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29 Sep 2009, 10:10 am
Rodney Ellis' office: (Houston , TX )// Harris County Commissioners approved the creation of a public defenders office at today's mid-year review hearing. [read post]
31 Oct 2019, 2:48 pm
Harris County Precinct 2 Commissioner Adrian Garcia proposed the name change to honor Deputy Dhaliwal. [read post]
20 Oct 2009, 10:10 am
The county judge and three county commissioners oppose a proposed city-county scofflaw contract, with some describing it as a money-grab by the city and others concerned it could hamper collection of the county's portion of state vehicle registration fees. [read post]
9 Dec 2009, 11:19 pm
Via Kuff, I was pleased to learn from the Houston Chronicle ("Inmate labor plan on the table," Dec. 8) that: Harris County Commissioner El Franco Lee has proposed that the county consider putting more prisoners to work cleaning local bayous and parks. [read post]
28 Apr 2011, 5:27 am
A report (pdf) from the House Research Organization last fall revealed that:Some Texas counties exclude inmates when establishing county commissioner precincts. [read post]
10 Apr 2008, 9:16 am
Harris County (Houston) Commissioners have instructed the county's budget officer to examine public defender offices with the possibility of creating one for the county. [read post]
16 Apr 2012, 6:11 am
In Houston, the Harris County Commissioners Court and the City Council are missing a huge opportunity to collaborate on a new, independent crime lab, letting partisan and personal differences interfere with the best interests of the public. [read post]
23 Sep 2008, 8:56 am
Even as Dallas County commissioners' new caseload quotas and heightened bureaucracy gutted their Public Defender office (I learned over the weekend a 6th felony attorney turned in their resignation on top of the five mentioned earlier on Grits), in Harris County the commissioners court today will hear the details of a preliminary plan on how to create a PD office in Houston. [read post]
19 Apr 2011, 4:45 am
According to Mike Morris in the Houston Chronicle ("Privatizing county jail on commissioners' agenda," April 18), Radack said:"We need to look at trying to save taxpayers' money and try to see if there's a cheaper way of operating the Harris County jails," ... [read post]
10 Nov 2010, 7:54 am
That's the title of today's Houston Chronicle report on the appointment of Alexander Bunin as the county's first public defender. [read post]
2 Aug 2008, 10:27 am
While Smith County (Tyler) voters will vote on proposed jail bonds in November for the third time in as many years, in Houston the Harris County Commissioners Court wisely declined to subject voters to a second jail bond election this November, suggesting they may ask again next May or even sometime beyond that. [read post]
31 Aug 2011, 4:00 pm
Parker called the move "a toe in the water" toward a regional lab, but members of the county board of commissioners expressed their impatience with the lack of participation from Houston.Read more from the Houston Chronicle.Read about the history of problems at the Houston Police Department crime lab and recent testing backlogs. [read post]
9 Nov 2010, 1:49 pm
County commissioners Tuesday officially hired the county's first public defender. [read post]
21 Jul 2011, 8:46 am
Jerry Eversole, a Harris County (Houston), Texas, Commissioner, was charged in the U.S. [read post]
19 Oct 2021, 9:21 am
In May 2021, Harris County Commissioners Court approved an initiative for the Harris County District Attorney’s Office. [read post]
28 Apr 2010, 7:37 am
"Harris County OKs hybrid public defender office," by Chris Moran is in today's Houston Chronicle.The Harris County Commissioners Court voted Tuesday to start a public defender office on an experimental basis, as long as the state covers the $4.4 million cost for the first year.The unanimous vote authorizes the county to apply for a grant from the Texas Task Force on Indigent Defense. [read post]
4 Jun 2008, 11:30 am
The Harris commissioners court this week approved a $15 million contract to move another 1,000 Houston inmates to the Bayou State, reported the Houston Chronicle ("Harris County rejects leasing Galveston jail, June 4"):the Commissioners Court on Tuesday approved one-year contracts with three Louisiana parishes to house up to 1,000 inmates at a cost of up to $15 million. [read post]
14 May 2010, 6:42 am
The Harris County Commissioner's Court approved a $167,500 settlement in a lawsuit over a woman who died while in a county jail in 2008. [read post]
13 May 2010, 7:22 pm
Commissioners Court approved the payments Tuesday to settle lawsuits against the Harris County Sheriff's Office. [read post]
1 Oct 2018, 4:34 pm
The city of Houston and Harris County have created a pilot program to divert young, low-level offenders from prison. [read post]
