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Texas Commission on Jail Standards Fall Judicial Education November - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Texas Commission on Jail Standards Fall Judicial Education November - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Texas Commission on Jail Standards Fall Judicial Education November 21, 2019 Texas Commission on Jail Standards Working Countywide on Mental Health Issues and the Sandra Bland Act Texas Commission on Jail Standards Texas Commission on Jail
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Texas Commission on Jail Standards
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Texas Commission on Jail Standards
Composition of the Board We have walked and are walking in your shoes
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Texas Commission on Jail Standards
Regulatory by Statute BUT A Resource for Counties
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Texas Commission on Jail Standards The County Judge/Sheriff Relationship
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Texas Commission on Jail Standards LMHA Jail Procedures at the Gregg County Jail
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Texas Commission on Jail Standards The Sandra Bland Act SB1849
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(13) provide procedures that shall give inmates the ability to access a mental health professional at the jail or through a telemental health service 24 hours a day and approved by the Commission by August 31, 2020. If a mental health professional is not present at the county jail at the time or available by telemental health services, then require the jail to provide the inmate access to, at a minimum, a qualified mental health professional (as defined by 25 TAC, §412.303(48)) within a reasonable time; and
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Texas Commission on Jail Standards So, what did that wall of text mean?
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Texas Commission on Jail Standards The Role of the LMHA
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Texas Commission on Jail Standards What are they required to provide?
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Texas Commission on Jail Standards Responsibilities of the County Jail
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Texas Commission on Jail Standards
HB601 Fee Schedule for Magistrate Ordered INterview
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Suicides FY 2015 through FY 2020 (to date)
34 25 19 22 20 4
FY15 FY16 FY17 FY18 FY19 FY20
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