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Order of October 8, 2024 adopting the court's youth diversion plan under Code of Criminal Procedure art. 45.306(b), with the plan: eligibility (under 17 at the offense, no diversion in the previous 365 days, no unsuccessful diversion, no objection from the county attorney - the plan prints another county's name there - and written consent of child and parent); judicial education; local agreements with service providers; the judge and the administrative assistant share the youth diversion coordinator's duties; three diversion routes (graduated sanctions for school offenses, intermediate diversion before filing, diversion by the court without a plea); a program or service-provider referral with twelve numbered items, including restitution up to $100 and up to 20 hours of community service; the written diversion agreement (up to 180 days, measurable terms, rights notice, no admission of guilt); the non-adversarial referral hearing under art. 45.311 and its options; limits on orders to parents, enforceable by contempt; an optional $50 administrative fee, waived for indigent families; confidential records expunged on the child's 18th birthday; cases that must be diverted and how non-diverted juvenile cases proceed.
Texas > Tenth Administrative Judicial Region > Hunt County > Justice of the Peace Precinct 4 Place 1. Fine-only, non-traffic misdemeanors alleged against a child under 17 in that justice court, for offenses on or after January 1, 2025 (the plan cites Code of Criminal Procedure arts. 45.304-45.313 and HB 3186).
YOUTH DIVERSION PLAN § IN THE JUSTICE COURT, PRECINCT 4, PLACE 1, HUNT COUNTY, TEXAS ORDER ADOPTING A YOUTH DIVERSION PLAN IT IS ORDERED pursuant to Article 45.306 (b) of the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure that the Court adopts the Youth Diversion Plan hereafter referred to as the "Hunt County Justice of the Peace Precinct 4-1 Youth Diversion Program" or "Program." IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that
Reviewer note: Composed 2026-09-19 (AJR-10 Tenth Region build) from BenchPath custody sources/registered/2092.pdf (application/pdf, 389851 bytes, sha256 613c811d478104957ce0d8919b9facde3d0d770bc26c0a254ec48324c5931cdf; 9 pages) - the TOPICs-registered document: digital text layer normalised (whitespace, hyphenation, page furniture) and every page checked against the rendered PDF; signature and file-stamp blocks bracketed. Nine pages: page 1 (the signed order) is a scan, typed from the render and checked against an independent OCR pass; pages 2-9 (the plan) carry a digital text layer, assembled paragraph by paragraph (`compose2092.py`), token-checked against the layer and compared with every rendered page. Spaces collapsed by the layer's tight kerning were restored from the page faces ('The J.P. or Administrative Assistant must advise the Juvenile and Parent before', 'A child', 'drug testing', 'Penal code'). Printed as in the plan and kept: 'There is no objection from the Hemphill County Attorney' (the plan names another county's attorney in its eligibility list), the six coordinator duties printed under the heading '365 DAYS' rather than after 'the following duties:', 'HB 3186 - Goes into effect on January 1, 2024', braces for parentheses in 'Art. 45.309', '22.1105{a)' and 'Art. 45.041{a-2)', 'The schools withing Precinct 4 Justice Court are filed by officers', 'Art. 45-304' and 'Art. 45-0217' with hyphens, and an opening quotation mark never closed in the art. 45.057(a) note. The plan's two closing index pages (statute references and 'glossary') cite the plan's own page numbers. [judge-procedure lane 2026-09-20: attached to Clayton (Clay) M. Rankin as the sole sitting judge of the Justice of the Peace Precinct 4 Place 1 (Hunt County); operative court procedure, attribution by current seat.]
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.
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