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29 May 2012, 9:28 am
Cherie Townsend, head of the Texas Juvenile Justice Department, announced today that she's retiring at the end of next month following harsh criticism from state Sen. [read post]
28 Aug 2008, 6:08 pm
Wrote Richard Nedelkoff: I am pleased that I am able to tell you today that I have hired Cherie Townsend as the agency's new Executive Director. [read post]
3 Sep 2009, 10:59 am
Governor Perry has named the new board of the Texas Youth Commisison, which met on Tuesday for the first time and whose first act was to permanently hire Cherie Townsend as executive director.Here's the press release announcing the appointments. [read post]
7 Apr 2010, 4:39 am
TYC executive director Cherie Townsend sent out this letter on Monday notifying employees of the move. [read post]
15 Jan 2009, 9:42 am
Texas Youth Commission Executive Commissioner Cherie Townsend sent out this email today to TYC employees announcing significant layoffs: I am certain most of you are aware that the Sunset Advisory Commission met yesterday and voted 6-5 to abolish the Texas Youth Commission and the Texas Juvenile Probation Commission and to establish the Texas Juvenile Justice Department by September 1, 2010. [read post]
3 Feb 2009, 12:11 am
" This morning they'll hear presentations by Juvenile Probation Commission chief Vicki Spriggs and TYC's executive commissioner Cherie Townsend. [read post]
24 May 2010, 10:51 am
From a May 18 message to staff from TYC Executive Director Cherie Townsend:The TYC has entered into an agreement with The Moss Group to assess the sexual safety of youth in all TYC facilities. [read post]
24 Oct 2008, 7:02 am
"I was told [by TYC Executive Commissioner Cherie Townsend] that they're going to reimburse the funds," Mr. [read post]
15 Oct 2008, 6:47 am
Naming Cherie Townsend Executive Commissioner, Gov. [read post]
17 Oct 2008, 6:55 am
" Reported the Statesman's Mike Ward:Attributing recent delays in filling the lockup to inspection issues, Townsend said 18 youths will be transferred to the Eagle Lake site today. [read post]
26 Jan 2011, 6:33 am
Cherie In a separate email on Monday, Townsend described the Senate's essentially similar draft budget for the agency. [read post]
20 May 2009, 12:13 am
Emily Ramshaw at the Dallas News reports that my former boss Will Harrell will leave his post as TYC Ombudsman and become "director of special projects" under Cherie Townsend at the Youth Commission. [read post]
15 May 2012, 5:31 am
Cherie Townsend may not be perfect, no one is, but some of her legislative critics should find mirrors if they want to disparage those truly responsible. [read post]
25 Feb 2009, 8:30 pm
The West Texas school will be limited to 48 youths.Good luck to those who've recently lost their jobs at TYC, and for that matter, to Cherie Townsend and her management team who appear to be making the tough decisions needed to reorganize the troubled agency before the Legislature does it for them. [read post]
16 Dec 2010, 7:31 am
Notably, last week TYC executive director Cherie Townsend, in an email to staff, listed other budget cutting options the agency is considering:We anticipate forming a group next week composed of a cross section of staff from central office and the field to review options that might include: holding open all non-critical vacant positions, further reducing staff travel, purchasing even fewer vehicles this year than estimated with the previous directives, … [read post]
2 Oct 2008, 1:30 pm
Today in the Houston Chronicle, columnist Lisa Falkenberg again raises this specter ("Situation still murky at TYC," Oct. 2):Toward the end of the hearing, new TYC Executive Director Cherie Townsend reported for her first day on the job, telling lawmakers she was ready to work hard on reforms but that she wasn't "a magician or a miracle worker. [read post]
7 Sep 2012, 7:31 pm
The 13-member board voted 7-6 to hire him to replace Jay Kimbrough, who has temporarily led the department since the retirement of Cherie Townsend in May. [read post]
4 Dec 2010, 5:17 am
"In most cases, schools are satisfied with (knowing only the name of the crime)," Cherie Townsend, executive director of the Youth Commission, told Abbott by letter. [read post]
23 Oct 2010, 6:34 am
Good for Cherie Townsend for beginning to confront this practice before the Youth Today article was published. [read post]
12 Oct 2010, 4:57 am
"[In] these two cases that I reported, the kids were not getting a fair trial at the parole revocation hearings," Koustoubardis said.This isn't the first employee who courts have found to have been illegally terminated in the wake of TYC's widely publicized sex-abuse scandal, though the firing came prior the current executive director, Cherie Townsend, coming on board. [read post]
