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The Health and Human Services Commission, the Center for Health Care Services Outpatient Competency Restoration Program, the Alamo Area Council of Governments Community Based Competency Restoration Program and the Bexar County Jail Based Competency Restoration Program are authorized to screen Bexar County defendants as they deem necessary to determine whether the defendants are appropriate for those programs and/or need re-evaluation for competency to stand trial; effective retroactively to February 3, 2025.
Applies to Bexar County defendants whose competency to stand trial is in question before the Criminal Law Magistrate's Court (Criminal Law Magistrate Liza A. Rodriguez, appointed by the criminal district judges). Supersedes the July 31, 2024 order of the prior magistrate (Special Order 73294, TOPICs doc 2021) in the same terms. Procedural information only; not legal advice.
SPECIAL ORDER NO. 73535. COUNTY OF BEXAR, STATE OF TEXAS — IN THE CRIMINAL LAW MAGISTRATE'S COURT. STANDING ORDER. On this 12th day of August 2025, Criminal Law Magistrate of Bexar County, Liza A. Rodriguez, having been duly appointed by the Criminal District Judges of Bexar County, enters the following Standing Order: The Health and Human Services Commission, the Center for Health Care Services O
Reviewer note: Composed 2026-09-08 from the TOPICs custody file (one image-only page read through the vision lane). Single current signer — Criminal Law Magistrate Liza A. Rodriguez, seated on the OCA roster as a magistrate (court-less officer) — so the rule is judge-joined without a court join; the Criminal Law Magistrate's Court is not a spine court. Effective date taken from the order's own retroactive effective date (February 3, 2025); signed August 12, 2025.
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.
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