The criminal justice commission that County Judge Ruben Becerra and his staff are creating will form “pretty quickly” and begin working on ways to make the county’s criminal justice operations more efficient, Becerra’s chief of staff Alex Villalobos said.
Becerra and Villalobos spoke about the commission at a press conference Friday afternoon following a criminal justice summit at the Hays County Government Center. Villalobos said that the district attorney’s office, justices of the peace, county courts-atlaw, district judges and law enforcement representatives were all a part of the closed-door summit.
“We had a meeting with everyone that touches criminal justice in Hays County,” Becerra said at the start of the press conference, “and our biggest push and our biggest ask has been to come together without judging departments, without judging offices, but just to come with an open mind and to share what we have been doing.”
