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In criminal cases in which defense counsel (Crossroads Defenders) subpoenas records of the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services, DFPS is ordered to release its records, including audio and video, without redaction by the agreed date, subject to the incorporated Attachment A protective order: Protected Documents may be disclosed only to counsel of record, their necessary staff, experts and investigators, and the Court; may be used solely for the prosecution or defense of the case; must be returned or destroyed within 20 days (or destroyed within 7 days under documented procedures) after the case ends; and remain confidential thereafter under the Court's continuing jurisdiction.
Applies to criminal cases in the 24th, 135th, 267th and 377th District Courts in Victoria County in which DFPS records are subpoenaed by defense counsel (the order names Crossroads Defenders as the Receiving Party). The same standing order was filed in Calhoun (TOPICs 2456) and Jackson (2489). Procedural information only; not legal advice.
STANDING PROTECTIVE ORDER FOR DFPS RECORDS. The Court, in the interest of establishing a standing procedure for cases within this jurisdiction involving the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (referred to as the "Producing Party") and Crossroads Defenders (referred to as the "Receiving Party"), hereby issues this Standing Protective Order. The Court, in consideration of the relevan
Reviewer note: Composed 2026-09-07 from the TOPICs custody scan (four pages: page 1 text layer, Attachment A pages 2-4 image-only, read in full through the vision lane). Single current signer — judge-joined to Judge Williams. The Victoria registration is the one that carries Attachment A; the Calhoun registration (2456) carries the order page only.
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.
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