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6 Mar 2008, 11:03 pm
Last month in San Antonio, a Bexar County Sheriff's Deputy was busted purchasing steroids at his off-duty job as a flea market security guard, reported WOAI radio ("Deputy arrested and charged with drug possession," Feb. 12):The deputy, 34-year-old Omar Rubio, was taken into custody Saturday. [read post]
6 Mar 2008, 8:49 am
Former Bexar County (San Antonio) District Attorney Sam Millsap. was in Lincoln, Nebraska yesterday to discuss his experiences with prosecuting capital punishment cases. [read post]
5 Mar 2008, 2:08 am
Rosemary was my second choice, and I think she's the superior choice of the two in the runoff, but Montford is a strong candidate who's been talking a good game about reform.Harris County District Attorney: Kelly Siegler and Pat Lykos will face off in the GOP primary runoff, which should leave our pal over at Life at the Harris County Criminal Justice Center in an absolute tizzy for the next month. [read post]
3 Mar 2008, 11:05 pm
Sheriff's races in Bexar and Dallas both should be competitive, with issues in both elections centering around the jail. [read post]
20 Feb 2008, 8:26 am
Levin also suggested that county commissioners could "designate misdemeanors that are non-jailable in that county, which also eliminates indigent defense costs. [read post]
19 Feb 2008, 2:25 am
Similarly, I'm curious whether there have been ads running in the Sheriff's race in either Dallas or Bexar Counties in either primary. [read post]
16 Feb 2008, 10:33 am
Bexar County, 2008 U.S. [read post]
8 Feb 2008, 6:58 am
Tony Fabelo, Texas' premier criminal justice statistician, has been a busy man lately, including serving yesterday as the featured speaker at the Bexar County jail overcrowding symposium. [read post]
8 Feb 2008, 2:23 am
If Bexar County, for example, could lower its percentage of pretrial detainees to 34.5% from the current 58%, it would reduce the jail population by 935 inmates, eliminating the short-term crisis entirely.A county sheriff pulled me aside later to agree with me, and said he believed that too many judges these days were improperly using bail as punishment, which I thought was a good point. [read post]
7 Feb 2008, 8:24 am
You can't ride a bike on Interstate 35 or MoPac.Bexar Commissioner Tommy Adkisson suggested a deal could be struck with the local transit agency to get free bus fare; Bexar County negotiated such a deal for its own employees to reduce car trips downtown, he said. [read post]
28 Jan 2008, 1:44 am
The decision by the Bexar County DA to use needle exchange-related prosecutions for political grandstanding appears to be backfiring, at least to judge by the media response.National media are paying attention, and editorial boards around the state are beginning to take potshots at Bexar County District Attorney Susan Reed's use of prosecutorial discretion to charge three Christian needle exchange activists with Class A misdemeanors instead of the Class C… [read post]
23 Jan 2008, 12:08 am
Though health policy activists in Bexar County had swapped clean needles for dirty ones for years in San Antonio's poor neighborhoods, reports the Express News ("Syringe swap activists handed citations," Jan. 23):a San Antonio police officer cited Day, a 73-year-old retired commercial real estate appraiser and co-founder of the nonprofit group Bexar Area Harm Reduction Coalition, along with two board members, on a charge of possession of drug paraphernalia… [read post]
12 Jan 2008, 11:57 pm
On Thursday at the Texas Public Policy Foundation's briefing, I heard Bexar County DA Susan Reed describe offenders who receive probation sentences instead of jail as getting a "free ride," which always strikes me as an odd thing to say, though you hear it a lot (an audio of her remarks has been posted online). [read post]
10 Jan 2008, 11:48 pm
The case was filed in state District Court in Bexar County, Texas on January 2, 2008. [read post]
9 Jan 2008, 2:04 am
Twice in two years Smith County voters have rejected a new jail, even though the county already has to pay for dozens of out of county beds to incarcerate offenders. [read post]
5 Jan 2008, 1:31 am
But we've seen scandals take down Sheriffs in Dallas, Bexar and Potter Counties regarding allegedly improper or bribe-influenced commissary contracts, so it'll be interesting to see which contracts related to county jails wind up being wrapped into the investigation.It wasn't that long ago that the Cameron County Sheriff was convicted of escorting drug smugglers through his county, and San Antonio city council members went to prison for… [read post]
3 Jan 2008, 7:44 am
Offhand, I know Colorado County set up a system for officers to use new discretion, as did Jefferson County. [read post]
1 Jan 2008, 10:27 pm
In counties like Harris, Dallas and Bexar where jail overcrowding has reached crisis levels, IMO it borders on irresponsible not to use this discretion. [read post]
31 Dec 2007, 3:28 am
The Bexar County Sheriff resigned to avoid a felony indictment for bribery regarding a contract with a private firm to operate the jail commissary.New DPS Drug Enforcement Rules Boost Seizures, Reduce ArrestsVying with the previous item for the "Most important, seldom told story of the year," the Texas Department of Public Safety reported this year that new drug enforcement priorities implemented in recently adopted agency rules growing out of the "Tulia"… [read post]
28 Dec 2007, 12:57 am
"Bexar's bricks and mortar jail unsecure, so why push tent jail? [read post]
