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25 Aug 2007, 2:53 am
The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports ("Police: Man didn't report beating," Aug. 25) Tarrant County man has been charged with:failing to report a felony, a relatively new and rarely used Class A misdemeanor charge punishable by up to one year in jail and a $4,000 fine. [read post]
22 Aug 2007, 6:07 am
By comparison, Bexar (San Antonio) and Tarrant (Fort Worth) Counties' number of commitments have remained flat, while Travis County (Austin) commitments increased 66%, though overall numbers were much lower than in the larger cities. [read post]
20 Aug 2007, 11:13 am
Over the following days, the Tarrant County Public Health Department (TCPHD) was notified of several additional cases of E. coli O157:H7 infections, which included five positive stool cultures. [read post]
29 Jul 2007, 8:58 am
`That makes them judge, jury and executioner,' Moore said.After discussing the confession with the Tarrant County prosecutor, police closed the case and have no plans to arrest or otherwise pursue the suspect. [read post]
24 Jul 2007, 7:49 am
Tarrant County is the only large county in Texas to regularly dispose of more felony cases than are filed and the only one not currently experiencing jail crowding.For those interested, here's a document from Tarrant County explaining the program in more detail, basically categorizing cases into three types: Expedited, Basic, and Complex. [read post]
8 Jul 2007, 12:45 am
By contrast, Harris County had about 11 pre-trial misdemeanants per 100,000 residents, Tarrant County had about 16 pre-trial misdemeanants per 100,000 residents, and Dallas County, which reported only nine pre-trial misdemeanants in custody, had about 0.38 pre-trial misdemeanants per 100,000 residents. [read post]
6 Jul 2007, 2:07 am
In Tarrant and a few smaller counties, hundreds of misdemeanor offenders are sentenced to do menial labor as their punishment instead of jail. [read post]
3 Jul 2007, 7:50 am
The district wants to divert about 7 percent of the water before it goes into the Red River and absorbs too much salt to be drinkable.The Upper Trinity Regional Water District, which serves Collin, Dallas and Denton counties, also filed for a permit.The Tarrant Regional Water District sued the Oklahoma Water Resources Board and the Oklahoma Water Conservation Storage Commission to keep the state from automatically dismissing or denying its permits while the matter is in court. [read post]
22 Jun 2007, 7:55 am
Neither the state nor Texas counties can build their way out of the current overincarceration crisis. [read post]
12 Jun 2007, 8:05 am
Now federal authorities are, not only investigating the fraud in Bexar, but also in nearby Harris, Tarrant and El Paso counties. [read post]
6 May 2007, 4:56 am
Chincy state hospital funding leaves mentally incompetent defendants strandedUnfunded mandate: Counties struggle to pay for mentally incompetent defendants' careMore counties grumbling at backlog of incompetent defendants in county jailsMH funding not enough, but better than a sharp stick in the eye [read post]
10 Apr 2007, 4:27 am
The leased facilities would be located in or near counties with a population of 600,000 (Harris, Dallas, Tarrant, Bexar, Travis, El Paso, Hidalgo, and Collin), causing the assessment function to be decentralized and a need for more FTEs and funds for transportation. [read post]
6 Apr 2007, 6:52 am
The judgeordered the Tarrant County district attorney's office and Toney's defenseattorneys to interview individuals involved in the case and submit theirdepositions.Young will review those interviews, along with other evidence, and determinewhether a hearing is necessary. [read post]
21 Feb 2007, 7:45 am
I'd earlier discussed this legislation here.)I couldn't be at the hearing, but one of my sources expressed surprise to hear the Tarrant County DA coming out against the 25-year mandatory minimum for first offenders in Rep. [read post]
14 Jan 2007, 6:54 pm
OUT-OF-STATE CONVICTIONS FOR ENHANCEMENT PURPOSESHabeas Corpus Application from Tarrant County—Relief DeniedFor purposes of Texas Penal Code §12.42(c)(2)(B), probated convictions may be used for enhancement.Ex Parte White, __S.W.3d__(Tex.Crim.App. [read post]
26 Dec 2006, 11:27 pm
Pretrial detentionBail blunders boost bulging Harris jail populationHarris detains low-risk offenders for no reasonBail policies juice Tarrant jail overcrowdingTarrant County bail politics keeps jails fullTyler jail overcrowding solutions unveiledPretrial diversion = Erath County's overincarceration solution [read post]
20 Dec 2006, 9:36 am
Tarrant County, which isn't exactly known as a liberal's vision of Xanadu, has such a policy, which both sides say speeds up the prosecution of cases. [read post]
28 Nov 2006, 10:04 pm
Some Texas counties, like Tarrant, just copy the file and give the whole thing to defense counsel, just like attorneys in civil court get access to "discovery" to find out what evidence the other side will present. [read post]
19 Nov 2006, 1:18 am
Nearly twice as many defendants in Harris County were sent to state jails last year for possessing less than 1 gram of a drug than in Dallas, Tarrant and Bexar counties combined. [read post]
15 Nov 2006, 10:17 am
They include:County veterans service offices: Collin County (972-881-3060), Dallas County (214-819-1885), Denton County (940-349-2950) and Tarrant County (817-531-5645) Department of Veterans Affairs: 1-800-827-1000 or www.va.gov Texas Veterans Commission: 1-800-252-8387 statewide or www.tvc.state.tx.us Veterans of Foreign Wars: 1-800-839-1899 or www.vfw.orgVeterans may get military discharge documents at vetrecs.archives.gov. [read post]
