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25 Jul 2009, 1:11 am
Kevin Krause at the Dallas News Crime Blog has a several informative blog posts (the first two based on internal, linked memos) that deserve attention from anyone watching the saga surrounding Dallas jail administration:Dallas County lawyers get majority of jail lawsuits thrown outDallas County jail guards may have to stay on past their shiftsDallas County jail guard arrested for having sex with inmate [read post]
9 Sep 2008, 4:53 pm
Kevin Krause at the Dallas News Crime Blog reports that the new Dallas County budget includes provisions to close one of the county's five jails to save money on staffing costs.This should be a cautionary tale for communities like Smith County (Tyler) to the East of Dallas or McLennan (Waco) to the South which hope to solve overcrowding problems by expanding capacity. [read post]
24 Jan 2007, 6:25 am
The Dallas Morning News' Kevin Krause is a fine reporter, I've found, with this caveat - you should usually read his reporting from the bottom up.In journalism there's a phrase, "burying your lede," which means that the sentence which should have been the main attention grabber is "buried" somewhere in the dense body of a story. [read post]
22 Mar 2011, 8:09 am
" Whether it's from fraud, incompetence or some other reason, that's pretty pathetic.BTW, I've never met Dallas News reporter Kevin Krause face to face, but IMO he's the best beat journalist covering county government in Texas. [read post]
5 Jul 2007, 6:40 am
Reports Kevin Krause at the Dallas News ("New Jailers Work Without Training," July 5):Dozens of newly hired Dallas County jail guards are going straight to work, supervising inmates for months before undergoing any formal training or taking the state's licensing exam.Though officials say there have been no incidents attributed to the untrained guards, the practice of immediately putting them in contact with inmates is considered by some experts to be… [read post]
4 Jan 2010, 5:59 am
At the Dallas News Crime Blog last week, Kevin Krause had a postscript to the Dallas fake-drug scandal, describing the 5-year legal saga over a DA's office investigator fired for blowing the whistle on lying cops who falsified evidence:[William] Hughes told the feds in 2002 that prosecutors failed to do anything about cops lying under oath in felony drug cases. [read post]
30 Nov 2010, 6:38 am
Kevin Krause at the Dallas News has the backstory of how a consultant costing taxpayers more than half a million dollars is trying to help the Dallas County Jail pass inspection for the first time in 8 years ("Consultants brought in to help Dallas County jail finally pass inspection," Nov. 28). [read post]
13 Aug 2008, 9:08 am
I'm not sure how I missed a new report (pdf) from the feds last month about improvements and deficiencies at the Dallas County jail, but the story by Kevin Krause at the Dallas News ("New report finds Dallas jail improved but still falling short on health care," July 22) contains a good analysis of what's been accomplished at the jail and the mainly healthcare related shortcomings USDOJ says they still need to address. [read post]
13 Apr 2009, 8:22 am
Kevin Johnson writes, "Reality show on DNA exoneration stirs ethics issues," for USA Today.For the first time, reality TV will explore the growing use of DNA evidence to exonerate the wrongly convicted, in a series that is raising ethical questions before its first episode airs this month.Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins, who has assisted in the release of 10 wrongly convicted men since taking office in 2007, says the goal of Dallas DNA, scheduled for… [read post]
28 Apr 2008, 3:45 am
I've had this story sitting in an open tab on my browser for a week meaning to mention an example of first-rate reporting on the local court system from Kevin Krause at the Dallas News ("Dallas County felony courts face rising case backlog," April 20), in which we learn that Dallas criminal courts are processing cases more slowly despite the addition of two new criminal courts. [read post]
5 May 2010, 7:33 am
The Dallas News' Kevin Krause reported yesterday that:There was an interesting development this morning in the case of former Dallas County inmate Corey Bailey, who died in 2008 after a violent confrontation with sheriff's guards. [read post]
18 Mar 2011, 5:04 am
Kevin Krause at the Dallas News on Wednesday published the story of two jail inmates recently held for a week or so apiece when the system really meant to arrest somebody else. [read post]
12 Jul 2017, 3:59 am
For details, read “Judge in John Wiley Price trial blasts prosecution for ‘improper conduct,’ delays ruling on dismissal,” by Kevin Krause, published in the Dallas Morning News on April 11, 2017. 7. [read post]
4 Oct 2011, 9:44 am
The story by Kevin Krause and Ed Timms ("Dallas County judges give bail bondsmen financial breaks when clients disappear," Oct 2, behind a paywall) opens:Some of Dallas County’s criminal court judges have been letting bail bondsmen walk away from hundreds of thousands of dollars in court judgments against them — often with the blessing of the district attorney — and in many cases without scrutiny or explanation for their decisions.The Dallas Morning News… [read post]
10 Apr 2009, 6:39 pm
View the article here 04/10/2009 By Kevin Krause - Reporter Dallas County's juvenile department is seeing an alarming crime trend among young girls. [read post]
7 Oct 2008, 1:43 pm
Dallas County Commissioners are looking for advice from a new Criminal Justice Advisory Board to improve "efficiency" and combat rising local criminal-justice related costs, reports Kevin Krause at the Dallas News' Crime Blog, and they've already identified ways to reduce costs by reducing unnecessary pretrial detention for low-level offenders:Dallas County's biggest expense is administering the local criminal justice system. [read post]
4 Oct 2011, 9:44 am
The story by Kevin Krause and Ed Timms ("Dallas County judges give bail bondsmen financial breaks when clients disappear," Oct 2, behind a paywall) opens:Some of Dallas County’s criminal court judges have been letting bail bondsmen walk away from hundreds of thousands of dollars in court judgments against them — often with the blessing of the district attorney — and in many cases without scrutiny or explanation for their decisions.The… [read post]
15 Jan 2014, 8:46 am
At the Dallas News, Kevin Krause has a story ("Dallas detective defends investigation of woman later cleared in murder," Jan. 14) on a false arrest lawsuit against Dallas Detective Dwayne Thompson, brought by a woman named Hephzibah Olivia Lord who was arrested and later released on a murder charge after her boyfriend committed suicide. [read post]
20 Sep 2011, 7:18 am
He knows where the puck is going at all times,” said Brad Rangell, head of sports advisory at Citibank, which acted as escrow agent for Gaglardi.Rossiter lead a team of Baker & McKenzie lawyers in Dallas, New York, and Chicago including senior bankruptcy counsel David Parham (Dallas), Kevin Maher (M&A - Dallas), Ata Dinlenc (Banking & Finance — New York), Dick Lipton (Tax - Chicago), Brook Mestre (M&A — Dallas), Elliot… [read post]
20 Oct 2022, 3:08 pm
The second-place winner is the Dallas Morning News team of Kevin Krause and Dave Hiott, whose “Reefer Madness: Marijuana Enforcement” series focused on the regulation and enforcement of marijuana laws. [read post]
