In-Depth
Harris County Moves To Crack Down On Environmental Crime
Posted on · The county has tripled the number of environmental prosecutors at the District Attorney’s Office, following a series of chemical plant fires.
Tag: Harris County District Attorney’s Office
Houston Matters
Full Show: Accountability For Environmental Incidents, And Hearing From All Sides (May 20, 2019)
Posted on · On Monday's Houston Matters: Calls for accountability following chemical incidents, improving scientific literacy, hearing from all sides of an issue, and Houston sports.
Politics
Harris County Beefs Up DA’s Environmental Crimes Division In Wake of ITC, KMCO Disasters
Posted on · The move comes two months after Democratic county commissioners blocked a similar proposal by the District Attorney’s Office, as part of a request to hire 102 new prosecutors.
News
Houston Is The Nation’s Number One Target For Credit Card Skimmers
Posted on · Gangs using the identity-stealing technology are loosely organized and difficult to catch in the act.
Local
Harris County Reports High Number Of DWI Arrests During New Year’s Holiday Period
Posted on · There were also two drunk driving fatalities with one resulting in a murder charge.
News
Former Minister Indicted For Allegedly Stealing $800,000 From Houston’s First Baptist Church
Posted on · The church says Jerrell Altic resigned when representatives from the church confronted him in November 2017.
News
Department Of Justice To Fund Reviews Of Potential Wrongful Convictions In Texas
Posted on · The Harris County DA's Office, the Innocence Project of Texas and the Anthony Graves Foundation will review 300 cases from 2001 to 2008.
News
Bartender Accused Of Serving Man 11 Beers Before Deadly Prom Night Crash In 2016
Posted on · The driver was sentenced to 32 years behind bars
Houston Matters
Full Show: Marijuana Diversion Program, And The Early Days Of AIDS (Dec. 1, 2017)
Posted on · On Friday's Houston Matters: We check in on Harris County's marijuana diversion program. Then, AIDS survivors and advocates share their stories. Also, we discuss The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly of the week’s news. And author Anton DiSclafani talks about her book, The After Party.
News
Houston Police Still Wants to Probe That Released Suspect in Flores’ Case Is the One
Posted on · Chief Acevedo said he continues to believe Jackson is the person who stabbed Josué Flores and will devote whatever resources to bring closure to the family.
Houston Matters
How Will the DA’s Office of Professional Integrity Work?
Posted on · Last month, new Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg named Judge David Mendoza to lead a newly created Office of Professional Integrity. Just what will this office do? We ask Judge Mendoza. Ogg created the office in the wake of the previous DA’s office receiving criticism over a number of things, including: the improper disposal of evidence […]
Transportation
To Prevent Drunk Driving Deaths, TxDOT Says “Plan While You Can”
Posted on · Drunk driving is a serious problem across the region and the upcoming holiday revelry doesn’t help.
Houston Matters
How Should the Law Treat Repeat Drunk Drivers?
Posted on · We’ve previously discussed on our program how pervasive drunk driving is in Harris County and ways in which law enforcement and courts are trying to crack down. But what do we do about repeat DWI offenders — those who, after initial interactions with law enforcement and the court system and despite whatever punishments are handed […]
Houston Matters
How Did a Rape Victim End Up Jailed — and How Can Similar Instances Be Prevented?
Posted on · Last December (2015), a rape victim was housed for nearly a month at the Harris County Jail in order to ensure she would testify against a serial rapist who assaulted her. The prosecutor concluded it was the only viable option after she suffered a mental breakdown on the witness stand and said she would not […]
Good, Bad and Ugly
Criminal Justice Reform and Pokémon NO! The Good, Bad & Ugly of This Week’s News
Posted on · A lot can happen in a week. Some of it good. Some of it bad. Some of it downright ugly. When faced with intriguing developments in the week’s news, we turn to our rotating panel of “non-experts” to parse The Good, The Bad and The Ugly of it all. On this edition, we discuss a coalition […]