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Watch Travis County DA Candidate Forum Online

By Gritsforbreakfast

I just finished listening to a Travis County DA candidate forum held by the Austin chapter of ACLU and the Texas Moratorium Network, which Scott Cobb of TMN placed online over at Burnt Orange Report. (Isn't the internet a wonderful thing? I regretted missing the forum which took place about a half mile from my house, but Voila!, here it is!) Honestly, we're pretty lucky: From what I've seen, I'd be proud to have any of these Democratic candidates (there's no Republican running) represent me.A couple of highlights: It was good news to me that all of the candidates supported expanding pretrial diversion for drug crimes and simply not prosecuting many of these cases. As mentioned recently, Travis County has the highest rate of pretrial detention for low-level offenses among large Texas counties - 24% of Travis County jail inmates are misdemeanants or state jail felons, compared to a statewide average of 10%...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on February 14, 2008 (boomark / email).