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The second Travis County Courthouse in 1880. Travis County's first purpose-built courthouse was a modest two-story stone structure built in 1855 near Republic Square in downtown Austin. This courthouse was replaced by a larger building in 1876 and was eventually demolished in 1906.
San Angelo, Tom Green County: 1928 built Travis County Courthouse: Austin, Travis County: 1931 built Trinity County Courthouse: Groveton, Trinity County: 1914 built 2004 RTHL [358] Tyler County Courthouse: Woodville, Tyler County: 1891, 1935 built 2000 RTHL [359] Built in 1891 in Italianate style; extensively renovated in 1936. [citation needed ...
Municipal Courts are the most active courts, with County Courts and District Courts handling most other cases and often sharing the same courthouse. Administration is the responsibility of the Supreme Court of Texas, which is aided by the Texas Office of Court Administration, Texas Judicial Council and the State Bar of Texas, which it oversees.
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. Because of overflow, a new facility with a capacity of 96 inmates was ...
Travis County has held test runs of the program since April 23, but advocates said most people in jail are not provided an attorney during this critical juncture in the criminal justice process.
The county courthouse holds civil and criminal trial courts and other functions of county government. As of 2017 [update] , the county's probate courts are in the process of being moved from the county courthouse into Austin's 1936 United States Courthouse , which was acquired by the county in 2016.
For example, Potter County—less than one-tenth of Travis County’s size—was projected to save over $1 million by lowering the number of jail days by 5.6 days per person on average.
The revelation came in a tense pretrial hearing Friday afternoon in Travis County's 460th Criminal District Court for a murder trial that was expected to begin Monday.