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5 May 2009, 4:42 am
Another nasty black eye for Texas law enforcement: The interim top cop at the Texas Department of Public Safety, Col. [read post]
24 Oct 2008, 7:54 pm
Reports the Dallas News:At least 2,600 Houston-area DWI arrests are now in question, after a Department of Public Safety contractor failed to inspect breath analysis equipment - and faked records to show that she hadMORE: Here's a longer story from the Houston Chronicle, which informs us that:The Texas Department of Public Safety announced Friday that it suspended the certification for a woman who contracted to keep the breath test machines… [read post]
17 Oct 2012, 10:10 am
The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) did not get much media brouhaha over a recent change in its operating procedures, but something has changed in the way that DPS does things that will impact many, many Texans (and others) who are charged with misdemeanors involving blood alcohol or drug testing. [read post]
9 Oct 2007, 12:12 pm
View the article here10/09/2007The Texas Department of Public Safety said it's rectified the mistake of the man mistakenly identified as a sexual predator.Clint Jurek and his wife recently bought a home in East Austin. [read post]
18 Oct 2011, 4:20 am
Despite having two years to plan for the statutory September 1 implementation date, the Texas Department of Public Safety is not yet prepared to implement a mandated system for indigent defendants to have their Driver Responsibility Surcharges waived, I'm told by officials at DPS. [read post]
24 Dec 2012, 5:48 am
The Austin Statesman has a story fleshing out the issue of administrator raises at the Texas Department of Public Safety ("Management positions, salary increase at DPS while state trooper pay raises languish," Dec. 22), a subject Grits had raised back in 2011 after state Sen. [read post]
28 Jul 2011, 1:30 pm
Very recently, (and apparently very quietly), the Texas Department of Public Safety relaxed its standards for the instrument certification. [read post]
2 Sep 2012, 6:21 am
Struggling with massive backlogs and ever-expanding caseloads, the Texas Department of Public Safety crime labs have asked departments to limit the amount of evidence sent to them for testing in controlled substances cases, as well as limiting the number of DNA tests they'll do in a given case. [read post]
17 Jul 2014, 1:53 pm
Reversing a decade long policy implemented after the Texas House shot down the idea in 2003, the Texas Department of Public Safety earlier this year began taking all ten fingerprints of drivers when they apply for a license or a renewal. [read post]
25 Oct 2007, 8:55 am
"Judges hear arguments in DPS security tape case; DPS lawyer says release of tapes would set bad precedent, compromise security": The Austin American-Statesman today contains an article that begins, "An attorney for the Department of Public Safety told a Court of Appeals panel Wednesday that publicly releasing security camera tapes from public buildings was little different from giving someone the access codes to a building's… [read post]
19 Sep 2011, 8:17 pm
I met a woman today who had been to the Texas Department of Public Safety to renew her driver's license. [read post]
30 Mar 2015, 4:00 am
When the Department of Public Safety shifted its deployments to the border as part of "Operation Strong Safety," it measurably reduced DPS enforcement in the rest of the state, resulting in fewer citations and warnings issued statewide and corresponded to a period when traffic accidents increased. [read post]
25 Feb 2015, 6:08 am
Who is surprised to learn that the border "surge" by the Texas Department of Public Safety "compromised the Department of Public Safety’s ability to combat crimes elsewhere"? [read post]
8 Aug 2008, 3:39 pm
I am proud to present the Texas Department of Public Safety's Standard Operating Procedures for Blood Alcohol Analysis by Gas Chromatography Interesting fact about Gas Chromatography machines. [read post]
20 Aug 2010, 8:13 pm
McCraw is the Director of the Texas Department of Public Safety. [read post]
25 Nov 2008, 4:50 pm
Crime data maintained by the Texas Department of Public Safety is so shoddy that it's unreliable for performing background checks and gives the public a "false sense of security," according to an article in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram ("Texas DPS criminal databases missing thousands of records," Nov. 25):More than a third of criminal records are missing from the online Department of Public Safety… [read post]
6 Oct 2013, 4:59 pm
Following up on a story highlighted on Grits earlier this week, Jeremy Schwartz has a piece in the Austin Statesman today on the Texas Department of Public Safety's decision to install roadblocks in South Texas, a tactic Grits labeled "pure pretext stops." [read post]
2 Apr 2007, 8:11 am
The Governor's Operation Linebacker/Rio Grande/Wrangler/etc. hasn't been coordinating efforts funded under the program with the Department of Public Safety Narcotics division, a DPS official told legislators last week.I mentioned that I spoke to Patrick O'Burke about drug task forces earlier today - he's the Deputy Commander of DPS' Narcotics division. [read post]
14 Aug 2007, 1:03 am
In his first post on the team blogging at Texas Kaos, Vince Leibowitz parses through what's known about another heretofore secret database collected by the Texas Department of Public Safety that may have crossed the line into illegally using state police for immigration enforcement.Vince describes the DPS program as a "combination of two awful public policy disasters into one: racial profiling and immigrant hunting. [read post]
12 Jul 2008, 4:32 pm
Texas Department of Public Safety Colonel Tommy Davis announced his pending retirement after 43 years with the agency. [read post]
