Program seeks to reduce evictions
Potter County residents facing eviction have a resource at their disposal that could help aid the process of staying housed. Per the txcourts.gov website, the Supreme Court of Texas established the Texas Eviction Diversion Program through the Twenty-Seventh Emergency Order regarding the COVID-19 State of Disaster.
The voluntary program seeks to reduce the number of evictions by enabling landlords and tenants to agree upon a resolution of non-payment of rent issues via funding allocated by Gov. Greg Abbott through the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs, per authorities.
The initiative permits eligible landlords and tenants to agree upon a resolution to issues raised in an eviction case, with guidelines detailing if eligibility requirements are met, past due rent obligations may be eligible to be covered in full and the eviction case dismissed.
This article, originally published on December 28, 2020, has been amended to include updated information regarding the Texas Supreme Court’s emergency order. In.
Julia H. and her mother, Karen (left), joined TLSC attorneys during a press conference in December (Courtesy of Texas Legal Services Center)
Julia wasn t surprised when she was called into her principal s office in 2018. A junior at the time, she had been pulled out of class several times already after reporting a sexual assault by another student, although this was the first time she d spoken directly with
Austin High School Principal
Julia told the
Chronicle that once she d recounted her assault to Taylor, the principal told her, Maybe if you had screamed then this wouldn t have happened to you. Then, as Julia cried, she was told that she couldn t leave the office until she signed a formal stay-away agreement that would bar her from talking to the other student: I m the principal, so I can force you to [sign the agreement].
The Texas Legal Services Center is criticizing the way the Austin school district handles sexual assault reports, after a recent Austin High School alumna says she felt blamed and silenced after she reported that a fellow student assaulted her on a school trip last year.
The teenage boy who she says assaulted her had also assaulted two other students, she said. He was not criminally charged and has since graduated, she said. I originally chose not to report it, said the now 19-year-old graduate of Austin High. But when we returned to school, I learned that the same student had assaulted someone else. So, out of concern for other students safety, I chose to report it. And from the get go, it felt like the school and staff had no idea what they were doing.
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