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Nuts and bolts of citations for low-level misdemeanors explained by Travis Sheriff's Office

By Gritsforbreakfast

For those who couldn't attend the event, handouts from presenters at the Bexar County symposium on jail overcrowding a couple of weeks ago in San Antonio have been posted online (see here).A couple of different speakers in SA focused on the new authority granted to Texas police officers in 2007 to give citations instead of making arrests for certain low-level, non-violent misdemeanors - that was HB 2391, for those keeping score at home. I wanted to elaborate on their presentations so that folks in counties which have resisted using the new authority can see how it both saves money and keeps officers out on the street doing police work.Major Scott Burroughs of the Travis County Sheriff's Office told the audience that his agency first proposed this idea in 2005...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on February 20, 2008 (boomark / email).