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6 Document(s) [ Subject: Child sexual abuse ]
| Committee: | Senate Criminal Justice | |
| Title: | Interim Report | |
| Library Catalog Title: | Interim report to the 82nd Legislature / Senate Committee on Criminal Justice | |
| Subjects: | Alcohol-related deaths | Alternatives to incarceration | Blood alcohol concentration | Child abuse | Child sexual abuse | Community notification of sex offenders | Concealed weapons | Crime laboratories | Criminal Justice, Texas Department of | DNA testing | Driving while intoxicated | Forensics | Indigent criminal defense | Jail Standards, Texas Commission on | Juvenile detention facilities | Juvenile justice system | Juvenile Probation Commission, Texas | Mental health services | Mentally ill inmates | Municipal jails | Prison security | Public Safety, Texas Department of | Recidivism | School discipline | Sex offender registration | State Health Services, Texas Department of | Texas Fair Defense Act | Witnesses | Youth Commission, Texas | | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.81 C868 | |
| Session: | 81st R.S. (2009) | |
| Online version: | View report [115 pages File size: 3,355 kb] | |
| Charges: | This report should address the charges below. | |
| 1. | Study the efficiency and fairness of the current sexual offender registry system and make recommendations to improve the system, if necessary. Study the issue of compliance with the Adam Walsh Act, focusing on the associated costs to the state and the punishment of juveniles. Examine the risk assessment tools used to measure the likelihood of recidivism of sexual predators. | |
| 2. | Review statistics regarding the crime of driving while intoxicated, including accident statistics, alcohol-related deaths and injury, and other impacts on the community. Examine enforcement options used nationwide to deter driving under the influence and make recommendations to reduce the number of alcohol-related traffic fatalities and accidents in Texas. | |
| 3. | Review the performance of the Fair Defense Act and the Task Force on Indigent Defense. Study key outcomes of the law, including: appointment rates in felony and misdemeanor cases; state and county indigent defense expenditures; attorney caseloads; attorney compensation; access to investigators and experts; and overall quality of counsel for the indigent. Examine the Task Force on Indigent Defense's effectiveness in monitoring and enforcing standards and design strategies to improve the delivery of services for indigent defense, including timing of the appointment of counsel, the use of the appointment wheel and the monitoring of workloads and performance of attorneys. | |
| 4. | Study and make recommendations related to municipal jails and other detention facilities that operate without state agency oversight. Identify the number of such facilities and the population detained, as well as best practices for municipal jails. Make recommendations to improve services and consider options for oversight of facilities by the Texas Commission on Jail Standards. | |
| 5. | Review the detention of juvenile offenders in local jails, state jails, and Texas Department of Criminal Justice prison units by examining conditions of confinement, including quality of education, mental health treatment and medical services, rehabilitative treatment, and equality of access to services for young female inmates. Review access to administrative and inspector general grievances in TDCJ facilities. Make recommendations for improving the system and reduce recidivism of juvenile offenders. | |
| 6. | Study and make recommendations to ensure the accuracy and timeliness of testing done in Texas forensic laboratories, including DNA and blood/alcohol testing. Assess and make recommendations for improving the capacity of Texas criminal laboratories to process evidence, identify ways to reduce the backlog of DNA evidence processing, identify ways to encourage qualified applicants for crime lab jobs, ensure adequate training for new crime lab technicians, ensure the availability of efficient crime lab processing to all regions of the state, and determine the impact of additional collection requirements on the capacity of Texas crime labs to process evidence. Consider the costs and benefits of creating a statewide crime lab. | |
| 7. | Assess how the Commission on Jail Standards, the Department of Public Safety, the Department of Criminal Justice, and Department of State Health Services are working together to identify defendants with mental health issues, notify magistrates when defendants have been identified and, where appropriate, provide crisis stabilization services to defendants. Monitor legislation passed by the 81st Legislature for mental illness and make recommendations for any needed improvements to improve mental health services and reduce recidivism. | |
| 8. | Study and evaluate the success of juvenile probation pilot programs aimed at community-based diversion of youth from Texas Youth Commission facilities. Make recommendations for needed legislative action and additional programs to increase the number of delinquent youth successfully rehabilitated in their home communities. | |
| 9. | Consider the impact that secondary education school disciplinary laws and policies have on the juvenile justice system and the adult prison system. Recommend changes, if needed, to current law. | |
| 10. | Evaluate the usage of current Texas practices for facilitating the fair and accurate courtroom testimony of children and reducing the trauma associated with testifying, particularly for children who are victims of sexual abuse. Specifically consider recent efforts and trends across the nation to develop best practices, including "court orientation" programs, and ensure that courtrooms are more child friendly and accommodating for young victims to reduce the trauma associated with testifying in court while ensuring that fair and accurate information is solicited from the child as a witness. | |
| 11. | Monitor the implementation of legislation addressed by the Senate Committee on Criminal Justice, 81st Legislature, Regular and Called Sessions, and make recommendations for any legislation needed to improve, enhance, and/or complete implementation.
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| Committee: | House Child Abuse and Pornography, Select | |
| Title: | Interim report | |
| Library Catalog Title: | Interim report to the 71st Legislature, Texas House of Representatives. | |
| Subjects: | At-risk youth | Child Protective Services | Child sexual abuse | Pornography | Runaway children | | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.70 c437 | |
| Session: | 70th R.S. (1987) | |
| Online version: | View report [64 pages File size: 2,811 kb] | |
| Charge: | This report should address the charge below. | |
| 1. | Continue the examination of issues relating to the prevention, detection, investigation, treatment, management and prosecution of child abuse and pornography, and the prevention and management of the runaway problem among Texas youth. * | |
| Supporting documents | ||
| Committee: | House Child Abuse and Pornography, Select | |
| Title: | Interim report - Analysis of magazines | |
| Library Catalog Title: | Content analysis of five leading pornographic magazines. | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.70 c437a | |
| Session: | 70th R.S. (1987) | |
| Committee: | House Child Abuse and Pornography, House Joint | |
| Title: | Interim report | |
| Library Catalog Title: | Interim report to the 69th Legislature, Texas House of Representatives / House Joint Study Committee on Child Abuse and Pornography. | |
| Subjects: | Child abuse | Child sexual abuse | Pornography | Runaway children | | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.68 c436 | |
| Session: | 68th R.S. (1983) | |
| Online version: | View report [122 pages File size: 4,538 kb] | |
| Charges: | This report should address the charges below. | |
| 1. | To continue the study efforts of previous interim committees which have produced significant new laws aimed at protecting the children of this state. | |
| 2. | To make a thorough examination and recommendations for the legislature to deal with the growing problem of runaway children in Texas. | |
| Committee: | House Child Pornography: Its Related Causes and Control, Select | |
| Title: | Interim Report | |
| Library Catalog Title: | Interim report, Sixty Sixth Legislative session / the Select Committee on Child Pornography, Its Related Causes and Control. | |
| Subjects: | Child abuse | Child sexual abuse | Incest | Pornography | Prostitution | | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.65 p826r | |
| Session: | 65th R.S. (1977) | |
| Online version: | View report [207 pages File size: 6,327 kb] | |
| Charge: | This report should address the charge below. | |
| 1. | Conduct in-depth studies, to take and receive testimony, and to pursue all possible research avenues in an effort to develop legislation and other recommendations for the 66th Legislature designed to inhibit and completely halt the production, distribution and exploitation of pornography involving children. | |
| Committee: | House State Lunatic Asylum, Charges Against Management and Condition of Female Inmates | |
| Title: | Report | |
| Library Catalog Title: | [Report]. | |
| Subjects: | Austin State Supported Living Center | Child sexual abuse | Sex crimes | Sexual activity | | |
| Library Call Number: | LRL | |
| Session: | 20th R.S. (1887) | |
| Online version: | View report [7 pages File size: 523 kb] | |
| Charge: | This report should address the charge below. | |
| 1. | Investigate the condition of the female inmates of the Austin Lunatic Asylum and report the result of their investigation without delay, and make such recommendations to the Legislature as they think advisable. | |
* This represents an abstract of the report contents. Charge text is incomplete or unavailable.
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