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This is a list of law enforcement agencies in the U.S. state of Texas.. According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, the state had 1,913 law enforcement agencies, the most of any state.
Beginning Saturday, Travis County’s drive-thru COVID-19 vaccine clinic will move from the Expo Center to a new location at the Travis County Constable Precinct 4 Office in Southeast Austin.
In the U.S. state of Texas, a constable is an elected law enforcement officer for a precinct of a county. Counties may have between one and eight precincts each depending on their population. The constables are provided for in the Texas Constitution of 1876 (Article 5, Section 18). The term of office for Texas constables is four years.
The resulting Travis County Courthouse is still in use today, but the courthouse jail closed in 1990 due to a 1972 lawsuit which deemed a jail above a county courthouse unconstitutional. [ 3 ] A bond for a new jail was passed in 1978, and the new jail opened in July 1986.
Precinct 1 Commissioner Jeff Trevillion told the Statesman that he believes the Travis County Commissioners Court will wait for a staff report on county jail facilities before deciding how it can ...
Criminal charges were dropped against 57 people arrested during a pro-Palestinian demonstration at the University of Texas at Austin this week, according to the Travis County attorney’s office.
Austin Police Department (APD) is the principal law enforcement agency serving Austin, Texas.As of fiscal year 2022, the agency had an annual budget of $443.1 million [5] and employed around 2,484 personnel, including approximately 1,809 officers. [6]
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