Ector County District Courts Sealing & Redaction Procedures

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The Ector County District Clerk must seal upon receipt all unredacted Chapter 141 applications, pleadings, orders, and exhibits.

It is therefore ORDERED that the Ector County District Clerk shall seal, upon the receipt for filing, all unredacted applications, other pleadings, orders, and any exhibits filed pursuant to Chapter 141 of the Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code. See TEX. CIV. PRAC. & REM. CODE §141.006(d)(2)(C).

The District Clerk must promptly seal and maintain as confidential all qualifying written mental health reports, assessments, and evaluations filed in Ector County felony criminal cases.

the office of the District Clerk of Ector County, Texas shall promptly seal and maintain as confidential all written reports, assessments, and mental health evaluations that are filed in felony criminal cases in the District Courts of Ector County, Texas, in which a person's competency to stand trial, sanity, or other mental health conditions(s) is/are at issue and have been addressed.

The sealed evaluations, assessments, and reports may not be unsealed or disclosed unless a District Court of Ector County orders and approves the disclosure, subject to the cited statutory exceptions.

Subject to the exceptions stated in Articles 46r-- & 46C, Tex. Code Crim. Proc,,IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that any such filed evaluations, assessments, and reports shall not be unsealed or disclosed to any person or entity, unless disclosure of same has been otherwise ordered and approved by a District Court of Ector County, Texas.