Johnson County Clerk: Recording of Military Discharges

The Johnson County Clerk, April Long, is the custodian of the county's records, and the Clerk's menu names "Military Discharge (DD-214)" under Land Records & Vitals. The Clerk's discharge page describes "Military Discharge Records that were filed in Johnson County" and sends anyone whose record was filed outside the county to the Veterans Services Office at 817-556-6351, in the Historic Courthouse's Room B9, and on to the National Archives' National Personnel Records Center in St. Louis for most DD-214 copies (online at archives.gov/veterans/military-service-records, by mail or fax on the SF-180 form, or at 1-866-272-6272). The statute. Section 192.002 of the Local Government Code requires the Clerk to record an official discharge and forbids charging a fee for recording and keeping it; Government Code 552.140 makes a discharge first received on or after September 1, 2003 confidential for 75 years, with free certified copies for the veteran, a guardian, the spouse, child or parent, the nearest living relative, the estate's personal representative, and the others the section lists; see the Texas entry. The Clerk's pages publish no fee schedule of their own, so the rules above are the statutes, not a county page. Where. Recording goes through the Clerk's OPR & Real Property desk in the Historic Courthouse, 2 N. Main Street, Cleburne, Texas 76033 (P.O. Box 1986); 817-202-4000; [email protected]. A valid government-issued photo ID is required to file in person, under Local Government Code 191.010 and 191.011. The Clerk's Court Section is at the Guinn Justice Center, 204 S. Buffalo Avenue, Cleburne; 817-556-6323, and the Burleson Sub-Courthouse (247 Elk Drive) takes recordings at 817-202-2968.