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The 279th District Court’s standing order (Aug. 1, 2025) establishing that pleadings, orders, and documents in suits brought by the Department of Family and Protective Services under Texas Family Code chapters 261, 262, and 264 are CONFIDENTIAL: the District Clerk maintains them as confidential and allows access only to the court, an associate judge, DFPS employees, Single Source Continuum Contractor (SSCC) employees, and other authorized participants — grounded in CAPTA (42 U.S.C. 5106a) and Family Code sec. 261.201 (DFPS abuse/neglect records are confidential absent a court order after in-camera inspection and a finding of necessity).
Texas > Jefferson County > 279th District Court — DFPS suits under Family Code chs. 261/262/264 (the 279th receives the county’s child-welfare docket).
IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF JEFFERSON COUNTY, TEXAS 279TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT STANDING ORDER ESTABLISHING CONFIDENTIALITY OF DFPS COURT RECORDS On the 1st day of August, 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") pursua
Reviewer note: Image-only registration read through the vision lane; operative confidentiality order and findings quoted verbatim; entered August 1, 2025 (279th). Composed benchpath-ajr2-jefferson. [TRANSCRIBED BY EYE 2026-09-21 (corpus-0920 P12): every page of the registered file (sha256 b6b2b51e7ad8..., 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]
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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