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12 Jun 2019, 1:25 pm
Prosecutors play a role in all of these decisions.Another data-based story angle: just recently, Keri Blakinger of the Houston Chronicle published a landmark article on prosecutor caseloads at the Harris County DA, showing that District Attorney Kim Ogg had significantly overstated the prosecutor-to-cases ratio when pitching the commissioners court to let her hire 100 new prosecutors. [read post]
24 May 2019, 11:30 am
Man allegedly violates his probation; his probation officer gets a Houston County, Tenn. judicial commissioner to revoke it. [read post]
12 Apr 2019, 2:35 pm
Social Security And Taxes Many senior citizens preparing for retirement may not realize that their Social Security income could be taxable under certain conditions. [read post]
10 Apr 2019, 12:22 pm
That would make sense if McLeod were the only judge in Harris County (that’s where Houston is), but in fact there are lots. [read post]
9 Apr 2019, 1:41 pm
[Update: The Houston Chronicle says the commissioners will meet today (Apr. 9) to decide what happens. [read post]
4 Apr 2019, 12:01 am
KHOU News reports that a county judge in Houston was recently informed of this provision shortly after he announced on Facebook that he was planning to run for the state supreme court. [read post]
12 Mar 2019, 2:10 pm
Doyal and two county commissioners, Charlie Riley and Jim Clark, were indicted on a misdemeanor charge in June 2016 by a Montgomery County grand jury for violating the Texas Open Meetings Act. [read post]
28 Feb 2019, 4:19 pm
The Harris County District Attorney can't hire more prosecutors, the Houston PD can't find the informant behind a botched SWAT-style narcotics raid, and the chairman of the House Corrections Committee can't understand why local government spends so much money jailing people. [read post]
22 Feb 2019, 6:19 am
The Hamilton County Public Defender Office, of which I am a Commissioner, is a signatory to the letter forwarding the public comments to the Court. [read post]
17 Feb 2019, 5:38 pm
More on this later.More Houston drug-raid falloutIt's probably premature for the Houston Chronicle editorial board to declare local police could now rebuild trust after the no-knock drug raid in Houston that resulted in four officers shot, and two homeowners along two of their dogs killed. [read post]
5 Feb 2019, 11:22 am
At the last County Commissioner’s meeting, they voted to bring in some experts, probably from the Pretrial Justice Institute, to assess their system and give advice for improvement. [read post]
16 Nov 2018, 2:40 pm
Rodney Ellis, former Texas senator and current Harris County commissioner, delivered the keynote address at the NLADA annual conference at the Westin Galleria in Houston on November 1. [read post]
9 Nov 2018, 2:13 pm
Here are a few odds and ends which merit readers' attention during the calm before the election-day storm on Tuesday:New Harris County Judge campaigned on aggressive justice reformHarris County's new 27-year old County Judge, Lina Hidalgo, campaigned on a platform of vigorous criminal-justice reform. [read post]
29 Oct 2018, 1:19 pm
Now Dallas County has said publicly, and the Commissioners Court has voted publicly, that they are going to hire, as she said, up to 24 new employees. [read post]
22 Oct 2018, 12:19 pm
The recommendation comes on the heels of five former New York probation commissioners, including our pal Vinny Schiraldi, recommending that the state stop drug testing and revoking probationers for marijuana. [read post]
17 Oct 2018, 4:19 pm
Following on the heels of Monday’s announcement that Anthem, Inc. is paying a record setting $16 million to resolve charges its violations of the enterprise risk assessment and other requirements of the Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act (HIPAA) Security Rule allowed cybercriminals to breach the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of more than 79 million patients, physicians and other health care providers, health plans and health insurers, health care… [read post]
16 Oct 2018, 3:55 pm
Health plans, their employer and other sponsors and fiduciaries, health insurers, health care providers, health care clearinghouses and their business associates should study and learn from the just announced, record-setting $16 million resolution agreement between health insurance giant, Anthem, Inc., to resolve Department of Health & Human Services Office of Civil Rights (OCR) charges that Anthem, Inc. [read post]
28 Sep 2018, 8:52 am
He earned his J.D. from South Texas College of Law Houston in 1990. [read post]
21 Sep 2018, 10:34 am
One commissioner lamented, “We’ve got so many people sitting in jail that could plea,” ignoring the fact that the District Attorney's tough-on-crime plea positions play a big role in that calculus. [read post]
13 Aug 2018, 6:00 am
” Locations: • Southwest Multi-Service Center, 6400 High Star Dr., Houston 77074 • Mangum-Howell Center, 2500 Frick Rd., Houston 77038 • Northeast Multi-Service Center, 9720 Spaulding St., Houston 77016 • Magnolia Multi-Service Center, 7037 Capitol St., Houston 77011 The clinics are possible through a grant from the Foundation of the American College of Trial Lawyers and co-sponsored by the HBA, Houston Health Department, and… [read post]
