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Victoria Advocate
Seven Crossroads sheriffs signed a letter this week expressing their support of a group trying to reform rural mental healthcare. The sheriffs of Calhoun, DeWitt, Goliad, Jackson, Lavaca, Refugio and Victoria counties wrote in the letter that the current way people with mental illness in crisis are cared for is unacceptable.
The sheriffs wrote that people with mental illness are often arrested for minor, nonviolent offenses and placed in a system not designed to treat them. They asked that legislators support the group's estimated $11.6 million, four-year plan.
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Houston Chronicle
A Harris County sheriff's deputy who was recently found dead in his cruiser appears to have died of natural causes, according to the sheriff's office and media reports. The sheriff's office identified the fallen lawman as Senior Deputy T. Faughtenbery, who had served 26 years with the agency.
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Voice of America
U.S. immigration authorities have arrested hundreds of immigrants living in the U.S. illegally in raids across the country that began last week, although authorities say the enforcement action is not linked to a recent executive order signed by President Donald Trump.
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KHOU-TV
Liberty County Pct. 1 Constable Justin Johnston remains in critical condition in ICU after a serious crash near Dayton on Wednesday evening. Deputies say Constable Johnston was directing traffic with six other officers when a driver ignored barricades and hit him. Johnston was taken from the scene by Life Flight to Memorial Hermann Hospital.
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KTRK-TV
There's a new sheriff's deputy in Harris County, and he's only 17. Jaden Carlton was just given his honorary role as deputy by Sheriff Ed Gonzalez. Carlton was diagnosed last June with cardiomyopathy, a hereditary disease that affects the heart. It's a condition he shares with his mother. The Harris County Sheriff's Office says they have embraced Jaden as one of their own and wanted to keep him encouraged.
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Former sheriffs, including a former SAT president, help TAC Risk Management Pool members reduce their law enforcement operations liabilities. See consultant territories online. MORE
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Newsweek
Later this month, federal agents will walk into a windowless, concrete room in the Jackson County jail in East Texas to install a fingerprint machine and a high-speed internet hookup. Once that's done, Jackson County correctional officers will be able to access federal databases to check whether the people they've arrested are undocumented immigrants — and call in the feds if they are.
The Jackson County sheriff applied last year to have his officers cross-designated as federal immigration enforcement officers through a little-known section of the Immigration and Nationality Act law known as 287(g). Late last month, President Donald Trump signed an executive order that aims to revive and beef up the use of 287(g) and give many more local law enforcement agencies the power to act as immigration officers — a controversial move that reflects a larger and ongoing fight over immigration, sanctuary cities and America's southern border.
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KSAT-TV
The San Antonio Police Department fired two East Side officers last year after an internal affairs investigation determined that they repeatedly disabled the GPS units on their patrol vehicles and engaged in sexual misconduct with one another while on duty, suspension paperwork obtained by the KSAT 12 Defenders reveals. Officer Eman Fondren, a four-year veteran of the department, and Officer Rebecca Martinez, who had served in the department since 2010, were both handed indefinite suspensions, which is tantamount to being fired, last April.
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Officer.com
Though older police vehicles are often transitioned to become administrative or training vehicles once they reach a certain age or mile limit; in many cases it is more cost effective to purchase new vehicles than continue to utilize them past their prime. The older a vehicle is, the more expensive it is to maintain. If not well-managed, such operating costs of old vehicles can become a considerable sink in your budget.
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