Houston Chronicle—August 31st, 2010
Effie Skinner is a tiny woman, but she’s never been a shrinking violet.
Denied a police job because she was too short, the 5-foot-tall Skinner marched into the Harris County Sheriff’s Office. Her orange Afro bespeaking confidence, lips beguiling cops and cons alike with the familiar salutation, “Hey, Baby!,” Skinner quickly became a department legend. Read More »
Office of Sheriff Adrian Garcia—August 25th, 2010
Harris County Sheriff Adrian Garcia, son and brother of immigrants and supervisor of one of the nation’s largest programs for identifying suspected illegal immigrants in jail, today praised and challenged more than 1,700 newly naturalized U.S. citizens at their oath-taking ceremony. Read More »
Office of Sheriff Adrian Garcia—August 16th, 2010
Harris County Sheriff Adrian Garcia announced today a new online tool for the public to use to find out about crime in county neighborhoods. Read More »
Office of Sheriff Adrian Garcia—August 13th, 2010
Harris County Sheriff Adrian Garcia will meet with news media to answer questions related to Harris County Sheriff’s Office (HCSO) issues on Monday, August 16 at 10 a.m. at the HCSO Academy. Read More »
Bill Stamps, KUHF News—August 11th, 2010
Statistics show Harris County is the worst in the nation when it comes to drunk driving deaths. That’s one of the reasons the police and sheriff’s departments are teaming up for big crackdown on drunk drivers. Bill Stamps tells us what they’re planning to do. Read More »
Chris Moran, The Houston Chronicle—August 9th, 2010
Harris County Jail inmate Matthew Collazo raised anew the specter of jail deaths when he filed suit against the sheriff to get copies of his own medical records. Read More »
Houston Chronicle—July 23rd, 2010
Harris County ranks No. 1 among the nation’s top 10 largest counties with the most alcohol-related traffic fatalities. It’s a title that Harris County Sheriff Adrian Garcia says he wants to relinquish. Read More »
The Police News - Harris County—July 13th, 2010
Sheriff Adrian Garcia and staff will honor several of the Harris County Sheriff’s Office’s (HCSO) unsung heroes: its K-9 deputies. Read More »
The Houston Chronicle—June 17th, 2010
A proposed eight-story building where 1,200 inmates would be locked up, the sheriff is quick to say, is not a jail. Read More »
The Kingwood Observer—June 17th, 2010
The Harris County Sheriff’s Office invites the citizens of Harris County to participate in an upcoming Citizen’s Police Academy, scheduled to begin August 19. Read More »
Adrian Garcia has made great progress on his promises to clean up the mess he inherited at the sheriff’s department. In just a short time, he has brought our much-maligned county jail into state compliance... (more).
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