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Merging public safety oversight agencies a pointless exercise

Here's another budget cutting suggestion that to me amounts to little more than rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. Reports Brandi Grissom at the Texas Tribune:A money-saving proposal to combine state agencies that oversee police and firefighter training and local jail operations has public safety officials statewide worried about their future.After Gov. Rick Perry?s budget proposal to fold the state's Commission on Jail Standards, the Commission on Law Enforcement Officer Standards and Education, and the Commission on Fire Protection into one agency, state Rep. Jerry Madden, R-Plano, filed a bill last week that would do just that. The individual agencies would be abolished, and a new agency, the Public Safety Licensing Commission, would be formed to take over their roles...continue to full post

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