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Travis County risk office seeks staff and systems as premiums, claims and compliance work grows
Summary
County risk-management leaders told the Commissioners Court they are consolidating data-protection and risk functions, facing rising premiums and large weather losses, and are asking the court to fund additional staff, a claim-management system, and ADA project management in the coming budget cycle.
Travis County officials on March 13 briefed the Commissioners Court on a multi-year effort to professionalize the county’s risk-management program and asked the court to consider budget requests for additional staff and systems to handle rising premiums, large claims and new compliance duties.
"We support Travis County as a whole," Brandon Rogers, chief information security officer for Travis County and director of risk management, told the court as he outlined a recent consolidation that now places cybersecurity, HIPAA privacy, and risk management under a single programmatic area.
Presenters said insurance premiums have grown rapidly in recent years and the county is facing higher property, workers’ compensation and aviation costs. Joshua Kubiak, a program staffer,…
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