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This gives the intake division in the Harris County DA's office an unusual amount of power in determining who goes to jail. Under the administration of Kim Ogg, the DA's office has been criticized for poorly vetting cases and contributing the dangerous overcrowding in the Harris County jail by causing unnecessary arrests. [2]
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.
Getting a search warrant begins in a police department and ends with a specific, restricted list of items allowed to be seized on a specific property.
Correction: This article has been updated to reflect that Audrey Louis’s district does not include Bexar County. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s (R) office executed search warrants in one ...
The complex, operated by the Harris County Sheriff's Office (HCSO), lies in the peninsula formed by the Buffalo Bayou in northern Downtown. While most of the complex is based on county jails serving Harris County, Joe Kegans State Jail is also located within the complex. The Harris County District Court is located just next to the jail complex.
Wanted Person File: Records on criminals (including juveniles who may have been tried as adults) for whom a federal warrant or a felony or misdemeanor warrant is outstanding. National Sex Offender Registry File: Records on people who are required to register in a jurisdiction's sex offender registry.
Harris County, the state's most populous, is home to 60 district courts - each one covering the entire county. While district courts can exercise concurrent jurisdiction over an entire county, and they can and do share courthouses and clerks to save money (as allowed under an 1890 Texas Supreme Court case), each is still legally constituted as ...