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The Harris County Sheriff's Office is the primary law enforcement agency in the 1,118 square miles (2,900 km 2) of unincorporated area of Harris County, serving as the equivalent of the county police for the approximately 1,071,485 people living in the unincorporated areas of the county. In Texas, sheriffs and their deputies are fully empowered ...
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.
By January 2012 the Harris County jails had 8,573, a decrease by 31% from 2008 to 2012, and there were only 21 inmates serving time in other jail facilities, all in Texas. [ 10 ] The jail population increased since the Texas Legislature cut its community mental health services funding by $400 million in 2003.
Harris County Department of Education (HCDE) is an agency of the government of Harris County, Texas, in the Houston metropolitan area; it is headquartered in Northside district in Houston. As of 2018 it handles the enrollment of around 200 students with special needs. [1] Under Texas law it is not a school district. [1]
Born in 1959 in Houston, Ogg attended the University of Texas at Austin and South Texas College of Law Houston, graduating with her BA in journalism in 1981 and her JD in 1986 respectively. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] She is the daughter of Texas legislator and Democrat Jack Ogg, and philanthropist Connie Harner Ogg. [ 3 ]
Gonzalez worked as an officer in the Houston Police Department for 18 years. He was elected to the Houston City Council in 2009 [2] and served until 2016. Representing District H, Gonzalez was also vice mayor pro tempore from 2010 to 2012. [3] Gonzalez assumed office as the 30th sheriff of Harris County, Texas, in January 2017.
Harris County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas; as of the 2020 census, the population was 4,731,145, [1] making it the most populous county in Texas and the third-most populous county in the United States.
In November 2007, Harris County approved a bond for the construction of a new, state-of-the-art building for the Harris County Medical Examiner's Office to be located at 1861 Old Spanish Trail in the Texas Medical Center. The Harris County Medical Examiner's Office was renamed the Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences in 2010 to reflect ...