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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
DocuSign Envelope ID: F2DD7AC2-E2C8-4D3A-AAD9-53A48485841D [Letterhead: 199th Judicial District, Hon. Angela Tucker; 219th Judicial District, Hon. Jennifer Edgeworth; 296th Judicial District, Hon. John Roach, Jr.; 366th Judicial District, Hon. Tom Nowak; 380th Judicial District, Hon. Benjamin N. Smith; 401st Judicial District, Hon. George B. Flint; 416th Judicial District, Hon. Andrea Thompson; 417th Judicial District, Hon. Cynthia Wheless; 429th Judicial District, Hon. Jill Renfro Willis; 468th Judicial District, Hon. Lindsey Wynne; 469th Judicial District, Hon. Piper McCraw; 470th Judicial District, Hon. Emily A. Miskel; 471st Judicial District, Hon. Andrea K. Bouressa; seal of the State of Texas Judicial Branch] DISTRICT JUDGES IN AND FOR COLLIN COUNTY, TEXAS STANDING ORDER REGARDING ONLINE PUBLICATION OF SENSITIVE DATA Texas Rule of Civil Procedure 21c defines Sensitive Data and prohibits attorneys and parties from filing documents containing unredacted sensitive data. Documents that contain sensitive data in violation of this rule must not be posted on the internet. Without taking a position on whether the following types of documents should be filed with a court, the courts recognize the risk that these documents may contain sensitive data protected under Rule 21c or other laws. Therefore, the following documents 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. However, these documents are not sealed unless a party obtains a court order sealing the document. If a document must contain unredacted sensitive data, the filing party must notify the clerk by marking it "NOTICE: THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS SENSITIVE DATA." The District Clerk may, without further order of the court, restrict any document so marked from being posted on the internet. However, these documents are not sealed unless a party obtains a court order sealing the document. Rule 21c requires sensitive data to be redacted. If a filed document contains unredacted sensitive data in violation of the rule, the clerk may require or allow the party to resubmit a redacted, substitute document pursuant to Rule 21c(e), which may be posted on the internet. SIGNED ON THE 8TH DAY OF JANUARY, 2021. [signature] HON. ANGELA TUCKER, 199TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT [signature] HON. JENNIFER EDGEWORTH, 219TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT [signature] HON. JOHN ROACH, JR., 296TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT [signature] HON. TOM NOWAK, 366TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT [signature] HON. BENJAMIN N. SMITH, 380TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT [signature] HON. GEORGE B. FLINT, 401ST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT [signature] HON. ANDREA THOMPSON, 416TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT [signature] HON. CYNTHIA WHELESS, 417TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT [signature] HON. JILL RENFRO WILLIS, 429TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT [signature] HON. LINDSEY WYNNE, 468TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT [signature] HON. PIPER MCCRAW, 469TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT [signature] HON. EMILY A. MISKEL, 470TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT [signature] HON. ANDREA K. BOURESSA, 471ST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT
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). [RECOMPOSED 2026-09-21 (corpus-0920 P7, digital-layer lane): the full text of the registered file (sha256 de340f176851..., 2 pages) replaces the earlier 2,522-character abstract. Method: pypdfium2 text layer reflowed page-aware, cross-checked word-by-word against PyMuPDF (0 substantive difference(s), 0 page-furniture), owner-corpus candidate sentences 100% (2/2) matched, 0 running header/footer line(s) removed, no U+FFFD/U+FFFE/form-feed debris. NOT yet checked page by page against the render, so confidence is medium with an open re-verification task; flip to high when a reviewer has read every page against the PDF. benchpath-tx-corpus0920-p7-2026-09-21] [BY-EYE CHECK 2026-09-21 (corpus-0920 P11): every page of the registered file (sha256 de340f176851..., 2 page(s)) read against the rendered PDF; file-stamp, caption and signature-block defects of the text layer corrected from the render; confidence lifted to high. benchpath-tx-corpus0920-p11-2026-09-21]
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.