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Judge Kimberly McCary's First Amended Remote Hearing Orders/Plan for detention and related juvenile hearings (signed Sept. 18, 2023; responding to the JCIT Technology Standards v7.1 and the Supreme Court and Court of Criminal Appeals orders of Sept. 11, 2023, which are attached): contact the court if any participant cannot appear remotely; all parents, guardians and custodians present; an unobstructed view of any testifying party or witness; hearings live-streamed on the court's YouTube channel unless a closed courtroom is obtained; for adjudications, modifications and dispositions on the detention docket, counsel obtains the probation terms and social history, the State's plea paperwork and the signatures on the Adjudication Packet and e-mails everything to the judge and court administrator at least one business day before; motions for deferred by representations of counsel without live testimony; Zoom hosted by the court, attendees joining ten minutes early with contact lists and invites forwarded to witnesses; no passing notes to a testifying witness, no other devices or programs during the hearing; no recording or screenshots on pain of contempt; subpoenaed witnesses attend by Zoom with a prescribed notice and may not share the meeting ID; exhibits e-mailed to opposing counsel, the judge and the court reporter with the respondent's initials, cause number and exhibit number in the subject line — documents as PDF, audio/video per the Technology Standards, physical evidence by photograph; the court does not require advance disclosure of exhibits.
Texas > Denton County > County Court at Law No. 1 sitting as the juvenile court — remote detention and related hearings (adjudications, modifications, dispositions, motions for deferred): counsel, respondents, parents/guardians, witnesses and probation staff.
CAUSE NO. JV/DH-__________ IN THE MATTER OF § IN THE COUNTY COURT ______________ § AT LAW NO. 1 RESPONDENT § DENTON COUNTY, TEXAS REMOTE HEARING ORDERS/PLAN For Detention and Related Hearings First Amended Order/Plan in Response to the Technology Standards recommended by the Judicial Committee on Information Technology released September 2023 and the resulting Orders of the Supreme Court of Texas
Reviewer note: Image-only registration (41 pp): pages 1–4 are the court's order, read through the pypdfium2 vision lane 2026-09-06 and quoted verbatim; pages 5–41 are the attached Supreme Court Misc. Docket 23-9072 and Court of Criminal Appeals Misc. Docket 23-005 orders and the JCIT Technology Standards v7.1 (statewide attachments, not composed). The registry title 'Remote Hearing Orders/Plan for Detention and Related Hearings' is the court's own. Composed benchpath-ajr8-denton. County-site receipt(s) in custody 2026-09-06: https://www.dentoncounty.gov/DocumentCenter/View/8054/Remote-Hearing-Guidelines-for-Detention-Hearings-PDF (text-layer twin of the image-only registration edition). [TRANSCRIBED BY EYE 2026-09-21 (corpus-0920 P12): every page of the registered file (sha256 af300fa50eb0..., 41 page(s), image-only scan; the OCR layer used as a typing base and corrected word by word from the page) read against the rendered file; verbatim, source typos kept, stamps/signatures bracketed; the earlier abstract replaced by the full instrument; confidence high. benchpath-tx-corpus0920-p12-2026-09-21]
3 verbatim requirements on remote appearances in CALEB S. JOHNSTON's division.
6 verbatim requirements on remote appearances in MICHAEL G. KAPLAN's division.
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