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Order of the district courts of Ector County: the District Clerk seals and keeps confidential all written reports, assessments and mental health evaluations filed in felony cases in which competency, sanity or another mental health condition is at issue; subject to Code of Criminal Procedure chapters 46B and 46C, they are not unsealed or disclosed without an order of a district court; violations may be punished as contempt.
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ORDER To promote and effectuate the sensitive content and confidentiality of psychiatric, psychological, and other mental health evaluations, assessments, and reports, IT IS ORDERED that the office of the District Clerk of Ector County, Texas shall promptly seal and maintain as confidential all written reports, assessments, and mental health evaluations that are filed in felony criminal cases in the District Courts of Ector County, Texas, in which a person’s competency to stand trial, sanity, or other mental health conditions(s) is/are at issue and have been addressed. Subject to the exceptions stated in Articles 46B & 46C, Tex. Code Crim. Proc., IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that any such filed evaluations, assessments, and reports shall not be unsealed or disclosed to any person or entity, unless disclosure of same has been otherwise ordered and approved by a District Court of Ector County, Texas. A violation of any provision of this Order may result in a finding of contempt. IT IS SO ORDERED. SIGNED the 13th day of June, 2018. [signature] DENN WHALEN, 70th DISTRICT COURT [signature] JOHN W. SMITH, 161st DISTRICT COURT [signature] JAMES M. RUSH, 244th DISTRICT COURT [signature] W. STACY TROTTER, 358th DISTRICT COURT
ORDER To promote and effectuate the sensitive content and confidentiality of psychiatric, psychological, and other mental health evaluations, assessments, and reports, IT IS ORDERED that the office of the District Clerk of Ector County, Texas shall promptly seal and maintain as confidential all written reports, assessments, and mental health evaluations that are filed in felony criminal cases in
Reviewer note: Composed 2026-09-25 (AJR-7 Seventh Region build, own-site layer) from BenchPath custody ajr7 corpus sources/documents/e456579fb67daa5e-order-to-seal-pdf.pdf (64,143 bytes, sha256 e456579fb67daa5e38ec2ad9c5bd046afee34b3b06e0cca329e0283fd4b7061b; 1 page(s)) - the document the Ector County website posts (https://www.ectorcountytx.gov/DocumentCenter/View/962/Order-to-Seal-PDF), not registered with the Office of Court Administration's TOPICs registry as of 2026-09-25: transcribed by eye from the rendered pages of the scanned file (no machine text relied on) and read a second time against the page images - for long documents word by word against an independent machine OCR of the same scan, every disagreement and every handwritten entry resolved on the image; signature, seal and file-stamp blocks bracketed. Signed: Denn Whalen (70th), John W. Smith (161st), James M. Rush (244th) and W. Stacy Trotter (358th), June 13, 2018. The same file is posted on the District Court Judges, 244th District Court and 358th District Court pages.
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.