How many domestic-violence charges have had bonds?
Core family-violence charges in the bond dataset (snapshot ).
DV charges by offense type
Bond status of DV charges
Average bond by DV offense (where set)
DV bonds: misdemeanor vs. felony courts
DV bonds are set far higher than the typical charge
Median bond amount, domestic-violence charges vs. all charges in the bond file.
Domestic-violence charge breakdown
| Offense (as published) | Category | Charges | With bond set | Avg bond | Total bond $ |
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Individual DV charge-records
Public docket data. Defendant names are masked to surname + first initial (not yet adjudicated).
| Case # | Offense | Court | Bond type | Bond amount | Status / note | Defendant |
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DV among newly filed charges
DV bond-type mix
Letter codes are an unofficial best-effort legend — see Datasets & Sources.
Context — the full bond dataset (all charge types)
Most common charges overall
How were these domestic-violence cases disposed?
Criminal dispositions (case outcomes) from — the monthly disposition extract, with the full, untruncated offense literal and the authoritative cad outcome code.
DISM), deferred adjudication (DADJ), no-bills (NOB) and revocations (DISP) — guilty verdicts and prison sentences do not appear in this file. The percentages below are shares of the dispositions in this extract, not of all DV cases ever filed.How DV cases were disposed
Authoritative case-disposition code (cad): dismissed, deferred adjudication, no-billed, or other.
DV dispositions: misdemeanor vs. felony courts
DV dispositions by offense (full offense literal)
Unlike the bond feed, the disposition feed carries the complete offense text.
Charge grade (offense severity)
The charged level/degree (curr_l_d) — Class A/B misdemeanors vs. 1st/2nd/3rd-degree and state-jail felonies.
Does severity change the outcome?
Dismissed / deferred / other, within each charge grade. Higher-degree felonies are dismissed somewhat less often, but dismissal still dominates at every level.
Criminal bond set on these DV charges
The bond amount (bam) attached to each charge that later reached disposition — the criminal-side bond, joined to the outcome.
Referring law-enforcement agency
Which agency referred the DV charge (comp_agency).
Time from charge to disposition
Days between the offense/filing date (fda) and disposition (dispdt).
Deferred-adjudication terms
Probation lengths handed down where a DV case ended in deferred adjudication.
Outcome detail
| Outcome (cad) | Authoritative meaning | DV cases |
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What the numbers expose — Harris County & domestic violence
The figures the courts' own data make hard to ignore. Each tile is computed live and cited; scope caveats are kept in place so the picture stays honest.
Decades of DV dispositions: convictions are collapsing
From the historical criminal archives (a data source the live feeds don't include). Each era is every family-violence disposition the archive recorded.
Outcome mix by era
Conviction rate by era
How convictions were sentenced (historical)
Sentence type among the family-violence convictions in the archives — the guilty outcomes the monthly extract never shows.
The bigger machine: Harris County's criminal-court caseload
The monthly disposition extract above is a single slice. This puts it in scale: every criminal case Harris County's district (felony) and county (misdemeanor) courts add and dispose of, from the Texas Office of Court Administration — a state dataset the District Clerk feeds don't include.
Cases added vs. disposed, by year
Pending backlog at year end
Monthly throughput (2023–present)
Individual DV disposition records
Public docket data. Defendant names masked to surname + initial. Outcomes are recorded events, not commentary.
| Disp. date | Case # | Offense | Grade | Court | Bond | Outcome | Sentence | Referring agency | Defendant |
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Protective orders & domestic-violence complainants
In civil/family court, the applicant for a protective order is the family-violence complainant. These figures come from the Civil Case Index and CaseSummaryMods feeds.
Protective orders granted, by year
Self-describing judgment text “ORDER SIGNED GRANTING PROTECTIVE ORDER (FINAL)” across all CaseSummaryMods extracts.
Active protective-order cases, by filing year
Family-law case types in the active civil index
DV-adjacent family-court matters (the literal CASE TYPE field). Protective orders are the direct DV signal; divorce/custody/termination are where family violence most often surfaces.
Family-court activity volume
Rows touching the family courts (region = FAM) across the newly added case-summary and case-setting feeds.
Civil case index — snapshot comparison
| Snapshot | Active cases | Case types | Protective orders |
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Protective-order caseload by court
| Court | Active protective-order cases |
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CaseSummaryMods & CaseSettingMods — per-extract detail
| File | Extract | Rows | Family-court rows | PO grants |
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Texas, county by county
The same family-violence lens, statewide: a confirmed-abuse rate for all 254 counties, normalized by population and shown against demographics — so you can spot where a county deviates from what its size and makeup would predict. Harris County (this dashboard's deep dive) is outlined.
County detail
Hover or tap a county on the map to see its population, demographics, and how its rate deviates from the statewide average.
Biggest deviations from the statewide rate
Counties whose per-capita confirmed-abuse rate sits furthest (by z-score) from the 254-county average. Small-population counties swing widest — population is shown so you can judge reliability.
| County | Population | Rate /100k | z | vs state |
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Sources & method
Recently updated & published datasets
A daily automated check of the State of Texas open-data portal for the court, family-violence, and public-safety datasets that include Harris County — ranked by when the data was last refreshed. New extracts appear here as soon as the agencies publish them.
Most recently refreshed
Sorted by latest data refresh. county = county-level (carries a Harris County row). Click a name to open the dataset on the portal.
| Dataset | Topic | Publisher | Data refreshed | First published | Views / mo |
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Harris County data portals
Primary sources that publish on their own cadence (no machine-readable update feed) — worth checking directly.
Authoritative specification
Dataset inventory
Every file read by this app. Row counts are computed live at startup.
| File | Kind | Rows | Size | Note |
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Citation registry — how each claim is derived
| Claim | Source file(s) | Method |
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Authoritative code legends Fields_Codes now included
The 2014-03-26 OVERVIEW.pdf spec points to Fields_Codes reference tables that were missing from the first drop. They are now present (FIELD_CODES.xlsx, RecordLayoutsAndFieldNames.xlsx), so the codes below are authoritative, not inferred.
| Legend | Field | Codes | Sample (authoritative meanings) | Source |
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Service of process
Were court papers actually served? Status of service-of-process rows, using the authoritative sst legend.
Methodology & caveats
- Source of truth for “DV charges with bonds”:
05-31-26-bond.txt, where every row is a charge with a bond record. A charge “has had a bond” when a dollar amount is set; rows marked REFER TO MAGISTRATE are pending. - Source of truth for “DV case outcomes”:
CrimDisposMonthly, the monthly disposition extract. Family-violence rows are matched on the full offense literal; the outcome is the authoritativecadcode (DISM / DADJ / NOB / DISP). This extract records dispositions reached in the period — dominated by dismissals and deferred adjudications — and is not the entire historical outcome universe. - Source of truth for “DV complainants”: the
Civil Case Index JWEBsnapshots (literal CASE TYPE “PROTECTIVE ORDER”) for active cases, andCaseSummaryMods_*for protective orders granted (judgment code 8E) and protective-order case types (cs_typ95014071/73, 95094071). - Authoritative vs. coded fields: the
Fields_Codestables are now in the drop (FIELD_CODES.xlsx,RecordLayoutsAndFieldNames.xlsx), so civilcs_typ,judgment,cst,sst,stcand the criminalcadcode are labelled authoritatively. The criminal bond-type letter (B/C/J/X/N) is not covered by these workbooks and remains an inferred best-effort legend. - What counts as domestic violence: core Texas family-violence offenses — assault of a family/household member (incl. aggravated and impeding-breath variants), continuous violence against the family, terroristic threat against family/household, and violation of a bond/protective order. A broader tally adds assault of a pregnant person and interference with an emergency call.
- Truncation: the criminal feeds truncate offense text (~24 chars), so matchers run against the truncated forms (e.g.
AGG ASSAULT-FAMILY MEMBE). - Data quality: some
CaseSettingModsset-dates carry impossible years (e.g. 6202); year series filter to 1950–2029. - Snapshots, not a full history: these are dated extracts. The 8.3 GB civil historical archive is referenced but not loaded.
- PII: defendant names in aggregate views are masked (surname + initial); protective-order complainants are reported only in aggregate. The named-subject tab is included at explicit request and reduces address/phone to city + ZIP.
Data downloads directory
Every raw Harris County dataset behind this dashboard, mirrored to cloud storage and served as per-user, time-limited presigned links. Click a file to download; links expire after a few minutes and the endpoint is rate-limited.
Sources
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