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25 Feb 2011, 4:31 am
Civil service cities like Houston have most of their disciplinary records closed unless officers are severely disciplined (more than two days suspension), and then only summary information is public. [read post]
14 Feb 2011, 5:12 am
Police reports by the arresting officers do not explain the injuries. [read post]
16 Jan 2011, 9:51 am
Fired Harris County Sheriff's deputy Richard Nutt was indicted for conspiring with three others to rob drug dealers. [read post]
2 Jan 2011, 9:46 am
An joint op ed from the Harris County Sheriff and the Houston Police Chief with the same title as this post reminds us that the Harris County Jail, by a wide margin, is the state's single largest mental health services provider. [read post]
SO YESTERDAY’S POST ON LOW-BUDGET DISASTER PREP has produced still more email. Mostly it’s suggesti…
2 Jan 2011, 4:58 am
My sister and brother-in-law, who live in the Houston vicinity, were without power for 13 days after Hurricane Ike. [read post]
29 Dec 2010, 5:41 am
It's not the jail's own funding, however, that is precipitating the crisis: It is the fact that county Sheriff Adrian Garcia's office contracts with the Harris County Mental Health and Mental Retardation Authority to provide its mental health services, and MHMRA, already struggling financially, is facing severe budget cuts. [read post]
28 Dec 2010, 1:08 pm
: But legal experts said the law requires Fine to notify prosecutors before reducing the bail because the deputy, Richard Bryan Nutt Jr., 43, is accused of having a gun when Houston narcotics officers arrested him Wednesday. [read post]
17 Dec 2010, 5:47 am
" In Fort Worth, a police officer resigned amidst allegations that he sexually assaulted a woman while on duty.If you're driving, you're probably breaking the lawIn Houston, "A handful of Houston Police officers and Harris County Sheriff's Office deputies are under investigation after a video tape surfaced, revealing verbal attacks against a cab driver who called local law enforcement for help. [read post]
13 Dec 2010, 2:15 pm
Reports the Houston Chronicle ("Sheriffs say new parole law could free beds," Dec. 13):Each month, an average of 2,286 state parole violators are housed in Texas jails, a policy costing taxpayers at least $42 million a year. [read post]
24 Nov 2010, 4:20 pm
Now that the federal FY 2010 has come and gone, here's an account of grants given to Texas recipients in the last year from the National Institute of Justice, compiled from this source:City of Austin, Forensic DNA Backlog Reduction Program: $182,097 Houston PD Crime Lab, Forensic DNA Backlog Reduction Program: $1,143,339 Bexar County, Forensic DNA Backlog Reduction Program: $127,119 State of Texas, Forensic DNA Backlog Reduction Program: $2,401320 Tarrant County,… [read post]
16 Nov 2010, 7:34 am
Chambers' attorney, Richard Burr of Houston, said he had approached the Dallas County District Attorney's office with a deal in which Chambers would plead guilty to multiple life sentences. [read post]
28 Oct 2010, 9:43 am
Harris County Sheriff's deputies investigated the shooting which occurred about 2:15 in the morning. [read post]
26 Oct 2010, 3:29 pm
Harris County Deputy Sheriff George Wesley Ellington was arrested yesterday by FBI agents with the assistance of the Harris County Sheriff's Office. [read post]
26 Oct 2010, 8:09 am
"Houston is in Harris County, whose sheriff, Adrian Garcia, likewise defends the practice of not checking the immigration status of residents who aren't in jail. [read post]
25 Oct 2010, 2:57 pm
The deputy was a valued member of the sheriff’s office and had 16 years in service to the community. [read post]
18 Oct 2010, 9:42 am
Los Angeles County Chips Away at Rape Kit Backlog: Los Angeles county is on track towards eliminating its 5,000 backlogged rape kits by June 2011, according to the county sheriff's department. [read post]
18 Oct 2010, 7:48 am
Ditto for the Taylor County Sheriff's slot (Abilene), which has drawn two strong candidates but where the R has a major structural advantage. [read post]
7 Oct 2010, 12:49 pm
Currently, only 11 Alabama counties participate in The Yellow Dot Program: Butler County, Cherokee County, Clay County, Colbert County, Escambia County, Etowah County, Henry County, Houston County, Marshall County, Montgomery County, and Pike County. [read post]
6 Oct 2010, 5:45 pm
"Harris County Sheriff Adrian Garcia said that since the county signed on for the Secure Communities and 287(g) programs in the fall of 2008, jailers have helped to identify more than 20,000 suspected illegal immigrants locally. [read post]
4 Oct 2010, 7:54 am
The Cameron Todd Willingham case, in which discredited arson science was used to get a conviction, is only one of many examples of the use of this kind of evidence.Just last year, the Innocence Project of Texas exposed the work of Keith Pikett, a Fort Bend County Sheriff's deputy who made use of "dog-scent lineups" to link suspects to evidence retrieved from crime scenes. [read post]
