Jack County District Court, Texas Sealing & Redaction Procedures

Civil cases

Files in the specified Child Protective Service cases must be sealed and kept confidential; nonparties may access them only by court order.

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.

Segregate documents sought to be excluded in a sealed wrapper and provide a specific privilege pleading with authority citations and a log to the Court and all counsel.

Documents sought to be excluded shall be segregated and furnished to the Court in a sealed wrapper along with a specific pleading of claimed privilege as to each, with citation of authority. A log of same shall be furnished to the Court and all counsel.

Documents sought to be excluded must be segregated and submitted to the Court in a sealed wrapper with a specific privilege pleading and supporting authority.

3.512 Documents sought to be excluded shall be segregated and furnished to the Court in a sealed wrapper along with a specific pleading of claimed privilege as to each, with citation of authority.