Fort Bend Bail Bond Board approves ID cards, security substitution in brief session

RICHMOND, Texas — The Fort Bend County Bail Bond Board on Wednesday approved employee identification cards for three bail-bond agency workers and signed off on a request to substitute security for a licensed bonding company, wrapping up its regular monthly meeting in about seven minutes.

The board, meeting at 8:30 a.m., took a series of unanimous voice votes on routine licensing and administrative matters, with no discussion or dissent recorded on any item.

Board members approved the previous month’s meeting minutes and monthly activity report on separate unanimous votes, each following a motion and second with no objections voiced.

The board then approved employee identification cards requested by agent Sherry Wolf, doing business as Fort Bend County Bail Bonds under license number 88, for employee Charles Craig Wolfe. That motion passed unanimously.

In a separate action, the board approved employee identification cards requested by agent Derek Dixon, doing business as ASAP Bail Bonds under license number 110, for employees Kewen Lejon Guillory and Donovan Barnell Jackson. That item also passed without objection.

The board additionally approved a request to substitute security under local rule 6.4(C) submitted by Financial Casualty and Surety Inc., license number 134, on behalf of agent Wissam Mujarab, doing business as All Access Bail Bonds, “as listed in the agenda.” Details of the specific bonds or amounts involved in the substitution were not read into the record.

Attendance was taken by roll call at the outset. Present were Bill Rickert, Lupita Saldana, Matthew Montez, Tricia Krennic, Eric Fagan, Sonny Varma, and Sherry Wolf. Michelle Turner was noted as present virtually, saying she had district court obligations at 9 a.m. Shelley Matheson was also confirmed present. Maggie Jaramillo, Yvonne Pacheco, Kewan Guillory, Dixon and Donovan Jackson were named during roll call but their attendance status was not clearly confirmed in the transcript. No public comments were offered.

Under comments and announcements, the presiding officer — identified in the transcript as Speaker 1 — read a lengthy “rule reminder of the month” covering Texas Occupations Code Section 1704.202, which governs recordkeeping requirements for bail bond license holders. The rule requires license holders to maintain a record of each bail bond executed, along with a separate set of records for each county in which they are licensed. Required details include the case style and number, the court in which the bond was executed, the defendant’s name, the amount of bail set, the amount and type of security held, and a statement of whether that security is intended to cover the bail bond fee or to assure the principal’s appearance in court, as well as the conditions under which the security will be returned.

The rule also requires that such records be made available for inspection and copying at the board’s expense upon demand by the board or its authorized representative, be maintained at the license holder’s office location in the county, and be kept for no less than four years after the conclusion of the case for which the bond was given.

No board members raised additional comments following the reading of the rule reminder. The meeting was adjourned without objection roughly seven minutes after it began.

The Fort Bend County Bail Bond Board oversees licensing, compliance and disciplinary matters for bail bond companies and their agents operating in the county, including approval of employee identification cards and requests related to bond security.

Also at this meeting:

• The board approved the previous month’s regular meeting minutes without discussion.
• The board approved the previous month’s bail bond board monthly activity report without discussion.
• No public comments were made during the meeting.
• The presiding officer noted the reading of the monthly “rule reminder,” this time covering recordkeeping requirements under Texas Occupations Code Section 1704.202.
• The meeting adjourned in approximately seven minutes with no items held over or tabled.