Crime Scene Cleanup in Fort Worth, TX
What is specific to Fort Worth: which office releases the property, who to call, and where the material can go. The general process is on our Texas page.
- Tarrant County
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In Fort Worth
What is specific to Fort Worth
Fort Worth in particular
Fort Worth publishes three police numbers and the right one depends on the hour. 817-392-4222 is the number to report a non-emergency. The main line, 817-392-4200 at 505 W. Felix St, is listed for 8:00 to 5:00 Monday to Friday. After 5:00 PM and on weekends the department directs callers to 817-392-3900 at 501 Jones St — the one to write down, because that is when most of these calls happen.
For the money there are two separate routes. Fort Worth Police run a Victim Assistance Section on 817-392-4390, and the Tarrant County Criminal District Attorney runs its own Victim Services on 817-884-2740. Either can help with a crime victims' compensation claim, the state money that reaches cleanup; if one is closed, the other is a real alternative.
When someone has died, the person is the Tarrant County Medical Examiner's District's to release, not the police's, and its release hours are narrower than its phone line: the office and what that means for a weekend death are set out on the Fort Worth trauma and suicide page. The part that matters here is that the office does not store, embalm or cremate, so a funeral home has to be chosen before anything moves.
Fort Worth has the newest housing of the North Texas cities here, a median build year of 1994, and it is markedly more owner-occupied than Dallas: 43.0% rented against 57.6%. More single-family homes and fewer building managers usually means simpler access. Newer construction does not change the basic rule: ask what is being lifted, not what is being sprayed.
The city's Environmental Collection Center at 6400 Bridge St takes household chemicals from Arlington and dozens of other entities as well, but its published not-accepted list names “Medicines & Medical waste”, so it is not a route for anything from a crime scene.
Who helps with the cost
Fort Worth Police Department — Victim Assistance Section: 817-392-4390. The state program pays up to $2,250 toward crime-scene cleanup, after your insurance rather than before it, and not for structural repairs.
What happens next in Fort Worth, in order
The Tarrant County version, with the local offices named.
- 1 The police release the property Not the medical examiner. Ask the officer at the scene who to contact about access — the Fort Worth non-emergency number is 817-392-4222. Nobody should go back in, family included, until it is released.
- 2 The Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s District handles the person Separately from the house. In the counties this site has read, the release of the person waits until the next of kin has named a funeral home, so choosing one early is what moves this clock.
- 3 Call the insurer before any company Ask whether the policy covers biological contamination remediation, whether it pays a contractor directly, and whether restoration is covered as well as the cleanup. Some policies exclude it.
- 4 Get a written scope after someone has seen it Itemized, with the cleanup separate from any rebuild, and saying what will be lifted rather than only what will be sprayed. Ask where the material goes: the Fort Worth Environmental Collection Center will not take it.
- 5 After a crime, file the compensation claim Fort Worth Police Department — Victim Assistance Section, on 817-392-4390, can help. The state program pays up to $2,250 toward cleanup after insurance, and separately up to $1,000 to replace property police took as evidence.
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Sources for Fort Worth
- Tarrant County Medical Examiner — FAQ
- Tarrant County Medical Examiner — report a death
- Fort Worth Police Department — contact
- Fort Worth — Neighborhood Improvement Program
- Fort Worth Environmental Collection Center
- US Census, ACS 2020–2024 — Fort Worth housing
- Tarrant County Medical Examiner — family services — part-time Family Advocate, ext. 8672
- Tarrant County Medical Examiner — information for funeral homes — weekday release hours
- Texas Code of Criminal Procedure, Art. 49.25 — section 6: every suicide is investigated
- Texas Attorney General — crime victims’ compensation eligibility — the list of covered crimes
Worth reading
Before you call anyone in Fort Worth
Does Texas pay for crime scene cleanup?
Up to $2,250, after your insurance and not before it, and never for repairs.
Read itPolice damaged my home in Texas. Who pays?
Federal law may not require it; the Texas Constitution can. The McKinney case.
Read itWhat crime scene cleanup costs in Texas
What drives the price, and what insurance and compensation cover.
Read itCrime Scene Cleanup elsewhere in Texas
The other services, for Fort Worth
More about crime scene cleanup
Costs, process and what to expect, written for Texas as a whole.
Nearby
Cleanup help near Fort Worth
Elsewhere in Texas
Other Texas cities we cover
Further away, and each with its own county offices, release process and sources.