Court-Ordered Classes for Dallas County Residents — Online

How does an online class work for a Dallas County order?

You attend live over Zoom at a scheduled time, with an instructor, from wherever you are. There is no self-paced video and no drive to a classroom, which is the part that matters when the class is in Dallas and you are not.

What you finish with is a state Certificate of Completion issued under our license from the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation. That certificate is not county-specific: it is the same document whether your case is in Dallas County or anywhere else in Texas, because the license behind it is a state license.

Confirm the program name with your court or supervising officer before you enroll anywhere. Only the court or your officer can decide whether a given program satisfies your order. We will read the program name off your paperwork and tell you which class it points at, but we cannot make that decision for your court.

Which Dallas County courts order these classes?

These are the Dallas County courts that hear the cases these classes follow from. They sit in Dallas, and your order names the one your case is in.

• Dallas County Criminal Courts Nos. 1–11 (misdemeanor cases)
• Dallas County’s seventeen felony District Courts

Who supervises probation in Dallas County?

Community supervision in Dallas County runs through the department below. If your order came with a supervising officer, that officer works here, and they are the person to confirm the program name with.

Dallas County CSCD publishes probationer resources and office locations but no procedure for filing a course-completion certificate, so do not assume an email address or a drop box exists. Send yours to your supervision officer and confirm with them how they want it delivered and by when.

What is specific to Dallas County?

The statutes are the same in all 254 counties. What varies is what a given courthouse and probation department do with the discretion those statutes hand them, so each point below carries the source it was read off.

• Dallas County runs a DIVERT Court that provides a judicially supervised regimen of treatment and case management to substance abuse offenders; successful completion allows the charge to be dismissed and an expunction filed. dallascounty.org
• When a judge orders an ignition interlock as a bond condition, Dallas County Pretrial Services requires installation within 30 days of release from custody, monthly reporting with proof of calibration, and a $10 monthly monitoring fee. dallascounty.org
• The District Clerk serves the seventeen District Courts that hear felony criminal matters received from the Dallas County Grand Jury. dallascounty.org

Which class does your Dallas County order name?

These are the three programs Texas criminal courts order by name most often. Your order names one of them, or a program on the full list below it.

• DWI Education12 hours · $75
• DWI Intervention (Repeat Offender)32 hours · $225
• Drug Offender Education Program15 hours · $85

Every class we run — anger management, family violence, the victim impact panel, and the alcohol program for minors are all on that page, and each one names the requirement it clears.

Dallas County questions

Can I take the class from home if I report to Dallas County probation on Mockingbird Lane?

Reporting in person and taking the class are two different obligations. Ours meets live over Zoom, which is why people who report on Mockingbird Lane or at a branch office still take it from home. Your reporting schedule stays whatever your officer set — ask them to confirm the program name on the order before you enroll.

Does the Dallas County DIVERT program replace a court-ordered class?

No. DIVERT is a judicially supervised treatment and case-management program that can end in dismissal and expunction; a DWI or drug offender education class is a separate requirement named in an order. If your paperwork names both, both have to be done. The DIVERT intake coordinator answers eligibility questions.

My Dallas County bond requires an ignition interlock — does that change which class I take?

No. The interlock is a bond condition Pretrial Services monitors, with installation due within 30 days of release, monthly calibration reporting and a $10 monthly fee. The class is a separate requirement named in your order. Finishing one does not clear the other, and neither one is a substitute for the other.

Not sure which class your Dallas County order names?

Send us the order. We read program names off Texas court orders every day, and we will tell you which class yours points at, how long it runs and what it costs before any money changes hands. If it names a program we do not teach, we will say that too.

Call 877-635-4498 with the order in front of you, or text us a photo of it.