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Fort Worth anchors Tarrant County — the fourth-largest county in Texas by population with over 2.1 million residents. Tarrant County encompasses Fort Worth, Arlington, Grand Prairie, Mansfield, Hurst, Euless, Bedford, and more than two dozen other communities.
Tarrant County criminal courts are housed at the Tim Curry Criminal Justice Center in downtown Fort Worth. The Tarrant County District Clerk handles expunction and non-disclosure filings, which are then served on the Fort Worth Police Department, Tarrant County Sheriff's Office, and the Texas DPS among other agencies.
Fort Worth's economy has grown rapidly, with major aerospace, defense, logistics, and healthcare employers. American Airlines, Lockheed Martin, Bell Textron, and Texas Health Resources all have major presences here — and all conduct background checks on employees. A past arrest can stand between you and a job offer in one of Texas's fastest-growing cities.
Expunction360 prepares all required Tarrant County expunction documents. You sign, we handle the process from there.
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Tarrant County is home to more than 2 million residents and is the third-largest county in Texas. The Tarrant County criminal docket is fed primarily by the Fort Worth Police Department and the Tarrant County Sheriff's Office, and the cases that wind up needing expunction are typically DWI, public intoxication, theft, possession of marijuana, and unlawful carry of a weapon (UCW) — many originating from Fort Worth PD bookings into the Tarrant County jail.
Tarrant County has multiple criminal district courts headquartered in downtown Fort Worth, with the district clerk's office handling expunction intake. Expunction petitions under Texas Code of Criminal Procedure Chapter 55A — which replaced Chapter 55 on January 1, 2025 — are filed with the Tarrant County District Clerk at the Tom Vandergriff Civil Courts Building, 100 N. Calhoun St., Fort Worth, TX 76196. The county filing fee is $450 across Texas; what varies is how each district clerk handles service of the signed order on the named agencies.
The Fort Worth economy is built around aviation and defense (Lockheed Martin, Bell), oil and gas, healthcare, and a major BNSF Railway presence, and most of those employers run third-party background checks that pull data from private vendors as well as DPS. That is why every expunction petition we file lists not just the obvious agencies — DPS, the arresting agency, the district attorney, the district clerk — but also the specific third-party vendors that historically pulled the underlying record. Skipping a vendor is the single most common reason an "expunged" record still surfaces on a job or apartment application.
Tarrant County district clerks are known for strict petition-format compliance — pleadings need exact case-number formatting and the correct division designation, or they're returned for refiling.
Fort Worth arrests are filed in Fort Worth with the Tarrant County District Clerk at the Tom Vandergriff Civil Courts Building, 100 N. Calhoun St., Fort Worth, TX 76196. Even if you were arrested in Fort Worth, the petition must be filed in the county where the case was originally heard — Tarrant County — not in a city court.
The Tarrant County filing fee is $450 — same as every Texas county. Expunction360's flat service fee is $795 (Saver) or $995 (Expedited), which covers attorney-drafted petition preparation, e-filing, and service on every named agency. Local attorneys typically charge $1,500–$3,000 in addition to the same $450 filing fee.
It shouldn't — but only if every agency that ever held the record is named in the petition and served with a certified copy of the signed order. That includes the Fort Worth Police Department, the Tarrant County Sheriff's Office, the Texas DPS, the district clerk, and any private background-check vendor that pulled it. Expunction360's process verifies the service list before filing, which is the single biggest reason petitions hold up downstream.
No. As long as the arrest happened in Tarrant County, we can file the expunction whether you currently live in Fort Worth, elsewhere in Texas, or out of state. The entire process — eligibility check, petition preparation, e-filing, agency service — is handled remotely.
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Your petition is personally prepared and filed by an experienced Texas attorney — no templates, no shortcuts. Done correctly the first time, and backed by our 100% Money-Back Guarantee if your record isn't cleared.
The judge signs the order, and the court clerk distributes certified copies to the agencies named in your petition under Texas CCP Chapter 55. Once distribution is complete, you can legally answer "No" to prior arrests and take back the life you deserve.
Disclaimer: Filings in Harris County include an additional $450 filing fee.
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