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16 Jul 2014, 6:09 am by Joy Waltemath
The employee, a black male, joined Connecticut’s Department of Public Safety (DPS) in 1986, becoming a detective in its major crimes unit in1990. [read post]
2 Jul 2014, 12:42 pm by Michael Lowe
Remember the Texas Department of Public Safety Trooper who performed that intrusive search on two women on the side of a public road? [read post]
14 Jun 2014, 11:28 am by Gritsforbreakfast
According to that short piece by Isiah Carey:It could be a matter of days before a Conroe man is free after being convicted on what prosecutors call shoddy crime lab work.This comes two years after a Department of Public Safety crime lab employee was fired for falsifying drug test results.Defense attorney Rick Brass says his client Diedrik Cavil was sentenced to 45 years on the evidence prepared by the now former worker.Brass says there are at least 5000 cases… [read post]
6 Apr 2014, 10:00 pm by Hunter Biederman
The way I usually explain the SR-22 to clients is to describe it as a tool used by the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) that transfers responsibility of monitoring the policy status to the insurance company that issued the SR-22. [read post]
19 Feb 2014, 12:26 pm
The Department of Public Safety notes that the Department does everything it can within the constraints they are operating within. [read post]
5 Feb 2014, 5:27 pm by Michael Lowe
This has been proven in the example of a single crime lab analyst named Jonathan Salvador, who worked for the Texas Department of Public Safety crime laboratory in Harris County. [read post]
17 Jan 2014, 8:52 am by Gritsforbreakfast
That the drug testing letter issued by the Department of Public Safety and signed by Salvador was dated thirteen months prior to the applicant's guilty plea likewise fails to prove that Salvador did not report fraudulent test results. [read post]
26 Dec 2013, 10:30 am by Gritsforbreakfast
The Texas Department of Public Safety set up roadblocks in South Texas that were greeted with an embittered public backlash. [read post]
5 Dec 2013, 6:55 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Good news, via the Houston Chronicle ("State police to halt the use of checkpoints," Dec. 5):The Texas Department of Public Safety will refrain from using traffic checkpoints following intense backlash after state police temporarily set up roadside stops in the Rio Grande Valley earlier this year.DPS Director Steven McCraw said Wednesday that his agency will not use road checkpoints "anywhere in the state" until Texas lawmakers give their blessing.The… [read post]
4 Nov 2013, 11:42 am by Jon Gelman
He told police he never saw the multiple DPS and fire department vehicles on the roadway, or an officer frantically waving his arms trying to get his attention before he jumped out of the way. [read post]
1 Nov 2013, 8:45 am
Department of Public Safety investigators took to interviewing survivors to determine how the pileup occurred. [read post]
18 Oct 2013, 6:11 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Lately, Grits has come to consider both the TDCJ and Department of Public Safety PIOs basically worthless, and DPS headquarters are in the capital. [read post]
16 Oct 2013, 12:35 pm by Michael Lowe
There are many more examples from different parts of the state, but the biggest and easiest example that Texas criminal defense lawyers can use to justify their distrust of Texas crime lab results is the work of one single lab technician, a crime lab analyst named Jonathan Salvador who worked for the Texas Department of Public Safety crime lab. [read post]
25 Sep 2013, 6:37 am by Admin
In a consolidated class action complaint, Plaintiffs brought claims for violations of the federal Drivers’ Privacy Protection Act (“DPPA”) and their constitutional right to privacy against Hunt and various employees of the DNR and the state Department of Public Safety (“DPS”), the agency that originally collected the data. [read post]
18 Aug 2013, 8:45 am by Gritsforbreakfast
After the cuts, the proposed budget is 
$3.9 million.But an increase in costs for evidence testing and professional testimony could drain those accounts and Reyna said using forfeiture money is only a temporary solution to pay for his office.The Texas Department of Public Safety’s Waco crime lab does all forensic evidence testing for free for the district attorney’s office, but Reyna said the DPS 
also is feeling the strain of … [read post]
16 Aug 2013, 8:41 am by Gritsforbreakfast
But the revelation that the DEA uses that intel then lies about its sources in court, pretending probable cause was generated at traffic stops, almost certainly has implications for cases in Texas, and our Department of Public Safety may have been an unwitting accomplice to this fraud. [read post]
13 Aug 2013, 4:51 pm
Unfortunately Diaz drove into the path of a tractor-trailer, according to the Department of Public Safety. [read post]
12 Jun 2013, 6:19 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
A DPS supervisor in Conroe, "Glenn Merkord was suspended for 30 days this month for renewing certifications for machine operators who had not fulfilled all of the requirements for certification, according to a letter the Department of Public Safety sent Merkord notifying him of his punishment," reported the Houston Chronicle. [read post]
30 Apr 2013, 5:01 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Read written testimony your correspondent submitted on his own behalf to the Texas House Criminal Jurisprudence Committee asking them to reject HB 530 by Fletcher and its senate companion SB 188 by Huffman expanding the authority of the largest police departments to perform wiretapping without Department of Public Safety oversight. [read post]