An order from the Texas Supreme Court requiring counties to integrate their online case management software with a statewide system poses security and financial concerns, and the mandate came without legal authority, the state’s Tarrant County argued Monday.
Tarrant — the state’s third most populous county, anchored by Fort Worth — requested an opinion from the Texas Attorney General’s office giving the county clerk’s office an option to continue using its preferred vendor rather than be forced to switch to re:SearchTX. AG opinions are non-binding but can carry weight in strengthening a legal challenge.
Moving to the statewide platform “presents ...
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