May 25 Top
House Committees on Government Transparency & Operation and Homeland Security & Public Safety (Joint Hearing)
Joint charge: Criminal records
- Survey of State Criminal History Information Systems, 2014, U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics, December 2015
- Interim Report to the 84th Legislature (Charge 3 - Sale of criminal histories), House Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence, January 2015
- Criminal Records in the Digital Age: A Review of Current Practices and Recommendations for Reform in Texas, William Wayne Justice Center for Public Interest Law, The University of Texas School of Law, March 2013
- Broken Records: How Errors by Criminal Background Checking Companies Harm Workers and Businesses (Part IV/C, Bulk dissemination of records and state regulation of bulk dissemination), National Consumer Law Center, April 2012
- An Audit Report on The Criminal Justice Information System at the Department of Public Safety and the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, State Auditor's Office, September 2011
Charge 5: Dissemination of bulk criminal records
- Fourteenth Report Examining Reporting Compliance to the Texas Computerized Criminal History System, Texas Department of Public Safety, January 2016
- Report of the National Task Force on the Commercial Sale of Criminal Justice Record Information, SEARCH, The National Consortium for Justice Information and Statistics, 2005
- Interim Report, 77th Legislature: Charge Three (Criminal records), Senate Committee on Criminal Justice, September 2000
As expected, no new provisions for the release of audio/video and written reports in the cases of officer involved shootings. Texas cops kill more people than the death penalty, but due to the bulk background check industry, citizens can't investigate an officer involved shooting.
ReplyDeleteWake up Grits. Highlight this issue.
Very true. But, the police and fire unions are leftist organizations that protects them and they are not responsible for their actions.
DeleteThe Innocence Project lies to get guilty criminals off. Read about Professor David Protess of the Innocence Project:
ReplyDeleteA man is suing Northwestern and other parties for $40 million after he says he was coerced to plead guilty to a double homicide and spent 15 years in prison following revelations by an NU journalism class.
Alstory Simon filed a lawsuit Tuesday in the U.S. District Court of Northern Illinois seeking redress for the time he spent in prison after he says he was wrongfully incarcerated for the killings. Cook County prosecutors threw out his conviction in October.
The suit alleges the University, former Medill Prof. David Protess as well as private investigator Paul Ciolino and Simon’s then-attorney Jack Rimland “conspired to frame Simon for the murders.”