He was destined for prison. He was arrested with a gun at his high school campus. In past years, he would have been expelled to the streets to get into more trouble. The Harris County Juvenile Board created the first county-sponsored charter school in Texas for children in our juvenile detention facilities. Our War on Crime is working.
Crime is down in Harris County.
Our smart zone radio communications system allows over 50 police agencies to communicate with each other, allowing victims of crime to get help as soon as possible. Harris County has doubled the number of juvenile beds, and this year opened our new Juvenile Boot Camp. Our air quality has improved dramatically over the past twenty years, yet more must be done for our growing community. Harris County is initiating new monitoring systems to insure compliance with federal and state regulations, funding computer modeling to base our clean air decisions on the best information possible and searching for the newest and most cost effective technologies to clean our air. The County recently established an ozone notification system so that children, the elderly and other vulnerable to respiratory problems can be alerted to high levels of ozone as soon as possible.