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Senate Criminal Justice Committee: Highlights from interim recommendations

The Texas Senate Criminal Justice Committee has posted its 115-page Interim Report (pdf) online, which is a written summation of recommendations in response to "interim charges" given to the committee by the Lt. Governor to prepare for major issues where legislation is anticipated. I haven't yet gone through the thing with a fine-tooth comb, but here's a preliminary taste of highlights from the recommendations:Don't participate in new federal sex offender regimenThe committee recommended against Texas' participation in the federal Adam Walsh Act related to additional restrictions on sex offenders. Mostly the reason is money. The feds punish noncompliant states by reducing their "Byrne" criminal justice block grants by 10%, however, "Retaining the ten percent of federal funding is not adequate incentive because the cost to implement the changes to registries would cost much more than states would lose...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on January 05, 2011 (boomark / email).