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The Bail Post Episode No. 48- Meet Bexar County Dynamo County Clerk Lucy Adame-Clark

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Lucy Adame-Clark was born in San Antonio, Texas. She attended Sidney Lanier High School and attended Southern Careers Institute in San Antonio for paralegal studies. Prior to becoming county clerk, Adame-Clark worked in the Bexar County Sheriff's office from 1997 to 2018. There she worked as a booking ID clerk from 1997 to 2008, a latent print examiner/AFIS in the criminal investigation division from 2008 to 2012, and a criminal processing clerk from 2013 until her election in 2018. According to Bexar County records, Adame-Clark was the first Latina and the first woman elected to the county clerk position. She is a member of the International Association for Identification and the Bexar County Bail Bond Board. She also serves as the Bexar County Treasurer and Chairman of the Records Management Committee. Outside of her professional career, Adame-Clark previously volunteered as the booster club president for the Southside Independent School District AFJROTC program and Democratic Pr...

The Bail Post Podcast Episode No. 44- The Inside Scoop About Bail Bond Boards With Guests Ethel Segura and Michelle Turner

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On this Episode of the Bail Post we are at the PBT Annual Meeting and we are recording "live" to tape where we have a panel discussion regarding the Inside Scoop about Bail Bond Boards.  Our guests are Ethel Segura and Michelle Turner.  Ethel Segura is the Bail Bond Administrator for the Bexar County Bail Bond Board.  Michelle Turner is the 1st Assistant County Attorney for Fort Bend County and is the attorney for the Fort Bend County Bail Bond Board. On this unique and different episode we discuss common mistakes that bondsmen make and several new statutes that may impact the actions of bail bond boards moving forward. This is an audio only episode.  Also available on: Apple Podcasts-            CLICK HERE Spotify-                        CLICK HERE Google Podcasts-        CLICK HERE Podcast Index-       ...

Texas Organizing Project Accused of Quid Pro Quo to Help Favorable Bexar County Officials

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  A bail reform group bonding out hundreds of criminal defendants from the Bexar County jail, then paying some of them to do campaign work for candidates, including the district attorney whose office is prosecuting them. Trouble Shooter Jaie Avila obtained a recorded phone call that may show a conflict in the hard-fought race for D.A. On the recording you hear two representatives of a group called Texas Organizing Project, or TOP, talking to a man they think is an inmate they recently bailed out and asking him to do door-to-door canvassing for $20 an hour. Earlier this year we showed you how TOP receives cooperation from Bexar County in bailing out hundreds of inmates from the jail. The bail reform group claims they are low level offenders, but our reports showed they've put repeat offenders with violent histories back on the street. On the recorded phone call, Laquita Garcia, Statewide Policy Coordinator with TOP, and another staffer named Greg Williams, are talking to a man they ...

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