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19 Sep 2010, 9:54 am
The combination of expanding the Grand Parkway and widening US 290 will have a significant impact on Houstonians living in the West part of Harris County. [read post]
19 Feb 2012, 2:41 pm by Susan I. Nelson
Houston Chronicle by Susan Carroll Harris County Sheriff Adrian Garcia is leading an effort to block proposed budget cuts in the controversial 287(g) program that has helped local law enforcements authorities identify more than 275,000 undocumented immigrants in their custody. [read post]
5 Aug 2019, 2:33 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
Excessive pretrial detention in Houston was one of this blog's earliest hobby horses, presaging many of the debates which ended up resolved through federal litigation nearly a decade-and-a-half later. [read post]
22 May 2011, 10:27 am by Gritsforbreakfast
The closing paragraphs to this Houston Chronicle editorial explain why it's a bad idea, particularly in a county so full it's had to ship off hundreds of inmates to Louisiana:State Sen. [read post]
22 Aug 2007, 6:07 am
The Texas Youth Commission this spring announced plans to reduce its youth inmate population, but decisions about who goes to TYC are made locally, and recently the number of youth committed to TYC has grown annually.From data on the TYC website I compiled this spreadsheet listing the ten largest contributing counties to TYC:As one might expect, Houston and Dallas led TYC's growth over the last five years, with the number of commitments from Harris County increasing… [read post]
14 Feb 2012, 12:39 pm by Steve Hall
Today's Houston Chronicle reports, "Montgomery County tries team approach to help mentally ill. [read post]
12 Jul 2016, 10:44 am by Sandra Thompson
After the debacle of the Houston Police Department Crime Laboratory, the City of Houston in 2014 spun off the crime lab, making it a new organization, independent of law enforcement, now called the Houston Forensic Science Center. [read post]
12 Oct 2021, 6:55 am by Adam Faderewski
Carter is judge of the 125th District Court in Harris County and has served as general counsel to the state’s legislative committees on General Investigations and Ethics and the committee on Urban Affairs. [read post]
27 Dec 2006, 2:14 am
Compare that to Harris County (Houston is the county seat), where only 4% of inmates fit that category as of December 1.Simply reducing the percentage of pretrial detainees to the statewide average would slash Walker's baseline by 27 inmates, which is about the size of the Sheriff's weekend surge. [read post]
15 May 2010, 5:43 pm by johntfloyd
Floyd Law Firm won three acquittals in the cases of Michael Serges, whose ordeal in the Harris County court system was the subject of a Houston Press feature story reporter Chris Vogel. [read post]
9 Mar 2010, 12:35 pm by Adjunct LawProfs
Court watchers may recall that last week, a Harris County, Texas (Houston) district judge held that the Texas death penalty procedures were unconstitutional. [read post]
7 Aug 2018, 8:20 pm by Howard Bashman
“Harris County judges seek to stop federal order in historic bail lawsuit”: Gabrielle Banks of The Houston Chronicle has this report on a case argued today at the U.S. [read post]
29 Jul 2007, 3:32 pm
Houston Chronicle: Law interns use ingenuity in dog case When Harris County Assistant District Attorney Belinda Smith needed to determine the date of a dogfighting video, she turned to interns to ensure that the incident happened within the two-year statute of limitations for a misdemeanor charge. [read post]