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25 Aug, 2008 10:36 pm
Recently, I have represented a pharmacist whose reapplication for his controlled substances registration was denied by the Texas
Department of Public Safety when he voluntarily
acknowledged that he had previously been convicted of a felony. He ... to § 481.063(h). This Section holds that in the case of a denial based on a felony conviction, the provisions of
the Texas Administrative Procedure Act do not apply. This is significant in that this bars access to the normal administrative process, most
...
22 Nov, 2008 8:29 am
I'm a little late to the game in mentioning it (despite prodding from a couple of readers), but the Department of Public Safety retracted its request to the Texas Attorney General
(discussed on Grits here) for permission to launch a program of roadblocks without ... for holding the agency's feet to the fire and pressuring them to withdraw the request. Meanwhile,
even though the Texas Legislature declined in 2007 to authorize changes to comply with the federal REAL ID program, DPS is plowing ahead ...
18 Sep 1:13 am
... ' capital has been solved, so now, with so much free time on his hands, Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo can pursue the really important public safety issues like going after people who criticize him or the department in anonymous blog comments. Acevedeo is particularly upset at ... department. But as Williamson County DA
John Bradley noted on the Texas prosecutor user forum, "It is an interesting question as to whether your own employees are damaging office
morale by anonymously posting ...
16 Nov, 2008 3:46 pm
The Dallas Morning News reports that the Texas Department of Public Safety has decided to drop plans to create driver's license checkpoints on Texas highways in the face of strong lawmaker opposition and suspicions that the proposal targeted illegal immigrants. Here are excerpts: Fifteen state
lawmakers asked Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott to ignore the opinion request made in September. Some suspected the purpose of the
checkpoints was to crack ...
17 Jul 9:07 am
At a Texas Public Safety Commission meeting today, the
vendor in charge of collections for the Orwellian-named "Driver Responsibility" surcharge faced a brutal reaction from commission members, who questioned the company's "ethics" and
openly called for their contract to be terminated as soon as feasible. Department of Public
Safety staff promised to prepare an agenda item to end the contract (which requires 90 days notice) at the next Commission ...
4 Sep 9:48 pm
... and Texas Department of Insurance to criminal records that are subject to an Order of
Non-Disclosure. Simply put, the Texas Department of Public
Safety- the state agency which serves as the central repository of criminal records in Texas- is
prohibited from ... to either TREC or TDI when either agency conducts a background check with DPS. Section 411.081 of the Texas Government Code
is the provision specifically addressing who is eligible for an Order of Non-Disclosure and which state agencies are ...
17 Oct, 2008 7:26 am
... be much more likely to select tomorrow's winning lottery numbers. Some Texas jurisdictions actually round up every sex offender and keep
them in ... this blog post annually to criticize the foolish policy many police and probation departments have adopted of rounding up all the registered sex offenders in their
community into ... sexual assault victims knew their assailant), so there's very little public safety
justification for this "Round up the usual suspects" routine. By comparison, petty juvenile ...
28 May, 2008 11:55 am
... four different versions of a privatization option - indeed, the only possibility that seems not to be on the table is to let the Sheriff's department run the jail. Reported the Tribune Herald: County commissioners have settled on four options for solving jail overcrowding. ... ship for $61 per
day is funny, but it displays a pretty grave misunderstanding of the private prison market in Texas. A few years back private companies were
willing to give "sweetheart deals" like the one McLennan County has ...
22 Oct, 2007 2:41 am
... have employed a data-driven strategy called justice reinvestment to reduce spending on corrections and increase public safety. Texas State Representative Jerry Madden (R-Plano), chairman of the House Corrections Committee and a member
of ... Kansas and Nevada. "Across the country, prison populations are escalating," said Justin Jones, director of the Oklahoma Department of
Corrections. "States need effective policies that will manage this growth and make communities safer. Corrections officials and ...
20 Nov, 2007 12:50 pm
... those required to register as "sex offenders," and those convicted of manufacturing methamphetamine on public housing premises. People in
the latter two categories are excluded for life, regardless of the number ... sex offender is dangerous or not. See, e.g., Connecticut Dep't of Public Safety v. Doe, 538 U.S. 1160 (2003); Archdiocesan Housing ... interview with Kaye Fohn, Salvation Army,
Austin, Texas, February 11, 2004. [212] Amendment No. 3207 to Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban ...
2 Jan, 2008 6:00 am
... 151.0075 as "…a service for which a license is required under Section 1702.101 or 1702.102 of the Texas Occupations Code." According to the
taxability memorandum, in 2000 the Comptroller's office was told by the relevant state ... Section 151.0101(a)(14)." Further, because the interagency advice the Comptroller received in
2000 was incorrect (the Texas Department of Public
Safety suggested that the Comptroller had provided the licensing agency with insufficient information), the Comptroller has now ...
31 Aug, 2007 8:50 am
When we petitioned the Texas Department of Health Services to grant a medical exemption for sick and
senior pets, we positioned it as a small step for companion animals. Instead, the response of TDHS appears to reinforce the status quo: ... to education. And now it is one of only 5
states nationwide that blatantly ignore the guidelines of the National Association of State Public Health Veterinarians who ae responsible to
set consistent and well-informed standards for rabies prevention and control.
31 Dec, 2007 3:28 am
... death penalty news in 2007 was the de facto moratorium until SCOTUS decides on the constitutionality of lethal injection procedures, in Texas the bigger controversy arose around the de jure decision to execute Michael Richard after SCOTUS issued its ... Seizures, Reduce Arrests Vying with the
previous item for the "Most important, seldom told story of the year," the Texas Department of
Public Safety reported this year that new drug enforcement priorities implemented in recently adopted
agency rules ...
3 May, 2007 2:33 am
... bill to distribute to House members in preparation for today's vote: Keep wiretaps at the Texas Department of Public Safety-Vote NO on HB 357 HB 357 gives wiretap
authority to local police departments without DPS supervision. What is an ESN reader and why does it invade my privacy? ... and application of wiretapping regulations that simply
could not be enforced if local police departments do it themselves. DPS investigators have successfully handled wiretapping for decades without scandal. ...
24 Feb, 2008 12:20 am
... if our next door neighbor is a psychopath??? 02/24/2008 The Texas Department of Public Safety plans to update its online sex offender registry this spring to let ... track sex offenders for years.
In 2006, the American-Statesman found that the Austin Police Department's sex offender registry had outdated information or wrong photographs
for some ... decided to link directly to the agency's site to give the public more current information. "It just didn't update as quickly,"
Moss said of the police-run Web ...
24 Mar, 2008 5:03 am
3-24-2008 Texas: This year, visitors to the Texas Department of Public Safety's Web site can find out where the state's
registered sex offenders ... coming and going." The changes About 47,000 registered sex offenders live in Texas. Their names, birth dates,
addresses, physical descriptions including shoe size ... apprehension and monitoring unit, said the addition of work addresses to the registry will be helpful to the public. But she cautions that people need to remember that not every sexual predator ...
30 Mar 12:35 pm
... program was intended to ease trucking shipments between Mexico and the United States. The program was halted because of safety issues with
the trucks and drivers from Mexico. In 2007 a small pilot project that was intended to give a small number ... Texas Department of Public Safety have vigorous licensing requirements for
trucking companies and commercial drivers. The Texas Department of Public Safety suspends commercial drivers licences if a commercial operator commits various traffic offenses - ...
10 Apr, 2007 1:18 am
... -0713-C APRIL 11, 2007 EXECUTION DATE ---------------------- . --------------------- APPLICATION FOR COMMUTATION OF DEATH SENTENCE TO LIFE IN PRISON
-------------------------------------- PUBLIC HEARING REQUESTED -------------------------------------- Ward S. Larkin 15327 Pebble Bend Dr.
Houston, TX 77068-1839 ... Welton. It's now Benny Parkey. Also, I know that the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles has asked the
Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) for information about James Clark, but I'm ...
11 May, 2007 5:55 am
... addicts to treatment instead of incarceration, as well as SB 166 by West, see here, that prioritizes probation grants for departments that establish a system of progressive
sanctions. Chairman Madden's bill to revamp probation departments' funding mechanism to ... data collected at traffic stops much more useful not just for advocates but for police
supervisors and public safety officials who can better measure the efffectiveness of tactics like
random consent searches and highway interdiction. ...
18 May, 2007 12:47 am
... s urgent Texas do so? Not only has the Legislature sent a bill to the Governor letting local yokels run wiretap operations instead of the
Department of Public Safety, ... experts like Bruce
Schneier preach incessantly that "open source" approaches - or making public security problems instead of concealing them - over time enhance
security. The same ... covince members or a point of order that saves everybody a lot of time and protects safety and liberty more efficiently
- I don't really care which but ...
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