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A joint order of the Travis County District Courts and County Courts at Law establishing the firearms and other deadly weapons policy for the courts, consistent with the prohibition on weapons in government courts.
Applies to firearms and deadly weapons in the Travis County District and County court facilities. Procedural information only; not legal advice.
[Letterhead: County of Travis, State of Texas, with an engraving of the courthouse] The Firearms and Other Deadly Weapons policy of the Travis County Criminal Courts states: (a) Employees other than licensed peace officers, correction officers, District Magistrates, or Judges shall not carry a firearm or other deadly weapons on their person, while on County owned, leased, or controlled real property and while in a County-owned, leased, or controlled motor vehicle. (b) If an employee becomes aware of any employee carrying a firearm or other deadly weapon in violation of the prohibition in subsection (a), the employee may notify any of the following of the situation: (1) their elected or appointed official or his or her designee; (2) the Travis County Sheriff's Office, or; (3) any other appropriate County law enforcement agency. This policy applies to all positions/job titles in the Travis County Criminal Courts. Signed on 25 [handwritten] day of January [handwritten], 2016. [signature] JUDGE BRENDA P. KENNEDY, 403RD District Court [signature] JUDGE CLIFFORD A. BROWN, 147TH District Court [signature] JUDGE P. DAVID WAHLBERG, 167TH District Court [signature] JUDGE KAREN SAGE, 299TH District Court [Running header on page 2: Travis County Criminal Courts, Firearms and Other Deadly Weapons Policy, Page Two] [signature] JUDGE DAVID CRAIN, 331ST District Court [handwritten "unavailable" on the signature line] JUDGE JULIE KOCUREK, 390TH District Court [signature] JUDGE JIM CORONADO, 427TH District Court [signature] JUDGE DON J. CLEMMER, 450TH District Court [signature] JUDGE JOHN LIPSCOMBE, County Court #3 [signature] JUDGE MICHAEL DENTON, County Court #4 [signature] JUDGE NANCY HOHENGARTEN, County Court #5 [signature] JUDGE BRANDY MUELLER, County Court #6 [signature] JUDGE ELISABETH EARLE, County Court #7 [signature] JUDGE CARLOS BARRERA, County Court #8 [Running footer: Page 1 of 2 / Page 2 of 2]
[Letterhead: County of Travis, State of Texas, with an engraving of the courthouse] The Firearms and Other Deadly Weapons policy of the Travis County Criminal Courts states: (a) Employees other than licensed peace officers, correction officers, District Magistrates, or Judges shall not carry a firearm or other deadly weapons on their person, while on County owned, leased, or controlled real proper
Reviewer note: Composed 2026-09-06 from the TOPICs custody scan at a summary level, faithful to the order's title and the companion weapons orders (docs 2003, 593/595) read in full. Bound to Travis County. [TRANSCRIBED BY EYE 2026-09-21 (corpus-0920 P12): every page of the registered file (sha256 09274531e005..., 2 page(s), image-only scan; the OCR layer used as a typing base and corrected word by word from the page) read against the rendered file; verbatim, source typos kept, stamps/signatures bracketed; the earlier abstract replaced by the full instrument; confidence high. benchpath-tx-corpus0920-p12-2026-09-21]
9 verbatim requirements from 4th Circuit Administrative Order 1997-10.
6 verbatim requirements from 4th Circuit Administrative Order 1997-13.