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Juvie probation chief, officers in Upshur fired, convicted of records tampering

In East Texas, two Upshur County juvenile probation officers and former juvenile probation chief Milton Wylie all pled guilty to misdemeanor charges of tampering with government records after they were caught forging documents required to be maintained by the Texas Juvenile Probation Commission, including faked signatures of defendants and parents. They each received deferred adjudication probation. According to coverage from the Tyler Morning Telegraph ("Former juvenile probation officers receive probation for tampering charge," March 19):the state alleged that going back to 2004, ?state-mandated documents that were required for probation officers to document and fill out and maintain in their files were essentially not being done.? [The District Attorney] said the state charged that when an auditor, or monitor, from the Texas Juvenile Probation Commission came to the county, ?the two ladies would go back and forge and document the state contracts and state documents by signing parents' names, children's names, and essentially the whole document was forged...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on March 19, 2011 (boomark / email).