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Report: Travis County among worst in state at updating crime data

An AP report published in the Statesman gives a little more detail on the study described in this Grits post that found major inadequacies in the statewide database maintained by the Department of Public Safety for criminal background checks:Fort Worth-based Imperative Information Group, a company that does background investigations, looked at 562 cases for offenses that ranged from theft by check to capital murder. All were known to have ended with a conviction or "deferred adjudication," similar to probation. Its study, conducted in October, found that the Department of Public Safety database did not have records on 36 percent of the 562 cases, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported. In three instances, the cases were not reported to the database even though the defendants were sentenced to death...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on November 30, 2008 (boomark / email).