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26 Jun 2020, 3:23 pm by Eric Quitugua
A Texas Slavery Mapping Project report estimated there are 79,000 minor and youth victims of sex trafficking in the state. [read post]
26 Jun 2020, 3:23 pm by Eric Quitugua
A Texas Slavery Mapping Project report estimated there are 79,000 minor and youth victims of sex trafficking in the state. [read post]
25 Jun 2020, 2:47 pm by Matt Gluck
Several states across the South and the West have experienced recent spikes in COVID-19 infections, and Texas paused its reopening plans on Thursday. [read post]
17 Jun 2020, 11:46 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Other than Texas DPS, whose jurisdiction and governance issues differ significantly from local departments, the legislature has little to do with setting law-enforcement budgets.So, what more substantive reforms might go into a state-level George Floyd Act in Texas? [read post]
16 Jun 2020, 6:15 am by Josh Blackman
California has so far applied its travel ban to eleven States: Alabama, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, and Texas. 22. [read post]
15 Jun 2020, 3:41 pm by John McFarland
Groundwater Districts were created by the Texas Legislature to manage production of groundwater. [read post]
15 Jun 2020, 7:24 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Texas has passed other policing reforms over the years, but in all that time, nobody's ever cracked the civil-service code nut in the Lone Star State. [read post]
12 Jun 2020, 5:55 am by Michael Lowe
  The Texas Legislature has delineated exactly what constitutes the crime of drunk driving, or DWI, in the Lone Star State. [read post]
12 Jun 2020, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
It has also put renewed focus on the assortment of online state voter registration systems, which were among the chief targets of Russian hackers in 2016. [read post]
11 Jun 2020, 6:03 am by Amy Starnes
To that end, our 10 schools will provide support in every way we can to the state bar, the legislature, the judiciary, and the rest of the Texas legal community in efforts to eradicate racism and discrimination in our justice system. [read post]
5 Jun 2020, 7:47 am by Gritsforbreakfast
In Austin, city legal staff has told City Manager Spencer Cronk that the state civil service code won't allow him to fire Chief Brian Manley, only demote him to chief of staff. [read post]
5 Jun 2020, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
Domenech was earlier found to have met in 2017 with attorneys for his former employer, the Texas Public Policy Foundation, while the conservative think tank and the Interior Department were battling over a lawsuit, creating the appearance of a conflict-of-interest. [read post]
2 Jun 2020, 12:58 pm by Eugene Volokh
That notion was well embedded in American law by the time of Texas v. [read post]
28 May 2020, 9:29 am by Elliot Setzer
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced yesterday that, as a descriptive matter, the State Department no longer considers Hong Kong to have significant autonomy from Chinese rule, according to the New York Times. [read post]
The legislature had long before outlawed littering on the state’s highways and in public places—just like other states. [read post]
26 May 2020, 11:35 am by Nkechi Taifa
Isaiah Dickerson, headed the first mass reparations movement in the United States, founded in 1898. [read post]