Court-Ordered Classes for Harris County Residents — Online

How does an online class work for a Harris 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 Houston 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 Harris 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 Harris County courts order these classes?

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

• Harris County Criminal Courts at Law Nos. 1–16 (Class A and B misdemeanors)
• Harris County District Courts (felony cases)

Who supervises probation in Harris County?

Community supervision in Harris 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.

Harris County CSCD publishes no route for filing a class-completion certificate — its client resources cover payments and reporting, not certificates. Give yours to your supervision officer and confirm with them how they want it delivered. If you do not know who your officer is, the department’s general line, 713-755-2700, routes you to the right program.

What is specific to Harris 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.

• Harris County CSCD runs a DWI Court for misdemeanor cases, which it describes as an intensive intervention for misdemeanor DWI clients at significant risk of reoffending. cscd.harriscountytx.gov
• The department calls itself the third largest probation department in the United States, supervising 70,000+ people through the year with 650+ employees across 13 locations. cscd.harriscountytx.gov
• Alongside DWI Court, CSCD lists a Mental Health Court, a Drug Court and Veterans Courts for both felony and misdemeanor cases. cscd.harriscountytx.gov

Which class does your Harris 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.

Harris County questions

Does a live online class work for a case in the Harris County Criminal Courts at Law?

The class meets live over Zoom at a scheduled time, so which courtroom your case sits in does not change how you attend. What decides it is the program name on your order. Read that name to your supervising officer or to us before you pay for anything — only the court or your officer can say a given program answers your order.

Is Harris County DWI Court the same thing as the DWI Education class?

No. DWI Court is a specialty court program Harris County CSCD runs for misdemeanor DWI cases it identifies as high risk of reoffending, with its own supervision and eligibility criteria. DWI Education is a 12-hour licensed class a court orders by name. Someone in DWI Court can also be ordered to take the class; your officer will tell you which one your paperwork means.

Who receives my completion certificate in Harris County?

Your supervision officer, unless the order says otherwise. Harris County CSCD does not publish a filing address, portal or deadline for course certificates anywhere on its site, so anyone who tells you there is one is guessing. Ask your officer directly, or call 713-755-2700 to be routed to the program handling your case.

Not sure which class your Harris 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.