Tag: 4th amendment

SB 10 (creating the Texas MENTAL Health Care Consortium) is the wrong solution to “school safety”

LOW income / LOW information families will be hurt, first.

Here’s just a handful of reasons to OPPOSE the DOZENS of mental health bills in Austin that want to involve our local school campuses, which is code for expanding the market share for the government-supported pharmaceutical companies, by creating a direct avenue for them to perform mental assessments on our children, AT SCHOOL.

Whether it’s through research funding, consulting positions for faculty, or “educational” dollars, drug companies have a major influence on our medical schools.

1992 Congressional Hearing: TX Sen Moncrief – “Hospitals would go into schools and initiate kickbacks to counselors who could find students that had mental health insurance and would then be put into that hospital.” https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=umn.31951d00282733c;view=1up;seq=9

“…social workers, school counselors, probation officers, crisis hotline workers and even ministers were paid to refer patients to private psychiatric hospitals. These are people we have all been taught to trust, not avoid.” https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=umn.31951d00282733c;view=1up;seq=9  Continue reading “SB 10 (creating the Texas MENTAL Health Care Consortium) is the wrong solution to “school safety””

Should Texans Support Psychiatric Assessments of Children in our Local Elementary Schools (SB10)?

I first read SB 10 in January this year, to prepare for a presentation to a north Texas group on how to read the thousands of bills that our state legislature introduces.  I chose SB10 to use as demonstration because, as I always do every year that our legislature is in session, I try to read all the bills that my House Rep. and Senator file.  In January the only bill that either of my legislators had authored was that of SB10, which eventually all 31 senators signed on as authors/co-authors.  Sen. Jane Nelson is the Primary Author of SB 10.

In reading the 10 page bill I only needed to read the first page to realize Texas students were about to be mentally assessed and drugged on our local school campuses. Continue reading “Should Texans Support Psychiatric Assessments of Children in our Local Elementary Schools (SB10)?”

DPS is Violating Legislative Intent

-posted by Barbara Harless

The law states that individuals applying for original driver licenses, renewal drivers DPS fingerprint scannerlicenses, applicants applying for duplicate drivers licenses and personal identification certificates, must render thumbprints or index fingerprints (if a thumb is not available), along with an Image Verification System Photo (facial recognition photo).

The Texas DPS has been collecting full sets of 10 digit fingerprints, against legislative intent, since April that this blogger knows of.  Dave Lieber with the Dallas Morning News reports that all 10 digits were being collected as early as January 2014 (see DMN links below).

Here is the legislative history:

– 1967 HB 354 (60th Legislature) – Added thumbprints or index fingerprints (if a thumb was not available) requirement to Continue reading “DPS is Violating Legislative Intent”

Invasion of Privacy and Dereliction of Fiscal Duty

This year, Senator John Carona (Dallas) authored a bill (SB 241) that would allow electricity consumers to opt-out of the advanced meters (aka smart meters) without additional fees, but the bill is dead in the senate. This story reads much like the TSA Anti-Groping bill by David Simpson in the 82nd legislative session. Continue reading “Invasion of Privacy and Dereliction of Fiscal Duty”