DPS TO START BILLING FOR LAB WORK
Local police and sheriff’s departments will soon have to pay the State of Texas for crime lab work.
The Texas Department of Public Safety has announced that beginning September first, they will begin charging local law enforcement agencies for forensic lab work. The DPS crime labs will charge fees for services such as drug, alcohol, toxicology and DNA testing. The Texas Legislature passed a law requiring the DPS begin charging fees in order to make up an $11.5 million budget deficit.
Across the state, local prosecutors, sheriffs and police chiefs expressed surprise and anger that the DPS did not disclose these fees earlier, when counties and cities were preparing their budgets.
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Id LOVE to see the books to find out how the DPS is $11.5 million in the hole…govt claims citizens can’t budget finances and that led to the banking/credit industry problems, yet there is story after story of govt agencies running things into the ground….this new arrangement is just like how the Mafia works with lower levels kicking money up to the top!
Either way they will find away for us taxes payers to fund this. In the end it’s always the tax payer to foot the bill!
Sounds like legislature, not DPS, is the one that should have informed the local agencies. Then again, when is the legislature ever held accountable for anything?
Every 2 years in the House of Representatives, and every 4 years in the Senate, – at least in theory. It seems that we have drifted afar from the wisdom, philosophy and advice of Sam Houston to “govern wisely, and as little as possible.”