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Joint standing order of the Travis County criminal district courts and County Courts at Law Nos. 3–9 (entered November 16, 2021): any information or data provided to a judge to assist in determining bail or conditions of pretrial release — including the defendant's criminal history, substance-use evaluations, emergency protective orders and orders of commitment — must be provided to the defendant's attorney before the determination; each official, agency or department sets its own release procedures, and the parties may agree to broader discovery.
Applies in Travis County Courts at Law Nos. 3–9 (criminal). The district courts re-entered the same order in March 2025 (published separately). Procedural information only; not legal advice.
Cause Nos. D-1-GN-61-121012 and C-1-CR-11-100054 — In the District Courts (147th, 167th, 299th, 331st, 390th, 403rd, 427th, 450th and 460th District Courts) and In the County Courts at Law (County Court at Law #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8 and #9), Travis County, Texas: STANDING ORDER ON DISCOVERY PRIOR TO A DETERMINATION OF BAIL, PRETRIAL RELEASE, OR ANY CONDITIONS THEREOF. 1. 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, any reports or evaluations concerning 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. 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. Signed and ordered and entered the 16th day of November 2021 by Judge Brenda P. Kennedy (403rd), Judge Clifford Brown (147th), Judge Dayna Blazey (167th), Judge Karen Sage (299th), Judge Chantal Eldridge (331st), Judge Julie Kocurek (390th), Judge Tamara Needles (427th), Judge Brad Urrutia (450th), Judge Selena Alvarenga (460th), Judge John Lipscombe (County Court #3), Judge Dimple Malhotra (#4), Judge Nancy Hohengarten (#5), Judge Brandy Mueller (#6), Judge Elisabeth Earle (#7), Judge Carlos Barrera (#8) and Judge Kim Williams (#9); filed in the District Court November 19, 2021.
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.
Reviewer note: Composed 2026-09-07 (completeness fix F2) from the TOPICs custody scan of doc 506 (image-only; vision lane, both pages read in full). Previously bundled into the district courts' 2025 re-entry (doc 2382) as a copy; the joint 2021 order is the instrument that governs the County Courts at Law. Bound to Travis County (criminal; County Courts at Law Nos. 3–9).
A standing order of the 97th Judicial District Court sealing the files in cases in which Child Protective Services or the Department of Family and Protective Services appears as petitioner, in the counties comprising the 97th Judicial District.
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.