WITNESS LIST
Homeland Security & Public Safety Committee
April 11, 2017 - 8:00 AM
Border Security
On:
Cuellar, Martin (Webb County Sheriff's Office)
Garza, Federico (Webb county sheriff's office)
Lopez, Alonzo (Zapata county sheriff's office)
Shmberber, Tom (Zapata county sheriff's office)
Against:
Jones, Chris (Combined Law Enforcement Associations of Texas (CLEAT))
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Alexander, Dominique (Self; Next Generation Action Network)
Banks, Yannis (Texas NAACP)
Bedecarre, Kathryn (Austin justice coalition)
Bokros, Kathleen (Self)
Connolly, Joao Paulo (Self; Austin Justice Coalition)
Cook, Margaret "Peggy" (Self; Austin Justin Coalition)
Dantzler, Susan (Self)
Dozier, Teresa (Self)
Gidseg, Joey (Self)
McMahon, Sukyi (Austin Justice Coalition)
Mitchell, Kathy (Texas Criminal Justice Coalition)
Morris, Robert (Self; Next Generation Action Network)
Oertel, Lauren (Self; Austin justice coalition)
Smith, Reginald (Self; Communities for Recovery)
Winfield, Nakia (Self; NASW-TX)
Against:
rodriguez, Jimmy (San Antonio Police Officers Association)
On:
Medrano, Margarita (Self; Moms Demand Action)
For:
Gillaspy, John-Michael (Self; Security Officer's Brotherhood)
Oakley, Keith (Tx assn of licensed investigators and Associated Security Services and
Investigators of the State of Texas)
Against:
Briscoe, Rick (Self; Open Carry Texas)
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Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Hettinger, Ann (Self; Center for the Preservation of American Ideals)
Trevino, Alan (Texas Association of Licensed Investigators)
Against:
Dantzler, Susan (Self)
On:
Moninger, Steve (DPS)
For:
Brauer, Andrea (Texas gun sense)
Bursey, Molly (Self; Moms Demand Action)
Mendoza, Elva (Self)
Mobley Turney, Aimee (Self; League of Women Voters of Texas)
Against:
Briscoe, Rick (Self; Open Carry Texas)
Cotton, Charles (Self)
Tripp, Alice (Texas State Rifle Association)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Besserman, Kenneth (Texas Restaurant Assn)
Chatelle, Melody (Texas Gun Sense)
DeWitt, Cathy (Texas Association of Business)
Hersh, Brooke (Self)
Huffman, Jeff (Texas Credit Union Association)
King, Danielle (Self)
Medrano, Margarita (Self; Moms Demand Action)
Palmer, Marjorie (Self)
Patterson, TJ (City of Fort Worth)
Simon, Arthur (Self)
Thomson, Emma (Self)
Against:
Dantzler, Susan (Self)
Lockhart, Heather (Texas Municipal League)
Malone, Rachel (Self; Texas Firearms Freedom)
For:
Jones, Chris (Combined Law Enforcement Associations of Texas (CLEAT))
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Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Landry, Mitch (Texas Municipal Police Association (TMPA))
rodriguez, Jimmy (San Antonio Police Officers Association)
On:
Sims, Chris (DPS)
Registering, but not testifying:
On:
Palmer, David (Texas Department of Public Safety)
On:
Moninger, Steve (DPS)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Oakley, Keith (ASSIST Associated security services and investigators of the state of Texas and
TALI Texas Assn of Licensed investigators)
For:
Coker, Eddie (Mckesson Corporation)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Beck, Richard (AmerisourceBergen)
Gonzales, David (Alliance of Independent Pharmacies of Texas)
Jones, James (San Antonio Police Department)
Kroll, Carrie (Texas Hospital Association)
Patterson, TJ (City of Fort Worth)
Reagan, Karen (Cardinal Health)
Wright, Michael (Texas pharmacy business council)
For:
Banks, Yannis (Texas NAACP)
Jones, Chris (Combined Law Enforcement Associations of Texas (CLEAT))
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Bedecarre, Kathryn (Austin justice coalition)
Blanton, Dana (Self)
Chang, Martha (Self; Austin Justice Coalition)
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WITNESS LIST
For:
Dozier, Teresa (Self)
Garcia, Michael (Self)
Hamilton, Darwin (Self; Reentry Advocacy Project)
Harris, Dwight (Self; Texasaft)
Houston, Joshua (Texas Impact)
Johnson, Branden (Self; East Texas Region of NAACP)
Kelly, Bill (Mayor's Office, City of Houston)
Mann, Fatima (Self; Counter Balance: ATX)
McMahon, Sukyi (Austin Justice Coalition)
Mendoza, Elva (Self)
Mitchell, Kathy (Texas Criminal Justice Coalition)
Moore, Chas (Austin justice coalition)
Moreno, Celina (MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund))
Oertel, Lauren (Self; Austin justice coalition)
Patterson, TJ (City of Fort Worth)
Privitera, Lori (Self; Austin Justice Coalition)
rodriguez, Jimmy (San Antonio Police Officers Association)
Smith, Reginald (Self; Communities for Recovery)
On:
Helenberg, John (Texas Commission on Law Enforcement)
Lacefield lewis, Lauren (Health and human services commission)
Pizarro, Raymond (TDLR)
For:
Hawkins, John (Texas Hospital Association)
Against:
Lockhart, Heather (Texas Municipal League)
Wood, Ted (Harris County Public Defender's Office)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Alexander, Dominique (Self; Next Generation Action Network)
Allison, Jim (County Judges and Commissioners Association of Texas)
Ballew, Joel (Texas Health Resources)
Banks, Yannis (Texas NAACP)
Bedecarre, Kathryn (Austin justice coalition)
Berry, Traci (Goodwill Central Texas)
Bokros, Kathleen (Self)
Boyle, Carolyn (Self; United Methodist Women, Saint John's United Methodist Church)
Chang, Martha (Self; Austin Justice Coalition)
Connolly, Joao Paulo (Self; Austin Justice Coalition)
Cook, Margaret "Peggy" (Self; Austin Justice Coalition)
DeWitt, Cathy (Texas Association of Business)
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WITNESS LIST
For:
Hall, Terri (Self; Texas TURF, & Texans For Toll-free Highways)
Henning, Lori (TX Association of Goodwills)
McMahon, Sukyi (Austin Justice Coalition)
Milligan, Maureen (Teaching hospitals of texas)
Mitchell, Kathy (Texas Criminal Justice Coalition)
Moore, Chas (Austin justice coalition)
Morris, Robert (Self; Next Generation Action Network)
Oertel, Lauren (Self; Austin justice coalition)
Privitera, Lori (Self; Austin Justice Coalition)
Simpson, Matt (ACLU of Texas)
Welsh, Dinah (Self; Texas EMS, Trauma and Acute Care Foundation)
Woods, Ashton P (Self; Black Lives Matter: Houston)
Yanas, Christine (Methodist Healthcare Ministries of South Texas)
Against:
Cuellar, Guadalupe (City of El Paso)
Kelly, Bill (Mayor's Office, City of Houston)
Patterson, TJ (City of Fort Worth)
Weist, Jon (City of Irving)
On:
Garren, Cheryl (DPS)
Hearn, Skylor (Texas DPS)
For:
Briscoe, Rick (Self; Open Carry Texas)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Hettinger, Ann (Self; Center for the Preservation of American Ideals)
On:
Moninger, Steve (DPS)
For:
Alexander, Dominique (Self; Next Generation Action Network)
Banks, Yannis (Texas NAACP)
Bedecarre, Kathryn (Self; Austin Justice Coalition)
Brown, Kristina (Counter Balance: ATX)
Chang, Martha (Self; Austin Justice Coalition)
Connolly, Joao Paulo (Self; Austin Justice Coalition)
Davidson, Bob (Self)
Dozier, Teresa (Self)
Gillham, Patsy (Self; Isensee Foundation for Safe Police Response)
Green, Kathleen (Self)
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WITNESS LIST
For:
Hansch, Greg (Self; NATIONAL ALLIANCE on Mental Illness (NAMI) Texas)
Harris, Chris (Self)
Hartnett, Annie (Self)
Jackson, Frank (Self)
Mann, Fatima (Self; Counter Balance: ATX)
Mitchell, Kathy (Texas Criminal Justice Coalition)
Mobley Turney, Aimee (Self)
Mobley Turney, Aimee (Self)
Moore, Chas (Austin justice coalition)
Pardue, Craig (Self)
Petersen, Randy (Texas Public Policy Foundation)
Peterson, Randy (Texas Public Policy Foundation)
Reed Veal, Geneva (Self)
Smith, Reginald (Self; Communities for Recovery)
Spears, Juanita (Self)
Taylor, Latosha (Self; Grassroots Leadership)
Watson, Fran (Self)
Winfield, Nakia (Self; NASW-TX)
Against:
Jones, Chris (Combined Law Enforcement Associations of Texas (CLEAT))
On:
Deitch, Michele (Self)
Harmon, Micah (Sheriffs' Association of Texas)
Lacefield Lewis, Lauren (Health and Human Services Commission)
Wood, Brandon (Texas Commission on Jail Standards)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Albert Donovan, Carolyn (Self)
Aronowitz, Jacob (Self)
Bernhardt, Rebecca (Texas Fair Defense Project)
Blanton, Dana (Self)
Bokros, Kathleen (Self)
Buyse, Beth (Self)
Buyse, Russell (Self)
Cook, Courtney (Self)
Cook, Margaret "Peggy" (Self; Austin Justice Coalition)
Craven, Morgan (Texas Appleseed)
Ellsesser, Stephen (Self; Emergence Health Network)
Francis, Will (National Association of Social Workers - Texas Chapter)
Freeman, Kathryn (Christian Life Commission)
Garcia, Michael (Self)
Gidseg, Joey (Self; Austin Justice Coalition)
Green, Joseph (Travis County Commissioners Court)
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WITNESS LIST
For:
Hamilton, Darwin (Self; Reentry Advocacy Project)
Holmes, Melissa (Self)
Houston, Joshua (Texas Impact)
Hurtado, Rene (Self; Emergence health network)
Johnson, Branden (Self; East Texas Region of NAACP)
Johnson, Lee (Texas Council of Community Centers)
Jones, Dallas (Houston NAACP)
King, Danielle (Self)
Luna, Vilma (Self)
Mahajan, Karan (Self)
McMahon, Sukyi (Just Liberty)
Meitzen, Nicole (Self; Austin Justice Coalition)
Mendoza, Elva (Self)
Miller, Jeff (Disability Rights Texas)
Miller, Matthew (Self)
Moreno, Celina (MALDEF)
Moreno, Celina (MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund))
Morris, Robert (Self; Next Generation Action Network)
Nachbar, Michael (Self; Left Up to Us)
Oertel, Lauren (Self; Austin justice coalition)
Oneil, Molly (Self)
Palmer, Marjorie (Self)
Peek, Alexandra (Self; Austin Justice Coalition)
Peek, George (Self)
Pogue, Stacey (Center for Public Policy Priorities)
Price, Annette (Self; Austin/Travis County Reentryroundtable)
Privitera, Lori (Self; Austin Justice Coalition)
Puente, Jaime (Self; Texas Graduate Student Diversity)
Quintana, Gwendolyn (Self; National Alliance on Mental Illness, Austin Affiliate Advocacy
Committee)
Rosales-Elkins, Deborah (NAMI Texas)
Rosenberg, Tom (Self)
Sanchez, Rebecca (Self; Grassroots Leadership)
Sarahan, Sarah (Self)
Shortnacy, Stephen (Self)
Simon, Arthur (Self)
Simpson, Matt (ACLU of Texas)
Smith, Chuck (Self; Equality Texas)
Styles, Cliffton (Self; Black pflugerville)
Styles, Meme (Self; Black Pflugerville)
Utzman, Aidan (United Ways of Texas)
Williams, Amber (Self)
Woody, Roy (Self)
Woody, Susanna (Self)
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WITNESS LIST
Against:
Good, Ken (Self; Professional Bondsmen of Texas)
Hunt, Ray (Houston police officers union)
Jones, James (San Antonio Police Department)
Landry, Mitch (Texas Municipal Police Association (TMPA))
Mccluskey, John (Self; Pbt)
Meeker, Glenn (Self; Professional Bondsmen of Texas)
rodriguez, Jimmy (San Antonio Police Officers Association)
Romero, Andrew (Austin police associatiom)
Villarreal, Joseph (Self)
Walstad, Scott (Self; Professional Bondsman of Texas)
Wilkison, Charley (Combined Law Enforcement Associations of Texas, CLEAT)
On:
Allison, Jim (County Judges and Commissioners Association of Texas)
Foley, Dr. Erin (Health and Human Services Commission)
Helenberg, John (Texas Commission on Law Enforcement)
Louderback, AJ (Sheriffs' Association of Texas)
On:
Hearn, Skylor (Texas DPS)
Mitchell, Kathy (Texas Criminal Justice Coalition)
Registering, but not testifying:
Against:
Bokros, Kathleen (Self)
Oertel, Lauren (Self; Austin justice coalition)
On:
Hawkins, John (Texas Hospital Association)
Registering, but not testifying:
On:
Hearn, Skylor (Texas DPS)
Against:
Daniels, Jeff (Self; Crime Stoppers)
On:
Cain, Camille (Criminal Justice Division, Office of the Governor)
Registering, but not testifying:
Against:
Jones, Randall (Self; Crime Stoppers)
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WITNESS LIST
For:
Waddill, Coby (Self)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Allison, Jim (County Judges and Commissioners Association of Texas)
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