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Standing orders signed May 29, 2024 and effective July 1, 2024 for child protection cases in the 326th District Court and the Child Protection Court of Taylor County: hair and nail drug tests include fentanyl; the visitation plan is filed before the adversary hearing; no placement change without the guardian ad litem/CASA's agreement or a court order, absent an emergency; statewide placement searches including the General Placement Search database; written reports and in-person appearances by the placement specialist when a child is placed outside Taylor County and a 150-mile radius for three months; least-restrictive placement; placement and respite stays listed in court reports; monthly adoptive-placement searches; deficiency meetings within three business days for adoption subsidy packets and TARE applications; and required training on the standing orders.
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STANDING ORDERS IN ALL CHILD PROTECTION CASES IN THE 326TH DISTRCT COURT OF TAYLOR COUNTY AND THE CHILD PROTECTION COURT OF TAYLOR COUNTY The following orders are necessary to protect each child and are in the best interest of each child before the Court in any case filed by the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services and its single source continuum contractor, currently 2INgage, (hereinafter collectively referred to as the “Department”): 1. IT IS ORDERED that all hair and nail drug tests conducted in these cases shall include detection for the presence of fentanyl. This order does not apply to alcohol testing. The following orders are necessary to protect each child and are in the best interest of each child before the Court while in the temporary or permanent managing conservatorship of the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services and its single source continuum contractor, currently 2INgage, (hereinafter collectively referred to as the “Department”): 1. IT IS ORDERED that all hair and nail tests conducted in these cases shall include detection for the presence of fentanyl. 2. IT IS ORDERED that the Department shall file the visitation plan as defined in Texas Family Code Section 262.115 before the Adversary Hearing under Texas Family Code Section 262.201. 3. IT IS ORDERED that, absent an emergency, a child’s placement shall not change unless agreed to by the child’s Guardian Ad Litem/CASA or a court order. 4. IT IS ORDERED that the Department shall produce to the child’s attorney and guardian ad litem the child’s common application and Every Child A Priority (ECAP) assessment that is submitted to determine a child’s placement at each placement search. 5. IT IS ORDERED that for every placement search for a child the Department shall search each and every licensed placement in the state of Texas, including but not limited to placements licensed or contracted directly with the Department of Family and Protective Services (hereinafter “DFPS”) or placements licensed or contracted with other Single Source Continuum Contractors operating outside of Taylor Couty, Texas. IT IS ORDERED that every placement search shall include a search of the General Placement Search (GPS) Database maintained by DFPS. 6. IT IS ORDERED that the Department shall not place a child in an emergency shelter outside of Taylor County until the Department has searched each and every licensed placement in the state of Texas, including but not limited to placements licensed or contracted directly with the Department of Family and Protective Services or placements licensed or contracted with other Single Source Continuum Contractors operating outside of Taylor Couty, Texas. IT IS ORDERED that every placement search shall include a search of the General Placement Search (GPS) Database maintained by DFPS. 7. IT IS ORDERED that if a child/children has not been placed in Taylor county or within 150 miles of Taylor county and is not in a relative/fictive kin or adoptive home after a period of three (3) months—the 2Ingage “placement specialist” assigned to the child/children shall provide a written report to the Court that includes the following information: 1) what placements were contacted; 2) what person with personal knowledge of the child/children contacted the placements; and 3) the response from the placement. Emails or fax contacts attempts will not be considered as compliance with this requirement. 8. IT IS ORDERED that if a child/children has not been placed in Taylor county or within 150 miles of Taylor county and is not in a relative/fictive kin or adoptive home for a period of three (3) months—the 2Ingage “placement specialist” assigned to the child/children shall appear in person at the next court hearing scheduled for that child/children to discuss the active, ongoing efforts to place the child/children within Taylor county or within 150 miles of Taylor County. 9. IT IS ORDERED that the Department shall place each child in the least restrictive setting regardless of whether the placement is licensed or contracted directly with the Department of Family and Protective Services or licensed or contracted with another Single Source Continuum Contractor operating outside of Taylor County, Texas. 10. IT IS ORDERED that the Department shall list all placement types, county of placements, and placement changes in the Status Report and each court report thereafter. 11. IT IS ORDERED that the Department shall include each respite or other temporary placement stay (e.g. hospital, jail, hotel, overnight in an office, etc.) in each court report, including the Status Report. 12. IT IS ORDERED that the Department shall conduct a search for an adoptive placement at least one time each month for each child in the permanent managing conservatorship of the Department whose parents have been terminated or are deceased. Each month the 2Ingage “placement specialist” assigned to the child/children is ORDERED to provide a written report to the Court and the child’s attorney and guardian ad litem/CASA that includes the following information: 1) what placements or agencies were contacted; 2) what person with personal knowledge of the child/children contacted the placements or agencies; and 3) the response from the placement or agency. Emails or fax contacts attempts will not be considered as compliance with this requirement. 13. IT IS ORDERED that the adoption specialist who returns an adoption subsidiary packet for deficiency shall meet with the prospective adoptive family and permanency case manager and child placing agency within three (3) business days to correct the deficiency. 14. IT IS ORDERED that the Department employee who returns a TARE application for a deficiency shall meet with the permanency case manager and their supervisor within three (3) business days to correct the deficiency. 15. IT IS ORDERED that the Department shall conduct a training on these standing orders and the standing order on psychotropic medication. IT IS ORDERED that all Permanency Case Managers, their supervisors and program directors for 2INgage shall attend such training by June 30, 2024. IT IS ORDERED that the training shall be conducted by an Assistant District Attorney from the Taylor County District Attorney’s office. IT IS ORDERED that the Department must show proof of attendance for this training by June 30, 2024. IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that any new employee of 2INgage shall complete the same training and provide proof of the training to the Court before becoming case assignable. 16. IT IS ORDERED that this standing order is effective July 1, 2024. Signed this 29th day of May, 2024. [signature] April R. Propst Associate Judge Child Protection Court of Taylor County [signature] Paul R. Rotenberry District Judge 326th District Court, Taylor County
STANDING ORDERS IN ALL CHILD PROTECTION CASES IN THE 326TH DISTRCT COURT OF TAYLOR COUNTY AND THE CHILD PROTECTION COURT OF TAYLOR COUNTY The following orders are necessary to protect each child and are in the best interest of each child before the Court in any case filed by the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services and its single source continuum contractor, currently 2INgage, (here
Reviewer note: Composed 2026-09-24 (AJR-7 Seventh Region build) from BenchPath custody sources/documents/b6368e2f09f7715c-standing-orders-in-all-child-protection-case-in-the-326th-district-cou.pdf (application/pdf, 1257796 bytes, sha256 b6368e2f09f7715c48f306e60b986dcf9f92f9361506286fa61fe4bf378a32ee; 3 pages) - the TOPICs-registered document: transcribed from the rendered pages of the scanned PDF (the machine OCR layer was not relied on), every page read against the render; signature, seal and file-stamp blocks bracketed. Source spellings kept as printed: "DISTRCT", "Couty" (twice); the order contains two numbered lists that each begin at 1.
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