Frio County Clerk: DD-214 Filed and Certified Free

The office. Anna L. Hernandez, Frio County Clerk, 500 East San Antonio Street, Box 6, Pearsall, Texas 78061; phone 830-505-2987. Monday to Friday 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., closed for lunch from noon to 1:00 p.m. The office takes record requests by e-mail or in person, not by phone or fax. The discharge. The Clerk's page, under "Birth and Death Certificates/ DD214": "ATTENTION VETERANS. Filing your DD-214 is FREE! As a veteran, you are entitled to file and receive free certified copies of your DD-214 at no charge to you. If you are contacted by a private company who offers to file your military discharge paperwork for you, know that if you have your DD-214, we will record your document for safekeeping at no charge to you, or your family." The linked filing notice repeats it. The fee schedule lists no discharge line (certified copies of other records are $5.00 plus $1.00 a page); recording a discharge is free under Local Government Code 192.002 and a certified copy under Government Code 603.003 (see the Texas entry). Government Code 552.140 keeps a discharge recorded on or after September 1, 2003 confidential for 75 years and releases it only to the veteran, the veteran's guardian, spouse, child or parent (or, with none living, the nearest living relative), the estate's personal representative, a person named in a power of attorney, a governmental body or the funeral home assisting with the burial.