Before the Presiding Judges of the Administrative Judicial Regions

Per Curiam Rule 12 Decision

APPEAL NO.: 03-005

RESPONDENT: Robert J. Beasley, Chief Judge, Municipal Court of Garland

DATE: October16, 2003

SPECIAL COMMITTEE: Judge John Ovard, Judge B. B. Schraub, Judge Darrell Hester, Judge Jeff Walker, Judge Olen Underwood

The applicant requested a copy of “the docket sheets listing the cases before the court for each day during the period from August 15, 2003 to August 22, 2003.” The city attorney responded that the copies would be sent upon payment of the copying and postage costs. The applicant filed a petition for review of denial of access to judicial records, claiming that when he went to the city attorney’s office to pay the copying cost and pick up the copies, the city attorney refused to provide the copies. The city attorney states that payment was not tendered.

Docket sheets are records made and maintained by a court that pertain to its adjudicative function; they pertain to matters that are or have been before a court. As such, they are not judicial records under Rule 12.2(d), and are not subject to Rule 12. Accordingly, we deny the petition.