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Dallas Public Defender purge raises legal and policy concerns

Several readers emailed recently to say the axe continues to fall around the Dallas Public Defender's office in the wake of top PD Brad Lollar's forced resignation. I don't know the total body county and won't name names out of courtesy to those who lost their jobs, but the purge has now gone well beyond Brad Lollar.One reader rightly raises the question of whether County Commissioner John Wiley Price may have violated state law prohibiting undue influence by commissioners courts in employee hiring, citing:Texas Local Government Code § 151.004.COMMISSIONERS COURT MAY NOT INFLUENCEAPPOINTMENT.The commissioners court or a member of the court may not attempt to influence the appointment of any person to an employee position authorized by the court under this subchapter...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on July 01, 2008 (boomark / email).