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Standing order of the 118th District Court for Howard County: affidavits, court reports and other documents filed in suits brought by the Department of Family and Protective Services under Family Code chapters 261, 262 and 264 are confidential and maintained as such by the Howard County District Clerk; access is limited to the court, an associate judge, DFPS employees, employees of a Single Source Continuum Contractor acting as DFPS's authorized agent, a party, a party's attorney, any attorney ad litem or guardian ad litem for the child, an adoptive parent, and the Office of the Attorney General. Others may request access with the attached Request for Access to Confidential DFPS Court Records (Exhibit "A"); e-filing under TRCP 21(f) is not affected.
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IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF HOWARD COUNTY, TEXAS 118TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT STANDING ORDER ESTABLISHING CONFIDENTIALITY OF DFPS COURT RECORDS On the 1st day of April, 2025, the Court considered the following and issues findings and orders related to pleadings, orders, and documents filed in a suit brought by the Department of Family and Protective Services, (hereinafter referred to as "DFPS") pursuant
Reviewer note: Composed 2026-09-24 (AJR-7 Seventh Region build) from BenchPath custody sources/documents/5c96c8b09c849033-standing-order-establishing-confidentiality-of-dfps-court-records.pdf (application/pdf, 61943 bytes, sha256 5c96c8b09c8490333067da85a880ab0d970c1f09e53841047a6d06707555aceb; 3 pages) - the TOPICs-registered document: transcribed from the rendered pages of the scanned PDF (the machine OCR layer was not relied on), every page read against the render; signature, seal and file-stamp blocks bracketed. Same template as the other 118th and 143rd District Court editions; the request form (Exhibit "A") is page 3 of the registered PDF.
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