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General Order Regarding Installation of Electronic Monitoring as a Condition of Bond — Fort Bend County. The operative requirements are quoted verbatim from the governing document (registered/posted 07/19/2024); the document in custody is the controlling text.
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[Stamp: COPY] IN RE: IN THE DISTRICT AND COUNTY COURTS AT LAW FORT BEND COUNTY, TEXAS GENERAL ORDER REGARDING THE PROCEDURE FOR THE INSTALLATION OF ELECTRONIC MONITORING AS A CONDITION OF BOND BY FORT BEND COUNTY MAGISTRATES AND/OR JUDGES ACTING AS MAGISTRATES The Fort Bend Council of Judges hereby ORDER the following post-arrest policy be applied to defendants who have been ordered as a condition of their bond to have an electronic monitoring device, including a SCRAM device, installed at the conclusion of a bail hearing and pre-trial release. This order is intended to ensure that a defendant's electronic monitoring device and SCRAM device is effectively installed as ordered by Fort Bend County Magistrates and Judges acting as Magistrates and to eliminate unjustifiable delay in the administration of justice. GENERAL PROVISION When (1) the installation of an electronic monitor device has been ordered as a condition of bond, (2) at the time of the order the defendant has pending out-of-county charges and/or legitimate holds from federal agencies, TDCJID Parole, and/or other law enforcement agencies based outside of Fort Bend County, Texas, and (3) the Magistrate or Judge acting as a Magistrate does not expressly order that the installation of an electronic monitor or SCRAM device occur prior to the release from the Fort Bend County Jail, it is hereby ORDERED that the defendant have the electronic monitor or SCRAM device installed within 24 hours of release from custody from whatever county ordered the hold or transport. The above stated policy shall be utilized in conjunction with well-established Constitutional Law as well as the applicable statutory law including, but not limited to the Texas Penal Code and Texas Code of Criminal Procedure. The policy and/or procedures set forth in this Order shall be implemented as soon as practical in coordination with Fort Bend County Officials. Approved by a vote of the Fort Bend Council of Judges this the 26th [handwritten] day of June [handwritten], 2024. [signature] Honorable Surendran Pattel, Judge 240th District Court [signature] Honorable Janet B. Heppard, Judge 387th District Court [signature] Honorable Steve Rogers, Judge 268th District Court [signature] Honorable Tameika Carter, Judge 400th District Court [File stamp at the foot of page 1: FILED, 2024 JUL -5 PM 3:[obscured], CLERK DISTRICT COURT, FORT BEND CO., TEXAS, with the clerk's signature] [signature] Honorable Monica Rawlins, Judge 328th District Court [signature] Honorable J. Christian Becerra, Judge 434th District Court [signature] Honorable Chad Bridges, Judge 458th District Court [signature] Honorable Kali Morgan, Judge 505th District Court [signature] Honorable Christopher G. Morales, Judge County Court at Law No. 1 [signature] Honorable Toni M. Wallace, Judge, County Court at Law No. 4 [signature] Honorable Tyra Jones McCollum, Judge County Court at Law No. 2 [signature] Honorable Teana V. Watson, Judge County Court at Law No. 5 [signature] Honorable Juli Mathew, Judge County Court at Law No. 3 [signature] Honorable Dean Hrbacek, Judge County Court at Law No. 6 [Running footer: 1 / 2]
[Stamp: COPY] IN RE: IN THE DISTRICT AND COUNTY COURTS AT LAW FORT BEND COUNTY, TEXAS GENERAL ORDER REGARDING THE PROCEDURE FOR THE INSTALLATION OF ELECTRONIC MONITORING AS A CONDITION OF BOND BY FORT BEND COUNTY MAGISTRATES AND/OR JUDGES ACTING AS MAGISTRATES The Fort Bend Council of Judges hereby ORDER the following post-arrest policy be applied to defendants who have been ordered as a condition
Reviewer note: Operative provisions transcribed verbatim by vision-read of the registered scanned document (rasterized at 170 dpi and read page-by-page this session); the registered document (sha256 7a0f7f7ecc8b…) is the controlling text. Registered in both the district and county records (TOPICs docs 2005/2006). [TRANSCRIBED BY EYE 2026-09-21 (corpus-0920 P12): every page of the registered file (sha256 7a0f7f7ecc8b..., 2 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]
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.
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