A question about Texas

[bsnyder]

What's the role of judges? I keep seeing several on tv and wonder how they're involved in the disaster prepration process.

 

[Chuck S]

What you may be seeing are "County Judges", while I'm originally from CA and don't fully understand the county judges roll here in Texas, they seem to be the head of the county commissioners, not really a "judge" in the legal sense, more of a county mayor.

 

[Qwackertoo]

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?h...as+judges+emergency+evacuation+responsibility

Section/page 1-2 details responsibilities of mayors, judges and commissioners.

Deana

 

[RadioNate]

Eldridge or whatever his name is who's been all over the new channels is head of the city/county emergency management for the Houston area. I don't know why they keep titling him as only Judge and not explaining why he is significant.

 

[Planogirl]

Eldridge or whatever his name is who's been all over the new channels is head of the city/county emergency management for the Houston area. I don't know why they keep titling him as only Judge and not explaining why he is significant.

Robert Eckels.

County Judges are quite powerful and important in Texas. From the Texas Association of Judges website:

County JudgeCounty Judge
The Texas Constitution vests broad judicial and administrative powers in the position of county judge, who presides over a five-member commissioners court, which has budgetary and administrative authority over county government operations.

The county judge handles such widely varying matters as hearings for beer and wine license applications, hearing on admittance to state hospitals for the mentally ill and mentally ********, juvenile work permits and temporary guardianships for special purposes. The judge is also responsible for calling elections, posting election notices and for receiving and canvassing the election returns. The county judge may perform marriages.

A county judge in Texas may have judicial responsibility for certain criminal, civil and probate matters - responsibility for these functions vary from county to county. In those counties in which the judge has judicial responsibilities, the judge has appellate jurisdiction over matters arising from the justice courts. The county judge is also head of civil defense and disaster relief, county welfare and in counties under 225,000 population, the judge prepares the county budget along with the county auditor or county clerk.

 

[RadioNate]

Robert Eckels.

Yeah him.....


I knew it was an E but that's about it.

 

[Nebsky]

Ahh....

The are kind of like Boss Hogg from the Dukes of Hazzard. They got their hands in everything. Same with the county commisioners.