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Can Good Start Be Enough

By Steve Hall

That's the title of Lisa Falkenberg's column in today's Houston Chronicle.  LINK  Here's an excerpt from this must-read:It may have been a hard-fought milestone for Harris County, but the proposed public defender office that finally won Commissioners' Court approval earlier this year was never intended to be anything other than a good start.Now the question is whether a good start is good enough.Not only have lawmakers, national criminal justice organizations and a diverse assemblage of local clergy suggested improvements to the proposal, concerns recently have been raised by the state task force weighing Harris County's application for a $4.4 million state discretionary grant to set up the public defender office...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on June 03, 2010 (boomark / email).