{"id":413767,"date":"2026-08-22T11:08:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T11:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/413767\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T11:08:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T11:08:21","slug":"power-outage-causes-municipal-courts-to-close-city-of-houston-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/413767\/","title":{"rendered":"Power outage causes municipal courts to close, City of Houston officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) &#8212; A power outage has shut down operations at the City of Houston Municipal Courts Department on Friday, city officials said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">In a release, the City of Houston said the municipal courts at 1400 Lubbock will be closed on Friday, Aug. 21, with normal operations expected to resume on Monday, Aug. 24.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">City officials said that from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. on Friday, there will be no trials by judge or jury, arraignments, parking adjudication hearings, or jury service.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Officials said case resets will take place in person at all City of Houston court locations beginning Monday through Friday, Sep. 4. Authorities added that if a person fails to reset their case during the reset period, an arrest warrant may be issued.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">City officials said that the department will be open on Saturday for annex court, scheduled wedding ceremonies, and parking adjudication hearings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">For more information, people can call the City of Houston helpline at 311 or 713-837-0311 if outside of the City of Houston, or visit the Municipal Courts website at <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.houstontx.gov\/courts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">www.houstontx.gov\/courts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \"><a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abc13.com\/post\/track-power-outages-area-abc13-outage-tracker\/18202147\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Track power outages in your area with the ABC13 Power Outage Tracker<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KTRK-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) &#8212; A power outage has shut down operations at the City of Houston Municipal Courts&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":413768,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[144333,56,58,57],"class_list":["post-413767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-144333","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}