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21 Feb 2009, 1:01 am
The Austin Statesman offered up an alarmist report this week ("Admitted scofflaws, poly flunkers among DPS recruits," Feb. 19) that, at the Department of Public Safety:Some members of the current recruit class of more than 100 failed polygraph tests on their background. [read post]
12 Nov 2020, 12:42 pm
The report from the University of Texas at Austin is just the latest indictment of the deadly Texas prison system. [read post]
6 Jun 2008, 3:12 pm
The Austin American-Statesman editorial is, "Major leap toward restoring justice. [read post]
13 Sep 2012, 6:56 am
In reaction to controversial raises for administrators at the Texas Juvenile Justice Department, reported Mike Ward at the Austin Statesman: "'We need to put in a criminal penalty for violating the Appropriations Act and not following the intent of the Legislature,' said Senate Criminal Justice Committee Chairman John Whitmire, a Houston Democrat who is also a member of the budget-writing Senate Finance Committee. [read post]
21 Feb 2008, 4:12 am
Austin Police Department has suspended an officer for 10 days, ostensibly for excessive force:Detective Joseph Lorett has been suspended for 10 days after video from another officer's car shows he kneed the suspect, who was facedown, in the head and used profane language. [read post]
30 Aug 2012, 6:32 am
Robert Chesney (Univ. of Texas, Austin - Law) has posted Beyond the Battlefield, Beyond Al Qaeda: The Destabilizing Legal Architecture of Counterterrorism (Michigan Law Review, forthcoming). [read post]
15 Feb 2009, 1:45 am
Mike Ward at the Austin Statesman has an excellent piece this morning describing in detail how investigators believe cell phones and other contraband were smuggled onto Texas death row ("Texas prison cell phone smuggling blamed on inmate rings," Feb. 15):Instead of the phone being smuggled by a single corrupt guard, as originally thought, investigators now say it and dozens of others might have been put in the hands of Texas' worst killers by an intricate network of… [read post]
12 Nov 2020, 12:42 pm
The report from the University of Texas at Austin is just the latest indictment of the deadly Texas prison system. [read post]
22 Feb 2008, 9:40 am
As a legislative oversight committee grilled TYC administrators in Austin this afternoon, another civil rights suit was filed by a former inmate against the Evins unit in the Rio Grande Valley, which was already the subject of federal litigation and a recent Agreed Order. [read post]
16 Dec 2019, 8:24 am
The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation has funded research resulting in a report, “Emissions in the Stream: Estimating the Greenhouse Gas Impacts of an Oil and Gas Boom,” by to professors at UT Austin. [read post]
31 Mar 2012, 12:02 pm
The Dallas Observer has an interview with Austin attorney Betty Blackwell who is a recent, former chair of the state bar disciplinary committee and participated on a panel discussion Thursday at the UT law school on prosecutorial oversight. [read post]
20 Oct 2011, 8:35 am
"State Bar of Texas, in rare move, launches Morton investigation," is the title of Chuck Lindell's report in today's Austin American-Statesman. [read post]
16 Feb 2009, 4:54 pm
Jane Stapleton (Australian National University - ANU College of Law and University of Texas at Austin School of Law) have posted Choosing What We Mean by "Causation" in the Law (Missouri Law Review, Vol. 73, No.2, pp. 433-480, 200) on SSRN. [read post]
23 Jul 2014, 7:12 am
On Saturday morning July 19, 23-year-old Austin Reese Chadwick of Woodstock was arrested for allegedly driving under the influence of alcohol and fleeing the scene of an accident, according to a news article at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. [read post]
15 Aug 2011, 2:49 pm
South by Southwest (SXSW) is a series of three conferences, held each Spring in Austin, Texas. [read post]
12 Oct 2010, 5:20 am
Reacting to Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo's call for a new DWI-lite charge in Texas' statutes, Reason magazine's Radley Balko makes the case for eliminating DWI laws based on blood alcohol content and focusing on impaired driving of all types. [read post]
27 Dec 2015, 11:55 pm
In her column for The New York Times, Linda Greenhouse weighs in on the challenge to the University of Texas at Austin’s consideration of race in its undergraduate admissions policy; she suggests that, although there “is only a remote chance that the case will spell a formal end to affirmative action in university admissions,” “the justices face a crucial choice nonetheless: to keep the diversity door open or further reduce the court’s equal protection… [read post]
25 May 2010, 4:56 am
Reports Mike Ward at the Austin Statesman:After visiting a once-violent Louisiana prison that is now ranked as one of the most tame thanks to a minister-training program, two key state senators today proposed bringing the concept to Texas. [read post]
18 Mar 2011, 4:52 am
Senate Education Committee Chair Florence Shapiro called the budget of the Windham School District, which educates Texas prisoners at 112 prison units across the state, "the biggest waste of money I think I've seen," according to reports from the Austin Statesman and the Houston Chronicle. [read post]
14 Oct 2011, 9:26 am
It's moderated by our friend Austin Sarat from Amherst and the papers will be published in an edited book. [read post]
