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Standing order of the District Courts Giving Preference to Criminal Cases, the Criminal District Courts and the Statutory County Criminal Courts of Tarrant County treating Community Supervision and Corrections Department (CSCD) files as court files: on written request either the defense attorney or the prosecutor in a pending Tarrant County case may obtain the defendant's chronological-history information (CSCD may redact; objections go to the supervising court); the information may be filed only under a sealing order, may not be further disseminated, and anything else in the CSCD file requires an order of the supervising court; third parties must move the supervising court; the written request must carry a prescribed acknowledgement. Enforceable by contempt; supersedes Administrative Orders No. 2461 (Mar. 24, 2021) and No. 2613 (Nov. 17, 2020).
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[File stamp: FILED, Tarrant County, 5/31/2023 2:12 pm, Thomas A. Wilder, District Clerk] 3025 [handwritten] No. __________ STANDING ORDER REGARDING FILES OF THE COMMUNITY SUPERVISION AND CORRECTIONS DEPARTMENT OF TARRANT COUNTY, TEXAS Pursuant to an agreement and resolution of the District Courts Giving Preference to Criminal Cases, the Criminal District Courts, and the Statutory County Criminal Courts of Tarrant County, and recognizing that the files of the Community Supervision and Corrections Department (CSCD) are court files, the following is ORDERED regarding requests for information contained in a CSCD file: 1. Upon the written request of either the defendant's attorney or the attorney representing the state in a pending criminal case in Tarrant County, CSCD will provide a copy of the defendant's chronological-history information to the requesting party. 2. Before providing a copy of a defendant's chronological-history information to the defendant's attorney or to the attorney representing the state, CSCD may redact any information it deems necessary. 3. The defendant's attorney or the attorney representing the state may object to CSCD's redaction to the supervising court. 4. Any information provided under the terms of this order may be filed with the District Clerk or the County Clerk only if accompanied by an order of the supervising court placing the information under seal. 5. Upon receipt of a defendant's chronological-history information from CSCD, the attorney representing the state shall comply with Texas Code of Criminal Procedure Article 39.14. 6. The defendant's attorney may provide a copy of the defendant's CSCD chronological-history information to the attorney representing the state. 7. If either the defendant's attorney or the attorney representing the state receives a defendant's CSCD chronological-history information from opposing counsel, the information may not be further copied, shared, or otherwise disseminated. 8. Anything other than a defendant's chronological-history information contained within the CSCD file may be obtained only by order of the supervising court. 9. A third party requesting information contained within the defendant's CSCD file must present a written motion to the supervising court. 10. This order may be enforced by contempt. 11. A written request to CSCD for chronological-history information must contain the following acknowledgement: "I am the attorney for ☐ the state ☐ the defendant in this case. I am requesting a copy of the defendant's chronological-history information from CSCD. I affirm that I will not copy, share, or otherwise disseminate the defendant's chronological-history information, or any other information that I have obtained from CSCD, with anyone other than opposing counsel in the cause unless authorized by order of the supervising court. I understand that this request is made under the Standing Order Regarding Files of the Community Supervision and Corrections Department of Tarrant County, Texas, and may be enforced by contempt." 12. This order supersedes Administrative Order No. 2461 filed March 24, 2021, and Administrative Order No. 2613, filed November 17, 2020. Signed on May 24 [handwritten], 2023, except as otherwise indicated at specific signatures below (several signatures carry their own handwritten dates between May 24 and May 31, 2023). [signature] HONORABLE ELIZABETH H. BEACH, CRIMINAL DISTRICT COURT NO. 1 [signature] HONORABLE WAYNE F. SALVANT, CRIMINAL DISTRICT COURT NO. 2 [signature] HONORABLE DOUGLAS A. ALLEN, CRIMINAL DISTRICT COURT NO. 3 [signature] HONORABLE ANDY PORTER, CRIMINAL DISTRICT COURT NO. 4 [signature] HONORABLE CHRIS WOLFE, 213th JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT [signature] HONORABLE DAVID C. HAGERMAN, 297th JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT [signature] HONORABLE RYAN HILL, 371st JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT [signature] HONORABLE JULIE LUGO, 372nd JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT [signature] HONORABLE GEORGE GALLAGHER, 396th JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT [signature] HONORABLE RUBEN GONZALEZ, JR., 432nd JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT [signature] HONORABLE STEVEN JUMES, 485th JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT [signature] HONORABLE DAVID E. COOK, COUNTY CRIMINAL COURT NO. 1 [signature] HONORABLE CAREY F. WALKER, COUNTY CRIMINAL COURT NO. 2 [signature] HONORABLE BOB MCCOY, COUNTY CRIMINAL COURT NO. 3 [signature] HONORABLE DEBORAH NEKHOM, COUNTY CRIMINAL COURT NO. 4 [signature] HONORABLE BRADLEY L. CLARK, COUNTY CRIMINAL COURT NO. 5 [signature] HONORABLE RANDI HARTIN, COUNTY CRIMINAL COURT NO. 6 [signature] HONORABLE ERIC STARNES, COUNTY CRIMINAL COURT NO. 7 [signature] HONORABLE CHARLES VANOVER, COUNTY CRIMINAL COURT NO. 8 [signature] HONORABLE BRIAN BOLTON, COUNTY CRIMINAL COURT NO. 9 [signature] HONORABLE TRENT LOFTIN, COUNTY CRIMINAL COURT NO. 10
"1. Upon the written request of either the defendant’s attorney or the attorney representing the state in a pending criminal case in Tarrant County, CSCD will provide a copy of the defendant’s chronological-history information to the requesting party. 2. Before providing a copy … CSCD may redact any information it deems necessary. 3. The defendant’s attorney or the attorney representing the state
Reviewer note: Text-layer registration (3 pages, 3,490 chars) read in full; paragraphs 1–12 quoted verbatim; filed with the District Clerk 5/31/2023 (No. 3025). Signed by the criminal district, criminal-preference district and county criminal court judges (signature pages partly illegible in the text layer). Composed benchpath-ajr8-tarrant. [BY-EYE CHECK 2026-09-21 (corpus-0920 P11): every page of the registered file (sha256 5279b00b7589..., 3 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.