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9 May 2011, 10:10 am
For that reason, to me this is almost must-pass legislation for Texas in 2011, though few outside sheriffs and county commissioners have paid much attention to the bill. [read post]
7 May 2011, 6:28 am
"A few years back the Bexar County probation department tried to secure identities of anonymous commenters who were employee-critics of then-probation chief Bill Fitzgerald, but if memory serves, they backed off before the issue made it up to the appellate courts. [read post]
26 Apr 2011, 11:05 am
"It's almost as if these people were invisible, as if there were no awareness of the problem within communities across the state of Texas, and particularly in Harris County. [read post]
22 Apr 2011, 8:24 am
” Estrada agreed to his new sentence before state District Court Judge Sid Harle in Bexar County, TX. [read post]
14 Apr 2011, 7:32 am
See prior, related Grits coverage:Few bills proposed at Lege to remedy statewide competency restoration crisis Budget cuts would force police officers, jails to care for mentally ill Harris County pleads case for mental health, probation/diversion funds in state budgetJail deaths implicate state oversight, competency restoration fundingMental health cuts by state would shift costs to local jails, emergency rooms'Harris County jail not the place to treat mental… [read post]
5 Apr 2011, 2:28 pm
The Texas Commission on Jail Standards has long had rules in place for use of tents by county jails. [read post]
31 Mar 2011, 6:50 am
A former SAWS employee was awarded $275,000 in state district court here in Bexar County. [read post]
28 Mar 2011, 5:14 am
Sixteen states have no preservation laws.As new cases of wrongful convictions continue to emerge based on DNA tests, the campaign for consistent preservation standards is gaining momentum across the country.Not only did many jurisdictions not keep old evidence, in some like Bexar County, when old caches of rape kits were found, prosecutors declined to follow Watkins' lead, retesting only in cases where guilt might be proved but not vetting for possible innocence claims.As… [read post]
21 Mar 2011, 7:06 am
The paperless system now used by our Bexar County Civil Courts. [read post]
13 Mar 2011, 9:47 am
I think we're going to get slaughtered," said Leon Evans, chief executive of Bexar County Mental Health Care services. [read post]
7 Mar 2011, 8:43 pm
+The+Miss+Bexar+County+Organization+Inc. [read post]
6 Mar 2011, 1:42 pm
Sheriffs more likely than PDs to welcome new arrest discretionJefferson County works out kinks with new cite and summons authorityHow one Texas county will take advantage of new law to reduce jail overcrowdingHB 2391 could save Bexar taxpayers $10,000 per dayCite and summons for low-level offenses could free up jail spaceTexas Lege approved new tools to reduce jail overcrowding, if police can change their thinkingPretrial Bonds : Increased Harris County… [read post]
1 Mar 2011, 6:05 am
Too many - especially in Collin and Bexar Counties, but also elsewhere - just won't use that discretion and still revoke lots of technical-only offenders to TDCJ. [read post]
25 Feb 2011, 6:58 am
Let's set those disagreements aside, though, just for a moment.Here's what I want to know: As a practical matter, Texas is already talking about reducing prison capacity, and urban jails in Harris, Dallas, Hidalgo, Cameron, and Bexar are packed to the gills. [read post]
25 Feb 2011, 3:14 am
"See prior, related Grits coverage: Harris County pleads case for mental health, probation/diversion funds in state budgetJail deaths implicate state oversight, competency restoration fundingMental health cuts by state would shift costs to local jails, emergency rooms'Harris County jail not the place to treat mental illness' The making of an unfunded mandate: Cuts to mental health would dump costs on county jails Cuts to state mental hospitals would be… [read post]
11 Feb 2011, 7:37 am
"Prison blogging The blog Texas Prison Bidness has several posts up that may interest Grits readers, as does The Back Gate.The Jail that Ate TylerOfficials in my home county really, REALLY want an expanded jail. [read post]
2 Feb 2011, 6:18 am
Most of Texas' large counties save two saw their number of annual probation revocations decline or remain flat between 2005 to 2010, according to a December report on the state diversion programs (pdf) from TDCJ to state leadership. [read post]
1 Feb 2011, 6:40 am
Relatedly, the San Antonio Express-News had a story yesterday on budget shortfalls at the Bexar County Law Library that surely mirror difficulties faced by local law libraries statewide. [read post]
31 Jan 2011, 12:13 pm
Very interesting…(oh, and for you non-Texans… Bexar County is pronounced similarly to "Bear"… if you say Bex-ar County, they'll know you're not from around here.) [read post]
31 Jan 2011, 9:34 am
“The time is coming when there won’t be anything but computers in libraries,” Bexar County Law Library administrator Jimmy Allison said last week. [read post]
