Tag Archives: County Judge Sarah Eckhardt
Travis County's public defender office is officially funded
Travis County is in the home stretch of its yearslong effort to establish a public defender office for low-income adult defendants. On Thursday the Texas Indigent Defense Commission OK’d a four-year grant to establish the office in the county –…
Travis County • By Andrew Weber, KUT • Aug 30, 2019
Austin Monitor Radio: County Judge Sarah Eckhardt
Travis County Judge Sarah Eckhardt joins Austin Monitor reporter Jack Craver at KOOP this week to talk about how pending state legislation could impact the county, development regulations and why Travis County might soon have a public defender’s office. For…
Radio • By Austin Monitor • May 6, 2019
Group forms to mediate conflict over sexual assault cases
Travis County Judge Sarah Eckhardt and former Texas state Senator Wendy Davis held a press conference Tuesday announcing their partnership in the creation of a Travis County Sexual Assault Prevention and Healing Work Group. Eckhardt and Davis were joined in…
Public Safety • By Ryan Thornton • Jan 30, 2019
Eckhardt welcomes wave of political momentum in Travis County
For years, when County Judge Sarah Eckhardt would try to talk to the community about the justice system, someone would quickly change the subject to transportation or other unrelated issues. Although it accounts for 50 percent of the overall county…
Travis County • By Ryan Thornton • Jan 4, 2019
In State of the County address, Eckhardt looks forward to future term
With no credible threat to her re-election in November, Travis County Judge Sarah Eckhardt delivered a State of the County address on Thursday night that had the luxury of looking a full five years into the future. Clocking in at…
