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Four district-court standing orders on court records: the Online Publication order (Jan. 8, 2021) restricting six categories of sensitive documents from internet posting under TRCP 21c; the Rule 76a order (May 3, 2017) voiding any sealing provision that does not comply with TRCP 76a; the CPS Birth Certificates order (Sept. 12, 2025) sealing birth certificates and alternative parent-identity proof in governmental SAPCRs under Family Code §102.008(c-1); and the HIPAA/Drug-Testing order (Jan. 8, 2021) authorizing litigation participants to disclose and use drug-test records in Family Code suits without further authorization.
Texas > Collin County > all district courts — standing orders governing the district clerk's handling of court records (the online-publication, Rule 76a-sealing, CPS birth-certificate, and Family Code drug-testing regimes); the Family Code orders apply in SAPCR/family suits
ONLINE PUBLICATION OF SENSITIVE DATA (signed Jan. 8, 2021): TRCP 21c defines sensitive data and bars filing unredacted sensitive data, which "must not be posted on the internet." Six document types "will not be made available on the internet": custody evaluations, psychological evaluations, drug test results, full DFPS case records, mental health records, and medical records — "The District Clerk may, without further order of the court, restrict the above-listed documents from being posted on the internet," though they are not sealed without a court order. A document requiring unredacted sensitive data is marked "NOTICE: THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS SENSITIVE DATA," which the clerk may likewise restrict; unredacted violations may be cured by a resubmitted redacted substitute (Rule 21c(e)). SEALING UNDER RULE 76a (signed May 3, 2017): "any Collin County District Court order, agreed or otherwise, contained within a judgment, decree or incorporated within another order addressing a different topic that purports to seal district court records in Collin County and does not comply with the requirements of Texas Rules of Civil Procedure 76a, shall be considered void and without effect." CPS BIRTH CERTIFICATES (signed Sept. 12, 2025): "the Collin County District Clerk shall seal all birth certificates filed in any Suit Affecting the Parent-Child Relationship case filed by a governmental entity pursuant to the requirements of Texas Family Code § 102.008(c-1)," and likewise "all alternative proof of the identity of the child's parents" so filed. HIPAA / TEXAS MEDICAL PRIVACY ACT / DRUG-TESTING RECORDS (signed Jan. 8, 2021): applying to "every suit filed under the Texas Family Code," the order defines Drug Test Records broadly (all drug-testing information, results, procedures, facility/lab files, photographs, and MRO-provided medical information) and Litigation Participants broadly (parties, counsel and firm staff, testing facilities and labs, copy and support services, experts, evaluators, facilitators, coordinators, mental-health professionals, witnesses, mediators, arbitrators, and courts); "IT IS ORDERED that all Litigation Participants are authorized to disclose, receive, and use Drug Test Records in connection with the pending litigation, without need for further authorization or court order under HIPAA, the Texas Medical Privacy Act, or other law" — not for any purpose other than the pending litigation, and the received protected health information "is subject to electronic disclosure."
Reviewer note: Four registered standing orders composed verbatim as one records rule (text layers); signing-era benches vary by order (the 2017 and 2021 orders carry then-sitting judges — Flint, Miskel, Bouressa, Schell — while the Sept. 2025 CPS order carries the current bench; each binds the courts as institutions); own-site copies under district-courts/documents/; custody sha256s in the registry ledger (docs 1116, 551, 2605, 1118).
Tenth (10th) Court of Appeals — Standing Order No. 1, as registered in the statewide TOPICs local-rules registry (posted 01/01/2023). The operative requirements are quoted verbatim; the registered document is the controlling text.
Tenth (10th) Court of Appeals — Standing Order No. 2, as registered in the statewide TOPICs local-rules registry (posted 01/01/2023). The operative requirements are quoted verbatim; the registered document is the controlling text.