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CORPUS CHRISTI — The Nueces County Medical Examiner's Office may lose certification and be forced to delay critical reports without more workspace and a larger staff in the next two years, officials said.

The office is forced to ask the Commissioners Court for extra resources estimated at $640,000 for the next fiscal year to manage a rapidly increasing workload and national recertification in 2009 that mandates a maximum ratio of autopsies performed for each forensic pathologist, said Nueces County Medical Examiner Dr. Ray Fernandez. That estimate includes a one-time cost of $500,000 for a 2,000-square-foot addition to the office and hiring another pathologist with a $140,000 annual salary.

As medical examiner, Fernandez is responsible for investigating the deaths of all people who die violently, suddenly or unexpectedly. Since 1996, the number of cases reported to the office increased by 54 percent to 1,528 deaths in 2006 from 990 cases in 1996, according to county medical examiner data. The escalating number of cases results from increasing population, more immigrant traffic in the area and a higher frequency of death reports from surrounding counties, Fernandez said.

"The volume of work has grown tremendously," Fernandez said. "Right now I'm the chief examiner, the associate and the one who locks up the place."

While the office isn't backlogged, it is getting close and may start seeing delays in autopsy reports, death certificates and other documents if something isn't done, Fernandez said. These documents directly impact residents in the ability to execute an estate and file insurance claims, he said.

A delay in autopsy reports -- or if the office isn't recertified during its next review scheduled for fall 2009 -- could jeopardize the prosecution of homicides and police investigations, said District Attorney Carlos Valdez. Prosecutors are unable to prove a homicide case without the testimony and findings of the medical examiner, Valdez said.

"We're talking about the criminal justice system -- ultimately protection of the public," he said. "If something breaks down in the criminal justice system, it affects everything and in the end it may cause guilty people to walk free."

The Nueces County office is one of five statewide that are certified by the National Association of Medical Examiners out of 13 offices statewide, according to the association. According to Valdez, that certification adds a degree of credibility during criminal trials.

certified office

Medical examiner's offices, along with all statewide crime labs, were required to be certified under a 2005 state law, Fernandez said. However, the state granted a temporary exemption to medical examiners before the law took effect.

The Nueces County Office received certification by the National Association of Medical Examiners in November 2004 to gear up for what is expected to be a requirement in coming years. The exemption still is in effect but may be dropped during the 2009 legislative session, Fernandez said.

One of the certification provisions bars having more than 325 autopsies for each forensic pathologist, and the recommended maximum is no more than 250 autopsies each.

In 2006, the Nueces County office performed 328 autopsies stemming from Nueces County, which does not include autopsies of bodies from the 16 surrounding counties the office serves.

Data for autopsies from surrounding counties in the past few years was not immediately available, but likely add 100 to 150 autopsies per year, Fernandez said.

"We are at a crossroads here -- we're either going to move resources, maintain accreditation and be in compliance or expect to see delays," Fernandez said. "If nothing's done (the delays) probably would come sooner rather than later. It would probably be in the coming year or the following year after that."

considering request

Fernandez presented to commissioners requests for a facility upgrade, an extra forensic pathologist and an assistant last month during the court's budget workshops. County Judge Loyd Neal said last week that the court understands the request and will come to a decision before the 2007-2008 budget is finalized in September.

"We don't want this office not to be certified," Neal said. "With that said, there's a price tag attached to that of several hundred thousand dollars. ... One of the issues we will look at is the importance of doing this in a timely basis, and how do we pay for it."

The 2,000-square-foot expansion of the office would include an office for the extra forensic pathologist, additional workspace and a family grieving room, Fernandez said.

The request also includes hiring a permanent autopsy assistant.

"We certainly are going to work with (Dr. Fernandez) in every way we can to make sure we've looked at all alternatives and make sure we are properly equipped and funded for when inspection comes," Neal said. "But there's no guarantees. We have several million dollars' worth of requests before us and this is one of them."

Contact David Kassabian at 886-3778 or kassabiand@caller.com

The number of cases reported to the office increased by 54% to 1,528 deaths in 2006 from 990 cases in 1996.

Responsibilities

Investigate the deaths of people who die violently, suddenly or unexpectedly.

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Watt is the "common law"?

ARTICLE 1.01. SHORT TITLE
ARTICLE 1.02. EFFECTIVE DATE
ARTICLE 1.03. [1] [1] OBJECTS OF THIS CODE
ARTICLE 1.04. [2] [3] DUE COURSE OF LAW
ARTICLE 1.05. [3] [4] RIGHTS OF ACCUSED
ARTICLE 1.051. RIGHT TO REPRESENTATION BY COUNSEL
ARTICLE 1.052. SIGNED PLEADINGS OF DEFENDANT
ARTICLE 1.06. [4] [5] SEARCHES AND SEIZURES
ARTICLE 1.07. [5] [6] RIGHT TO BAIL
ARTICLE 1.08. [6] [7] HABEAS CORPUS
ARTICLE 1.09. [7] [8] CRUELTY FORBIDDEN
ARTICLE 1.10. [8] [9] JEOPARDY
ARTICLE 1.11. [9] [20] [21] ACQUITTAL A BAR
ARTICLE 1.12. [10] [10] RIGHT TO JURY
ARTICLE 1.13. [10A] WAIVER OF TRIAL BY JURY
ARTICLE 1.14. [11] [22] [23] WAIVER OF RIGHTS
ARTICLE 1.141. WAIVER OF INDICTMENT FOR NONCAPITAL FELONY
ARTICLE 1.15. [12] [21] [22] JURY IN FELONY
ARTICLE 1.16. [13] [11] LIBERTY OF SPEECH AND PRESS
ARTICLE 1.17. [14] [12] RELIGIOUS BELIEF
ARTICLE 1.18. [15] [13] OUTLAWRY AND TRANSPORTATION
ARTICLE 1.19. [16] [14] CORRUPTION OF BLOOD, ETC.
ARTICLE 1.20. [17] [15] CONVICTION OF TREASON
ARTICLE 1.21. [18] [16] PRIVILEGE OF LEGISLATORS
ARTICLE 1.23. [20] [19] DIGNITY OF STATE
ARTICLE 1.24. [21] [23] [24] PUBLIC TRIAL
ARTICLE 1.25. [22] [24] [25] CONFRONTED BY WITNESSES
ARTICLE 1.26. [23] [25] [26] CONSTRUCTION OF THIS CODE
ARTICLE 1.27. [24] [26] [27] COMMON LAW GOVERNS


http://tlo2.tlc.state.tx.us/statutes/cr.toc.htm

Google Yourself Corpus Christi: When Carlos Valdez Confesses Error Does Not The Same Rule Apply?

Google Yourself Corpus Christi: When Carlos Valdez Confesses Error Does Not The Same Rule Apply?

First, in seeking the death penalty, prosecutors sometimes overlook glaring illegalities.

"courts, especially state courts, are too often willing to overlook even obvious constitutional flaws when reviewing death penalty cases."

And if they are "willing to overlook even obvious constitutional flaws and glaring illegalities when Prosecuting & reviewing death penalty cases."

WATT about all of the other cases?

How many "overlooks" of "constitutional flaws" or "glaring illegalities" have become tools of Cheating Prosecutors who have forgotten "Prosecutors, despite striking hard blows, must never lose sight of their ultimate obligation to do justice in every case.

How many Prosecutors deliberately commit the error of failing to file a reply brief in an Appeal Process because it deprives the appellant of exculpatory testimony, evidence, and confessions of error or witness tampering by the State Prosecuting Attorney?



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CONFESSING ERROR
By EDWARD LAZARUS
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Friday, Jun. 16, 2000

Earlier this month, Vincent Saldano, one of the 468 inmates on Texas' death row, had his death sentence vacated. This development was duly reported in the press. But accounts of Saldano's good fortune uniformly failed to appreciate what makes his reprieve truly newsworthy and potentially a landmark.

Saving Saldano: Texas Confesses Error

Saldano was not freed from the prospect of execution by the actions of a court or even, as occasionally happens, by the clemency of a governor. His death sentence was erased because Texas, through its newly created office of the solicitor general, "confessed error" in his case -- that is, it admitted, despite defeating Saldano's initial appeals in court, that his death sentence was illegally obtained. Quite simply, this never happens, either in Texas or in the dozens of other states with active death penalty laws. It is thus worth pausing to consider the value and potential implications of Saldano's case as well as the notion of confessing error.

Saldano had received a death sentence in part due to profoundly troubling testimony by a state expert witness at the sentencing phase of his trial. The expert, a clinical psychologist named Walter Quijano, suggested that Saldano should be executed because, as an Hispanic, he posed a special risk of future dangerousness to society. To support this astonishing conclusion, the expert pointed out that Hispanics make up a disproportionately large amount of Texas' prison population.

It does not take a tenured professor of constitutional law to realize that linking racial identity with a propensity for violence was not only bizarre but also a violation of the equal protection clause. Indeed, that it should take a confession of error by the state to correct this problem highlights at least two problems in the current administration of the death penalty. First, in seeking the death penalty, prosecutors sometimes overlook glaring illegalities. The same flaw identified in Saldano's case infects at least seven other Texas capital cases. Second (and perhaps even more distressing), courts, especially state courts, are too often willing to overlook even obvious constitutional flaws when reviewing death penalty cases. After all, before the state's confession of error, Saldano had lost all of his appeals.

Under these circumstances, one might think that confessions of error would be, if not commonplace, at least occasional. On average, the Solicitor General of the United States confesses error in two or three criminal cases every year -- even though it is a safe bet that federal prosecutions, conducted by better trained lawyers with greater supervision, are less likely to contain obvious legal errors than their state counterparts. As the Supreme Court recognized when endorsing the practice in 1942, "the public trust reposed in the law enforcement officers of the Government requires that they be quick to confess error, when, in their opinion, a miscarriage of justice may result from their remaining silent." But as a practical matter, states never confess error in death penalty cases (even though courts overturn roughly two-thirds of all death sentences as legally infirm) -- and some states candidly admit that their policy is never to confess error.

Mutual Distrust

Why? One crucial and usually overlooked factor is the deep antagonism that has grown up over time between state death penalty prosecutors and the death penalty abolitionist lawyers who seek to foil them in every case. The abolitionists, prosecutors know all too well, never concede that their clients deserve the death penalty or that the death penalty was legally imposed -- no matter how flimsy their arguments in a given case. Rather, they use every procedural and substantive trick in the book to delay executions.

There can be no denying that such abolitionist tactics have angered and frustrated state prosecutors. And one response to these understandable emotions has been for prosecutors to mirror the fight-to-the-bitter-end approach of their opponents.

The problem with this reciprocation, however, is simply that the ethical duties of prosecutors and defense attorneys are vastly different. Defense attorneys are duty-bound to scratch and claw to win for their clients. Prosecutors, by contrast, despite striking hard blows, must never lose sight of their ultimate obligation to do justice in every case.

That may sound trite and perhaps overly idealistic, but it has a practical side as well. Prosecutorial confessions of error -- knowing when to fold them, as it is known -- establish credibility. They create trust in the system, a sense that someone is being careful and exercising sound judgment, that extends far beyond any single case. And that can make a world of difference for someone like me, who is not morally opposed to the death penalty but skeptical of how it is imposed.

Death Penalty Politics

In addition, the reluctance of state prosecutors to confess error is a clear reflection of how politics affects the death penalty. Up until now, anyway, undoing a death sentence was akin to political suicide for an elected district attorney or state attorney general, or for any state official with ambitions for re-election or higher office. And yet the willingness of Texas' new solicitor general to confess error in the Saldano case suggests a possible turning point. With the current groundswell of death penalty opposition based on the possibility of executing an innocent person, elected officials may now find some advantage in approaching capital cases (even those where innocence is not an issue) with a greater degree of care and honesty.

case will start a broad trend. But there is reason to believe that the tide is indeed turning. On June 9, Texas Attorney General John Cornyn announced the results of an investigation into other death penalty cases involving testimony by state expert Walter Quijano. Cornyn acknowledged that Dr. Quijano had provided testimony in six other death penalty cases similar to his improper testimony in the Saldano case. Cornyn's staff has advised defense lawyers for the six inmates now on death row that his office will not oppose efforts to overturn their sentences based on Quijano's testimony. In response, a pessimist might note that Texas is appealing a ruling in another capital case that the defendant received inadequate counsel -- when, indisputably, his lawyer slept through much of the trial. But doing the right thing has a contagious quality to it. Or at least so we can hope.

Edward Lazarus, a former federal prosecutor, is the legal correspondent for Talk Magazine and the author of Closed Chambers: The Rise, Fall, and Future of the Modern Supreme Court.

Texas Public Education Watchdog Authority: Dear Chuy Hinojosa, Florence Shapiro and distinguished Education Committee Members

Texas Public Education Watchdog Authority: Dear Chuy Hinojosa, Florence Shapiro and distinguished Education Committee Members


Just give us (Education) the Lottery Proceeds as per original bill of sale. The Lottery was sold to us (the voters of the great State of Texas) as 100% of the proceeds were for Educating our youth.

What percentage of the Lottery proceeds (currently) are dedicated to the education of our youth?

Why is it, the wealth always steals from our children after acting like they were creating, “doing it for th kids” huge reservoirs of Avarice to siphon off.

Like the Lottery originally was ratified by the people of the Great State of Texas with the belief ot was a moneymaker for our Children’s Education. And now how much of the Lottery revenue makes it to Public Education?

Perry Craddick & Corporate Welfare in the name of WIA, ED Byrne Grant, and under the guise of helping the poor.

With the Education funding we should demand that the dedication of lottery money to the Education of our Children be adhered to as it was sold to Texas. The Lottery when legislated was for the Education of Texas Students. Finally, the Private Sector is funded under the WIA slush fund for Corporate Welfare Recipients under the Guise of a Welfare Reform or Welfare to Work / JOB generating program to help the poor. The rich are getting richer in the name of helping the poor. And one needs to always remember it is both parties dippin into the creative crony contractualism. Give it a title, write a grant and set up a front office with a computer and a sign; then get some brochures and a few token clients and funnel the Avarice in a shell game like manner and voila a new ranch or a new house maybe an agency hummer or King Ranch Pickup Truck with a magnetic sign. Give a few JOBS to your network affiliates and send the clients to perform community based work and get rich and richer doing it. Ask Mary Cano or Oscar Martinez to explain it in detail. Charmed I'm sure.



TFT LEGISLATIVE HOTLINE--FRIDAY, MAY 25, 2007
>(copyright 2007 Texas Federation of Teachers)
>
>Proposed State Budget Shortchanges Schools and Educators; Keep Up the Fight
>For House TRS Plan; House at a Standstill as Speaker Clings to Power
>
>Proposed Budget Shortchanges Public Schools, Education Employees: TFT
>President Linda Bridges put out a press statement today deploring the
>results of the House-Senate conference committee on the 2008-2009 budget.
>The state budget plan in House Bill 1 still must win the approval of
>majorities in both the House and Senate. As President Bridges' statement
>below explains, HB 1 in its current form does not deserve that approval:
>
>"Education and educators would be shortchanged badly in the budget proposed
>by House-Senate conferees this afternoon. Based on the information
>currently
>available, school funding would remain static, not even getting back to the
>level of state and local funding school districts had in 2002 in real
>terms, after you take inflation into account. The $850-a-year
>cost-of-living pay raise for teachers passed by the House last month would
>shrivel to about $425, according to the legislative budget staff. If paid
>out to all teachers across the board, this would amount to less than $25 a
>month after taxes and deductions--not even enough to cover the cost of
>rising average health-care premiums. And the conferees took pains today to
>say the money would not even have to be paid out across the board to all
>teachers.
>
>"Worst of all is what this budget proposal would do regarding TRS pension
>benefits. The bill would withhold an eminently affordable and exceedingly
>modest pension boost--a 13th check for TRS retirees--unless other
>legislation passes
>to impose new levies on all current school employees. The only way retirees
>would get a 13th check, under this scheme devised by Sen. Robert Duncan,
>would be if active school employees pay a higher contribution rate, taking
>roughly $50 million a year out of their pockets. This plan totally
>contradicts the House legislation passed unanimously on Wednesday that
>would provide a 13th check for retirees fully funded by the state, without
>imposing any new levies on active employees.
>
>"In short, school districts under this budget would regain none of the
>ground they have lost financially, teachers would get at best a measly pay
>raise of less than $25 a month that wouldn't even keep up with inflation,
>and 300,000 school support personnel would suffer an actual pay cut, as a
>result of the higher levies imposed on them for TRS with no compensating
>increase in pay. You have to give the
>conferees credit--it takes a certain ingenuity to come up with a plan this
>bad at a time when the state is sitting on a record-high budget surplus."
>
>Keep Up the Fight for House TRS Plan! At this writing members of the Texas
>House are standing firm in support of their unanimously approved plan for a
>13th check for TRS retirees, funded by an increase in the state
>contribution rate to 6.7 percent, with no new costs imposed on active
>school employees. Several Senate offices reported to us today that they are
>receiving a high volume of calls in support of this House version of SB
>1846--as well they should be. The Senate alternative proposed by Sen.
>Robert Duncan, Republican of Lubbock, is a thinly veiled attempt to shift
>state costs for TRS pensions onto active employees and their school
>districts.
>
>Duncan let slip the real agenda during floor debate on his plan,
>noting that increasing the TRS levy on active employees and requiring a
>contribution from school districts could "free up general revenue for other
>purposes." In other words, this scheme would allow the state to save money
>by shifting costs onto education employees and local taxpayers.
>
>Duncan's staff in response to callers today reportedly was claiming that
>the freshly hatched budget deal (see above) means that there's no money and
>no time left to provide this session for the 6.7-percent state contribution
>rate that the House proposes. But that's not so. The legislature has
>billions of dollars left to allocate right now, and it would take only a
>tiny fraction of that treasure--less than 1 percent of it, in fact--for the
>state to get to the 6.7-percent TRS contribution rate from the 6.58 percent
>already built into the budget. Even if the budget bill passes in its
>current form, the
>House plan for a fully state-paid 13th check with no new costs imposed on
>active employees could also still pass and become law with full force and
>effect, delivering a 13th check in September.
>
>The upshot is that you have an opportunity right now to shape the outcome
>of this TRS benefit fight in the critical remaining days before adjournment
>of the legislative session on Monday. Just send the letter on this issue to
>your state senator from the TFT Web site. If you don't know your state
>senator, you can find out quickly when you go to that Web letter.
>
>Speaker's Grip on Gavel Threatened: The Texas House came to a standstill at
>8 PM this evening, as Speaker of the House Tom Craddick shut off House
>members' microphones and called a three-hour recess to head off a
>rank-and-file revolt
>threatening to oust him from the speaker's chair. The Midland Republican is
>under heavy fire from both fellow Republicans and Democrats for what many
>consider his tyrannical rule of the House. Tonight he gave them new grist
>for their argument, by ruling that there is no appeal to the membership as
>a whole if he blocks the parliamentary procedure needed to oust him. His
>ruling, epitomizing the arbitrary, one-man rule of which Speaker Craddick
>stands accused, apparently has led to the resignation of the House
>parliamentarian in protest this evening. Like everyone else at the capitol,
>we are now waiting to see if the House will actually reconvene tonight.
>Keep an eye out for news of the latest developments in the daily TFT
>hotlines that will be published each of the next three days as the
>legislative session hurtles toward final adjournment.

Senate Committee on Education

Committee Information

Chair .Florence Shapiro Vice-Chair .Kyle Janek

Members: .Kip Averitt .Steve Ogden .Dan Patrick .Leticia Van de Putte

.Royce West .Tommy Williams .Judith Zaffirini

Texas State Representative House District 33: Keep Your Promises Solly. Remember Miller? Why are CCISD Students still running at large during school d

Texas State Representative House District 33: Keep Your Promises Solly. Remember Miller? Why are CCISD Students still running at large during school day hours?

Friday, May 25, 2007

Keep Your Promises Solly. Remember Miller? Why are CCISD Students still running at large during school day hours?

CCISD: Why are CCISD Students allowed to run at large during school day hours?

Education is for our Children, our Youth, our Future. Children and Youth need constant redirection and set boundaries at home and at school as well. When a minor is allowed to run at large during the school day hours whether it is in the halls, leaving or returning a closed campus or simply unaccounted for is irresponsible of the caretaker whose custody in which he / she is placed.
Kenedeno

An absent student is one who does not arrive at school in the morning and is absent for the WHOLE Day. The student was never on campus. The Parent is responsible for the student getting to school (requiring the student to attend school). If the student does not get to school it is the Parent’s responsibility not necessarily the Parent’s fault. There are circumstances where the student will walk in the front door and out the back door without attending a single class. This is where the attendance officers need to improve their due diligence like the old days.

Once the student is counted present in the morning; the Parent has required the student (child) to attend school. Once the student is verified in attendance at the beginning of the school day the student is in the custody of the School.

If the student is tardy or skips class (on campus or off campus) this happens on the watch of the school. The Parent if informed should cooperate and communicate with the School Counselors Administrators and the Attendance Officer to correct the behavior. The Security and Attendance officer should take notice and tighten the belt. This is a security issue as well; there is no excuse for students coming and going outside of the lunch period and it is imperative that attendance irregularities be dealt with within 24 hours. This is easily done with our modern technology.

Instead, what we are seeing is the Attendance Officers documenting the absences as they accumulate and filing on the Parent and student when the number of absences are achieved.

Solly, did you forget about the issues and the kids at Miller and CCISD as a whole?

South Texas Chisme: Chisme roundup

Posted on May 15, 2006 at 06:55:18 PM by Jaime Kenedeno ... sources at ccisd downtown have said that a miller hs asst. principal has become a whistleblower. ... stxc.blogspot.com/2006/05/chisme-roundup.html - 48k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this

South Texas Chisme: Solomon Ortiz Jr. on the ballot for State Rep D33!

I am Jaime Kenedeno of South Texas. A simple Google search will inform you more of WHO I Am. ... The credentials of Noyola and the CCISD / Miller fiasco was ... stxc.blogspot.com/2006/08/solomon-ortiz-jr-on-ballot-for-state.html - 31k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this

South Texas Chisme: Truth? you cant handle the truth!

That hadn't happened in years, that is why Miller was facing sanctions from the feds (before noyola's time). And Kenedeno is right, we can't support the ... stxc.blogspot.com/2006/07/truth-you-cant-handle-truth.html - 35k - Supplemental Result - Cached - Similar pages - Note this

South Texas Chisme: New block walking program in Corpu$

Posted on May 29, 2006 at 01:28:04 AM by Jaime Kenedeno ... Roy Miller’s political skills, vision brought Corpus Christi into the modern era ... stxc.blogspot.com/2006/05/new-block-walking-program-in-corpu.html - 42k - Supplemental Result - Cached - Similar pages - Note this

South Texas Chisme: Lets see how you dance to this tune

All the Talk Radio stations will be talking about the Miller HS issue as well as ... From: Jaime Kenedeno [mailto:kingalonzoalvarezdepinedaxiii@gmail.com] ... stxc.blogspot.com/2006/07/lets-see-how-you-dance-to-this-tune.html - 46k - Supplemental Result - Cached - Similar pages - Note this

South Texas Chisme: Race for State Rep. District 33 gets HOT

It said that the whistleblowers name at Miller was former assistant ... Jamie Kenedeno, no I just thought it would be fun to do something like that poem. ... stxc.blogspot.com/2006/07/race-for-state-rep-district-33-gets.html - 43k - Supplemental Result - Cached - Similar pages - Note this

South Texas Chisme: Who's the REAL enemy?

... Sr. attempts to manipulate the vote and his performance at Miller HS last year. ... Jaime Kenedeno/Haley, Who Knows why he writes anything that he does. ... stxc.blogspot.com/2006/09/whos-real-enemy.html - 53k - Supplemental Result - Cached - Similar pages - Note this

South Texas Chisme: PULP FICTION & The Award Winning Caller-Times

... an article on July 23rd entitled PAPER WON’T REPORT RUMORS AT MILLER HIGH, ... Thanks for watching my back, Kenedeno. At 4:19 AM, Jaime Kenedeño said. ... stxc.blogspot.com/2006/07/pulp-fiction-award-winning-caller.html - 22k - Supplemental Result - Cached - Similar pages - Note this

South Texas Chisme: Dangerous chisme?

When we write something us here at Kenedeno & Associates believe it to be true. ... in example will be the one that Danny Noyola was removed from Miller. ... stxc.blogspot.com/2006/06/dangerous-chisme.html - 27k - Supplemental Result - Cached - Similar pages - Note this

South Texas Chisme: HD 33 shuffle

Danny Noyola, Sr., recently reassigned from Miller HS principal to Moody assistant principal, ... Posted on July 3, 2006 at 09:51:17 PM by Jaime Kenedeno ... stxc.blogspot.com/2006/07/hd-33-shuffle.html - 37k - Supplemental Result - Cached - Similar pages - Note this

South Texas Chisme: Once again the Caller times tells only half truth

-Jane Wall – Current teacher and former Miller HS journalism instructor “As a Precinct chair, ... Political Pulse: Kenedeno’s Political Pulse ...
stxc.blogspot.com/2006/08/once-again-caller-times-tells-only.html - 32k - Supplemental Result - Cached - Similar pages - Note this

CCISD: Freedom of Information Request: The process the CCISD Board used is unethical and unfair.

CCISD: Freedom of Information Request: The process the CCISD Board used is unethical and unfair.

CCISD: Freedom of Information Request: The process the CCISD Board used is unethical and unfair.


Freedom of Information Request

This Publication request any and all communications including email and written correspondence from one week before Trustee Harry Williams resigned.

Must I formalize it on Monday?

Think I am bluffing?

You gotta ask yourself

Do you feel lucky?

Well Do ya?

Go ahead.........


You guys get the idea?

Now, don't go and seek the OAG's opinion as it will delay our children.

Just fess up and conduct business with honor and integrity and at least give us an appearance of due process. Not one black appointment. You guys are definitely walking on thin ice or maybe already fallen through but just don't know it. Such inadequacy is unacceptable.

CORPUS CHRISTI - CCISD school board members interviewed five candidates Friday to fill the board position vacated by Reverend Harry Williams.

The school board said it will set another meeting to discuss the finalists, and will possibly make a decision then, but still no word on when that would be.

Williams served the school board for more than seven years before resigning last month.

Nick Adame

"Do not be a disservice to our community and choose because this guy is my friend or this guy is my business associate," Dr. Nick Adame said. "I don't want to hear that. I want to hear that we're going to choose somebody because they're going to do right for the community."

Last week, the board narrowed the list of 20 candidates to five

Kenedeno:

Where is the criteria the process for "narrowing the list"?

The process the CCISD Board used is unethical and unfair. Every single applicant took the time to fill out an application, and the thought process for the letter of interest and update of their resume and references. For all intensive purposes this CCISD Board just threw that work product into the trash can while opting for business partners, friends cronies and industry allies.

It is not about the 5 selected it is about how the 5 were selected. It is not about Barrera or Prezas or Bill Clark or Lucy Rubio.

It is about a change of policy where policy is defined by processes of the past. Lucy is the only one with the guts to make the motion, "for the board to scrap the current process and start over. There was no second to the motion." Are there others in that room who agree with her, but politically, they are bound & gagged. The current process is in conflict with current policy. The current process is now a civil rights issue. Is that what CCISD wanted, another Cisneros v CCISD?

We have 19 Candidates who deserve Equal Opportunity and fair consideration. It is called due process.


1. Herbert Cromwell Arbuckle, III Retired Teacher
2. Rolando G. Barrera Insurance Agent
3. Tony C. Diaz, Ed.D. Retired CCISD Administrator
4. Victor Frazier, Ed.D. Minister and University Instructor
5. Cezar Galindo Business Owner and College Instructor
6. Marsha Lynn Grace Professor of Education
7. Coretta Graham Lawyer
8. Helen Gurley, Ph.D. Educator, Director of Academics
9. Patricia Harris Educator
10. Robert Elliott Jones Pastor and Business Manager
11. Deborah W. Johnson Retired Firefighter
12. Bradford Lee Kisner Director of Music and Fine Arts
13. Verna Faye Portis Retired CCISD Administrator
14. Raul R. Prezas, Ed.D. College Professor
15. Norman Haden Ransleben Certified Public Accountant
16. Woodrow Mac Sanders Medical Social Worker
17. Ronald G. Sepulveda Athletic Aquatic Superintendent
18. George Wetzel Retired Public School Administrator/Consultant
19. Goldie Lamarr Wooten Retired Educator

Rubio has said she disagrees with the selection process and would have preferred to use a scoring system instead.

Trustees selected the five candidates to be interviewed by each nominating one from a pool of 20 applicants.

We elect you guys to represent the district with honor & integrity

But before trustees interviewed the first candidate, trustee Lucy Rubio motioned for the board to scrap the current process and start over. There was no second to the motion.

Rubio has said she disagrees with the selection process and would have preferred to use a scoring system instead.

CCCT Editorial

The trustees' refusal to lay out the cards is beyond irritating; it borders on the outrageous.

Particularly disturbing is the fact that three new trustees elected last year - Carol Scott, John Longoria and Dwayne Hargis, all of whom emphasized their intent to bring new openness to the board - appear to have bought into the mum's-the-word ethos that has dominated this exercise.

To be sure, they (and their colleagues) could, and should, reverse their field.

CCISD Trustees: Pick and choose Policy Making with malice. Shame on YOU.

CORPUS CHRISTI - CCISD school board members have decided not to change their policy which forbids seniors who fail the TAKS from graduating.

One parent we spoke with Thursday said the policy didn't make sense, because while students who fail the TAKS test during the school year aren't allowed to take part in graduation ceremonies. The same doesn't hold true for summer school grads. They're allowed to participate in summer graduation ceremonies without knowing whether they passed the test.

The decision didn't sit well with some parents and students.

School board member Lucy Rubio had hoped to amend the policy, and allow seniors who failed the TAKS to at least walk in with their class during may commencement. But other school board members didn't agree.

Parkdale Bank: According to Gambi Gamboa, "John Longoria, Carol Scott and Dwayne Hargis already have chosen and will officially choose Roland Barrera

Parkdale Bank: According to Gambi Gamboa, "John Longoria, Carol Scott and Dwayne Hargis already have chosen and will officially choose Roland Barrera as soon as Fri



After analyzing the recent events surrounding the resignation of CCISD Board Trustee Harry Williams (1 of 3 at large district positions); one thing IS clear. That one thing is Due Process (or lack of it). Immediately one's memory of search firm fiascos and the CCISD Board tool of choice, the Interim Superintendent buffer / scapegoat. The process was elaborate and ethical reasons or rule were claimed as the reason for the process.

Well, why such a rush fellas?

Why is the CCISD board in such a hurry to fill this position?

A Superintendent position and a Trustee position; one we wine, dine and lodge and the other we announce for applications for a month or so and "narrow the list down" from 20 to 5 in most expedient fashion. Now, making a long story short we have 20 candidates who invested their creative, intellectual and professional abilities into a work product they hope will be scrutinized by the Board and be successfully competitive. A good letter of interest comes only from the heart. The application is at times tedious but at least it is more objective than the TAKS. Updating one's resume and with a list of references most meaningful to the position and all of this for 15 to get thrown in the trash can and the 5 resumes remaining are to place on public display

full story here

"I'll be as hardy of mind as I am of body. I'll be a straight-shooter and a square-dealer. My family name will be sacred My word will be as good as any contract. I'll remember the Alamo. I'll stick by my friends. And I'll eat more chicken-fried steak."

BND Googled Top 200 for examination

"IN THE KNOW": Carlos Truan | Hugo Berlanga & The Primrose Path & Rangel Law School @ Texas A&I University.

"IN THE KNOW": Carlos Truan | Hugo Berlanga & The Primrose Path & Rangel Law School @ Texas A&I University.

Nueces De La Parra: Corpus Christi Watchdog Authority: When the District Attorney has questions and the SOS has cleared the Candidate to run, how can

Corpus Christi Watchdog Authority: When the District Attorney has questions and the SOS has cleared the Candidate to run, how can there be criminal proceedings?

Whichever suits the interest of the "Pick and Choose" self dealers of Del Mar College. The voters made their choice; but it is not the choice of the "Pick and Choose" self dealers, so they whine. Always changing the rules in the middle of the process and calling it due process and they actually believe their own prevarication. It is requested that the AG attend the board meetings and closed sessions in the interest of Del Mar Taxpayers, Faculty and Student body as the AG did in the Kenedy Foundation debacle with Rene Gracida.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!

THOSE WHO LOOK TO THE LONE STAR STATE for political intrigue have had a good year.

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THOSE WHO LOOK TO THE LONE STAR STATE for political intrigue have had a good year. In one of his final acts as House majority leader, Dick Armey tried to insert a media ownership rule into an arms bill that seemed to single out The Dallas Morning News for punishment, reportedly because of the paper's decision not to endorse his son's failed Congressional bid in Denton County. Then, last spring, Democrats in the Texas state legislature fled to neighboring Oklahoma to avoid giving Republicans the quorum they needed to pass a partisan redistricting plan. Both moves are fine examples of the bipartisan wile of Texas politicians. But when it comes to unsavory politicking, some of the most adroit manipulation happens on the local level. Consider the political favors done for Wyeth, a $60 billion pharmaceutical company based in Madison, N.J.

In the mid-1990s, American Home Products (as Wyeth was then called) marketed a weight-loss cocktail known as fen-phen. After research demonstrated in 1997 that fen-phen increased the risk of failing heart valves, causing blood that was supposed to be pumped into the body to dribble back into the heart, the manufacturer quickly pulled it off the shelves. But the damage had already been done. The ensuing federal class-action lawsuit brought by fen-phen users resulted in a $3.75 billion settlement with the company. A number of plaintiffs, dissatisfied with the settlement, opted out and pursued separate litigation against Wyeth in Texas state court.

Wyeth was represented by an outstanding legal team, including the Washington, D.C., powerhouse firm Arnold & Porter. Faced with the prospect of another massive payout, however, Wyeth took no chances. It sought additional counsel in the form of Gabi Canales, a solo practitioner from Alice, Tex., a sleepy town about 120 miles south of San Antonio. Canales, a 1998 graduate of nearby St. Mary's University Law School, had a diverse practice, doing plaintiffs work, estates, wills, and the like. But she had never worked on a major product liability case or one involving complex scientific evidence. Like many fresh-faced young attorneys, she was eager to tackle a big case. "I haven't been practicing for very many years," she explained, "so I wanted whatever experience I could get to diversify my practice."

NOT EVERYONE APPROVED OF HER DECISION to join the Wyeth team. Canales, as it happened, held down another job—representing the residents of Alice as a Democrat in the state legislature. About to depart to Austin for a four-month legislative session, Canales's first legal maneuver on behalf of Wyeth was to ask the judge on the case—her father, it turned out—for a six-month continuance. When Judge Terry Canales recused himself, citing an obvious (and, one might have imagined, foreseeable) conflict of interest, the matter was left to be decided by Judge Mike Westergren. Except that in reality, it wasn't Westergren's call to make: Texas has a special provision that grants automatic continuances to any lawyer who is also a state legislator. According to the state's legislative continuance rule, which dates back to 1929, state courts must delay proceedings until 30 days after the end of the legislative session—in this case five months from the date of Gabi Canales's request.

The legislative continuance was devised as a way to satisfy the competing demands on a part-time legislator's attention. The Texas legislature meets for a maximum of 140 days every other year, and its members are paid an annual salary of $7,200. To make a living, most legislators must have a career outside politics that also places demands on their time and energy. How could a Texas lawyer hold clients if she couldn't assure them that she could meet her responsibilities while away serving in the legislature?

Nine other states, including California, New York, Michigan, and Massachusetts, operate full-time legislatures along the lines of Congress, but most employ part-time "citizen legislatures," like that of Texas. In the South, where there isn't a single full-time legislature, the part-time legislature is often invoked as a symbol of limited, restrained government. "With a full-time legislature you don't have the knowledge of industry and business that you have with a citizen legislature," argued Richard Saslaw, a Virginia state senator. "Part-time legislatures have more knowledgeable members, so they don't have to rely on staff or lobbyists."

Others disagree. In the era of the "new federalism" and devolution of power to the states, a part-time legislature, they say, cannot meet the growing demands of 21st-century governance. "With the growing size, importance, and complexity of state governments, full-time legislators are becoming imperative," said Steve Tobocman, a state representative in Michigan's full-time legislature.

ARMED WITH TEXAS CIVIL PRACTICE AND REMEDIES CODE SECTION 30.003, Canales walked into court in December 2002 and postponed one of the fen-phen litigations for over five months, a feat she duplicated in two other fen-phen cases. At a pretrial hearing, the attorneys for Wyeth explained to the court that Canales would make a "significant, important contribution" to the case, noting her "standing in the community"—undoubtedly a good thing, but rarely a prerequisite for defending a product liability case. "You have a case that is barreling up to trial, where the lawyer-legislator is added to the case, where they haven't participated in discovery," Bruce Flemming, a lawyer for the plaintiffs told Texas Lawyer. "I think it is just a sin."

The plaintiffs appealed the continuance, and the Texas Court of Appeals derided Wyeth's maneuvering, citing the company's "questionable conduct" in using legislative continuances for "tactical advantage." Ultimately, however, the plantiffs' appeal failed; since the statute didn't allow judicial discretion, the appellate court's hands were tied. The delay forced the plaintiffs, many of whom have significant medical bills thanks to fen-phen's side effects, to wait months for their day in court.

"That's the system in Texas: One day you're a country lawyer with your shingle out, then you get elected to the legislature and the next day you are a high-priced product liability attorney," said Craig McDonald, the director of Texans for Public Justice. McDonald's group is an Austin-based nonprofit that advocates political reform, consumer protection, and corporate accountability. "This is blatant stuff," he said. "Canales had no experience at all relevant to this case. The relevance was that she was a newly elected legislator."

But Canales was not the only legislator to procure legislative continuances for Wyeth. In the spirit of bipartisanship, the company also hired Representative Ruben Hope, a Republican from Conroe, to postpone two other fen-phen trials. And the company wasn't alone in using this tactic. Over the last few years, major product liability cases against breast-implant manufacturers, asbestos companies, and Firestone Tires have been put on hold in Texas. While it is difficult to quantify the effect that delay has on a product liability case, it is often used to put financial pressure on plaintiff's attorneys, who typically work for a percentage of any damages awarded by the court. And though Canales may truly believe in the virtue of Wyeth's cause, she was undoubtedly attracted by her compensation. According to McDonald, "the rumor on the street is that continuances go for somewhere between $20,000 and $30,000 each." Texas law doesn't require disclosure, and how much Canales was paid is not a matter of public record.

Texas is not the only state that allows legislative continuances, nor is it the only state that gives judges no discretion to reject them. More than 20 states allow such continuances. Iowa comes closest to Texas in effectively blocking judges' discretion over them. But abuses of the rule are most egregious in Texas.

THIS SUMMER, HOWEVER, THERE WAS A SMALL STEP FORWARD in the Lone Star State: the passage of an ethics reform bill. The new law requires, among other things, legislators to report their requests for legislative continuances, including the name of the party represented and the date on which the legislator was retained, although not the amount paid for the service. The information must be passed on to the Texas Ethics Commission within three days, a provision that will make it easier to keep track of abuse. But because the bill requires the disclosure of information that is already known—the parties to a case and their lawyers are matters of public record—few observers expect it to have much political force.

Canales's own behavior might have some political fallout, but even that remains uncertain. Her part in the Wyeth case secured her a place on Texas Monthly's Top 10 Worst Legislators list, an impressive distinction for a first-term representative. But Canales is politically well-connected: Her father remains a district judge and her mother is county chairwoman for the Democratic Party. Canales is convinced that her constituents don't care about, or pay much attention to scandals like the continuance issue. "They are not interested," she said. And she might be right: Her father, Terry, was himself ranked among the 10 Worst Legislators while serving as a representative in 1975—and has since been elected four times to serve as judge for the district.

Sam Goodstein is an attorney working in Santa Monica, Calif. His writing has appeared in The Los Angeles Times.

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"IN THE KNOW": Remember The Crime Stoppers "Vandalism" of the Corpus Christi Country Club Golf Course? Were there not high powered CCCC members who control our nation’s economy & industry. This work of fiction written by Hal Bray set here in Corpus Christi; I just thought you guys might like it. BTW, cant find that particular Crime Stoppers announcement. They tore up the CCCC Golf Course. Who is they?

Many parents just don't know about truancy laws, school officials and judges say.

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Monday, August 23, 1999
Working to help keep kids in school
State laws and truancy center give hope to those helping kids

By Novelda Sommers
Caller-Times


Truant officer Gary Ganschow rumbles into driveways on his three-wheel custom motorcycle, court summons in hand.
Ganschow takes students who skip school, and sometimes their parents, to court.
"He's like their worst nightmare over in the King district," said Mariah Boone, director of the Truancy Reduction Impact Program, which serves juveniles who violate the city's daytime curfew.
Ganschow, Boone and local juvenile authorities say they hope to see a decrease in truancy with the opening of a new 24-hour curfew center next month and with new state truancy laws.
Two new laws aim to combat truancy among 16- to 18-year-old students. One law gives school districts the option of expelling 18-year-olds if they accrue more than five unexcused absences. And starting Sept. 1, judges may order 16-year-olds accused of skipping school to take the high school equivalency exam.
"I think what the Legislature is saying is they're serious about kids going to school," said Art Delgado, CCISD director of administrative and student services. "If they are not going to school, following the rules, and they are being disruptive, they shouldn't be there."
Sanctions against students who miss school aren't meant to punish, but to get students back in school and keep them there, he said. A special committee this fall is expected to work on ways to improve attendance.
Many parents just don't know about truancy laws, school officials and judges say.
Justice of the Peace Larry Cox said parents often seem surprised when they appear in his court and learn that they could be fined thousands of dollars or jailed because they didn't make their children attend school.
Cox said he saw about 600 truancy cases in his courtroom last year, compared with about 50 cases when he first took office five years ago. He attributes the increase to more diligent enforcement by police, constables' deputies and school truancy officers.
Penalties can range from fines up to $500 for each unexcused absence, to court orders for parents to attend school with their children for a day or two, Cox said.
State law says it's a crime if any child age six to 18 misses three days or parts of days within four weeks without an excuse or if they have 10 unexcused absences within six months.
Straight talk
Ganschow, a Vietnam veteran with a pierced ear and a ponytail, checks school attendance reports at 12 Corpus Christi Independent School District schools and serves court summons to select students, and sometimes parents.
Last week, he spoke to a classroom of King students whose teacher said he had noticed too many absences in the first week of school.
"You may say, 'What can you do to me, because I'm a kid,' '' he said.
Lots of things. A judge can assess a 6 p.m. curfew. Or the judge could suspend the offender's driver's license.
On the second offense, Ganschow told them, "you're going to jail."
"You're going to be put in the police car and taken to the juvenile center where you will be held for violating a court order," he tells them. Those who are 17 or older can be taken to the county jail.
Hope for center
Whom he takes to court depends on parents' and students' willingness to change their behavior, Ganschow later said.
"We don't file on all of them. It's a tool that we can use," he said.
Last year, CCISD filed 938 complaints against students and parents. CCISD employs five truant officers whose coverage areas center around the high schools and their feeder schools.
Boone said she hopes a planned 24-hour curfew center, funded with the Crime Control District tax, will drive down truancy numbers down.
Set to open on Sept. 13, the center will offer counseling to students and their parents. Staff at the center will call offenders' schools to learn their grades and absentee rates, she said. The counselors will follow up with the families in the weeks after the first session.
Parents, she said, can help keep their kids in school by knowing school staff and calling to check if they suspect there is a problem.
Counseling often needed
Often, truancy is a symptom of a larger problem in the offender's family, said Penny Grochow, assistant chief probation officer for the Nueces County Juvenile Department.
Counselors who work with truants and runaways at the center often learn of sexual abuse, drug use and neglect in truants' homes, she said.
The department has seen the number of truancies level off since 1993, when truancies peaked at 613 cases. Last year, the department handled 354 cases, and in 1997, it saw 316. Juvenile crime overall hit a five-year low last year, with 4,311 offenses.
Parents can call the department between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. for free counseling, Grochow said. Most who come in complain that they have difficulty getting their children to go to school.
"If they've called us at 8 a.m. and they can't get the kid out of bed for school, we tell them to get the kid in the car and come talk to us," she said.
Kids difficult to handle
In a recent counseling session, a defiant girl with close-cropped hair began to let down her guard with Priscilla Boyd-Apah, a juvenile probation caseworker.
She doesn't want to go to school because other kids make fun of her, she told Boyd-Apah.
"You need to straighten out your act today," Boyd-Apah said. "How are you going to support yourself if you're not educated?"
The session was arranged by the girl's mother, who was desperate for help and called the department.
"She's like the bad apple out of all of them," the mother said, telling the counselor that the 12-year-old has three younger siblings.
Boyd-Apah said she frequently counsels children whose parents say they can no longer control them. This girl will be taken on a tour of the juvenile boot camp to see where she could end up if she keeps offending, Boyd-Apah said.
But during the session, it became apparent, Boyd-Apah said, that the mother needs help, too.
The mother said she doesn't work, and lives on about $200 in monthly government aid. The girl's father, she said, is in prison.
A school counselor who called during the session said the children come to school dirty, Boyd-Apah said.
"They need to come clean and dressed nice for school or else kids will pick at them," Boyd-Apah told the mother, before making a follow-up appointment for the next week.
Justice of the Peace Henry Santana said that when he assesses punishment in truancy cases, he orders the families to get counseling. Some parents just don't know how to communicate with their children without fighting.
"Punishment is not the answer," he said. "They need a lot of counseling, a lot of help to put them on track again."




Staff writer Novelda Sommers can be reached at 886-3774 or by e-mail at sommersn@caller.com


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Correctional Corporation of America Co-founders Tom Beasley, Don Hutto and Doctor Crants getting rich off of the legal taxpaying immigrant

Two Decades of Service to the Public Sector

CCA’s industry benchmarks include many operational and programmatic firsts. We are proud to have pioneered the way for public/private partnerships in corrections.

CCA Incorporated
CCA was incorporated on January 29, 1983, by three businessmen with a progressive vision: the provision of corrections, a traditionally government-administered service by private business. Co-founders Tom Beasley, Don Hutto and Doctor Crants brought a diverse group of skills to apply to their new business venture: public policy and knowledge of the legislative process, public corrections, and financial expertise.

Houston Processing Center (1984)
Houston Processing Center was CCA’s first design, build and manage contract from the U.S. Department of Justice for the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (formerly the Immigration and Naturalization Service) in Texas. Construction was underway on the Houston Processing Center in Texas when the INS notified CCA that it needed housing for detainees earlier than expected – in January. Co-founders Tom Beasley and Don Hutto went to Houston to find a motel to temporarily house detainees. The owner of the local Olympic Motel agreed to a 90-day lease. After a team of contractors cleaned and secured the facility, an INS inspection team approved the facility for use by 86 detainees, scheduled to arrive at 11:00 p.m. on Super Bowl Sunday. Hutto bought toiletries at Wal-Mart with his American Express card, produced photo ID cards and rolled fingerprints, while other corporate officers distributed sandwiches and helped security staff escort detainees to their living quarters. CCA’s Houston Processing Center opened a few months later, in March 1984, and remains in operation for BICE today.

Tall Trees, Memphis, Tennessee (1984)
CCA assumed management of its first facility, Tall Trees, a 63-bed, non-secure juvenile facility, for the Juvenile Court of Memphis and Shelby County, in 1984.

Shelby Training Center, Memphis, Tennessee (1986)
CCA’s 200-bed Shelby Training Center in Memphis, Tennessee was the first design, build and manage secure juvenile training school, housing male offenders for the Juvenile Court of Memphis and Shelby County.

New Mexico Women’s Correctional Facility (1989)
CCA contracted with the New Mexico Department of Corrections to design, build and manage the New Mexico Women’ s Correctional Facility in Grants. The 204-bed facility was the first women’s prison in the United States to be privately built and operated.

Winn Correctional Center (1990)
CCA’s Winn Correctional Center was the first medium-security private prison in the United States. Located in Winn Parish, Louisiana, the center was designed, financed and built by the state.

Leavenworth Detention Center (1992)
CCA designed and built the 256-bed Leavenworth Detention Center, which the company operates for the U.S. Marshals Service. The center was the first maximum-security private prison under direct contract with a federal agency.

Excellence in Accreditation: New Mexico Women’s Correctional Facility (1991)
CCA’s New Mexico Women’s Correctional Facility became the company’s first facility to achieve a perfect score from the American Correctional Association on its initial ACA audit in 1991. Since that time, six more CCA facilities have achieved this distinction – Lee Adjustment Center, Lake City Correctional Facility, Bent County Correctional Facility, Otter Creek Correctional Center, Gadsden Correctional Facility, and California City Correctional Facility -- and 85% of CCA facilities are ACA accredited.

LifeLine (1993)
CCA’s LifeLine substance abuse treatment program is founded at Metro-Davidson County Detention Facility in Nashville, Tennessee. Since that time, 23 CCA facilities utilize the therapeutic community model, and the program has drawn the interest of officials from the public sector and other countries, including Russia, South Africa and Korea.

Transportation services (1995)
CCA acquires TransCor America, Inc., the nation’s largest long-distance inmate transportation company.

Correctional Treatment Facility (1997)
CCA assumes management of the Correctional Treatment Facility in Washington, D.C., a medium-security facility specializing in substance abuse treatment for adult males and females. CTF represented many firsts for CCA: the first facility in the nation’s capital, the company’s first contract for a purchase and lease-back agreement with local government, and the first partnership between CCA and organized labor unions.

David L. Moss Criminal Justice Center (1999)
CCA opened the 1,714-bed David L. Moss Criminal Justice Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the largest county jail ever to become a private jail.

New Leadership, New Organization (2001)
To enhance the company’s service to our customers and support long-term goals, CCA implements a new corporate structure. Highlights of the new structure include a realigned Business Development division with greater coverage for each of CCA’s markets and the creation of a Human Resources department, to enhance internal performance monitoring and establish a formal support network for CCA employees.

CCA Celebrates its 20th Anniversary (2003)
At this point in company history, CCA is the nation’s sixth largest corrections system, with 59 facilities in 20 states and the District of Columbia. The company maintains a security record that compares well to our industry colleagues, with an escape rate more than 10 times lower than public corrections systems. Our commitment to quality performance-driven educational, vocational, substance abuse and re-entry programs for inmates continues to be at the forefront of our efforts.

Coup D' Maitre: Nueces County Jail Delayed

Coup D' Maitre: Nueces County Jail Delayed