The De Baca County Court Calendar
De Baca County works from more than one calendar. The Tenth Judicial District keeps a court-dockets hub. It also runs a separate De Baca District Court hearing schedule. Treat that district page as a short-range tool. It is not a full register of actions. It lists the current day and the six days after it, when entries exist. A missing hearing gets a prompt to contact the court. For anything imminent, the district calendar works well; for filing history and completed events, the case register is the better fit.
Each court here has its own clerk and its own case boundary. De Baca County Magistrate Court stands apart. Fort Sumner Municipal Court handles local ordinance matters on its own. So the first step in any De Baca County docket search is figuring out whether the case is district, magistrate, or municipal. The Tenth Judicial District serves other counties too. A shared district name alone does not put a schedule entry in De Baca County.
De Baca Calendar’s Seven-Day Window
The published De Baca District Court docket page has a tight focus. It covers today plus the next six days. An omission notice and a no-warranty caution are attached. So a later De Baca County date may be absent for no reason other than timing. A missing row also proves nothing about a hearing being cancelled, finished, or never set. Hold onto your case notice, and let the De Baca County clerk settle any conflict.
The district's official De Baca docket page carries the local public calendar view. The Tenth District docket hub is the official launch point for every court's schedule in the district. With such a short horizon, you will want a direct answer. A telephone or email confirmation beats repeated web searches. Use it for a date just past the edge.
The district also publishes its Google Meet details on an official contact page, and that information appears here for reference.
A general meeting link is not a substitute for the notice tied to your particular hearing. Before you rely on remote access, confirm the assigned court, the date, and the current connection instruction.
How to Find Your Court Date
Match the channel to the question. The local calendar answers fast for a near-term district hearing. Case Lookup gives a public case summary when one is available. Registered re:SearchNM access opens broader hearing-search fields. Still, neither one replaces a case-specific order. Phone or email, the De Baca District Court Clerk's Office confirms district matters. The De Baca County Magistrate Court Clerk's Office handles magistrate matters. For Fort Sumner municipal cases, go through the village municipal-court channel, since statewide municipal display is limited.
- Identify the court level and retain the full case number, court notice, and approximate hearing date.
- Check the Tenth District docket hub and select the De Baca calendar for a near-term district schedule.
- Use Case Lookup or re:SearchNM for a case or hearing search when the applicable public access is available.
- Call, email, or visit the De Baca County district clerk at 575-355-2896 or the magistrate clerk at 575-355-7371 when the calendar does not answer the question.
- For a local municipal matter, contact the Fort Sumner municipal-court/village office instead of assuming a state-court calendar is complete.
- Confirm date, time, location, and remote instruction against the most recent court notice before appearing.
Clerk confirmation matters most when a hearing moves same day, a continuance lands, or a case is not publicly displayed. A lawyer for a party may also get served with a new order. Even so, the court notice and the clerk remain the best official sources for scheduling.
De Baca Court Setting Details
A setting is a scheduled court event, not an outcome. Write down the fields that let the clerk locate the right event, then check them against your newest notice. The local calendar and re:SearchNM guide make these checks practical without publishing any private person's case details.
| County and court | Confirm De Baca District, De Baca Magistrate, or the Fort Sumner municipal route. |
|---|---|
| Date and time | The scheduled appearance time, which can differ from the time a whole docket call begins. |
| Case number | Use the complete number where possible; district matters use D-1027 and magistrate matters use M-13 as local prefixes. |
| Setting type | Examples include arraignment, docket call, plea, status hearing, trial, or sentencing. |
| Judicial officer and place | The assigned judge, courtroom, courthouse, or hearing-specific remote instruction if publicly shown. |
Note the calendar disclaimer too. The public schedule is a planning aid, so a current register entry or a clerk confirmation may be needed to learn whether an older listing still stands.
Reading a Court Setting
Know what each setting type means. A docket call is a calendar-management session. It may assign a later event or continue a case. An arraignment is a criminal appearance dealing with the charge and the plea process. A plea entry is not a final sentence unless the record also shows the disposition. A pretrial detention hearing concerns release or detention before trial, not guilt. The setting type matters as much as the date.
A continuance just reschedules an event. The old date can sit in the register of actions as history. A later setting controls. Find the newest dated entry. Never read a hearing's appearance on a calendar as its result. A listed date proves only that the event was set when the listing was created.
De Baca Remote and Hybrid Court Settings
De Baca County splits its hearings between remote and in-person settings under the Tenth Judicial District's plan. Some categories stay remote by default. Others come back to the courthouse. The judge's order and current operating conditions control. Jury trials in both district and magistrate matters happen at the De Baca County Courthouse. The magistrate courtroom cannot seat a jury. In-person criminal proceedings include jury selection and trials, pleas, sentencing, bench trials, and probation-revocation trials.
The plan keeps arraignments, pretrial detention hearings, competency hearings, and docket call in the remote column. Civil jury and bench trials get in-person handling. Termination-of-parental-rights matters and certain hearings involving a parent or child are set for in-person handling too. None of these categories is a promise about your own case. An order or direction from the presiding judge governs the setting. The magistrate court's published Google Meet information comes straight from the court. It serves as the local reference.
Confirm any remote invitation with the clerk before the setting. A link on a public contact page is hearing information, not an open invitation to join a courtroom.
Resets, Continuances, and Cancellations
Before relying on a De Baca County calendar row, check the newest case notice. Confirm with the clerk. The public calendar can omit an event or lag behind a change. The district view only reaches a short distance forward. If a hearing cannot be located, the district page tells users plainly to contact the court. A row that disappears from the De Baca County court calendar is not a ruling. It is never an excuse to skip a required appearance.
For district cases, call or visit the De Baca District Court Clerk's Office at 248 E. Ave. C, Ft. Sumner, NM 88119. The phone number is 575-355-2896. Email goes to tenthjdcpublic@nmcourts.gov. Counter hours run weekdays from 8:00 a.m. to noon and 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. The clerk can point you to the current scheduling route, but the court itself fixes the setting.
De Baca Court Calendar Terms
Knowing the plain terms keeps an online court calendar from being overread. A setting is simply a scheduled event. A docket call works through a group of cases. It may push one to a later date. A continuance reschedules an event. A disposition records the outcome of a charge or claim, which is different from being set for a plea or hearing.
- Arraignment
- A criminal appearance where the charge and plea process are addressed, with details depending on the case and judge.
- Plea
- A party’s response and related court process; it is not automatically a final sentence.
- Pretrial detention hearing
- A proceeding about detention or release before trial, not a determination of conviction.
- Hearing outcome
- The later result shown by a public register entry, order, or clerk-confirmed record, if available.
The Tenth District’s local-rules page is a published district reference.
Local rules supply the procedural backdrop. The current notice and a clerk's confirmation settle the practical details for your individual setting.
What To Do If You Miss a Setting
Missed a setting? Call the right clerk promptly and give the court, the case number, and the scheduled date. A failure-to-appear entry is not a conviction by itself. Still, it can trigger further court action. What you should do depends on the type of case and any order already entered, so never assume an online calendar alone states the present status.
Missed a setting? A missed appearance can result in a failure-to-appear notation or other court action, so ask the clerk for the current setting and any next required step.
For magistrate matters, the De Baca County Magistrate Court Clerk’s Office is at 282 E. Ave. B, Ft. Sumner, NM 88119, and can be reached at 575-355-7371 or fsum-grp@nmcourts.gov.
The magistrate office keeps weekday public hours of 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., closing on federally observed holidays. Anyone with counsel should also follow the case-specific directions received through counsel or the court.
Missing De Baca Calendar Hearings
When a De Baca hearing is missing from the calendar, gather the court level, the full case number, and the approximate date. Note the setting type too. Include the judge or location if you know it. The short calendar may simply not carry a later date yet. Case Lookup can stall behind its CAPTCHA challenge. Access through re:SearchNM depends on registration and document security. A protected matter may never appear on a public interface at all. District hearing questions go to the clerk contact above. Magistrate questions go to the magistrate clerk. A Fort Sumner ordinance matter belongs to the municipal court through the Village of Fort Sumner. Do not treat state-system municipal results as complete. A narrow question usually beats a broad name-only search. On one known case, it finds the right calendar or register entry faster. When you know the date but need the case history, the De Baca County case search explains the statewide case-summary and registered-access routes.