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The Heman Marion Sweatt Travis County Courthouse is the county courthouse for Travis County, Texas.Located in downtown Austin, Texas (the county seat), the courthouse holds civil and criminal trial courts and other functions of county government.
Travis County is located in Central Texas.As of the 2020 census, the population was 1,290,188.It is the fifth-most populous county in Texas.Its county seat and most populous city is Austin, [1] the state's capital.
The first jail in Travis County was authorized in 1847 and constructed on what is now known as the Old Courthouse block of downtown Austin. When this facility was destroyed by a fire in 1855, a new jail was built on the site the following year.
Travis County District Attorney José Garza could soon be out of a job after a Travis County resident filed a lawsuit against him. The lawsuit alleges Garza acted as a "rogue prosecutor" by ...
Austin, Travis County and Williamson County have been the site of human habitation since at least 9200 BC. The area's earliest known inhabitants lived during the late Pleistocene (Ice Age) and are linked to the Clovis culture around 9200 BC (over 11,200 years ago), based on evidence found throughout the area and documented at the much-studied Gault Site, midway between Georgetown and Fort Cavazos.
Jason Walker, 33, says he attempted suicide in his jail cell in 2022. In a lawsuit, he claims officers and jail workers overlooked his mental illness.
Rosemary Lehmberg (born c. 1949) is a former District Attorney of Travis County, which includes the capital city of Austin, Texas.She began working in the District Attorney's office in 1976. [1]
The Texas House of Representatives 49th district represents a central portion Travis County.The current representative is Gina Hinojosa, who has represented the district since 2017.