Word: probationers
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Gabriel Trevino did a bad, bad thing. Three years ago, at age 31, he fondled the 14-year-old daughter of a friend. For this "slipup," as he calls it, he pleaded no contest and took five years' probation rather than risk a two-to-20-year prison term. Now...
The answer is simple, says state District Judge J. Manuel Banales, who on May 18 ordered Trevino and 13 other "high-risk" sex offenders on probation to post the signs in their yards. "It will keep people like you, sir, honest," he told Trevino last week after denying a request...
Judge Banales is unmoved. From a list of nearly 300 adult sex offenders, he chose 14 of the 15 by working with probation officers and a polygrapher to pinpoint those who had multiple victims, were not showing progress in therapy or had failed to show empathy for their victims. Even...
Though Banales, a Democrat, has been accused of issuing his order to win popularity at the polls next year--his is an elected judgeship--his cheering section includes probation officers who already see a sobering effect on new probationers. "It's definitely a deterrent now," says Iris Davila, probation supervisor in the Nueces County Community Supervision and Correction Department. "Other offenders are saying to us, 'We'll do whatever it takes not to have signs...
One friend of mine was called in to speak with the student’s assigned assistant freshman dean after simply asking some questions about the College’s alcohol policy at an introductory proctor meeting. In that interaction with the administrator, the student was even threatened with being...