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29 Sep 2010, 6:23 am
It's a good thing Harris County Sheriff Adrian Garcia failed to get his wish for constructing more jail space since the commissioners court won't approve full staffing for the facilities he runs now. [read post]
22 Sep 2010, 8:08 pm
A sweep by either party in Harris County’s 2010 elections will be disastrous. [read post]
19 Sep 2010, 5:36 pm
Lord Prescott announced his intention to pursue a judicial review claim against the Metropolitan Police Commissioner. [read post]
6 Sep 2010, 10:40 am
Some counties like Harris will step up and do the right thing. [read post]
18 Aug 2010, 10:27 am
Harris, 189 N.J. 28, 39-40 (2006). [read post]
12 Aug 2010, 2:11 pm
The program includes the concept of a "circle of support" in which they bring in the youth's family, mentors, teachers, church leaders, or anybody else who's important in the kid's life and get them to assist in the intervention in a structured way.Former Harris County Judge Bob Eckels described his history with juvie justice programs as a legislator and county commissioners court judge, saying at one point that after a while it dawned on… [read post]
28 Jul 2010, 1:12 pm
The title of this post is the headline to a Houston Chronicle article published yesterday bringing news that Harris County has altered its proposal for a public defender office to include more courts after the Task Force on Indigent Defense balked at funding a more limited plan:Seeking to strengthen its bid for state funding to open a public defender office, Harris County has changed its application to ask for less money and to propose public defenders in more… [read post]
27 Jul 2010, 9:07 am
Earlier coverage of the Harris County proposal begins with this post. [read post]
22 Jul 2010, 9:48 am
In response to a query from Grits, Harris County DA Pat Lykos emailed me today with a little more detail on the idea she proposed at the House Corrections Committee hearing last month to create detox centers where police could take intoxicated people instead of jail. [read post]
19 Jul 2010, 1:42 pm
It’s essentially a dissolution CR2(a) stipulation written on a bar room napkin: On September 21, 2004, Mark, Teresa, and their attorneys attended a mediation with former King County Superior Court Commissioner Harry Slusher. [read post]
8 Jul 2010, 2:59 am
" As Times reporter Gardiner Harris keenly pointed out, if the FDA, "some day bans growth promotion as a use, there is a chance producers would simply relabel such uses as preventative. [read post]
6 Jul 2010, 11:21 am
Even if you think "both" are needed, there's not equal momentum for "both" and that's not what the Sheriff is advocating.What's more, from what I saw, Harris County could solve the jail's biggest short-term problems with much less ambitious construction plans than were recently turned down by the Commissioners Court. [read post]
23 Jun 2010, 7:16 am
Yesterday the Harris County Commissioners Court bypassed the opportunity to put jail bonds on the ballot as Sheriff Adrian Garcia requested, instead criticizing Garcia for his unilateral decision to take prisoners contracted to a Lousiana jail and move them to Texas counties which charge more money.Commissioner Jerry Eversole said he'd have been indicted if he did the same thing, but I don't think so unless there was some financial or political quid pro… [read post]
21 Jun 2010, 5:53 am
Harris County Commissioners need only look to Los Angeles - where a $74 million jail sits empty thanks to staffing shortfalls - to see where these misplaced spending priorities will lead them. [read post]
10 Jun 2010, 8:24 am
Earlier coverage of the capital and Harris County proposals at the links. [read post]
10 Jun 2010, 4:54 am
[County Commissioner Steve] Radack held up the renewal of the contract to rent as many as 872 jail beds in Newton County at a cost of $6.5 million through next February because he wants to make sure Harris County is taking full advantage of the buyer's market. [read post]
3 Jun 2010, 7:52 am
Earlier coverage of the issue in Harris County is here and here. [read post]
27 May 2010, 8:53 am
The House Corrections Committee will meet in Houston June 30 to focus on reentry issues, meeting in the hearing room for the Harris County Commissioners Court. [read post]
25 May 2010, 9:51 am
Commissioner Willie Gandara was absent on county business.Now the commissioners must begin the search for another medical examiner.District Attorney Jaime Esparza also is reviewing cases involving Shrode to see if convicts are likely to challenge his testimony. [read post]
14 May 2010, 6:42 am
The Harris County Commissioner's Court approved a $167,500 settlement in a lawsuit over a woman who died while in a county jail in 2008. [read post]
