Bexar County Jail Abbreviations and their meanings
When you search for Bexar County Arrests you may be wondering what all those abbreviations stand for, and what they actually mean. Unfortunately, Bexar County does not explain what these abbreviations mean. We hope you find this page helpful.
Add On – “Add On” means that a charge was added after the initial booking
AFIS – Automated Fingerprint Identification System
APPL – Applied
AWHC – Application for Writ of Habeas Corpus. The writ of habeas corpus is a right guaranteed by the United States Constitution and the Texas Constitution. It’s basically another way to overturn a state conviction due to a state or federal constitutional violation.
AWTG – Awaiting
B.C.A.D.C. – Bexar County Adult Detention Center
BND – Bond
CC – County Court
CCBGDLNS – County Court Bond Guidelines (does not qualify for a PR-bond due to County Court Bond Guidelines)
CCPRB – County Court P.R. Bond. This is abbreviation is listed when an individual is already on a P.R. bond
CLR – Clear
CLSD – Closed
CMAG – Central Magistrate’s Office
CONV – Convicted
CRT – Court
CRTC – Court Residential Treatment Center
D.A.C.T. – Drug & Alcohol Facility
D.A.P.V.F. – Drug Alcohol Probation Violators Facility
DC – District Court
DCPRB – District Court P.R. Bond. You will see this abbreviation when an individual is already on a P.R. bond.
DEF ADJ – Deferred Adjudication
Denied/… – The individual was denied a PR bond. The letters following the slash are initials of the person who entered teh data into the system.
DKT – Court Docket
DPS – Department of Public Safety
DSMD – Dismissed
FBGDLNS – Felony Bond Guidelines. An individual does not qualify for a PR bond due to the Felonly Bond Guidelines.
FBI – Federal Bureau of Investigation
FILE – Case file.
FS – Felony, State Jail
GDLNS – Guidelines
GPS – Global Positioning System
HSP – Hospital
ICE – Immigration and Customs Enforcement
ILO – Interlock Order (ignition lock for a vehicle)
IPTC – In-Prison Therapeutic Community
ISF – Intermediate Sanction Facility
JAL – Jail
LDC – Legal Defense Counsel
MATCH – Mothers and their Children
MCRT – This could mean Municipal Court (but we are not 100% sure)
MHMR – Mental Health and Mental Retardation
MIOF – Mentally Impaired Offender Facility
MTN ENT ADJ GUILT – Motion Entered Adjudicated Guilt
MTRP – Motion to Revoke Probation
NCIC – National Crime Information Center
NG – Non-Guidelines. (PR Bonds is now allowing all misdemeanor charges to be considered for a PR bond. The normal official guidelines have restrictions of what can be considered even for misdemeanors)
NHOI – No harmful or injurious contact (this information was a reader’s submission).
NLETS – National Law Enforcement Telecommunication System
NM – Night Magistrate
NOLO CT – Nolo Contendere is a Latin term and it a plea by which a defendant in a criminal prosecution accepts conviction as though a guilty plea had been entered but does not admit guilt.
NOT HANDLED – This comment is used when the charge is not eligible for a P.R. bond.
OTHR – Other
OTOFCO – Out of County
PAR – Parole
PATCH – Papas and their Children
PEN PK – Penitentiary Packet
PICU – Population Impact Control Unit is the meaning we got from the jail. Yes, they do monitor the population levels. However, a reader gave an additional meaning. If what you are looking at may be referring to something to do with mental health, then it could mean Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit.
POSS – Possession
PPOU – Prohibited Possession of Unregistered (We are not sure about this one. No one we spoke to knew for sure, but thought it might be this).
PR – Personal Recognizance (bond)
PR/… – The PR is defined above, the letters after the slash are just the initials of the person who entered the data into the system
RC – Restitution Center
RCO1 – The person has been released
REC – Received
REFUSEDX2 – This means they tried to interview the inmate for a P.R. bond but he refused. In this case he refused two times.
REL – Released
RELPR – Released on a Personal Recognizance Bond
RWOB – Remanded without Bond
SAFP – Substance Abuse Felony Punishment (same as below but sometimes written this way).
SAFPF – Substance Abuse Felony Punishment Facility
SATF – Substance Abuse Treatment Facility
SBIR – Surety Bond in Route
SBIH – Surety Bond in Hand
SHR OFC – Sheriff’s Office
ST MT SUPPLMNT PND – State Motion to Supplement Pending (means they are going to add more information)
T.A.I.P. – Treatment Alternative to Incarceration Program
TCIC – Texas Crime Information Center
TDC – Texas Department of Corrections
TDCGDLNS – Texas Department of Corrections Guidelines
TDCJ – Texas Department of Criminal Justice
TLETS – Texas Law Enforcement Telecommunication System
TO REL – To be released
TO SUB – To Submit
Tresps – Trespass
TRMT BED – Treatment facility bed / spot to sleep in
TRF – Transfer
VA-IMPACT SENT MT – Veteran’s Affairs-Impact (court) Sent Motion (This has not been confirmed. It was the best guess from a county court employee but it sounds reasonable).
VINE – Victim Information & Notification Everyday (It lets victims know when an inmate has been released so they can get to a safe place if they need to.)
VIP – Victim Impact Panel