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The Jasper County youth-diversion plan (H.B. 3186; effective 2025): the justice-court clerk staff in each precinct serve as youth-diversion coordinators; the plan applies to children alleged to have committed a fine-only misdemeanor (excluding traffic offenses) and sets the qualifications and diversion process to keep an eligible child’s record clean.
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YOUTH DIVERSION PLAN JASPER COUNTY, TEXAS Purpose: The purpose of this Youth Diversion Plan (“the Plan”) is to protect and preserve the interests of Texas children who have run afoul of our laws by providing interventions and strategies designed to assist the troubled youth and to keep his/her record clean and his/her future bright with opportunity to successfully integrate into society without the burdens of their youth raising barriers. A copy of this Youth Diversion Plan shall be maintained on file for public purposes. Youth Diversion Coordinators: The Clerk Staff for the Justice Court in each Precinct shall serve as the Youth Diversion Coordinator for that Precinct. Plan Applicability: The Plan only applies to children who are alleged to have committed a misdemeanor that is punishable by fine only. It does not apply to traffic offenses. Plan Qualifications: 1. The child must have been at least 10 years old and younger than 17 years old at the time they allegedly committed the offense; 2. The child must not have signed a Youth Diversion Agreement within the 12 months prior to the commencement of a new Agreement; and 3. The child must not have previously had an unsuccessful Youth Diversion. Effective Date of Plan: January 1, 2025 Overview of Plan: When a child allegedly runs afoul of the law and charges are leveled against that child, this Plan is designed to intervene to provide strategies and services which may provide helpful assistance in the hopes of averting further interactions with the legal system. The Plan will be used as the guidelines to create a Youth Diversion Agreement (“Agreement”) that is specific to each individual child. The Agreement will be memorialized in writing and must be signed by the child and a parent. The Agreement will divert and halt the prosecution of charges which have been leveled against the child and the pending charges will be dismissed at the onset. The Agreement will be for a set time as determined by the Youth Diversion Coordinators but will be no longer than 180 days. A copy of the executed Agreement must be provided to the child, the parent, the clerk of the court, the Youth Diversion Coordinators, and any other person specified in the Agreement. The Agreement will be monitored by the Youth Diversion Coordinators who will keep in contact with the service providers, the child, and/or the parents of the child, to verify that the requirements of the Agreement are being administered and followed. This will include the Youth Diversion Coordinators taking an active role in communicating with any providers, the child and the parents. Participation in this Plan and execution of the Agreement is not an admission of any guilt, and no plea is required to participate. Participation is also voluntary, and the child and the parent will be notified of the child’s rights, including the right to refuse the Diversion Plan. The child must knowingly and voluntarily consent to participate in the Plan, and the signatures of both the child and the parent are required to invoke the rights under this Plan. Possible Outcomes: The case of a child who successfully complies with the terms of an Agreement shall be closed and reported as “successful” to the Court. Successful completion of the Agreement will bar the charges leveled against the child from being revived and prosecuted. The records associated with the child will be automatically expunged when the child turns 18 years of age. A child who does not comply with the terms of their Agreement will be referred to the Court for a non-adversarial hearing to determine whether the diversion should be declared “unsuccessful” by the Court. After the hearing, the Court may, at its discretion, amend or set aside certain terms to the Agreement, may extend the diversion period not to exceed one year from the initial start date, order the parent to perform any reasonable act or refrain from any reasonable act, continue any scheduled hearing for up to 60 days, and make a determination that the diversion was successful or unsuccessful. An unsuccessful completion of the Plan may result in the case being referred for prosecution. The Court maintains jurisdiction over the case for the period of the Agreement. Plan Records: The Youth Diversion Coordinators shall maintain records on all diversions for three years and shall keep a permanent file on all successful and unsuccessful diversions. Plan Strategies: Plan strategies and interventions include, but are not limited to, any teen court program, any school related program, other educational program such as alcohol, drug, or tobacco programs, rehab therapy, self-improvement programs, referring the youth to a service provider addressing (among other things) at-risk youth services, juvenile case manager services, work and job skills training, academic monitoring and/or tutoring including GED prep, community-based services, mental health screening and/or clinical assessment, private or in-school counseling, mentoring services, ordering the child to pay restitution on property offenses not to exceed $100, ordering the child to perform community service up to 20 hours, or ordering the child and/or parent to perform any other reasonable action.
Reviewer note: AJR-2 East cohort (Angelina/Orange/Liberty/Chambers/Jasper/Newton). Source instrument read via text/vision lane; classified RULE under the records-vs-rules doctrine. Composed benchpath-ajr2-east. Applicability 2026-09-09 (fix program 2026-09-09, Phase 5, audit M7): specific -> universal — the row binds every court in its state/circuit/county scope and names no court, judge or division. [RECOMPOSED 2026-09-21 (corpus-0920 P7, digital-layer lane): the full text of the registered file (sha256 a9c1a3c12407..., 2 pages) replaces the earlier 328-character abstract. Method: pypdfium2 text layer reflowed page-aware, cross-checked word-by-word against PyMuPDF (0 substantive difference(s), 0 page-furniture), owner-corpus candidate sentences 100% (11/11) matched, 0 running header/footer line(s) removed, no U+FFFD/U+FFFE/form-feed debris. NOT yet checked page by page against the render, so confidence is medium with an open re-verification task; flip to high when a reviewer has read every page against the PDF. benchpath-tx-corpus0920-p7-2026-09-21] [BY-EYE CHECK 2026-09-21 (corpus-0920 P11): every page of the registered file (sha256 a9c1a3c12407..., 2 page(s)) read against the rendered PDF; file-stamp, caption and signature-block defects of the text layer corrected from the render; confidence lifted to high. benchpath-tx-corpus0920-p11-2026-09-21]
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.
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.