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Busy Day For Criminal Justice

Good Morning Everyone, It?s Ana Yáñez-Correa again, and as I gear up for a busy morning in this rainy weather, I just wanted to keep readers apprised of a couple of important hearings today: The Texas Judicial Council the Office of Court Administration (OCA) will present its Legislative Appropriations Request for fiscal years 2012 and 2013 to the Budget, Planning and Policy Division of the Governor's Office and to the Legislative Budget Board. The Hearing will take place from 11:00 am - 12:00 pm in the Capitol Extension, Room E2.028. I?ll be there presenting testimony focused mainly on funding related to indigent defense. This LAR will reduce the baseline budget for OCA by 5%, critically impacting the efficacy of key programs and, among other things, requiring the agency to reduce grant funding to counties for indigent defense...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on September 07, 2010 (boomark / email).