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22 Apr 2008, 10:22 am
Today the Travis County Commissioners Court officially approved a proposal to eliminate questions about past criminal history on initial employment screenings, reports the Austin Statesman ("County takes crime question off job applications," April 22):That question will be asked later in the application process for jobs unsuitable for people with a criminal past â€â [read post]
24 Jan 2007, 4:50 pm
The Austin American-Statesman reports: Travis County prosecutors Wednesday urged the state's highest criminal appellate court to re-instate criminal conspiracy charges against former U.S. [read post]
13 Jul 2011, 1:17 pm by admin
Everyone who is arrested in Travis County is taken to the central booking facility downtown. [read post]
22 Jan 2020, 5:01 am by Gritsforbreakfast
But Travis County DA Margaret Moore insists she intends to re-try Jimenez, and with Attorney General Ken Paxton has petitioned the courts to stay her release. [read post]
9 May 2016, 9:23 am by Jillian Beck
Bottom left: Judge Brandy Mueller, of Travis County Court at Law No. 6, during the celebration and performance May 6. [read post]
19 Jan 2010, 1:39 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
But the limitation ignores other uses for the information the public might discover if they had ready access to it.Dallas County recently decided to take the next step, shifting all of their criminal court documents to paperless formats, although they don't have public web access to that information or for that matter a snazzy search function for court dockets like the Travis site. [read post]
3 Aug 2020, 11:43 am by Gritsforbreakfast
It now includes court data from Harris, Dallas, Bexar and Travis Counties, and statewide data from the Office of Court Administration going back 10 years.This lets one do a lot of work. [read post]
3 Feb 2020, 11:50 am by jlucivero
The post Travis County Lawmakers Ask DA for “Justice and Basic Humanity” in Overturned Murder Conviction of Rosa Jimenez appeared first on Innocence Project. [read post]
14 Apr 2010, 6:29 am by Gritsforbreakfast
“For years probation was like medicine from 150 years ago, where you stuck a leech on it and hoped it worked,” says Travis County District Court Judge Mike Lynch. [read post]
17 Oct 2018, 6:50 am by Gritsforbreakfast
That system has been an abject failure and the commissioners court should stop listening to the people promoting it.Geoffrey Burkhart, the new head of the Indigent Defense Commission, explained to commissioners court members how a fundamental conflict of interest faced by Travis County defense attorneys is producing bad outcomes. [read post]
13 Sep 2006, 5:08 am
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals [official website] granted a request [JURIST report] by Travis County Prosecutor Ronnie Earle [official profile], although it did not [read post]
14 Apr 2014, 2:31 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
The suggested Travis County Private Defender probably meets that standard, but not by much. [read post]
15 Jun 2013, 10:16 am by Gritsforbreakfast
I suppose the Travis County Commissioners Court could pony up the rest, though that'd be a bitter pill to swallow. [read post]
30 Jul 2008, 6:41 pm
Here in Austin, I've already discussed how the city budget has become bloated with public safety costs, and today the Statesman brings word that Travis County, too, will likely raise taxes to pay for mostly criminal justice related expenses:The increase would pay mainly for a new county criminal court, increased fuel costs, a 3 percent pay raise for most county employees and 31 corrections officers to staff a new detention building… [read post]
24 Feb 2016, 10:24 am by Alexis Wheeler
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals [official website] on Wednesday dismissed [opinion, PDF] the last charge in a criminal case against former governor Rick Perry [A&E profile]. [read post]
21 May 2006, 3:35 am
[JURIST] Travis County Prosecutor Ronnie Earle [official profile] has filed an appeal in the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals [official website], the highest criminal court in the state, requesting that conspiracy charges [JURIST document] against US Rep. [read post]
14 Oct 2014, 7:11 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Texas Lawyer has a report on Travis County's new indigent defense system (Oct. 9) in which attorney assignments have been outsourced to a nonprofit organization operated by the local criminal defense bar. [read post]
17 Mar 2012, 9:13 pm by Susan I. Nelson
And yet in Travis County, twice as many people have been deported after a misdemeanor arrest in recent years than have been deported after a felony arrest, according to an American-Statesman analysis of ICE and Travis County Jail data. [read post]
19 Sep 2011, 5:08 pm by Record Clearing
Travis County is the lowest-ranked county in Texas for keeping the database current with essential criminal information, including details such as whether a person was acquitted or found guilty in a case. [read post]