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A Bell County District Court standing order providing that court files in which the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services is the petitioner are confidential, releasable only to the parties, their attorneys, and those authorized by court order, under Texas Family Code section 261.201.
Applies to CPS court files in the Bell County District Courts where TDFPS is the petitioner. Procedural information only; not legal advice.
Bell County Standing Order Regarding the Confidentiality of CPS Court Records. IT IS ORDERED that the court files in which the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services is the Petitioner are not subject to public disclosure; the contents of these files shall not be released to anyone but the parties to the lawsuit, their attorneys, and those specifically authorized by court order. These files contain the files, reports, records, audiotapes, videotapes, and working papers used or developed in investigations conducted under Chapter 261 of the Texas Family Code; as such, Texas Family Code section 261.201 provides that the information is confidential and not subject to public release under Chapter 552 of the Government Code. Approved and adopted January 24, 2017 (Gordon Adams, 169th District Court, Presiding Judge, Bell County; Jack Jones, 146th District Court; and Charles Van Orden, Associate Judge, Centex Child Protection Court).
Bell County Standing Order Regarding the Confidentiality of CPS Court Records. IT IS ORDERED that the court files in which the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services is the Petitioner are not subject to public disclosure; the contents of these files shall not be released to anyone but the parties to the lawsuit, their attorneys, and those specifically authorized by court order. These f
Reviewer note: Composed 2026-09-06 from the TOPICs custody scan (image-only PDF read through the pypdfium2 vision lane). County-wide Bell County District Court CPS-records standing order; bound to Bell County.
Standing order of the 109th Judicial District Court for every pending or later-filed case in Andrews, Winkler and Crane Counties: any attorney or self-represented litigant who uses any form of artificial intelligence for legal research or drafting in a case must, before using AI-generated information in a court submission or proceeding, sign and submit the court's certification form stating that all language, quotations, sources, citations, arguments and legal analysis created or contributed to by generative AI were verified as accurate by a human through traditional (non-AI) legal sources, and acknowledging responsibility and potential sanctions for their or their co-counsel's failure to comply. Effective immediately; in effect until rescinded or replaced.
Standing order of the 109th Judicial District Court for every pending or later-filed case in Andrews, Winkler and Crane Counties: any attorney or self-represented litigant who uses any form of artificial intelligence for legal research or drafting in a case must, before using AI-generated information in a court submission or proceeding, sign and submit the court's certification form stating that all language, quotations, sources, citations, arguments and legal analysis created or contributed to by generative AI were verified as accurate by a human through traditional (non-AI) legal sources, and acknowledging responsibility and potential sanctions for their or their co-counsel's failure to comply. Effective immediately; in effect until rescinded or replaced.