Travis County District Courts Sealing & Redaction Procedures

CRITICAL

Pre-adoptive home screening and post-placement adoptive reports must be maintained as confidential records.

All pre-adoptive home screening and post-placement adoptive reports will be maintained as confidential records.

CRITICAL

The District Clerk maintains files, docket sheets, and minutes as confidential records in every adoption suit and every suit in which an authorized agency seeks termination of the parent-child relationship.

The District Clerk will maintain the files, docket sheets, and minutes as confidential records: (a) In every suit in which the petition includes a prayer seeking adoption of a child; (b) In every suit in which any authorized agency seeks termination of the parent- child relationship.

CRITICAL

Pre-adoptive home screening and post-placement adoptive reports must be maintained as confidential records.

All pre-adoptive home screening and post-placement adoptive reports will be maintained as confidential records.

CRITICAL

The District Clerk must maintain files, docket sheets, and minutes as confidential records in adoption suits and suits where an authorized agency seeks termination of the parent-child relationship.

The District Clerk will maintain the files, docket sheets, and minutes as confidential records: (a) In every suit in which the petition includes a prayer seeking adoption of a child; (b) In every suit in which any authorized agency seeks termination of the parent- child relationship.

CRITICAL

All pre-adoptive home screening and post-placement adoptive reports are maintained as confidential records.

All pre-adoptive home screening and post-placement adoptive reports will be maintained as confidential records.

CRITICALCriminal cases

Before allowing a person to view a document or another witness’s statement, the person possessing it must redact the listed personal and identifying information.

Before allowing that person to view a document or the witness statement of another under this subsection, the person possessing the information shall redact the address, telephone number, driver's license number, social security number, date of birth, and any bank account or other identifying numbers contained in the document or witness statement.

CRITICAL

The District Clerk automatically maintains files, docket sheets, and minutes as confidential records in adoption suits and in suits where an authorized agency seeks termination of the parent-child relationship.

The District Clerk will maintain the files, docket sheets, and minutes as confidential records: (a) In every suit in which the petition includes a prayer seeking adoption of a child; (b) In every suit in which any authorized agency seeks termination of the parent- child relationship.

CRITICAL

Pre-adoptive home screening and post-placement adoptive reports are maintained as confidential records.

All pre-adoptive home screening and post-placement adoptive reports will be maintained as confidential records.

CRITICAL

The District Clerk must maintain files, docket sheets, and minutes as confidential records in suits seeking adoption and suits in which an authorized agency seeks termination of the parent-child relationship.

The District Clerk will maintain the files, docket sheets, and minutes as confidential records: (a) In every suit in which the petition includes a prayer seeking adoption of a child; (b) In every suit in which any authorized agency seeks termination of the parent- child relationship.

WARNING

In termination suits that do not seek adoption, files, docket sheets, and minutes are not confidential or sealed unless the court orders otherwise.

In all other suits seeking termination but not adoption, the files, docket sheets, and minutes will not be confidential or sealed unless otherwise ordered by the court.

WARNING

In termination suits that do not seek adoption, the files, docket sheets, and minutes are not confidential or sealed unless the court orders otherwise.

In all other suits seeking termination but not adoption, the files, docket sheets, and minutes will not be confidential or sealed unless otherwise ordered by the court.

WARNING

In termination suits that do not seek adoption, files, docket sheets, and minutes are not confidential or sealed unless the court orders otherwise.

In all other suits seeking termination but not adoption, the files, docket sheets, and minutes will not be confidential or sealed unless otherwise ordered by the court.

WARNING

In termination suits that do not seek adoption, the files, docket sheets, and minutes are not confidential or sealed unless the court orders otherwise.

In all other suits seeking termination but not adoption, the files, docket sheets, and minutes will not be confidential or sealed unless otherwise ordered by the court.