Showing posts with label Attorney General. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Attorney General. Show all posts
Thursday, October 01, 2020

Task Force on reforming Houston police: Empower oversight board, remove civil-service barriers to accountability at #txlege, and have someone besides the DA prosecute police misconduct (Grits has a suggestion)

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"The loss of public trust and credibility makes it difficult, if not impossible, for the police to forge partnerships in local communit...
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Wednesday, April 08, 2020

Litigation challenges Abbott's executive order on COVID-19 jail releases

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The Texas Fair Defense Project, ACLU of Texas, and the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law sued Governor Greg Abbott over his execu...
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Wednesday, December 12, 2018

Podcast: Adversaries over Austin police-union contract sit down; when is it okay for courts to electrocute mentally ill defendants?; pythons as stocking stuffers?; and other stories

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When is it okay for a judge to electrocute a mentally ill defendant? What leverage did a Texas civil rights activist say enabled Austin ...
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Tuesday, November 27, 2018

Checking in at the CCA: TX high criminal court hasn't posted oral-argument videos in nearly six months, and other stories

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Since your correspondent left the Innocence Project of Texas, I haven't tracked the Court of Criminal Appeals hand-down lists nearly as ...
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Saturday, June 23, 2018

Judges rubber stamping capital writs, warrants now required for cell-phone location data, managed-assigned-counsel systems still suck, and other stories

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Here are a few odds and ends that merit readers' attention: Austin admits police oversight system didn't do much Grits has said f...
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Tuesday, July 25, 2017

Texas AG: Carrying a gun doesn't justify 'Terry' frisks

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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has signed onto an amicus brief  aimed at the US Supreme Court to argue that carrying a firearm in a state...
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Thursday, May 11, 2017

The police accountability bill that might still become law

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A short-term defeat: Wednesday's record vote As the Austin American-Statesman and others have noted, the slew of police accountabil...
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Saturday, February 11, 2017

About that custodial death report database...

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Without being asked to do so – not counting the frequent requests for information – the Texas Attorney General’s office spent $150,000 to i...
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Wednesday, July 27, 2016

Podcast: New Texas death-in-custody data online

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Grits contributing writer Amanda Woog, who is a postdoctoral fellow at the UT-Austin Institute for Urban Policy Research and Analysis, has m...
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Wednesday, June 01, 2016

Attorney General makes scant improvements to officer-involved shooting law

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Last Thursday, the Office of the Attorney General (OAG) published in the Texas Registry its final rule and reporting form for administeri...
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Friday, March 18, 2016

Cause and effect: Veto of Public Integrity Unit funding costing Collin County taxpayers

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Grits finds complaints by the Collin County Commissioners Court about paying legal bills for AG Ken Paxton's special prosecutors ironic....
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Monday, March 07, 2016

AG overstated number of Texas police shootings, failed to promptly post reports; most black folks shot by police were in Houston

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Grits contributor and UT-Austin postdoc Amanda Woog last week issued a new analysis of police shootings reported to the Texas Attorney Gene...
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Wednesday, December 30, 2015

Woog: AG, Lege must improve police shootings data collection

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Texas' new reporting requirements on police shootings should be tweaked during the Attorney General's rule making process and upgrad...
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Wednesday, November 11, 2015

Press pick up on police shooting discrepancies

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Nice to see the mainstream media pick up on the work of one of Grits' fabulous new contributing writers, Amanda Woog, whose new Database...
Thursday, November 05, 2015

DPS Fails to Report Shooting of Unarmed Man: Month One of the New Officer-Involved Shooting Reporting Requirement

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Now that we are outside of the 30-day reporting + 5-day posting window for police-involved shootings in the month of September, I took a lo...
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Thursday, October 22, 2015

Compiling new data on Texas police shootings

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This year, Texas became among the only states to systematically track peace officer-involved shootings, with agencies filling out a one-page...
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Sunday, October 04, 2015

Seven in September: First look at officer-involved shooting reports reveals incidents which escaped media attention

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A new law requiring Texas law enforcement agencies to report officer-involved shootings to the Attorney General went into effect September 1...
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Friday, March 27, 2015

Should the AG or special prosecutors litigate police misconduct instead of local DAs?

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On Thursday, your correspondent testified before the House Select Committee on Emerging Texas Law Enforcement Issues on behalf of the Texas ...
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