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Wise County Standing Order Regarding Sealing of Child Protective Service Cases

High confidence· verified September 21, 2026Administrative OrdersWise County Standing Order Re: Sealing of Child Protective Service Cases (signed June 26, 2025) — 271st District Court, County Courts at Law Nos. 1 & 2; TOPICs reg. doc 2447.

Summary

A records-access standing order of the 271st District Court and County Courts at Law Nos. 1 and 2 sealing Child Protective Service case files in Wise County.

Applies to

Governs access to CPS/DFPS case files in Wise County; access by a non-party requires a court order.

Requirement

THE 271ST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT OF WISE AND JACK COUNTIES § THE COUNTY COURT AT LAW NO. 1, WISE COUNTY, TEXAS § THE COUNTY COURT AT LAW NO. 2, WISE COUNTY, TEXAS § STANDING ORDER RE: SEALING OF CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICE CASES It is HEREBY ORDERED that all files wherein the Department of Family and Protective Services has filed a Petition for Protection of a Child, for Conservatorship, and for Termination in Suit Affecting the Parent-Child Relationship, Petition for Orders in Aid of Investigation or a Report of Child Abuse or Neglect, or any other Child Protective Service case in the above-named courts shall be sealed and kept confidential, and no person or entity not listed as a party in such record shall have access to such records, without an order from the Court. SIGNED this the 26th day of June, 2025. [signature] Judge Brock R. Smith [signature] Judge Greg Lowery [signature] Judge Dana D. Manoushagian

Source of truth

THE 271ST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT OF WISE AND JACK COUNTIES § THE COUNTY COURT AT LAW NO. 1, WISE COUNTY, TEXAS § THE COUNTY COURT AT LAW NO. 2, WISE COUNTY, TEXAS § STANDING ORDER RE: SEALING OF CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICE CASES It is HEREBY ORDERED that all files wherein the Department of Family and Protective Services has filed a Petition for Protection of a Child, for Conservatorship, and for Ter

Official source: TOPICs — Texas local rules registry (topics.txcourts.gov)
Source health: Healthy · checked September 24, 2026
Effective date: June 26, 2025
Last verified: September 21, 2026benchpath-tx-corpus0920-p12-2026-09-21

Reviewer note: Composed 2026-09-06 from the TOPICs custody scan (read in full). Court-less division_family CPS records-access order. [TRANSCRIBED BY EYE 2026-09-21 (corpus-0920 P12): every page of the registered file (sha256 e6f6c6c5fc99..., 1 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]