Starting today in Dallas, anyone caught with less than four ounces of marijuana won’t necessarily go to jail. Under the city’s new so-called “cite and release program,” an offender would be issued a citation instead of being arrested.
Harris County implemented a similar program back in March. So, that got us wondering — how is the program going so far here?
We find out from Nathan Beedle. He’s chief of the misdemeanor division at the Harris County District Attorney’s Office.