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4 Document(s) [ Subject: Border drug trafficking ]
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| Committee: | Senate Transportation and Homeland Security | |
| Title: | Testimony, Statement from Texas Agriculture Commissioner Todd Staples, April 12, 2012 (Border violence and illegal trafficking) | |
| Library Catalog Title: | Minutes | |
| Library Call Number: | L1803.9 IN5 82 2012: APR 12 | |
| Session: | 82nd R.S. (2011) | |
| Online version: | View document [5 pages File size: 401 kb] | |
| Committee: | House Public Safety | |
| Title: | Interim Report | |
| Library Catalog Title: | House Committee on Public Safety, Texas House of Representatives interim report, 2010 : a report to the House of Representatives, 82nd Texas Legislature | |
| Subjects: | Border drug trafficking | Border security | Concealed weapons | Driver Responsibility Program | Drug trafficking | Drug-related crimes | Peace officers | Public Safety, Texas Department of | Statutory revision | | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.81 P96h | |
| Session: | 81st R.S. (2009) | |
| Online version: | View report [106 pages File size: 10,402 kb] | |
| Charges: | This report should address the charges below. | |
| 1. | Study the recruitment and retention practices that the Department of Public Safety currently employs and make recommendations on how to make improvements. Specifically, examine the current officer shortage in Texas and the effect it is having on the state's public safety. | |
| 2. | Investigate best practices to process concealed hand gun licenses in order to alleviate backlog and make recommendations for implementation, if appropriate. | |
| 3. | Monitor the Driver Responsibility Program and consider methods for overall improvement of the program. | |
| 4. | Study the statutory definition, duties, and authority of a Texas peace officer. | |
| 5. | Evaluate the effectiveness of state operations at controlling drug-related crimes and other violence along the Texas-Mexico border. Joint Interim Charge with House Committee on Border and Intergovernmental Affairs | |
| 6. | Monitor the agencies and programs under the committee's jurisdiction. | |
| Committee: | Senate Criminal Justice | |
| Title: | Interim Report | |
| Library Catalog Title: | Interim report to the 80th Legislature | |
| Subjects: | Border drug trafficking | Border issues | Border security | Child abuse | Competency to stand trial | Inmate health | Mentally ill inmates | Methamphetamine | Non-citizen inmates | Privately-operated prisons | Probation | Pseudoephedrine | Youth Commission, Texas | | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.79 C868 | |
| Session: | 79th R.S. (2005) | |
| Online version: | View report [69 pages File size: 16,360 kb] | |
| Charges: | This report should address the charges below. | |
| 1. | Study the resources and facilities available to offenders with mental health needs in the Texas criminal justice system. Provide an inventory of resources and facilities. Develop recommendations to better allocate existing resources and efficiently address the needs of this population. | |
| 2. | Study the expenditure patterns and identify trends in the community supervision and corrections departments' use of state and local monies, known collectively as the Judicial Districts Trust Funds. Ascertain the percentages spent on direct supervision of probationers and identify notable policy decisions. Provide recommendations for improvements and methods of maximizing the use of these funds. | |
| 3. | Examine the allegations of abuse and neglect within the Texas Youth Commission (TYC) facilities and the appropriateness of TYC response. Include an analysis of factors that may be affecting the safety of inmates and staff and make recommendations for Legislative actions to improve the safety of inmates and staff at these facilities. | |
| 4. | Monitor the implementation of legislation relating to reducing the production and abuse of methamphetamine, including the predicted impact of methamphetamine's increased availability on state resources and criminal justice populations, and make recommendations for additional programs for further reductions in abuse and production. | |
| 5. | Study and make recommendations for methods to reduce kidnapping and violence along the Texas Border, focusing on reducing drug-related crime. | |
| 6. | Monitor the expenditure of funds for adult probation services dedicated to the lowering of revocations to state prisons and state jails. Examine the compliance with and effectiveness of associated budget riders and make recommendations for future funding needs. | |
| 7. | Study the feasibility of the State of Texas establishing or contracting with a private prison facility in the country of Mexico in order to house non-violent Mexican Nationals currently being housed in Texas prisons. | |
| 8. | Review other states' correctional health care systems and make recommendations, if necessary, for improving the effectiveness and efficiency of Texas' system. | |
| Committee: | House Criminal Jurisprudence | |
| Title: | Interim Report | |
| Library Catalog Title: | House Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence, Texas House of Representatives interim report, 2002 : a report to the House of Representatives, 78th Texas Legislature. | |
| Subjects: | Border drug trafficking | Crime statistics | Drug trafficking | Drug-related crimes | Eight-liners | Gambling | Homeland security | Identity theft | Illegal drugs | Mexico | Searches and seizures | Sexual assault | Terrorism | | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.77 c868h | |
| Session: | 77th R.S. (2001) | |
| Online version: | View report [125 pages File size: 5,810 kb] | |
| Charges: | This report should address the charges below. | |
| 1. | Review changes in federal laws and law enforcement procedures, as well as recommendations from state and national agencies charged with homeland protection, to assess the need for changes in state criminal laws to protect life and property and to detect, interdict and respond to acts of terrorism | |
| 2. | Consider ways to cooperate with Mexican states to reduce international drug trafficking. | |
| 3. | Review the statutory law governing the use of devices known as "eight-liners" and suggest ways to eliminate ambiguity about the legality of their possession and use. | |
| 4. | Study trends and methods involved in identity theft in Texas. Suggest ways to reduce this type of crime. | |
| 5. | Consider the manner in which sexual assaults are reported in Texas, and specifically address the wide discrepancy between statistics reported in the Uniform Crime Report and estimates of other groups, such as the National Crime Victims Research and Treatment Center. | |
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