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TCOLE pursues multiple suspensions, revocations and administrative penalties; commission accepts agreed dispositions
Summary
The commission accepted a slate of default suspensions, revocations and cancellations and approved several agreed suspensions, an agreed cancellation and administrative-penalty agreements with local agencies.
The Texas Commission on Law Enforcement accepted a broad set of enforcement items at its March meeting, including default suspensions, default revocations and agreed sanctions submitted by staff.
Assistant General Counsel Mark Duncan and the licensing enforcement team presented default enforcement orders in several categories. The commission accepted nine default suspension orders — each presented where a licensee failed to respond to a petition — involving officers and jailers with misdemeanor convictions; staff said they were seeking 10-year suspensions in those matters and the commission voted to accept the orders as recommended.
The commission also accepted four default revocation orders and three default cancellation orders after the affected individuals did not appear for scheduled hearings. Staff presented the factual bases in each matter (for example, convictions for assault or family-violence-related offenses) and recommended the formal disciplinary outcomes.
Separately, TCOLE and respondents executed several agreed dispositions. The commission accepted three agreed suspension waivers (each resolving DWI- and theft-related matters with a 10-year suspension), one agreed cancellation waiver (a felony-equivalent conviction predating licensure), and two agreed administrative-penalty waivers with county agencies after on-site audits documented record-keeping deficiencies; the latter two waivers required the agencies to pay administrative penalties of $500 and $1,000 respectively.
TCOLE staff also presented three negotiated, short-term suspension agreements resolving alleged false or incomplete preappointment background confirmations; the negotiated terms reduced previously-proposed suspension periods to short suspensions (14–15 days) in exchange for signed agreed orders. Staff recommended the commission accept those agreed orders and the commission did so.
Finally, the commission accepted a proposal for decision from the State Office of Administrative Hearings in a case involving a disorderly-conduct conviction that SOAH found to be an offense involving family violence; staff recommended cancellation and the commission accepted the SOAH recommendation.
Staff closed the enforcement report with an informational summary for the commission: there were several statutory suspensions and revocations, term and permanent license surrenders, and administrative reprimands recorded since the last meeting; those items required no commission action because they took effect by statute or by operation of law.
