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12 Dec 2007, 1:02 am
One of the more interesting presentations I saw last week in New Orleans at the Drug Policy Alliance conference centered on implementing ground-level harm reduction strategies, a topic that interests me especially as Bexar County prepares to launch Texas' first legal needle exchange operation in San Antonio. [read post]
11 Dec 2007, 9:20 am
"Roberts convicted on 5 counts": The San Antonio Express-News today contains an article that begins, "Bexar County jurors late Monday convicted a San Antonio lawyer on felony charges that she helped her husband blackmail four of her former lovers. [read post]
5 Dec 2007, 12:05 am
In Harris and Bexar Counties, both, the ratio was 19-1.These are fascinating data and I hope Texas reporters pick up on these localized data to launch local discussions over whether these results reflect the outcomes they think are best for the overall health of their cities and counties.Congrats to JPI's Jason Zeidenberg on an outstanding (and provocative) research project. [read post]
4 Dec 2007, 10:28 pm
"The Hidden Costs of Jury DutyThe Cameron Herald says that in Milam County someone perpetrated an identity theft scam by posing as the county jury coordinator.Here's the scenario: The County Jury Coordinator, supposedly, calls you on the phone. [read post]
28 Nov 2007, 11:17 pm
Reacting to news that a Bexar County Jail employee allegedly sold cocaine, marijuana and cell phones to inmates, Sam over at Man O' Law makes an excellent point: If they can't keep drugs and contraband from being smuggled into a jail built of bricks and mortar, what makes the new Sheriff or County Commissioners think they can keep a "tent jail" secure? [read post]
25 Nov 2007, 10:05 pm
To make matters worse, San Antonio -- which has its share of infrastructure problems -- has not enjoyed any of the economic growth around the ATT Arena that was predicted by promoters of the arena when it was approved back in 1999: When Bexar County asked voters in 1999 to approve a $175 million arena for the San Antonio Spurs, officials promised it would spark "economic development opportunities" for the neglected East Side. [read post]
23 Nov 2007, 11:55 pm
Go figure.Bexar jail strip search policy challenged Bexar County has been sued over the jail's policy of strip searching every single inmate booked into the facility. [read post]
11 Nov 2007, 11:36 pm
Foster insisted he was 80 feet away in a car, had no idea Brown was going to kill LaHood and didn't participate in the shooting.A Bexar County jury convicted Foster and Brown of capital murder and sentenced both to death. [read post]
7 Nov 2007, 8:44 am
But several DAs and local law enforcement officials have thwarted the law's implementation in much of the state.In San Antonio, Bexar DA Susan Reed blocked the law's implementation, even though it would have saved the county more than $10,000 per day. [read post]
6 Nov 2007, 10:00 pm
Five Democratic members of the Texas House from Bexar County have sent letters to the Federal Communication Commission asking it to intercede in the argument. [read post]
4 Nov 2007, 12:23 am
In fact, Bexar County court administrator Joan Pedrotti writes that that's how Bexar handles illegal immigrant offenders who "do not want to dispose of their misdemeanor charge. [read post]
31 Oct 2007, 12:06 am
For the past decade, Harris County has prosecuted more juveniles as adults than Bexar, Dallas, Tarrant and Travis counties combined.I attended a workshop yesterday at the Lubbock conference of the Juvenile Justice Association of Texas where defense attorney Mel Hazelwood described the certification process in some detail. [read post]
29 Oct 2007, 5:22 am
"Texas permits courts to certify juveniles as young as 15 to be tried as adults for murder and other violent crimes.For the past decade, Harris County has prosecuted more juveniles as adults than Bexar, Dallas, Tarrant and Travis counties combined.In 1996, Harris County certified 170 juveniles amid a public crackdown on violent youth crime. [read post]
28 Oct 2007, 3:34 am
Tom Rickhoff's Blog is the blog of Judge Tom Rickhoff, who presides before Probate Court No. 2 in Bexar County, Texas (for those non-Texans in the audience, that's where San Antonio is located). [read post]
26 Oct 2007, 11:22 pm
So I was pleased to see Bexar County (San Antonio) experimenting with alternatives to TYC placement, partnering with a Baptist charity to provide "intensive family preservation services. [read post]
26 Oct 2007, 2:43 am
"'Smart on Crime' means smart on mental healthFrom what I've seen, Bexar County leads every other part of the state demonstrating how local officials should step up to address mental health needs, not just among criminal offenders and the community at large, but among their own employees. [read post]
23 Oct 2007, 5:25 pm
The 408th District Court in Bexar County, Texas has issued a temporary injunction against a foreclosure rescue scheme - Foreclosure Assistance Solutions, LLC of Florida and its principal operators, Herb Zerden and Adolfo Quintero, owner John Woodruff, and J.W.W. [read post]
19 Oct 2007, 4:09 am
The Bexar County Sheriff recently had to step down to avoid a commissary-related felony bribery rap involving a different company, Premier Management Enterprises, which also just lost its contract in Kleberg County over similar allegations. [read post]
17 Oct 2007, 2:32 pm
Another recent bribery scandal involving the commissary in Bexar County resulted in the Sheriff's indictment and removal from office.UPDATE: Meanwhile, the Rockwall County DA has been indicted for allegedly dipping into government funds to pay his monthlies. [read post]
6 Oct 2007, 9:41 am
Former Bexar County prosecutor Sam Millsap, a Democrat from Texas, and former Georgia Congressman Bob Barr, a Republican, both expressed their outrage. [read post]
