Gaines County District Court Sealing & Redaction Procedures
2 rules from official source documents
Procedures for filing sealed or redacted documents, including required motions and formats.
Criminal cases
The District Clerk must promptly seal and maintain as confidential filed mental-health reports, assessments, and evaluations in specified felony criminal cases.
IT IS ORDERED that the office of the District Clerk of Dawson, Gaines, Garza and Lynn Counties, 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 Court of Dawson, Gaines, Garza and Lynn County, Texas, in which a person’s competency to stand trial, sanity, or other mental health condition(s) is / are at issue and have been addressed.
Criminal cases
Subject to the stated statutory exceptions, covered filed mental-health records must not be unsealed or disclosed unless the District Court has ordered and approved disclosure.
Subject to the exceptions stated in Articles 46B & 46C, Texas Code Criminal Procedure; 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 the District Court of Dawson, Gaines, Garza and Lynn Counties, Texas.
How does Gaines County District Court handle sealed or redacted filings?
The District Clerk must promptly seal and maintain as confidential filed mental-health reports, assessments, and evaluations in specified felony criminal cases.
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