Every page on this site is written and reviewed by Shawn Cagle, a bail bondsman licensed in Denton County, Texas under license #010412 and in practice since 1994. He is not an attorney and nothing here is legal advice. What he can speak to, from 30+ years of doing it, is how bail actually works in this county: which building someone is in, what release costs, and what a cosigner is signing.
Background
Shawn Cagle learned the bail business from his parents and has run City Hall Bail Bonds out of the same office on East McKinney Street in Denton since 1994. The location is not incidental. The office sits across from the Denton County Jail, which is where every bond in this county ultimately has to be filed, and it is why bonds here get walked across the street on foot rather than faxed into a queue by someone in another state.
Over 30+ years that has meant working with every agency in the county: the Sheriff's Office, the police departments in twenty-nine cities, and the municipal and county courts that handle what follows. It has also meant a great many conversations at three in the morning with people who have never dealt with any of this before, which is the part of the job that shapes how this site is written.
The firm was awarded the Denton Record-Chronicle's Best of Denton every year from 2012 to 2023, and was named a finalist in both 2024 and 2025.
30+ years in one office, facing the building where every bond in this county has to be filed. That is the whole reason bonds here are walked across the street rather than faxed into a queue.
Call 940-381-0338Licensing and what it means
Bail bond sureties in Texas are regulated under Occupations Code Chapter 1704, which in counties with a bail bond board, as Denton County has, requires a person to hold a license from that board before they can execute a bail bond as a surety. That license is the reason a bondsman can post a bond at all, and it is checkable rather than a claim.
The same chapter is why some things you may be offered elsewhere do not exist. A licensed bondsman cannot promise an outcome in a case, cannot give legal advice, and cannot arrange a personal recognizance bond, because only a judge can grant one. When this site says a thing cannot be done, that is usually the reason.
If you want to verify a license, including ours, the Denton County Bail Bond Board maintains the list of licensed sureties for this county. Asking a bondsman for a license number before you pay anything is a reasonable thing to do, and any legitimate one will give it to you without hesitating.
Contact and verification
Licensed in Denton County #010412 · Open 24 hours, 7 days a week
Nothing on this site is legal advice, and a bail bondsman is not a substitute for a defense attorney. Where a question belongs with a lawyer, this site says so.