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A joint standing order of the Travis County District Courts and County Courts at Law governing the discovery to be provided to the defense prior to a determination of bail and pretrial release, so that bail decisions are informed.
Applies in the Travis County criminal district courts (147th, 167th, 299th, 331st, 390th, 403rd, 427th, 450th and 460th District Courts). The County Courts at Law Nos. 3–9 remain governed by the joint order of November 16, 2021, published separately. Procedural information only; not legal advice.
Docusign Envelope ID: CFCA2CCB-F55D-42DE-BDF1-1B2A99E7AC21 [Letterhead: County of Travis, State of Texas] CAUSE # D-1-GN-61-121012 CAUSE # C-1-CR-25-000001 In the District Courts: 147th District Court, 167th District Court, 299th District Court, 331st District Court, 390th District Court, 403rd District Court, 427th District Court, 450th District Court, 460th District Court, Travis County, Texas § In the County Courts at Law: County Court at Law #3, County Court at Law #4, County Court at Law #5, County Court at Law #6, County Court at Law #7, County Court at Law #8, County Court at Law #9, Travis County, Texas STANDING ORDER ON DISCOVERY PRIOR TO A DETERMINATION OF BAIL, PRETRIAL RELEASE, OR ANY CONDITIONS THEREOF 1. With the exception of information or data as described in paragraph 4, any information or data which has been or will be provided to any judge for the purpose of assisting the judge in determining bail and any conditions of pre-trial release shall be provided to any attorney representing a criminal defendant prior to said judicial determination. This order includes the defendant’s criminal history record information or other involvement with law enforcement agencies—including but not limited to CJIS reports and the Public Safety Report—any reports or evaluations concerning the defendant’s physical or mental condition or treatment for any substance use disorder, emergency protective orders, orders of commitment and other such information or data obtained or provided by Travis County officials, agencies, or departments in possession of the information or data. Each official, agency, or department shall establish its own procedures for release of said information or data. 2. Criminal-history-related information and publicly-filed documents shall also be provided to the attorney representing the State. 3. Any information the Pretrial Services Department (“the Department”) gathers from statements made by a defendant shall not be shared with the attorney representing the State. 4. The Department shall provide confidential information only to the judge determining bail, unless or until the judge instructs the Department to release the information to an attorney representing a criminal defendant. Confidential information includes, but is not limited to, the following categories: a. Information directly related to the safety of a complaining witness or another member of the community, the release of which could jeopardize that person’s safety; b. Identifying information or contact information for a complaining witness or another member of the community, the release of which could jeopardize that person’s safety; or c. Information otherwise made confidential by law (including, but not limited to, sensitive medical or mental health information relating to individuals other than the defendant). 5. Nothing in this standing order prohibits the parties from agreeing to discovery and documentation requirements equal to or greater than those required by this order. 6. This Order replaces the Standing Order on Discovery Prior to a Determination of Bail, Pretrial Release, or Any Conditions Thereof (effective November 16, 2021), which is hereby superseded and rescinded. SIGNED, ORDERED AND ENTERED THE 27TH DAY OF MARCH, 2025. [signature] JUDGE CLIFFORD BROWN, 147TH District Court [signature] JUDGE DAYNA BLAZEY, 167TH District Court [signature] JUDGE KAREN SAGE, 299TH District Court [signature] JUDGE CHANTAL ELDRIDGE, 331ST District Court [signature] JUDGE JULIE KOCUREK, 390TH District Court [signature] JUDGE BRANDY MUELLER, 403RD District Court [signature] JUDGE TAMARA NEEDLES, 427TH District Court [signature] JUDGE BRAD URRUTIA, 450TH District Court [signature] JUDGE SELENA ALVARENGA, 460TH District Court [signature] JUDGE BIANCA GARCIA, County Court #3 [signature] JUDGE DIMPLE MALHOTRA, County Court #4 [signature] JUDGE MARY ANN ESPIRITU, County Court #5 [signature] JUDGE DENISE HERNÁNDEZ, County Court #6 [signature] JUDGE ELISABETH EARLE, County Court #7 [signature] JUDGE CARLOS BARRERA, County Court #8 [signature] JUDGE KIM WILLIAMS, County Court #9
Standing Order on Discovery Prior to a Determination of Bail, Pretrial Release, or Pretrial Detention (Travis County District Courts — 147th, 167th, 299th, 331st, 390th, 403rd, 427th, 450th and 460th — and County Courts at Law Nos. 3-9). The judges order that, prior to a determination of bail, the State make available to the defendant or defense counsel the information and materials in the possess
Reviewer note: Composed 2026-09-06 from the TOPICs custody scan (2382 text layer read; the earlier joint order 506 bundled). Bound to Travis County (criminal). Receipt corrected 2026-09-07 (F2): the composed text is the district courts' March 2025 re-entry (doc 2382; effective November 16, 2021 by its own terms — now the recorded effective date); the receipt had pointed at the joint 2021 order (doc 506), which still governs the County Courts at Law and is now its own rule. [RECOMPOSED 2026-09-21 (corpus-0920 P7, digital-layer lane): the full text of the registered file (sha256 007f0c63ee8e..., 3 pages) replaces the earlier 758-character abstract. Method: pypdfium2 text layer reflowed page-aware, cross-checked word-by-word against PyMuPDF (0 substantive difference(s), 4 page-furniture), owner-corpus candidate sentences 100% (6/6) 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 007f0c63ee8e..., 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.