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12 Feb 2020, 10:54 am by Gritsforbreakfast
They'd mostly dug in their heels before now.No extra prosecutors for you, Kim OggFor the Harris County Commissioners Court, turning down District Attorney Kim Ogg when she asks for more prosecutors has become habit forming.Houston crime lab to use disputed DNA mixture softwareThe Houston Forensic Science Center has begun using STR-Mix software for analyzing DNA mixture evidence. [read post]
6 Feb 2020, 12:01 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
The biggest non-participating agency is the Harris County Sheriff, along with all the constables' offices, all of whom declined to enter a memorandum of understanding with the DA's office on advice of the county attorney. [read post]
31 Jan 2020, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
Arkansas – Panel Affirms Block of Arkansas Campaign-Finance Law Courthouse News Service – Joe Harris | Published: 1/28/2020 A federal appeals court ruled against Arkansas preventing candidates for state office from accepting campaign contributions more than two years before an election, blocking the restriction from being enforced. [read post]
22 Jan 2020, 8:31 am by Seyfarth Shaw LLP
Clayton County, Georgia Harris Funeral Homes was brought by a transgender woman who was terminated after putting her employer on notice of her forthcoming transition. [read post]
10 Jan 2020, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
But it lost its ability to do its official job after the August 2019 resignation of a commissioner left it to operate for the first time in 11 years without its necessary four-person quorum. [read post]
12 Dec 2019, 9:02 pm by Jim Sedor
National/Federal Critics Say Facebook’s Powerful Ad Tools May Imperil Democracy. [read post]
11 Dec 2019, 9:26 am by Sean Gallagher
(credit: Paul Harris / Getty Images) An email sent by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement to all Florida county commissioners indicated that the ransomware that struck the city of Pensacola on December 7 was the same malware used in an attack against the private security firm Allied Universal, according to a report by the Pensacola News Journal. [read post]
6 Dec 2019, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
Voters complained they were unable to pin Harris down on a host of issues. [read post]
10 Nov 2019, 8:30 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Be sure to check out the Reasonably Suspicious interview with Reed's attorneys.Guards fired, demoted over fatal TDCJ use of forceTDCJ fired a guard in a Huntsville prison and demoted two others after a fatal use of force incident reported Keri Blakinger at the Houston Chronicle.Always somethingAn assistant DA in Panola County has resigned amidst allegations of misconduct.Harris Co. public defender office growingWith Harris County DA Kim Ogg still publicly fuming that… [read post]
26 Oct 2019, 7:47 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Operation North Star in Harris County began in April 2017 and the San Antonio Violent Crime Task Force (Operation Alamo) in San Antonio and Bexar County began in January 2017, with DPS joining the operation in May 2017. [read post]
14 Oct 2019, 9:53 am by Gordon Ahl, William Ford
The subcommittee will hear testimony from Asha George, the executive director of the Bipartisan Commission on Biodefense; Umair Shah, the executive director of Harris County Public Health; and Jennifer Rakeman, the assistant commissioner and director of the Public Health Laboratory in the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. [read post]
4 Oct 2019, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
She published the digest piecemeal, with 57 tweets in all, including the foreign national prohibitions memo – all while calling out the commissioner who Weintraub said sought to block it from being widely publicized online. [read post]
2 Oct 2019, 10:21 am by Deborah Heller
He alleges that he was fired by the county because he is gay after the county found out that he participated in a recreational softball league for gay individuals. [read post]
30 Sep 2019, 8:43 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Now that the Harris County suit has settled, it seems likely that Dallas will be the first to reach that stage. [read post]
29 Aug 2019, 12:29 pm by John Floyd
”   In 2001, under the forceful guidance of former Harris County Senator Rodney Ellis (current Harris County Precinct One Commissioner), the 77th Texas Legislature passed the Fair Defense Act, “creating the blueprint for distribution of indigent defense funding from the State of Texas to local government through the creation of the Task Force on Indigent Defense, the first state body to administer statewide appropriations and policies. [read post]
23 Aug 2019, 2:05 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
Why does Harris County DA Kim Ogg oppose the proposed bail-reform settlement in Houston? [read post]
23 Aug 2019, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
California – Anaheim Mayor Sidhu Pays Off 2016 Assembly Debt by Fundraising While Mayor Voice of OC – Spencer Custodio | Published: 8/20/2019 Anaheim Mayor Harry Sidhu paid off 2016 California Assembly campaign debts and put a dent in his 2018 mayoral campaign debt after fundraising since December in both [read post]
16 Aug 2019, 10:11 am by Gritsforbreakfast
“It might be that Harris County is not staffed at optimal levels but the comparisons the report provides in and of themselves do not provide evidence of that. [read post]
16 Aug 2019, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
Harri Hursti, one of the event’s organizers, said almost all of the machines at the conference were still used in elections despite having well-known vulnerabilities that have been more or less ignored by the companies that sell them. [read post]