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22 Jan 2009, 8:46 pm
Reorganizes and Strengthens the Sexual Offender Registry All registration information will be sent to the county sheriff before a sexual offender is released from prison or put on probation. [read post]
16 Jan 2009, 4:07 am
Dallas County has had 19 DNA-based exonerations -
more than any jurisdiction in the nation - since 2001,
when a state law began allowing post-conviction DNA
testing. [read post]
12 Jan 2009, 2:50 am
"I am not a Dallas police officer
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10 Jan 2009, 5:52 pm
Investigations by the Orange County Sheriff's Department and the district attorney's office cleared the officers of wrongdoing, saying they were forced into a split-second decision to kill a woman they believed to be dangerous. [read post]
1 Jan 2009, 12:03 am
UTMB, which ran the hospital, laid off thousands of employees.DNA-based exonerations continue in Dallas and elsewhere, though the Innocence Project of Texas which provided attorneys in many of these cases was hit hard in the pocketbook by Wall Street fraud.Big cities going D: Harris County judicial races flip Democratic following a similar shift in Dallas County in 2006, which solidified this year with Sheriff Lupe Valdez's re-election.The order here… [read post]
27 Dec 2008, 10:37 pm
He was a good man and I'll miss him.Ugly Dallas jail death investigatedDespite enough recent improvements to earn the Sheriff's re-election, the Dallas County Jail is still bad for your health.Column: Don't shortchange probationThe probation chief in El Paso, Stephen Enders, has an effective column in the (El Paso) Times arguing to increase statewide funding for adult probation by $71 million "just to cover the expected basic needs of community… [read post]
13 Dec 2008, 6:59 am
The judge agreed and the Harris County Sheriff's Office began the process of organizing his release. [read post]
4 Dec 2008, 5:18 am
According to a trial transcript, when Dallas County Assistant District Attorney Brian Poe asked a witness during direct examination to identify the defendant, she pointed to Milner. [read post]
1 Dec 2008, 3:32 pm
After all, the journalist was killed for reporting information that, for the most part, is already known to the government.Girls not gone so wildAlso from the Dallas News Crime Blog, we discover that fewer girls were arrested last year than a decade ago, a trend that flies in the face of recent media coverage.More East Texas jail buildingHarrison County's Sheriff is telling commissioners they have no choice but to build additional jail space.See also excellent recent… [read post]
5 Nov 2008, 1:08 pm
That's as big a deal, arguably as important a moment in Harris County's political transformation as was Craig Watkins' upset of District Attorney Bill Hill in Dallas in 2006. [read post]
2 Nov 2008, 7:46 am
Burglarize a home in Tyler and jurors will "sock it to you here," longtime Smith County Sheriff J.B. [read post]
1 Nov 2008, 8:03 am
The four sites are:Austin Travis County MHMR (Travis)Center for Health Care Services, San Antonio (Bexar)North'Texas Behavioral Health Authority, Dallas (Dallas)Tarrant County MHMR, Fort Worth (Tarrant) These outpatient programs are not in secure settings and are suitable when the court believes the defendant won't be a danger. [read post]
30 Oct 2008, 7:17 am
Dallas County was hit with recent settlements and judgments totaling nearly $2 million in jail-neglect lawsuits. [read post]
29 Oct 2008, 1:45 pm
Readers may recall that in 2007, the Texas Legislature backed Governor Rick Perry's much-ballyhooed plan to give more than $100 million in pork barrel grants to border Sheriffs, splitting the funds equally (more than $6 million apiece) among sheriffs in the 16 counties along the border to pay for extra equipment and overtime for patrols.Given that massive, recent state investment, I was surprised that no one in the mainstream media picked up on the fact that one of… [read post]
25 Oct 2008, 6:21 pm
Rodney Ellis has a column in the Dallas News announcing he plans to introduce legislation next spring to improve eyewitness ID procedures and require videotaping custodial interrogations.At Women in Crime Ink, Andrea Campbell discusses "That Murky Question: Time of Death"At Texas Prison Bidness, Bob Libal lets us know the Geo Group (a private prison company) has been indicted in South Texas for an inmate's death.I'd missed this Statesman story last week by Steven Kreytak… [read post]
22 Oct 2008, 1:06 pm
El Paso Sheriff Jimmy Apodaca said it's one step that may not always go very smoothly. [read post]
19 Oct 2008, 8:45 pm
Travis County Sheriff Greg Hamilton was among those who supported the legislation. [read post]
15 Oct 2008, 2:45 pm
Smith County Sheriff J.B. [read post]
9 Oct 2008, 10:39 am
(See Life at the Harris County Criminal Justice Center for coverage of the DA's race along with local judicial contests.)I don't particularly have an opinion yet over which candidate would be better in the Dallas Sheriff's race. [read post]
7 Oct 2008, 1:43 pm
The Sheriff's Department transports prisoners in a van. [read post]
