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19 Jun 2007, 12:59 am
County Commissioners are also considering expanding the jail in Huntsville.Hutto Litigation UpdateThe Texas Observer blog has an update on the litigation at the Hutto immigrant family detention facility. [read post]
15 Jun 2007, 3:18 am
(Bexar County probation director Bill Fitzgerald will be one of the speakers, so his employees should feel free to attend if they can or to suggest any relevant questions for him in the comments.) [read post]
12 Jun 2007, 8:05 am
A few weeks ago election officials in the south central Texas county of Bexar admitted that hundreds of illegal immigrants registered to vote and subsequently cast ballots, canceling out the votes of United States citizens. [read post]
11 Jun 2007, 9:28 am
But the fortuitous timing that worked for O'Malley soon may begin to click for others, as many of the same people who helped him are trying to improve Bexar County's system, and perhaps make it a model for Texas. [read post]
11 Jun 2007, 12:59 am
"Currently, though, pretrial inmates make up nearly half of the state's jail population, according to monthly data collected by the Texas Commission on Jail Standards. [read post]
4 Jun 2007, 7:46 am
This bill is on the Governor's desk.SB 10 Amdt by McLendon: This amendment by McLendon allows a needle exchange to operate in Bexar County. [read post]
1 Jun 2007, 8:23 am
Earlier this year the SA Express News' Elizabeth Allen wrote a story revealing how the Bexar County probation department knowingly condoned false positives (because confirming tests would cost too much) and let urine samples sit around unrefrigerated too long before testing them. [read post]
31 May 2007, 10:18 am
Good news: Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott is standing down, for now, on the demand that Google turn over information that could help Bexar County probation director Bill Fitzgerald identify anonymous dissidents on his staff who want to start a labor union. [read post]
31 May 2007, 7:37 am
If the bill had been in effect and the local law enforcement organizations utilized it to issue summons on only those charged with misdemeanor traffic ticket and driving with license suspended offenses, Bexar County jail's population would have been reduced by 194 inmates and saved the County nearly $10,000 per day in operational expenses.Just as the State continues to struggle to meet increased demand for prison beds, Texas counties continue to… [read post]
31 May 2007, 5:35 am
A Public Defender writes about the efforts of the Bexar County[Texas] probation director to uncover the identities of anonymous blog commentators. [read post]
30 May 2007, 9:51 am
Nelson Wolff, Judge of the Bexar County Commissioners Court, said enthusiastically, "Last year Bexar County spent more than $4 million on HIV/AIDS services. [read post]
30 May 2007, 6:14 am
Only two piece of legislation passed the 80th Texas Legislature that assist at all with the statewide county jail overincarceration crisis. [read post]
30 May 2007, 5:18 am
Scott Henson, over at the always interesting Grits for Breakfast, has been following this story out of Bexar County in Texas (original post and follow up), which chronicles the efforts of the Texas AG, on behalf of Bexar County probation director Bill Fitzgerald to out anonymous blog commenters at a probation officers’ employee blog . [read post]
29 May 2007, 11:12 am
In the SA Express News ' Hearsay blog on the Bexar court system, reporter Elizabeth Allen picks up on Grits' coverage of efforts by the Texas Attorney General on behalf of Bexar County probation director Bill Fitzgerald to out anonymous blog commenters at a probation officers' employee blog . [read post]
21 May 2007, 9:28 am
Well, it's not the statewide permission for local governments to approve needle exchanges that Senator Deuell and the Texas Senate wanted, but the Texas House approved an amendment to SB 10 this afternoon to allow Bexar County to operate a pilot needle exchange program. [read post]
18 May 2007, 8:47 am
Election officials in the south central Texas county of Bexar, with a population of about 1.5 million and 622 precincts, have admitted that illegal immigrants somehow managed to cast ballots in elections in recent years. [read post]
7 May 2007, 7:57 am
At a time when execution chambers across the country sit unusually idle, Texas is putting more Bexar County... [read post]
1 May 2007, 10:54 am
Madden's HB 2391 - perhaps the most important bill of the 80th Texas Legislature addressing county jail overcrowding - passed unanimously this week with nary peep from the "tuff on crime" set. [read post]
27 Apr 2007, 2:47 am
The SA Express News' Roddy Stinson focuses on allegations of nepotism at the Bexar County probation department.Anderson Cooper Screwed Up the 'Snitch' StorySo says David Borden at Drug War Chronicle in an open letter to the 60 Minutes reporter. [read post]
26 Apr 2007, 7:51 am
Good news for local officials managing understaffed and overcrowded jails - the 80th Texas Legislature's best chance to assist counties with the crisis in local jail overcrowding, HB 2391 by Madden, passed on second reading this afternoon on the House floor on a voice vote. [read post]
