Core county-agency starter entries loaded; verification and municipality breakdown still needed.
10 starter entries10 official sources located10 filing audits pending
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“Official source located” means the desk found a government source in the master build or the current county review. It does not mean every filing instruction has completed a fresh audit. Audit dates appear only after that checklist is complete.
County CommissionOfficial custodian located; procedure pending audit
Dallas County Commission
Contact the County Administrator for Commission budgets, accounting, grants, procurement, contracts, fixed assets and governing-body records. Search county forms and posted documents first.
Contact the Sheriff's Department directly for incident, arrest, dispatch and investigative records. Contact the temporary jail for custody and booking records. Confirm the correct written procedure before filing.
Use public computer stations for eligible recorded instruments or contact the Recording Office with book-and-page information. Some copies are processed by email or regular mail; staff do not conduct general property searches for requesters.
CourtsOfficial clerk and portal located; copy procedure pending audit
Dallas County Circuit Clerk / Courts
Contact Circuit Clerk Lynnethia Bennett for court files and certified copies. Use Just One Look for eligible statewide trial-court information; judicial records are not Commission records.
Contact Tax Assessor Carroll Bonner for appraisal, assessment, ownership and mapping records and Tax Collector Tanika Wagner-Neely for tax-billing, payment and delinquency records. Use the linked Citizen Access Portal and public GIS for routine parcel research.
School BoardOfficial archive located; current completeness and procedure pending audit
Dallas County Board of Education
Search the Board Archive for posted meeting and personnel-action material, then contact the district for current agendas, minutes, contracts, financial records and other non-posted files.
Area
Countywide
Access
Direct archive available; current completeness pending audit
Municipality IndexOfficial roster and principal clerk routes located; detailed procedures pending audit
Dallas County Municipalities
Route city and town records to the clerk or designated custodian for Selma, Valley Grande or Orrville. Police, utilities, schools and municipal boards may keep separate records.
Contact Registrars for voter-registration and voter-roll records, Probate Judge Jimmy Nunn for county election-administration records, and Circuit Clerk Lynnethia Bennett for absentee-election records.
Dallas County Emergency Management / Consolidated E911
Contact EMA for plans, permits, preparedness and disaster records. Contact Consolidated E911 for addressing, recorded calls, CAD, dispatch and communications-board records, while confirming whether the originating police, fire, sheriff or ambulance agency also holds the requested material.
Contact Coroner William Alan Dailey for eligible death-investigation records. Obtain certified death certificates from the Dallas County Health Department or Alabama Vital Records rather than the Coroner.