True Bill, Volume 4, Number 4, August-September 1983 Page: Front Cover
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TEXAS STATE DOCUMENTS
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TRUE BILL
THE NEWSLETTER OF THE PROSECUTOR COUNCIL
P.O. BOX 13555 * AUSTIN, TEXAS 78711 E OF
Volume 4, Number 4 August - September, 1983
Advisory Committee's
Sub-Committees Take Action In This Issue
At the June 22nd meeting of the Advisory
Committee of the Prosecutor Council five GENERAL NEWS
sub-committees were directed to various Advisory Committees
concerns (see TRUE BILL, Vol. 4, No. 3, June- Sub-Committees Take Action................... 1
July, 1983). The sub-committees have further Council Election Coming Up .................... 4
defined their goals and made some NDAA Concerned Over Bill ..................... 4
recommendations.
ETHICS
Services Sub-Committee Addressing the Issues........................... 19
(1) Publications. This sub-committee is in
the process of reviewing the Council's TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE
Elements Manual, a popular publication listing
the necessary elements of various crimes. Trial Reference Series ........................4
Attorney General Opinions .....................7
Also under review is the Council's Handbook Open Records Decisions ........................ 7
for Grand Jurors, an orientation manual. From Your Fellow Prosecutor ................... 9
As the Judges Saw It ........................... 11
(2) Audio Visual Loan Library. The sub-
committee viewed the public information SERVICES
programs available through the Council's
Audio-Visual Loan Library (see page 21). Audio Visual Loan Library ...................... 20
Council Publications ......................... 21
Members found the materials very useful and Car Rental Agreements ........................ 22
informative for the public, but felt that most Law Enforcement Workshops
prosecutors are unfamiliar with the programs To Be Scheduled .............................. 22
and thus not putting them to use. They
recommend that the library tapes be on PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
continuous display at a place convenient to World Prosecutors Section ...................... 22
those attending the T.D.C.A.A. Annual Council Ends Out-of-State Travel................ 23
Criminal Law Update in Fort Worth September Participants Evaluate
28-30. Due to the popularity of the Trial Out-of-State Courses.......................... 23
New Travel Policy Proposed ..................... 24
Advocacy audio tapes, it was recommended Calendar...................................... 26
that a second set of the cassettes bepurchased for check-out. Members suggested FEATURES
other public information topics for the library:
Plea Bargaining, Problems of Prosecutors, The Director's Corner .......................... 2
Grand Jury Orientation (perhaps a slide/tape roseShuetr ockers ............................27
show), Juvenile Justice, and Responsibilities of Council Staff Profiles ........................ 28
the Community and the Criminal Justice
System. These areas, it was thought, are
often unclear to the public.
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