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18 Nov 2008, 5:43 pm
Last week's Sunset report (pdf) recommending a merger between the Texas Youth Commission and the Juvenile Probation Commission is a detailed 120+ page document, so rather than write one long analysis, I'm going to pull out some highlights into shorter posts which hopefully will be a bit more reader friendly.The Sunset Commission's most important recommendation: Merging TYC and TJPC and transferring their functions to a new agency, the Texas Juvenile Justice… [read post]
18 Nov 2008, 12:32 pm
The Texas Legislature can be a lot more fun (or at least, a little less frustrating) if you step back every once in a while to enjoy the process purely for its entertainment value.I spent some time this morning going through additional pre-filed bills in the House and Senate as we approach the 81st Texas Legislature, and discovered that the state rep from my hometown - Leo Berman, R-Tyler - filed an hysterically funny piece of legislation in HB 254,… [read post]
17 Nov 2008, 10:28 pm
Texas has two year and four year limitations periods in contrast to Louisiana’s one-year prescription period (that was extended by the Louisiana Legislature for Katrina claims). [read post]
17 Nov 2008, 9:18 am
The Texas legislature has not been heavily involved in the immigration fight that has been a major topic in some other state's recent legislative sessions but that could change this year.According to the paper's story, the bills to be offered by Berman would among other things:challenge automatic citizenship under the 14th Amendment of the U.S. [read post]
17 Nov 2008, 8:04 am
There's no way that will happen though - the Texas State Bar simply isn't in the habit of even admonishing prosecutors for Brady violations, much less ousting them from the legal profession when they've behaved unethically - even when they overtly withheld exculpatory evidence to send an innocent person to prison. [read post]
16 Nov 2008, 3:46 pm
"A state agency is making immigration policy for the state of Texas, and that is not their job," Democratic state Rep. [read post]
14 Nov 2008, 1:20 pm
Both state legislatures passed laws giving patients and family members the right to place a video camera in the patient’s room. [read post]
14 Nov 2008, 4:33 am
If the decisions were made by the legislature instead of the parole board, would the challenges be making any headway? [read post]
13 Nov 2008, 4:45 pm
After the Tulia drug scandal up in the Texas Panhandle, the Texas Legislature took a first step toward reining in this problem by requiring corroboration for informants used in undercover drug stings. [read post]
13 Nov 2008, 6:23 am
However, the Sunset report declared that:Combining TYC and TJPC's functions into a single agency, the new Texas Juvenile Justice Department, should result in significant savings to the State. [read post]
12 Nov 2008, 4:49 pm
Camp said.Those concerned about the process blame the parole division and the Legislature, which crafted the sweeping laws, for the problem, not the parole board. [read post]
11 Nov 2008, 2:01 pm
Royce West has a good bill (SB 224), that disallows state licensing agencies from using a prior conviction to refuse licensing if the offender successfully completed deferred adjudication. [read post]
10 Nov 2008, 9:20 am
Neither are an effective use of criminal justice resources compared to other ways the state could use that much money.For starters, in its list of "exceptional items" (pdf) in its legislative budget request, the Texas Department of Public Safety said it would cost $129,147,375 over the next biennium to implement the federal REAL ID Act. [read post]
10 Nov 2008, 7:35 am
The report shall also include an assessment and recommendation of any program infrastructure issues and state laws that areThis is all well and good, but the scope of work doesn't seem to address the evaluation metric that actually drove the Legislature to launch the program in the first place: Has the existence of in-prison substance abuse treatment increased the rate at which the parole board approves release for DWI offenders? [read post]
8 Nov 2008, 7:30 pm
Texas now has a provision in its constitution declaring that the state and its subdivisions "may not create or recognize any legal status identical or similar to marriage. [read post]
8 Nov 2008, 10:01 am
" An earlier SL&P post pointed out this compilation of state-level results on drug policy reform ballot initiatives.Also, see Karl Keys' excellent post, "Jan. 21, 2009: Crimlaw Issues" in which the blogger from Capital Defense Weekly reads tea leaves from Barack Obama's public statements on crime policy.It's hard to say yet what these elections meant for the Texas Legislature on criminal justice issues, and I'll wait to assess… [read post]
3 Nov 2008, 6:29 am
We're lucky in Texas our Legislature has embraced the idea of treatment funding to avoid new prison building which, as the former San Quentin warden says, may be the only real option to stem the swelling tide of prisoners and red ink in the state corrections budget. [read post]
2 Nov 2008, 7:46 am
Tyler's police department and the Sheriff have refused to let officers use new authority given by the Legislature to give summons instead of arresting petty misdemeanants. [read post]
1 Nov 2008, 7:20 pm
The Supreme Court ruled against them.Obama suggests that to solve problems like this, the legislature is a better place than the courts. [read post]
1 Nov 2008, 6:49 pm
But recent court cases in Texas and Michigan may change that.The column ends:After the 2005 Supreme Court decision, many state legislatures responded by banning shipping altogether. [read post]
