An amended standing order of the Travis County District Courts and County Courts at Law directing the release of arrestees after the District Attorney's or County Attorney's Office declines to accept (rejects) the charges, in the interest of justice.
Applies to the release of arrestees after the prosecuting authority rejects the charges, in Travis County. Procedural information only; not legal advice.
Amended Standing Order to Release Arrestees After the District Attorney's Office (for felonies) / County Attorney's Office (for misdemeanors) Rejects Charges (Travis County). In the interest of justice and fairness for persons arrested, the Order provides that when the District Attorney's Office or the County Attorney's Office rejects (declines to accept) the charges against an arrestee, the arrestee is to be released from custody on those charges without the need for a further individual order, setting the procedure by which the jail and pretrial services effect the release once the prosecuting authority's rejection is communicated.
Amended Standing Order to Release Arrestees After the District Attorney's Office (for felonies) / County Attorney's Office (for misdemeanors) Rejects Charges (Travis County). In the interest of justice and fairness for persons arrested, the Order provides that when the District Attorney's Office or the County Attorney's Office rejects (declines to accept) the charges against an arrestee, the arres
Reviewer note: Composed 2026-09-06 from the TOPICs custody scan (text layer read). Registered at the county-court (509, County Attorney) and district-court (510, District Attorney) levels; bundled. Bound to Travis County (criminal).
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.