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County-wide criminal discovery standing order (No. 3393) signed July 16, 2024 by the district judges giving preference to criminal cases, the criminal district judges and the statutory county criminal judges of Tarrant County: in all pending cases prosecutors may release medical records, grand-jury records, DFPS records, criminal-history information and juvenile records to defense counsel without a motion to release (and may withhold them on a successful motion); defense counsel must keep control of released records, may not reproduce or share them — including with the defendant or the defendant's family — without a court order, and must return or destroy them when the case, including any postconviction proceedings, is finally disposed of.
Texas > Tarrant County > all pending cases in the signing criminal courts (Criminal District Courts Nos. 1–4; 213th, 297th, 371st, 372nd, 396th, 432nd, 485th District Courts; County Criminal Courts Nos. 1–10) — prosecutors and defense counsel. Court-specific omnibus discovery orders (CDC No. 1, CDC No. 2, 213th, 371st, 372nd, 396th) are composed separately.
"The District Court Judges Giving Preference to Criminal Cases, the Criminal District Court Judges, and the Statutory County Criminal Court Judges of Tarrant County who have signed this Standing Order hereby ORDER that in all pending cases, the attorneys representing the state are authorized to release the following records to defense counsel without the need for a motion to release: (1) medical records, (2) grand-jury records, (3) Texas Department of Family and Protective Services records, (4) criminal-history information, and (4) juvenile records. The undersigned courts GRANT the attorneys representing the state permission to withhold releasing evidence in the above categories if the attorneys representing the state file a successful motion for such relief. The undersigned courts further ORDER that in all pending cases, defense counsel: (1) shall maintain control of all records released under this order; (2) shall not reproduce or otherwise release the records to any other person or entity, including the defendant or the defendant’s family, unless otherwise authorized by a court order; and (3) shall return or destroy the disclosed records once the case is finally disposed of, which includes any postconviction proceedings. This Standing Order is subject to modification by court order." Signed July 16, 2024 (Criminal District Courts Nos. 1–4; the 213th, 297th, 371st, 372nd, 396th, 432nd and 485th District Courts; County Criminal Courts Nos. 1–10).
"The District Court Judges Giving Preference to Criminal Cases, the Criminal District Court Judges, and the Statutory County Criminal Court Judges of Tarrant County who have signed this Standing Order hereby ORDER that in all pending cases, the attorneys representing the state are authorized to release the following records to defense counsel without the need for a motion to release: (1) medical r
Reviewer note: Image-only registration (3 pages) read through the vision lane 2026-09-05; operative text quoted verbatim (the order numbers its fifth category "(4)" — reproduced as printed); the 21 signature blocks identify the signing courts. Composed benchpath-ajr8-tarrant.
Dallas County Standing Order Regarding Children, Pets, Property and Conduct of the Parties (Family District Courts General Orders, current edition F2026/05, revised Jan. 31, 2026 — a re-adoption of the same operative text by the current bench: Hon. Kim Brown (254th), Vonda Bailey (255th), Sandre Streete (256th), Ashley Wysocki (301st), Sandra Jackson (302nd), LaDeitra Adkins (303rd), and Andrea D. Plumlee (330th)), as registered in the statewide TOPICs local-rules registry (posted 01/11/2023). The order "applies in every divorce suit and every suit affecting the parent-child relationship filed in Dallas County" automatically, without request: child-disruption prohibitions, pet protection, party-conduct restraints, divorce-case property/records/insurance freezes with specific authorizations, mandatory petition attachment, and its TRO-to-temporary-injunction lifecycle.
General Order of the Civil District Courts sitting in Dallas County (signed April 6, 2020 by the thirteen civil presiding judges), as registered in the statewide TOPICs local-rules registry (posted 10/07/2023): the 25-page limit on motions and briefs with formatting floors — the instrument the individual courts' policies cite as the amended page-limit rule.