Even after the recent expansion of the Hays County Jail, inmates are still outsourced to other counties due to overcrowding. It is an issue that has been ongoing for years, and Hays County has been working to reduce those numbers, as well as the associated expenditures that go with it. There is a relatively new department dedicated to doing just that. The Hays County
Despite a frenzied morning of last-minute preparations, the hearings at the Leighton Criminal Courthouse were not substantially different from the old cash bail system.
Hays County Commissioners Court is set to meet today at 9 a.m. On the agenda for the regularly scheduled meeting is the possible purchase of case management software for pretrial services, additional funds for RM 12 safety improvements, the purchase of security cameras for the IT and elections department and a Hays County Historical Commission appointment.[San Marcos, TX]
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Defense lawyers say prosecutors withheld information about the secretive living arrangements that Leonard Glenn Francis, the Malaysian defense contractor and mastermind of the scandal, enjoyed for several years, before he escaped and went on the run in September.
Lawyers for four former U.S. Navy officers convicted last summer in the only case to go to trial in the "Fat Leonard" bribery scandal say their clients got an unfair trial marred by a "dizzying array of government misconduct."
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Monday, July 26, 2021
The Hays County Commissioners Court meets on Tuesday with a packed agenda. Upon its extensive list of topics, the court is scheduled to continue the discussion and take possible action regarding Hays County's multi-year Improvement Grant Program application to the Texas Indigent Defense Commission (TIDC) for public defender services.
Previously, the commissioners court unanimously voted to pursue the grant in order to fund a three-pronged justice system reform including a Pretrial Services Department, Public Defender Office and a Managed Assigned Counsel program.
In April, Hays County submitted the grant application to the TIDC. Since then, the county has not been awarded any funds at this time.
Tuesday, July 13, 2021
Hays County Commissioner Lon Shell provided an update regarding Hays County’s multi-year grant application submitted to the Texas Indigent Defense Commission to fund its public defender services effort.
Shell said during Tuesday’s commissioners court meeting that TIDC is in the process of providing funding but Hays County has not yet been awarded funding.
“We are still working to find the necessary support from our judiciary to be able to have a shot,” Shell said. “I can’t promise that the funds are going to be there this fiscal year. There are still funds that can be allocated. And as I think the court remembers, we did have a focus on mental health with our programs, which there was additional funding provided by the legislature to TIDC for use for those types of programs.”