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Audit questions state criminal history database

October 5, 2011
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Audit questions state criminal history database

A new state audit highlights serious gaps in the Texas’ criminal records database, showing roughly a quarter of the state’s criminal background checks, used to screen teachers, doctors, nurses, and daycare workers, may be flawed. The audit says that prosecutors and courts around the state have failed to submit disposition records for roughly one...
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DPS to crappy drivers: debt forgiveness awaits

February 1, 2011
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DPS to crappy drivers: debt forgiveness awaits

Since 2003, some Texas drivers running afoul of the state’s traffic laws have been subject to not only fines, but to additional charges levied to discourage reckless driving even further. The additional cost is part of DPS’s Driver Responsibility Program, which imposes the surcharges on drivers who have racked up too many tickets or...
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