Texas Public Safety Holy Trinity Moves Aggressively on Immigration and Bail Reform We might as well call them the Texas Public Safety Holy Trinity over at the Texas State Capitol. That is the fearsome threesome that is the public safety conscience of Texas: Governor Greg Abbott, Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick,Read More →
Turn Out The Lights, The Party’s Over: District Attorney Kim Ogg Routed In Re-Election Bid In Houston Once the darling of billionaire donors who abandoned her after their criminal justice reform litmus test failed reality – after choosing criminal enforcement over criminal justice reform – District Attorney Kim Ogg wasRead More →
Activists Lose Their Shirts in Texas Bail Cases You want to talk about having a court render your movement as a mere bagatelle, look at the slap in the face the United States Court of Appeals for the Firth Circuit just dealt to the Civil Rights Corps. We’ll cut throughRead More →
The Numbers Are In: Legislative Crack-Down on the End Cash Bail Movement in Houston is Reducing Pretrial Crime by Repeat Offenders As crime spiked in Houston, due to bail reform, according to District Attorney Kim Ogg, the once darling of George Soros, Ogg called a friend of hers: Senator JoanRead More →
Bail Reform in Houston: A Half-Decade of Bail Reform Malfeasance Comes to Full Fruition Noted English poet Robert Southey wrote in Curse of Kehama that, “Curses are like young chickens; they always come home to roost.” The curse of Harris County bail reform, first supported by the District Attorney, whoRead More →
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit Affirms No Right to Affordable Bail The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, which covers Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi, issued an opinion on December 28, 2020, in the case of Daves v. Dallas County, Texas. In that case, a federalRead More →
Tarrant County Judge Tells Officials “There is No Evidence” Arnold Pretrial Risk Assessment Tool is Biased—When A New Academic Study Just Found That It Is In the pursuit of something that is not “bail reform,” Tarrant County officials have decided to adopt the Arnold Foundation Public Safety Assessment, a pretrialRead More →
Texas Governor Says No to Get out of Jail Free Policies Due to COVID-19; Texas Supreme Court and a Federal Judge Agree Bail reform activist groups are not being shy about using the recent pandemic to advance their cause. Even in jails where the rate of infection within the entireRead More →
Texas Governor and Attorney General Go On Offense to Stop Calculated Effort to Let All Felons Out Of Jail in Harris County Amid COVID-19 Threat Bail reform activists from coast-to-coast are not trying to help communities fight the virus – they are instead using the existence of the virus toRead More →
Austin City Council PR Bond Policy Scrutinized For Release of Suspect in Freebirds Stabbing, Firing of Judges In 2017, the Austin City Council passed a directive to the municipal court to prioritize “personal recognizance” bonds for “indigent” defendants. Some judges who raised concerns about the propriety of the directive wereRead More →
