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9 Feb 2015, 1:53 pm
The Texas Department of Public Safety Government Relations Division this morning sent out an email to legislators declaring that,based on concerns and questions raised by a number of legislators regarding the statutory authority of DPS to collect all 10 fingerprints in order to obtain a driver license (DL) or identification (ID) card, the department will immediately cease collecting all 10 fingerprints in order to obtain a driver license or … [read post]
12 Sep 2013, 8:42 am
Find below the jump a press release the Texas Department of Public Safety issued yesterday announcing its belated "incentive" program, which should have come online last month. [read post]
21 Nov 2010, 4:53 pm
An article in the Amarillo Globe News says the Department of Public Safety often takes cases to federal court to get a bigger portion of the assets seized and cut out local District Attorneys. [read post]
10 Nov 2008, 11:48 am
Speaking of political snooping, check out this troubling passage from the recently issued Deloitte and Touche consultant recommendations (pdf, p. 14) for reorganizing the Texas Department of Public Safety:Deloitte recommends creation of a new Special Operations Group within the new Intelligence and Counter-Terrorism Division to be explicitly intelligence driven. [read post]
21 Jul 2011, 12:23 pm
This morning I went over to the Department of Public Safety headquarters for a little public-comment time with the Public Safety Commission (PSC) at their monthly meeting. [read post]
5 Jan 2010, 12:45 pm
The Wilson County Sheriff’s Office and the Texas Rangers are investigating the case.Evidence collected from the crime scene was sent to various Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) crime laboratories for further analysis. [read post]
5 Sep 2009, 8:37 am
I learned from my friend and fellow blogger Paul Kennedy that the Texas Department of Public Safety has officially changed its name for the breath alcohol testing program in Texas. [read post]
30 Jun 2022, 5:00 pm
The Texas Department of Public Safety launched a program in March to target migrants crossing the Mexican border into the United States. [read post]
7 Feb 2007, 10:41 am
LBB just told the House Appropriations Criminal Justice Subcommittee that the Texas Department of Public Safety's budget declined 40% from 2005 to 2006 primarily because of federal reimbursements for 2005 expenditures due to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. [read post]
22 Jun 2010, 2:37 pm
More than 1,700 trucks were taken out of commission due to safety violations during the three-day Roadcheck 2010 operation conducted by the Texas Department of Public Safety. [read post]
25 Jul 2013, 4:27 am
State of Oklahoma, the Tenth Circuit addressed the issue of whether "a settlement agreement between Thomas Trent Pettigrew (Pettigrew) and the Oklahoma Department of Public Safety (DPS) waived the state’s 'Eleventh Amendment' right not to be sued... [read post]
6 Jan 2011, 7:22 am
The Texas Department of Public Safety has finally released more details about the rollout of Amnesty and Indigence programs for the Driver Responsibility surcharge, from their Public Information Office's Chaparral newsletter (pdf) pointed out to me by an alert reader:Texans whose driver licenses have been suspended for failing to pay state-mandated surcharges are urged to take advantage of a one-time payment amnesty from late January to late April 2011.The… [read post]
30 Oct 2013, 9:50 am
The Austin Statesman has more on roadblocks conducted in the Rio Grande Valley last month by the Texas Department of Public Safety and the possibility that courts could find them unconstitutional ("Follow up: Could DPS checkpoints face legal challenge?" [read post]
ACCIDENT INJURY REPORT: DPS Investigating Deadly 2-vehicle Crash on Highway 84, Southeast of Lubbock
6 Oct 2020, 11:03 am
Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2020: LUBBOCK, Texas — The Texas Department of Public Safety released updated details Thursday evening on a deadly crash that happened just after 1:00 p.m. [read post]
15 Jul 2012, 8:28 am
Rare and welcome coverage yesterday by Brenda Bell at the Statesman of contracting irregularities at the Department of Public Safety in a story which opened:The Travis County district attorney's office is pursuing two separate criminal investigations into contracting irregularities at the Texas Department of Public Safety, the American-Statesman has learned.The investigations follow the departure of two high-level DPS employees… [read post]
2 Oct 2013, 5:42 am
The Texas Department of Public Safety is now conducting roadblocks in the Rio Grande Valley in which they're checking for drivers license and insurance, looking for evidence of DWI, and running warrant checks on drivers, DPS Col. [read post]
Debating Texas' travel warning on Mexico: DPS should leave travel advisories to the State Department
9 Mar 2012, 1:04 pm
DPS should stop this sort of politicized demagoguery - which seems aimed more at sucking away tourist dollars than promoting public safety - and tell anyone who asks about Mexican travel to check with the State Department. [read post]
31 Aug 2012, 2:20 pm
Arizona Department of Public Safety (DPS) is geared up for its' statewide DUI task forces. [read post]
30 Jul 2017, 6:54 am
Or at least, that's Grits' takeaway from the governor's volteface on Friday, when Greg Abbott rescinded the Texas Department of Public Safety's move to charge law enforcement agencies discounted fees for crime-lab services. [read post]
28 Jul 2012, 11:45 am
A bit more detail came out at yesterday's Forensic Science Commission meeting about an incident (see here) at a Department of Public Safety lab in Houston where an analyst was caught using a sample from an unrelated case to validate a positive finding for Alprazolam (the generic name for Xanax). [read post]
