Search for: "Houston County Commissioners"
Results 21 - 40
of 433
Sorted by Relevance
|
Sort by Date
11 Jan 2011, 6:55 am
The Legislature should fix that this session, allowing the commissioners to elect their own chairman rather than having the governor appoint one. [read post]
7 Nov 2007, 8:44 am
Now that voters in Houston and Tyler have rejected new jail construction, it's time for the commissioners courts, judges, and local law enforcement in those counties to get a lot more serious about their responsibility to reduce jail populations. [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 quo. [read post]
2 Dec 2013, 4:25 am
Below are two hyperlinks to newspaper articles that examined some questionable grand jury practices in Harris County, Texas where Houston is located. [read post]
19 Sep 2022, 2:00 pm
Chang, an attorney and special commissioner of the eminent domain administrative hearing in Houston; Jackie Alvarenga Gerber, a partner in Mayer in Houston; former Texas Supreme Court Justice Eva Guzman; Regina Bynote Jones, chief legal officer of Baker Hughes; and Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg. [read post]
29 Mar 2007, 10:00 am
Harris County, a part of the Houston, Texas healthcare system for the needy became the system for the greedy when it overcharged the federal government by district employees who”were asleep at the switch,”according to Commissioner Steve Radack. [read post]
27 Jul 2010, 9:07 am
"Harris County sweetens public defender proposal," is the title of Chris Moran's report in today's Houston Chronicle.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 courtrooms.If the state Task Force on Indigent Defense approves the county's request for $4.1 million on Aug. 25, the county… [read post]
27 Apr 2020, 3:14 pm
One of Houston’s first public official heroes is Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo. [read post]
13 Mar 2008, 2:17 am
All that's needed is one judge to support it and county commissioners to fund it. [read post]
9 Nov 2010, 8:00 am
Word is that this morning Harris County Commissioner’s Court will select Alex Bunin, Federal Public Defender for the Northern District of New York, as Harris County’s first PD. [read post]
29 Mar 2007, 6:50 am
Harris County, a part of the Houston, Texas healthcare system for the needy became the system for the greedy when it overcharged the federal government by district employees who”were asleep at the switch,”according to Commissioner Steve Radack. [read post]
28 Jul 2010, 1:12 pm
The county's indigent defendants currently are represented by court-appointed attorneys selected from a pool of private practitioners.Today, Commissioners Court will consider reducing the amount of grant money sought from $4.4 million to $4.1 million in response to concerns from the Task Force that the county was not covering enough of the administrative costs of running an office. [read post]
18 Aug 2014, 1:18 pm
The Montgomery County Commissioners Court's on-again off-again love affair with private corrections just took an odd turn.Now, after recently selling a facility next door to their own jail to the GEO Group because they couldn't maintain the terms of the phony "nonprofit" created to facilitate the deal, word comes down the county supposedly must build a new jail or spend nearly as much (around $200 million) to renovate the old one, reported the… [read post]
12 Feb 2008, 12:30 pm
Sheriffs who want to allow immigration officials to detain more immigrants in local Texas jails are running up against a backlash from county commissioners who don't want to foot the bill for federal detainees.I'd identified that problem earlier when Harris County Sheriff Tommy Thomas proposed such a change as part of his primary re-election campaign. [read post]
7 Apr 2008, 2:18 am
"The only thing I know about the public defenders system is what I see on Law and Order," Harris County Judge Ed Emmett told the Houston Chronicle last week ("Commissioners may okay study of public defender," April 5), anticipating the commissioners court's approval tomorrow of a study on creating a new public defender office. [read post]
17 Jan 2012, 3:31 pm
Port Commissioner Betti Maldonado also was convicted of bribery and sentenced to 51 months in prison as a result of the investigation. [read post]
12 Jun 2018, 3:48 am
Precinct 3 Commissioner Steve Radack was outraged that Alex’s loyalty was to his clients, to the poor people of Houston rather than to the commissioners who paid him. [read post]
5 Sep 2014, 6:46 am
On September 3rd, the Miami-Dade Board of County Commissioners adopted the resolution directing the Mayor to develop a plan to establish a Chinese Consulate-General in Miami, by a 12-0 vote. [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]
10 Aug 2011, 3:11 pm
On Tuesday, Harris County Commissioners Court approved a revised pilot program that would allow the institute to process up to 150 DNA cases as well as 435 DWI cases requiring blood-alcohol testing in its first year. [read post]
