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16 Aug 2017, 1:01 am
Harry Moore was an African-American educator, a pioneer of the Civil Rights Movement, and founder of the first branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in Brevard County, Florida in 1934. [read post]
9 Sep 2007, 5:00 am
Friday, August 31, 2007, marked the end of an era at the Harris County Family Law Center with the retirement of Associate Judge Michael T. [read post]
13 Aug 2024, 7:59 am
Clayton County, in which the court held that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protects employees against discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, applied in the contexts of not just employment, but housing, health care, and credit lending. [read post]
21 Jul 2011, 8:46 am
Jerry Eversole, a Harris County (Houston), Texas, Commissioner, was charged in the U.S. [read post]
25 May 2017, 6:01 pm
Harris Jr., Private Property Rights Protection Act for county’s reduction of mining setback on phosphate company’s adjacent property. [read post]
1 Jul 2012, 8:03 am
An email from the Texas Criminal Justice Coalition last week alerted Grits to an interesting memo (pdf) from Jim Bethke of the Texas Indigent Defense Commission to a legislative staffer regarding the Harris County Public Defender Office (PDO). [read post]
4 Jun 2008, 1:07 pm
"Killer's execution delayed; Texas lethal injection was to resume, but Harris County inmate gets new stay": This article appears today in The Houston Chronicle. [read post]
8 May 2008, 11:24 pm
What they're reading at the Harris County probation department (2005 series)Grits' best practices to reduce county jail overcrowding, Part OneGrits' best practices to reduce county jail overcrowding, Part Two [read post]
7 Jul 2023, 7:38 am
CNN: Texas’ most populous county – Harris County, which is home to Houston – has filed a lawsuit against state officials challenging the constitutionality of a new law that eliminates the position of local elections administrator, Harris County Attorney Christian… Continue reading The post “Houston-area county sues Texas over law that eliminates its elections administrator position”… [read post]
21 Jan 2019, 6:15 am
So TDCJ's suicide situation isn't notably better than the Harris County Jail. [read post]
15 Apr 2020, 1:19 pm
We're still waiting for the Supreme Court of Texas to rule whether Governor Greg Abbott's executive order on COVID-related jail releases is valid (see Grits' writeup here).In the meantime, though, Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg has filed an "emergency motion" with the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals arguing that judges do not have authority under the Code of Criminal Procedure to consider "public health matters," including the… [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]
1 Nov 2020, 2:28 pm
“Texas court rejects bid to toss 127,000 Harris County votes, but fight isn’t over”: Chuck Lindell of The Austin American-Statesman has an article that begins, “The Texas Supreme Court on Sunday rejected, without comment, a bid by three Republican candidates and a GOP activist to toss out almost 127,000 votes cast from drive-thru lanes in the emerging Democratic stronghold of Harris County. [read post]
13 Jan 2012, 6:39 am
Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Texas on January 12, 2012 released the following: “Abercia Indicted HOUSTON – Long-time Harris County Precinct One Constable Jack Abercia has been arrested along with his Chief Lieutenant Weldon Kenneth Wiener and Office Chief Michael Butler following the return of a 13-count federal indictment, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today along with FBI Special Agent in Charge Stephen L. [read post]
31 Dec 2010, 7:15 am
Harry Anglen, 55 and Brian Hargrave, 49, both of El Dorado Springs, MO were both transported to Cedar County Memorial Hospital in El Dorado Springs for treatment to moderate injuries. [read post]
2 Apr 2012, 4:17 pm
On April 1, Illinois State Police responded to a six-vehicle accident on US51 in Perry County, Illinois, that involved a motorcycle fatality. [read post]
7 Nov 2023, 12:55 pm
John Properties represented the landlord and Harry Dematitis and Kydin Nourazar of […] The post Baltimore County Board of Elections relocates headquarters to Owings Mills appeared first on Maryland Daily Record. [read post]
7 Aug 2018, 8:20 pm
“Harris County judges seek to stop federal order in historic bail lawsuit”: Gabrielle Banks of The Houston Chronicle has this report on a case argued today at the U.S. [read post]
29 Jul 2007, 3:32 pm
Houston Chronicle: Law interns use ingenuity in dog case When Harris County Assistant District Attorney Belinda Smith needed to determine the date of a dogfighting video, she turned to interns to ensure that the incident happened within the two-year statute of limitations for a misdemeanor charge. [read post]
1 Feb 2007, 11:22 am
According to a "world-reknowned forensic expert" testifying in federal court, the Harris County Sheriff's Office conducts "intentionally substandard investigations" when one of their deputies shoots someone. [read post]
