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As oversight hearing approaches, TYC conservator releases 60 day report

By Gritsforbreakfast

For those tracking the minutae, TYC conservator Richard Nedelkoff has posted his 60 day report on the agency's website, just in time for the joint House-Senate oversight committee on Friday. (See his report; thanks to Howard Hickman for pointing it out to me.)Though I'm not sure what to read into these tea leaves, I'm told that only Nedelkoff and Ombudsman Will Harrell have been invited to testify at the hearing, and public testimony will not be accepted. Chairman Whitmire sounded pretty upset earlier in the week, but perhaps cooler heads will prevail and these two won't have some big public showdown at the hearing: That wouldn't help anybody or anything.RELATED: See also a new report from the prolific Marc Levin at the Texas Public Policy Foundation titled, "The ABC's of TYC: Enhancing Front End Alternatives in the Juvenile Justice System...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on February 20, 2008 (boomark / email).