It’s taken a lot longer than expected, but Texas has launched full public access to its own statewide court records system, which is similar to the federal courts’ PACER portal.

Since 2017, Texas judges, court clerks and attorneys have been able to use re:SearchTX to search for and view court documents that were e-filed in any of the state’s 254 counties. However, up until this point, lawyers were limited to viewing only cases in which they were attorneys of record.