Court-Ordered Classes for Tarrant County Residents — Online

How does an online class work for a Tarrant 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 Fort Worth 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 Tarrant 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 Tarrant County courts order these classes?

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

• Tarrant County Criminal Courts Nos. 1–10 (misdemeanor cases)
• Tarrant County’s eleven felony District Courts

Who supervises probation in Tarrant County?

Community supervision in Tarrant 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.

Tarrant County CSCD lists its programs but publishes no procedure for filing a completion certificate — no address, no format, no deadline. Confirm the delivery route with your supervision officer rather than guessing from a general county page, and ask which of the seven CSCD offices it should reach.

What is specific to Tarrant 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.

• The Misdemeanor DWI Court Program is a post-plea misdemeanor probation offered through CSCD, not a diversion program; its primary offenses are misdemeanor DWI repetitions and DWI with BAC over 0.15, and an ignition interlock device is required for participants who drive. tarrantcountytx.gov
• On the felony side, the county runs a Felony Alcohol Intervention Program it describes as a post-adjudication initiative targeting repeat DWI offenders at high risk of reoffending. tarrantcountytx.gov
• CSCD supervision runs out of seven offices — Fort Worth, Arlington, Hurst and Lake Worth — so a Tarrant County order does not always mean reporting downtown. tarrantcountytx.gov

Which class does your Tarrant 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.

Tarrant County questions

I report to the Tarrant County CSCD office in Arlington — can I still take the class online?

Yes. CSCD runs seven offices across Fort Worth, Arlington, Hurst and Lake Worth, and which one you report to has nothing to do with how the class is delivered. Ours meets live over Zoom on a set schedule. Confirm the program name on your order with your officer at whichever office supervises you.

Is the Tarrant County Misdemeanor DWI Court Program the same as DWI Education?

No. The county describes that program as a post-plea misdemeanor probation offered through CSCD, not a diversion program, aimed at repeat DWI and high-BAC cases, with an ignition interlock required for participants who drive. DWI Education is a 12-hour licensed class. A DWI Court participant can be ordered to take the class as well.

Which Tarrant County court will a misdemeanor DWI case be in?

One of the ten County Criminal Courts, numbered 1 through 10, which sit at the Tim Curry Criminal Justice Center on West Belknap in Fort Worth. Felony cases, including repeat DWI, go to one of eleven district courts in the same building. Your order names the court your case is in.

Not sure which class your Tarrant 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.