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Administrative Order 2023-02 — Confidentiality of Personal Identifying Information in General Order & Personal Bonds — Harris County, as registered in the statewide TOPICs local-rules registry (posted 06/27/2023). The operative requirements are quoted from the registered document; the registered document is the controlling text.
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Pursuant to Texas Gov't Code § 75.403 (designating the Presiding Judge of Harris County Courts at Law as the chief administrator of court-related ministerial services in misdemeanor cases), IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the Harris County District Clerk keep confidential the contents of any General Order Bond (also referred to as "GOB") or Personal Bond ("PR Bond") filed in misdemeanor criminal cases assigned to the Harris County Criminal Courts at Law. The title, filing date, and page enumeration of the filed General Order Bond or Personal Bond is to remain viewable to the public. IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that General Order Bonds and Personal Bonds are only to be filed as confidential documents until the current plan to segregate a defendant's personal identifying information to a separate confidential page can be implemented. Once this plan is implemented, the Harris County District Clerk is ORDERED to resume the practice of publishing the portions of the General Order Bonds and Personal Bonds that do not contain the defendant's personal identifying information. Until such time, no person or entity is permitted to access confidential bond filings unless such person or entity is party to the action or attorney of record, or for good cause shown, as determined by a presiding judge of a Harris County Criminal Court at Law. Signed June 27, 2023, by the Presiding Judge of the Harris County Criminal Courts at Law.
Reviewer note: Operative provisions transcribed by vision-read of the registered scanned document (rasterized at 170 dpi; the embedded text layer is absent or corrupt); the registered document (sha256 f13566ff7501…) is the controlling text. The registration's embedded text layer is corrupt OCR; this text was read from the signed scan itself.
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.