In any instance where a judge might not have signed off on a bond, if you are already in custody, then the judge has you and you’ve lost all leverage. If you haven’t been arrested on it yet, then an attorney can credibly go to the judge, make an argument, and ask for assurances that you will be able to fight these charges from the outside. The judge will be more likely to sign off on it because if the judge says no, then you remain within the community.

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