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25 May 2009, 2:11 pm
Only Texas and Illinois have seen more DNA exonerations. [read post]
25 May 2009, 1:57 pm
After all, its was just gravel spread on the road less than an inch deep.You see....in order to state a viable claim under the Texas Tort Claims Act, the plaintiff does not just have to skid and crash, or even die, as a result of the defective condition of the road. [read post]
23 May 2009, 1:30 am
Thirty six states have formally authorized needle exhange operations, and Texas is the only state in the union where they cannot legally operate in some form or fashion.I'd be quite disappointed if all this positive legislation falls victim to what amounts to a partisan feud.Voter ID was always going to be dicier in the House than the Senate because of the more or less even partisan split. [read post]
22 May 2009, 12:35 am
Shapiro would pursue a similar program for improving Uniform Crime Reporting data from Texas law enforcement agencies. [read post]
21 May 2009, 2:04 pm
Perhaps the ultimate example of this is the Constitution of Texas, which today runs more than two hundred pages long, and, as of 2003, has been amended 432 times (out of a total of 606 possible amendments passed by the Texas legislature). [read post]
21 May 2009, 5:00 am
The Texas legislature is considering two laws that would significantly alter the state’s rules of the road. [read post]
20 May 2009, 11:33 pm
In an editorial titled, "Legislature, pass these bills," the Dallas News this morning encouraged the Texas Legislature to approve several innocence-related bills still awaiting final votes this week, three of which could be heard as early as today on the House floor: Despite advances in lineup techniques in recent years, many Texas police agencies have failed even to adopt internal guidelines or practices. [read post]
19 May 2009, 6:52 am
If passed, Texas would join only six other states to have made such a requirement. [read post]
18 May 2009, 9:58 am
5-18-2009 Texas:AUSTIN â€â [read post]
18 May 2009, 5:48 am
View the article here You could've fooled me. [read post]
17 May 2009, 11:43 pm
As the 81st Texas Legislature winds down, everyone around the capitol is busy surveying the terrain for the few, remaining bills among the 7,000+ filed that survived the carnage, and in doing so this morning I notice a good bill many years in the making: SB 1120 by West, which would reduce and standardize the amount of data gathered for so-called racial profiling reports at traffic stops and create a statewide central repository to gather and compile them. [read post]
17 May 2009, 2:52 am
In 1991, the Texas legislature passed the first -- of what would become many -- sex offender registration laws, this one requiring those convicted of incest, sexual assault or indecency to register with the state. [read post]
16 May 2009, 4:06 am
EEO/iNews from State CourtsiNews Related to Equal Employment Opportunity Source: iNews © 2009 John D. [read post]
15 May 2009, 8:09 am
The Legislature is poised to spread those procedures statewide with Senate Bill 117, requiring Texas police departments to develop best practices crafted by Sam Houston State University's Law Enforcement Management Institute. [read post]
14 May 2009, 4:35 pm
Texas House OKs UNT law school in Dallas [Dallas News] Related: Dallas-Fort Worth - United States - Texas - Education - Law [read post]
14 May 2009, 2:49 am
The Legislature is poised to spread those procedures statewide with Senate Bill 117, requiring Texas police departments to develop best practices crafted by Sam Houston State University's Law Enforcement Management Institute. [read post]
13 May 2009, 6:06 am
Texas and other states have responded largely by increasing penalties for graffiti, but I've argued before that erasing a deficit in fine arts education might be a better approach:While these bills flail with a hammer at the problem (at this point punching holes in the wall instead of pounding a nail), we see a telling item over at the Houston Chronicle's Texas Politics blog which informs us that "Music, fine arts are seeking more respect" at the… [read post]
13 May 2009, 4:35 am
Most recently Florida, according to the Orlando Sentinel, has run up against the limits of their ability to pay for state prisons.With the state short on cash and prison beds, Republicans in the Florida Legislature are being forced to reassess the tough-on-crime mentality that has permeated their politics for years.Florida's prison population cracked 100,000 this year, and state prison officials expect to need more and more prison beds during the next five… [read post]
12 May 2009, 1:36 pm
Time is running out for passing bills before the Legislature adjourns June 1. [read post]
12 May 2009, 9:40 am
According to the Killeen Daily Herald ("Bell County making progress on drug court," May 12), the Lege did not provide enough funding for drug courts mandated by the 80th Texas Legislature in 2007, putting some counties in the position of possibly losing state probation funds:A mandate came out of the last legislative session, requiring counties with a population of more than 200,000 to create a drug court.Bell County received $100,000 for the program, but [County… [read post]
