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Texas Monthly names Harrell one of group "who will shape Texas' future"

By Gritsforbreakfast

Texas Monthly named Youth Commission Ombudsman Will Harrell one of its 35 People Who Will Shape Our Future. Congrats, Will!Here's their feature article about him written by Nate Blakeslee. Readers from TYC will be interested to learn that Jay Kimbrough's appointment of Harrell, he said, stemmed from Will's involvement in the campaign to abolish Texas' Tulia-style drug task forces:The two first met in 2001, when Harrell was the executive director of the ACLU of Texas and Kimbrough became executive director of Perry?s criminal justice division. The ACLU had been pushing for reforms in the drug war, and seizing on a notorious police corruption scandal in the Panhandle town of Tulia, Harrell assembled a coalition to shut down the state?s scandal-plagued regional drug task forces...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on January 24, 2008 (boomark / email).