This message was sent to ##Email##
|
|
|
|
|
USA Today
The Texas Legislature recently passed a ban on so-called sanctuary cities that allows police officers to ask about a person's immigration status and threatens sheriffs and police chiefs with jail time if they don't work with federal authorities. Republican Gov. Greg Abbott has pledged to sign the bill into law, which could now come quickly.
READ MORE
 |
|
Former sheriffs, including a former SAT president, help TAC Risk Management Pool members reduce their law enforcement operations liabilities. See consultant territories online. MORE
|
|
San Antonio Express-News
A monthslong operation by authorities in the Austin area has shut down an alleged drug manufacturing group that has been supplying and distributing drugs across Central Texas, according to the Cedar Park Police Department. Operation Clean Sweep, which started in September, targeted a high-level narcotics operation in Cedar Park and the nearby area.
READ MORE
Woodlands Online
Montgomery County Sheriff Rand Henderson, seeing a need to assist Montgomery County's large veteran population, implemented a new jail program titled, V.E.T.S (Veterans Embracing the Tools for Success). V.E.T.S is designed to bring veteran services directly to Justice Involved Veterans incarcerated in the Montgomery County Jail.
READ MORE
 |
|
The LS/CMI combines risk assessment and case management in one convenient evidence-based system for probation officers, psychologists and correctional workers. MORE
|
|
Houston Public Media
Jefferson County Sheriff Zena Stephens says she's excited to be the first black female Sheriff in Texas, but it's something she's not too thrilled about. Though she embraces the moniker of being the first, the newly elected sheriff remains hopeful that she won't be the last.
READ MORE
KWTX-TV
A businesswoman has been arrested and charged in connection with a break-in Sunday at a storage shed next to the home of McLennan County Sheriff Parnell McNamara off Rock Creek road in Bosqueville. Sherre Johnston, 49, of Lorena was arrested after a search warrant signed early Monday morning by 54th District Court Judge Matt Johnson was executed at her home.
READ MORE
 |
|
Fighting germs where they are found. Providing Sustainable and Effective Hand Hygiene and Infection Control for a Healthier Corrections Facility. MORE
|
|
Downtown Austin Patch
Just in time for National Police Week kicking off May 14, researchers at the WalletHub personal finance website have released their analysis of "Best & Worst States to Be a Police Officer for 2017," with Texas emerging as eighth best overall. To achieve the rankings, WalletHub took many factors into consideration, including law enforcement officers per capita; median income; homicide cases solved per state; police deaths per 1,000 officers; and housing affordability.
READ MORE
Cycling Weekly
The Houston Police Department has launched a new enforcement campaign using a C3FT device on their police bicycles to help protect local cyclists. Developed and engineered by the Austin-based Codaxus LLC, the new device will allow cycling officers the ability to make sure vehicles are keeping the minimum three-feet distance when passing a cyclist.
READ MORE
PoliceOne.com
In April 2017, a man named Steve Stevens murdered an elderly man out for a walk. Stevens then posted a video of his crime on Facebook, where the footage remained visible for hours. This is not the first time that a criminal has posted pictures or video of their criminal acts on social media. Jim and Doug discuss the prevalence of these types of incidents, as well as some ideas about how to deal with them from a criminal prosecution perspective.
READ MORE
PBS
A billboard on a main highway tallies the number of residents in this mostly rural county who have overdosed on prescription painkillers, heroin and other illicit opioids this year — 96 overdoses, 15 of them fatal. What the sign doesn't say is that a large and growing number of those deaths are the result of fentanyl, a fast-acting drug that is 50 times stronger than heroin and can kill users within seconds. Cheap and easy to produce, it is used by drug dealers to intensify the effects of heroin and other illicit drugs, often without the users' knowledge.
The presence of fentanyl in the illicit drug supply has put law enforcement officials and the medical community on high alert in more than a dozen states, accelerating the battle against opioids on all fronts. States, counties and cities are responding to this latest crisis by doing more of what they already were doing — stockpiling the overdose reversal drug naloxone, funding more drug treatment and ramping up police surveillance of drug trafficking. In addition, a handful of states are stiffening penalties for selling the lethal drug.
READ MORE
| |
MISSED AN ISSUE OF TEXAS SHERIFFS TODAY? SEARCH THE ARCHIVE TODAY. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
7701 Las Colinas Ridge, Ste. 800, Irving, TX 75063
|
