Laws change, and procedures change.
It's something you have to keep up with all the time. Precinct 4 includes Mustang Island and a small, unpopulated portion of Padre Island. Precinct lines are being redrawn, however, and the precinct will include Mustang Island and hundreds of homes on Padre Island after Jan. 1, 2001. Sherwood said his goals include keeping the crime rate on Padre Island as low as it is in Port Aransas. In the program, teen-agers who commit minor offenses paint buildings and do projects such as landscaping as community service projects.