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31 Aug 2019, 7:10 am
The Austin City Council is presently considering whether to shift to a medical-led response in most instances, following the lead of a Dallas PD pilot program.'Cooking them to death'The Marshall Project and the Weather Channel teamed up to report on the effects of excessive heat in Texas prisons.Coming soon: New Travis County public defender officeGreat news: The Texas Indigent Defense Commission approved grant funding for a new public-defender office in Travis… [read post]
30 Aug 2019, 9:45 am
Allegations of sex crimes under either state or federal law can destroy lives, even before charges are filed. [read post]
30 Aug 2019, 3:00 am
National/Federal Barr Books Trump’s Hotel for $30,000 Holiday Party MSN – Jonathan O’Connell and David Fahrenthold (Washington Post) | Published: 8/27/2019 Attorney General William Barr will hold a family holiday party for 200 people at Trump International Hotel in December that is likely to cost $30,000. [read post]
16 Aug 2019, 3:00 am
Attorneys for the Birmingham and Huntsville airport authorities told the Ethics Commission that airport workers are not public employees because they are paid with funds generated by the airports, not with state, county, or municipal funds. [read post]
9 Aug 2019, 3:00 am
National/Federal Campaigns Say They’ll Match Political Contributions. [read post]
6 Aug 2019, 9:30 am
District Judge David Godbey said Dallas County has to stop imposing pre-set bail bond amounts that keep poorer defendants locked up for weeks or months in jails while richer defendants can walk free. [read post]
6 Aug 2019, 9:30 am
District Judge David Godbey said Dallas County has to stop imposing pre-set bail bond amounts that keep poorer defendants locked up for weeks or months in jails while richer defendants can walk free. [read post]
5 Aug 2019, 2:33 pm
At the time, though, there were 1,900 people sleeping on the jail floor due to overcrowding, so in a way, the issue was even more pressing back then.Which is why it's worth recognizing that it took the federal courts to accomplish these changes that every expert who ever looked at Harris County's system had been advising for more than a decade. [read post]
5 Aug 2019, 5:12 am
Because of this, repossessions in Dallas-Fort Worth are climbing at an alarming rate. [read post]
5 Aug 2019, 5:12 am
Because of this, repossessions in Dallas-Fort Worth are climbing at an alarming rate. [read post]
2 Aug 2019, 3:00 am
National/Federal Ex-McConnell Staffers Lobbied on Russian-Backed Kentucky Project Politico – Natasha Bertrand and Theodoric Meyer | Published: 7/31/2019 Two former top staffers to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell have lobbied Congress and the Treasury Department on the development of a new Kentucky aluminum mill backed by the Russian aluminum giant Rusal, according to a new lobbying disclosure. [read post]
15 Jul 2019, 1:14 pm
She was booked into Fort Worth jail. [read post]
15 Jul 2019, 1:14 pm
She was booked into Fort Worth jail. [read post]
9 Jul 2019, 1:24 pm
Marijuana Prosecutions Halt in Dallas, Harris and Tarrant Counties The Houston Chronicle reported on July 1, 2019 that Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg recently announced that her office plans to dismiss more than two dozen misdemeanor marijuana cases and will not be filing any more such cases. [read post]
3 Jul 2019, 6:50 am
All the law did was set people up to have an arrest warrant later, at which point county taxpayers would host them in the jail for a while. [read post]
28 Jun 2019, 12:54 pm
When the surcharge program first rolled out, county jails were flooded and the Legislature in 2007 reduced first-offense DWLI penalties from a Class B to a Class C misdemeanor. [read post]
25 Jun 2019, 2:05 pm
The “Sold Out” campaign highlighted the case of Lena, a 17-year-old girl who ran away from an abusive mother and ended up as one of the youngest inmates of Harris County Jail in Houston. [read post]
25 Jun 2019, 2:05 pm
The “Sold Out” campaign highlighted the case of Lena, a 17-year-old girl who ran away from an abusive mother and ended up as one of the youngest inmates of Harris County Jail in Houston. [read post]
15 Jun 2019, 7:56 am
At a hearing last month, the criminal justice advocacy group Texas Fair Defense Project claimed the bill at that time didn’t adequately address federal court rulings that called for individual bail hearings within two days of arrest and said Harris and Dallas counties’ bail practices kept people in jail simply because they were too poor to pay their bonds. [read post]
12 Jun 2019, 1:25 pm
(Of the large cities, only Dallas and El Paso aren't under the civil service system. [read post]
