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5 Feb 2016, 7:02 am
Respondents stated that probationers are required to pay for pre-sentence investigations, supervision fees, drug testing, counseling, and fees added by the state legislature as well as restitution and fines.Nonpayment of fees is the central conundrum of community supervision:One officer stated that only a very small percentage of probationers stay current in making their payments. [read post]
4 Feb 2016, 5:24 am
“I deny that a state can, by a majority of the legislature, require me to send my child to the public schools. [read post]
3 Feb 2016, 11:16 am
The University of Minnesota's Robina Institute has just published a new study on the probation system in Bell County, Texas. [read post]
3 Feb 2016, 7:12 am
New Open Carry Law: In 2015, the 84th Texas Legislature passed the new open carry law (HB 910), which went into effect on January 1, 2016. [read post]
30 Jan 2016, 9:14 am
Texas famously closed three prison units in recent years. [read post]
29 Jan 2016, 8:51 am
The Texas Supreme Court reversed, stating that it was unpersuaded that the controversy had been resolved. [read post]
28 Jan 2016, 5:40 am
The Texas Legislature approved up to $1 million in funding last session for two pilot sites. [read post]
26 Jan 2016, 3:51 pm
Further, the Colorado and Texas legislatures have enacted mandated officer training as well. [read post]
26 Jan 2016, 12:11 pm
In sentencing, the judge — or, in some states (including Texas), the jury — can consider many factors about the crime, including the defendant’s motives and the degree to which the defendant’s conduct was actually or potentially harmful. [read post]
26 Jan 2016, 9:37 am
The TexNet Seismic Monitoring Program, under the auspices of the University of Texas, is getting going, fueled by $4.5 million allocated by the Texas Legislature, with two new hires and seismographic equipment soon to be deployed. [read post]
"No Cost" License Plate Readers Are Turning Texas Police into Mobile Debt Collectors and Data Miners
26 Jan 2016, 9:35 am
The Texas public should be outraged at the terrible deals their representatives are signing with this particular surveillance contractor, and the legislature should reexamine the unintended consequences of the law they passed last year. 1. [read post]
26 Jan 2016, 9:09 am
As a result, all U.S. businesses as well as state and local government agencies should exercise special care to prepare to defend their actions against potential disability or other Civil Rights discrimination challenges. [read post]
26 Jan 2016, 7:41 am
If you are traveling outside of Texas and plan to bring your gun with you, you should review the gun laws for the states you are traveling through. [read post]
26 Jan 2016, 7:23 am
Ross Ramsey at the Texas Tribune published a good summary of State Sen. [read post]
26 Jan 2016, 5:08 am
The statute that specifically authorizes the payments from Texas Mutual was passed at a time when the company, created by the Legislature amid a market meltdown, was subject to robust state control. [read post]
25 Jan 2016, 1:31 pm
One lower court awarded fees of $1.1 million against the state of Texas, in favor of Texas voters and officeholders who had opposed the state on the impact of the Shelby County ruling on a redistricting dispute. [read post]
22 Jan 2016, 5:57 am
The two of us have advised the Texas Law Review students organizing the symposium. [read post]
20 Jan 2016, 7:54 am
It often invokes the federal constitution to do so in order to prevent its decisions from being abrogated by the legislature. [read post]
20 Jan 2016, 4:30 am
Moreover, courts do assess motive, purpose, or “intent,” when assessing whether business have acted in a discriminatory manner, or whether state legislatures and executives are discriminating against out-of-state businesses. [read post]
18 Jan 2016, 9:52 am
That's one of the reasons Grits is excited about Amanda Woog compiling data from Texas police shooting reports newly mandated last year by the Legislature: It'll be nice to have actual data on the topic.Improving solitary confinement standardsAP had a story over the weekend on the national push to reform solitary confinement, which in Texas prisons is known as administrative segregation (or more commonly, just "ad seg"). [read post]
