Texas City Pages — Court-Specific Guidance

Each page below covers one municipal court: its address and phone, how it handles deferred-disposition requests, what its docket looks like by the numbers, and how the program fits that court’s conditions and deadlines.

How Anger Management Gets Ordered in Texas Municipal Court

Texas splits criminal cases by punishment. Anything that can carry jail — Class A and B misdemeanors, felonies — goes to county courts at law and district courts. Fine-only offenses, Class C, go to the municipal court of the city where the offense occurred (or to a justice of the peace outside city limits). That is why a shove in a parking lot, a threat in a driveway, or a shouting match at a game is handled by a city court rather than the county courthouse.

Three Penal Code sections generate almost every anger-related Class C case: 22.01(a)(2), threatening another person with imminent bodily injury; 22.01(a)(3), causing physical contact the other person will regard as offensive or provocative; and 42.01, disorderly conduct. City ordinances add the rest. All are fine-only, which means the judge can use Code of Criminal Procedure Article 45.051: accept a guilty or no-contest plea, defer judgment for up to 180 days, impose a special expense fee and conditions, and dismiss the case on compliance. The statute expressly permits conditions of professional counseling, education programs, community service, and “any other reasonable condition” — the authority behind an anger management requirement.

Two things follow. First, the court does not run the class; you find it, complete it, and prove it. Second, because there is no state approved-provider list for general anger management, the judge decides what counts — and what judges consistently accept is a live, instructor-led program with documents a clerk can verify by phone. That is the format NJAMG was built around in 2012, and it is why the program works in every Texas courtroom, from Houston’s Class C dockets to a court of record in Killeen.

Two Ways Into the Program, One Way Out of the Case

Customized Lessons + Live One-on-One Sessions, Seven Days a Week

Every program pairs written lessons — built on REBT and CBT methods and customized to your charge and your order — with live, one-on-one video sessions with the same instructor, bookable any day of the week from early morning to late evening. No group. No cohort start dates. No self-paced video. Four-session programs finish in under two weeks; eight-session programs in three to five; twelve-session programs inside a short deferral window when a deadline demands it.

1. Text ENROLL TX to 201-205-3201. A person answers. Send a photo of your citation or order.
2. Same-day intake. We confirm your court, the sessions or hours required, and the deadline.
3. Same-day enrollment letter. For your appearance or your attorney.
4. Live one-on-one sessions, seven days a week, with customized lessons between them.
5. Certificate of Completion and Completion Letter on your last day — to you, your attorney, and on request the court.

Texas Court-Ordered Anger Management: Questions We Get