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Under 15 U.S.C. § 1681b(a)(1), the foreperson of any grand jury empanelled by the criminal district courts and any attorney representing the State before the grand jury or in an indicted case are authorized, without further order, to request from any entity the information necessary to resolve criminal investigations; a copy of the order must be attached to every grand jury summons and trial subpoena directed to a consumer reporting agency, which must comply (supplying a competent witness if necessary) and remains subject to Chapter 24 of the Code of Criminal Procedure.
Applies to grand jury summons and trial subpoenas issued at the request of the State in the 144th, 175th, 186th, 187th, 226th, 227th, 290th, 379th, 399th and 437th District Courts of Bexar County to consumer reporting agencies as defined in 15 U.S.C. § 1681a(f). Ten judges signed; no judge join. Re-entered by each bench (this edition supersedes the May 17, 2022 Special Order 72749, recorded as TOPICs doc 1807). Procedural information only; not legal advice.
SPECIAL ORDER NO. ____. IN RE: TRIAL SUBPOENAS & GRAND JURY SUMMONS — STATE OF TEXAS, COUNTY OF BEXAR. STANDING ORDER. In consideration of the Courts' opinion issued on this date, the Courts issue the following order pursuant to The Fair Credit Reporting Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1681: 15 U.S.C. § 1681b provides in pertinent part: (a) Subject to subsection (c), any consumer reporting agency may furnish a consumer report under the following circumstances and no other: (1) In response to the order of a court having jurisdiction to issue such an order, or a subpoena issued in connection with proceedings before a Federal grand jury. IT IS THEREBY ORDERED that the Foreperson of any Grand Jury empanelled by one of the below represented Courts, as well as any attorney representing the State of Texas before said Grand Jury or in relation to an indicted criminal case, are hereby authorized, without further Order of these Courts, to request from any entity all information necessary to resolve criminal investigations undertaken by the Grand Jury or the Bexar County District Attorney's Office. IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that a copy of this Order shall be attached to all grand jury summons and trial subpoenas that are directed to a "consumer reporting agency" as that term is defined in 15 U.S.C. § 1681a(f). IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the consumer reporting agency as well as any individual identified by the grand jury summons or trial subpoena attached hereto and incorporated herein by reference shall forthwith comply with the grand jury summons or trial subpoena, and remains subject to all enforcement provisions of the law and Chapter 24 of the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure. If necessary, the consumer reporting agency shall supply an employee who is competent to provide testimony before the grand jury or trial court related to the requested information. SO ORDERED on this the ____ day of ____, 2023 [electronic signatures dated July 11–18, 2023]. Michael Mery, Judge, 144th Judicial District Court; Kristina Escalona, Judge, 186th Judicial District Court; Velia Meza, Judge, 226th Judicial District Court; Jennifer Pena, Judge, 290th Judicial District Court; Frank Castro, Judge, 399th Judicial District Court; Catherine Torres-Stahl, Judge, 175th Judicial District Court; Stephanie Boyd, Judge, 187th Judicial District Court; Christine Del Prado, Judge, 227th Judicial District Court; Ron Rangel, Judge, 379th Judicial District Court; Joel Perez, Judge, 437th Judicial District Court.
SPECIAL ORDER NO. ____. IN RE: TRIAL SUBPOENAS & GRAND JURY SUMMONS — STATE OF TEXAS, COUNTY OF BEXAR. STANDING ORDER. In consideration of the Courts' opinion issued on this date, the Courts issue the following order pursuant to The Fair Credit Reporting Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1681: 15 U.S.C. § 1681b provides in pertinent part: (a) Subject to subsection (c), any consumer reporting agency may furnish a c
Reviewer note: Composed 2026-09-08 from the TOPICs custody file (two pages; OCR text layer read in full and reconciled word-for-word against the clean May 2022 edition of the same order (doc 1807, read through the vision lane), which carries identical operative text; OCR spacing artifacts corrected, nothing reconstructed). Signature date line reads "July 18, 2023" with stamps from July 11 to 18.
A standing order of the 97th Judicial District Court sealing the files in cases in which Child Protective Services or the Department of Family and Protective Services appears as petitioner, in the counties comprising the 97th Judicial District.
Dallas County Standing Order Regarding Children, Pets, Property and Conduct of the Parties (Family District Courts General Orders, current edition F2026/05, revised Jan. 31, 2026 — a re-adoption of the same operative text by the current bench: Hon. Kim Brown (254th), Vonda Bailey (255th), Sandre Streete (256th), Ashley Wysocki (301st), Sandra Jackson (302nd), LaDeitra Adkins (303rd), and Andrea D. Plumlee (330th)), as registered in the statewide TOPICs local-rules registry (posted 01/11/2023). The order "applies in every divorce suit and every suit affecting the parent-child relationship filed in Dallas County" automatically, without request: child-disruption prohibitions, pet protection, party-conduct restraints, divorce-case property/records/insurance freezes with specific authorizations, mandatory petition attachment, and its TRO-to-temporary-injunction lifecycle.