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306th District Court Standing Order Pertaining to All Cases in Which Court Appointed Special Advocates Are Appointed — Galveston County. The operative requirements are quoted verbatim from the governing document (registered/posted 08/04/2023); the document in custody is the controlling text.
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Judge Anne B. Darring, 306th Judicial District Court, Galveston, Texas STANDING ORDER PERTAINING TO ALL CASES IN WHICH COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES ARE APPOINTED This Standing Order is effective immediately and applies to all cases wherein Court Appointed Special Advocates (hereinafter referred to as "CASA") is appointed. This Order relates to the production of documents and information by Court Appointed Special Advocates to all other parties in the case to which they are appointed. In this Order "child" includes each child, whether one or more, who is a subject of the suit while that child is under the age of eighteen years and not otherwise emancipated. This Court hereby finds good cause in entering this order in that: (1) other ways of obtaining the information are not or may not be available or would not be effective, (2) the public interest and need for disclosure outweigh the potential injury to the patient, the physician-patient relationship and the treatment services, and (3) this disclosure of information is in the best interest of the child. This Court hereby finds additionally that even if the information relates to the investigation of child abuse, disclosure of said information is essential to the administration of justice and would not endanger the child, the person reporting the abuse or any other person. RECORDS TO BE PRODUCED IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that staff or volunteer advocates of Court Appointed Special Advocates ("CASA") SHALL produce within five business days of receipt all documents relating to the child or children for whom they are appointed to advocate for including but not limited to: (1) Education information, documents and records including attendance records, teachers' notes, report cards, discipline reports and special education documentation; (2) Medical information and records including doctor's notes, hospital records and documentation regarding diagnoses, treatment, medication, future appointments and any other medical records of any nature (3) Therapeutic, psychiatric, psychological information records, including but not limited to mental health treatment records (except as specified below), and (4) Dental records (5) Legal or criminal records; (6) Employment records. CASA is further ORDERED to redact any identifying information of a child's placement before releasing subject records to counsel for the Respondent/s. This order pertains to documents in the possession of the CASA volunteer or staff member, even where subject to the medical records privacy provisions of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), 45 Code of Federal Regulations sections 164.500 et seq. and 42 Code of Federal Regulations sections 2.1 et seq. (herein "Protected Health Information"). THESE DOCUMENTS SHALL BE PRODUCED TO THE FOLLOWING PARTIES: (1) Attorneys for the Texas Department of Family and Protective Service; (2) Attorneys who Represent the Parents or the Un-Represented Parents of the Children; (3) Attorney Ad Litems for the Children; (4) Attorneys Representing any Party given permission to intervene; (5) Upon request, the Presiding Judge, Associate Judge, Clerks, court coordinator or any other court staff member as presented in court for the purpose of litigation. REGARDING MENTAL HEALTH RECORDS In the case of mental health or therapy information and records, CASA may withhold production of these records to the attorney for the parent or the pro-se parent or intervenor if CASA, in good faith, believes that such disclosure will be harmful to the child. The parent may then request an in camera inspection and hearing to determine whether the disclosure of these records will be harmful to the child. If CASA believes that the production of these mental health or therapy documents to the parents will be harmful to the child, CASA must notify the parents, or their attorney if represented of the existence of such documents so that a hearing can be requested if desired. TIMELY SUPPLEMENTATION CASA is ORDERED to provide any and all supplemental records and/or information they receive regarding the child the subject of any suit to the above named persons and/or parties/entities named within five business days of receipt of said supplemental records and/or information subject to the same exception detailed in the subsection above. INFORMATION REGARDING ADVOCATE CASA is ORDERED to provide to the attorneys of record the full name, e-mail address and contact phone number of the volunteer advocate assigned to each case and/or the assigned advocate supervisor if no volunteer is assigned. Any attorneys and their staff who receive this contact information shall protect the confidentiality of the volunteer advocate. This information shall be provided within five business days of assignment. This order goes into effect immediately and applies to all cases pending in the 306th Judicial Court at this time. If the CASA advocate, staff member or attorney fails to produce such documents as ordered in this case, then CASA shall be removed from this case. The disclosure of Protected Health Information may only cover the time period of the child's birth to the close of the case. As to CASA, this order and authorization shall expire upon the final disposition of the above-named and numbered cause, including any appeals. All persons/entities receiving Protected Health Information under this order shall comply with the requirements set forth under Texas Health and Safety Code Chapter 181 and shall ensure the safeguarding of any documents in their possession, including the appropriate destruction of Protected Health Information upon conclusion of the above-named and numbered cause, including any appeals. SIGNED August 3, 2023 [handwritten] [signature] JAMIE RAWLINSON, ASSOCIATE JUDGE [signature] ANNE B. DARRING, PRESIDING JUDGE [Running footer: Page 1 / Page 2 / Page 3 — 306th, Galveston County]
Judge Anne B. Darring, 306th Judicial District Court, Galveston, Texas STANDING ORDER PERTAINING TO ALL CASES IN WHICH COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES ARE APPOINTED This Standing Order is effective immediately and applies to all cases wherein Court Appointed Special Advocates (hereinafter referred to as "CASA") is appointed. This Order relates to the production of documents and information by Co
Reviewer note: Operative provisions transcribed verbatim by vision-read of the registered scanned document (rasterized at 170-180 dpi and read this session); the registered document (sha256 15f88c09f6fd…) is the controlling text. [TRANSCRIBED BY EYE 2026-09-21 (corpus-0920 P12): every page of the registered file (sha256 15f88c09f6fd..., 3 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]
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