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Cass County Juvenile Court Remote Proceedings for Detention Hearings Plan (County Court at Law; September 21, 2023)

High confidence· verified September 19, 2026Remote / Zoom HearingsCass County Juvenile Court Remote Proceedings for Detention Hearings Plan, County Court at Law of Cass County, Texas, September 21, 2023. TOPICs registration 1602 (Cass County, Standing Orders).

Summary

The Cass County Court at Law's plan under Family Code § 54.012 for remote juvenile detention hearings: whether to proceed remotely, or to let a participant attend remotely, is decided case by case in the court's discretion on a formal request, recorded by an Order for Remote Proceeding; other parties' consent may be considered but is not required; parties may cross-examine witnesses and the child may make an unsworn statement; reliable and relevant non-privileged information may be presented even if it is hearsay; a testifying party or witness must be on camera with an unobstructed view or may not testify; no recording of the detention hearing is made unless a party requests it, and a recording is deleted within 10 working days; a remote hearing is treated as closed for the record, with a private streaming link if it is opened; a victim and the victim's family may attend by stream, off camera unless testifying; a copy of any physical evidence to be offered goes to the court at least 24 hours in advance and is made available to the child's attorney.

Applies to

Texas > Tenth Administrative Judicial Region > Cass County > County Court at Law, sitting as the juvenile court. Juvenile detention hearings conducted as remote proceedings under Family Code § 54.012.

Source of truth

Cass County Juvenile Court Remote Proceedings for Detention Hearings Plan Compliance with 54.012 (remote proceedings) In accordance with Texas Family Code 54.012, the County Court at Law of Cass County, Texas, has the following plan to conduct “remote proceedings”. It is the Court’s discretion whether or not to proceed remotely with a detention hearing or allow any party to attend a detention he

Official source: TOPICs — Texas local rules registry (topics.txcourts.gov)
Source health: Healthy · checked September 24, 2026
Effective date: September 21, 2023
Last verified: September 19, 2026benchpath-tx-ajr10-p2-2026-09-19

Reviewer note: Composed 2026-09-19 (AJR-10 Tenth Region build) from BenchPath custody sources/registered/1602.pdf (application/pdf, 473935 bytes, sha256 fa189862df68a1c29debb246f4ff6d566d0a186f8afaea5d7ce1ce7a7372df73; 1 pages) - the TOPICs-registered document: transcribed by eye from the rendered pages of the scanned PDF (no text layer in the file was relied on), machine OCR draft corrected page by page; signature and file-stamp blocks bracketed. One-page scan read by eye and typed from the page; checked against an independent OCR pass. The words 'County Court at Law' and 'Cass' are typed into underlined blanks of a template. The plan is Cass County's only TOPICs registration. Printed as on the instrument: the citation 'TFC 54.09' in the recording paragraph. [judge-procedure lane 2026-09-20: attached to Gary Joseph Albertson II as the sole sitting judge of the County Court at Law (Cass County); operative court procedure, attribution by current seat.]