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14 Feb 2015, 10:07 am
Bexar County’s list has 65; Denton County has 39.Many larger offices — including Travis County District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg’s — fought the newspaper’s requests to release any information, arguing to then-Attorney General Greg Abbott that their records of officers with dubious credibility should not have to be released because they are internal law enforcement communications and thus exempt from Texas open records… [read post]
19 Jan 2015, 4:51 pm
Illnesses occurred in residents of Bexar, Travis, Guadelupe, and Hidalgo counties. [read post]
15 Jan 2015, 9:34 am
But you'd need data broken out in more detail to figure out pay scales under the suggested guidelines.There's lots of detail in this 114-page report (pdf) and Grits may come back to it later, but I wanted to at least get the link out there for folks who're interested.MORE: From the Texas Fair Defense Project, which noted that "According to data collected by TIDC for 2014, appointed attorneys or public defenders in all five of Texas’s most populous… [read post]
13 Jan 2015, 11:35 am
We note, however, that the 14 youths who were 17 in the Bexar County Jail last week were separated from those 18 and older.Texas can rightly crow about its progress on criminal justice. [read post]
12 Jan 2015, 12:13 pm
And while Harris County's jail system is the largest in Texas, with an average daily population of 8,700, it has lagged in adopting technology to improve visitation that other counties have embraced, including video visitation for inmates. [read post]
10 Jan 2015, 9:59 am
On Friday afternoon, Billy Torres, 40, a Bexar County Sheriff’s Office deputy, was arrested on a charge of burglary of a building. [read post]
8 Jan 2015, 8:05 am
He also served as an associate of a San Antonio litigation firm, where he was a defense and appellate attorney, as well as an appellate prosecutor in Dallas, Harris, and Bexar counties and, most recently, a senior prosecutor in the Bexar County Criminal District Attorney’s Office. [read post]
28 Dec 2014, 3:41 pm
So, surprisingly, the data show little if any correlation between solving murders and reducing their number, to the extent that's any consolation.Restorative justice in schoolsSchool districts across the state, including several in Bexar County, are experimenting with restorative justice models for student discipline.Perry pardon grinch at final Christmas as governorHumbug! [read post]
27 Dec 2014, 6:05 am
Lately, since losing a judicial election in Bexar County in 2008, Richardson has worked "As a visiting judge whose territory includes multiple counties," wrote Fikac, "he has been handling everything from a regular prison docket in South Texas to high-profile murder cases. [read post]
11 Dec 2014, 9:19 am
Commenting on local anti-DWI efforts, outgoing Bexar County DA Susan Reed cited ridesharing services Lyft and Uber as a means to reduce drunk driving in a city without a robust public transportation system (which pretty much describes every Texas city).Grits found this interesting because local debates over these services have largely revolved around whether they're fair to taxicab companies, whom one would suppose from the rhetoric enjoy a God-given natural cartel… [read post]
8 Dec 2014, 7:17 am
" They also complained of a shortage of competency restoration beds and the aging and outdated Rusk State Hospital, which is a three hour drive from Houston.Juvenile justice and the artsRonnie Sanders, who serves on the Texas Commission for the Arts, wrote a column praising a Bexar County juvenile diversion program with remarkably low recidivism rates in which "Students who have often resorted to violence in the past are taught methods of conflict resolution… [read post]
21 Nov 2014, 7:30 am
The designated pilot location was McLendon's home county in Bexar; Governor Perry approved it and local officials looked forward to implementing it. [read post]
5 Nov 2014, 5:33 am
So from a political perspective, Reed's ouster and replacement by a Democrat marks the final element in an important historical transition, a changing of the guard, if you will, among the state's elected prosecutors, whose ranks will look much different in January than today.Just to mention it, if it weren't for LaHood's upset victory in Bexar, the DAs in Texas' five largest counties (Harris, Dallas, Bexar, Tarrant, and Travis) would all… [read post]
15 Oct 2014, 7:21 am
Here are several items that merit Grits readers attention but haven't made it into individual posts:Craig Watkins' fumbling Dallas DA campaign Grits mentioned earlier that the Dallas, Harris and Bexar County DA's races interested me as potentially close, competitive toss-up races, in Bexar because a single donor dropped $600K on the Democratic challenger. [read post]
9 Oct 2014, 7:18 am
I don't need that kind of pointless, narcissistic drama in my life.Bexar considers expanding public defender officeIn San Antonio, Bexar County officials are mulling a full-blown public defender office, expanding on the appellate and mental health public defenders operating there now. [read post]
1 Oct 2014, 6:59 am
EFF obtained copies of ComputerCOP and related materials from law enforcement agencies on the East Coast, West Coast, and in Texas. [read post]
22 Sep 2014, 9:02 am
But prosecutors from Harris and Bexar counties must have known about Ford and a similar recent case out of the 14th Court of Appeals (Barfield v. [read post]
19 Sep 2014, 8:57 am
These leases are in Tyler County, Liberty County, Bexar County, Atascosa County, Kaufman County and Callahan County, Texas. [read post]
19 Sep 2014, 8:00 am
“Did you know that we have 6,000 lawyers in Bexar County and only about 3,000 are SABA members? [read post]
28 Aug 2014, 4:13 am
We do this a lot in Texas (particularly in indigent defense: "Comal County will lead the nation ... [read post]
