Judge Foster Urges DA Watkins to Protect Employees Threatened by Constable Cortes
As he prepared to board an airplane bound for Austin at approximately 6 p.m. on Wednesday night, Dallas County Judge Jim Foster received a flurry of phone calls related to the now-infamous meeting that Dallas County Constable Jaime Cortes had with approximately 30 of his deputies. With Dallas County Sheriff Lupe Valdez (who suffered minor injuries in a taxi cab accident shortly after her arrival) and other county employees already in Austin for a Texas Commission on Jail Standards meeting held on Thursday, Foster decided his best course of action was to stay in Dallas.
Mark Graham
As Foster explained to Unfair Park this morning in his office on the second floor of the former Texas School Book Depository, he has firsthand knowledge of many of the complaints in the investigation of the constables, including those against Lt. Howard Watson, one of Cortes's deputy constables that was recently charged with bribery and sexual assault.
"I'm the person that they were going to, and they're still coming to me," he says. "I wish I weren't in the middle of it, but I am because they don't know where else to go."





8 comment(s) / Post a Comment


















