Complaint Review: Bastrop County Sheriffs Dept - Bastrop Texas

WELL A FEW DAYS AGO THIS ARTICLE RAN IN THE AUSTIN AMERICAN STATESMAN: BASTROP, Texas The sheriff of Bastrop county and a county commissioner have been indicted today in a public corruption investigation. The Texas attorney general's office says the 51-year-old men are accused of using inmate labor and funds for their personal projects. Warrants were issued for Sheriff Richard Hernandez and County Commissioner David A. Goertz. Each is charged with one count of abuse of official capacity -- for illegally misusing taxpayer resources. The A-G's office says Goertz used inmates to do electrical wiring and other work projects at his own home. Hernandez is accused of using county materials, taxpayer resources and inmate labor to build barbecue pits -- which he later sold for his personal profit. FINALLY THE PUBLIC CAN SEE WHAT THIS MAN IS REALLY LIKE. GET THIS GUY OUT OF OFFICE!!

The only thing I could think of is to consider filing a new civil charge on him. Have you talked to the constable in your precinct in Travis County and see what they could do? Who was your judge in the original case anyway anyway? Does your ex live in Bastrop County? WHO is your attorney? Maybe you should put your attorney on the rip-off report if they can't get you what the court says that you are supposed to have. He is in COMTEMPT of court now. Travis County has usually been very gung h*o about making sure that deadbeat dads pay! What does your ex do for a job or who is his family that would make a Court of law reluctant to file on him or not prosecute him for non-payment of child supprt? Have you seen the advertisement on the Rip Off Report concerning Deadbeat Dads? That might shame him into paying up. I am NOT an attorney but it seems to me that a marriage is a contractual agreement and under a contract, if one party leaves and fails to buy out the other party, per agreement, something could be done about that! That is the approach I would use and I would see about learning how to file my own papers in court. There is a book which may be in the UT or Travis County law library it is published by West publishing ( who, I think, was bought out by Lexis nexis) called Texas Legal Forms where you jsut type up what is there and fill in the blanks as it pertains to your situation. If I were you I would look it up and then I would go after the deadbeat dad...Big time! There shouldn't be anything to keep you from filing papers in court if a relative of mine can file writes of haebus corpus from prison. There used to be a support group for divorced people that met in Travis COunty. I kinow for sure that there is a women's center where someone might be able to help you. Maybe even the Battered Women shelter "Safeplace" might be able to put you in touch with someone who might help you collect. There is just no excuse for some man to bring some kids into the world and then just skip out on them! It is intolerable and something should be done. Kids just miss not having a Daddy around. I know that first-hand. DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOUR EX IS? You might have to find his sorry self for Bastrop County... After you file, the papers then are served by the constable wherever he is located in Texas. ANd the constable's office WILL be able to find him, one way or the other. IF he gives them grief, they will arrest him . Better make sure the warrant is current. I am also wondering if you can file in fedeal court because I think you have to have filed when you apply for food stamps and I feel sure that the feds will do something. Or at least, I have heard that they do. I also think that since you now live in Austin, that Bastrop County thinks that you can no longer vote there and thus YOU ARE OUT OF THERI JURISDICTION AND THEY DON'T HAVE TO FOOL WITH YOUR SITUATION ANYMORE! That said, see if you can refiled your case with Travis County officials since you are living there now. GOOD LUCK!

The only thing I could think of is to consider filing a new civil charge on him. Have you talked to the constable in your precinct in Travis County and see what they could do? Who was your judge in the original case anyway anyway? Does your ex live in Bastrop County? WHO is your attorney? Maybe you should put your attorney on the rip-off report if they can't get you what the court says that you are supposed to have. He is in COMTEMPT of court now. Travis County has usually been very gung h*o about making sure that deadbeat dads pay! What does your ex do for a job or who is his family that would make a Court of law reluctant to file on him or not prosecute him for non-payment of child supprt? Have you seen the advertisement on the Rip Off Report concerning Deadbeat Dads? That might shame him into paying up. I am NOT an attorney but it seems to me that a marriage is a contractual agreement and under a contract, if one party leaves and fails to buy out the other party, per agreement, something could be done about that! That is the approach I would use and I would see about learning how to file my own papers in court. There is a book which may be in the UT or Travis County law library it is published by West publishing ( who, I think, was bought out by Lexis nexis) called Texas Legal Forms where you jsut type up what is there and fill in the blanks as it pertains to your situation. If I were you I would look it up and then I would go after the deadbeat dad...Big time! There shouldn't be anything to keep you from filing papers in court if a relative of mine can file writes of haebus corpus from prison. There used to be a support group for divorced people that met in Travis COunty. I kinow for sure that there is a women's center where someone might be able to help you. Maybe even the Battered Women shelter "Safeplace" might be able to put you in touch with someone who might help you collect. There is just no excuse for some man to bring some kids into the world and then just skip out on them! It is intolerable and something should be done. Kids just miss not having a Daddy around. I know that first-hand. DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOUR EX IS? You might have to find his sorry self for Bastrop County... After you file, the papers then are served by the constable wherever he is located in Texas. ANd the constable's office WILL be able to find him, one way or the other. IF he gives them grief, they will arrest him . Better make sure the warrant is current. I am also wondering if you can file in fedeal court because I think you have to have filed when you apply for food stamps and I feel sure that the feds will do something. Or at least, I have heard that they do. I also think that since you now live in Austin, that Bastrop County thinks that you can no longer vote there and thus YOU ARE OUT OF THERI JURISDICTION AND THEY DON'T HAVE TO FOOL WITH YOUR SITUATION ANYMORE! That said, see if you can refiled your case with Travis County officials since you are living there now. GOOD LUCK!

The only thing I could think of is to consider filing a new civil charge on him. Have you talked to the constable in your precinct in Travis County and see what they could do? Who was your judge in the original case anyway anyway? Does your ex live in Bastrop County? WHO is your attorney? Maybe you should put your attorney on the rip-off report if they can't get you what the court says that you are supposed to have. He is in COMTEMPT of court now. Travis County has usually been very gung h*o about making sure that deadbeat dads pay! What does your ex do for a job or who is his family that would make a Court of law reluctant to file on him or not prosecute him for non-payment of child supprt? Have you seen the advertisement on the Rip Off Report concerning Deadbeat Dads? That might shame him into paying up. I am NOT an attorney but it seems to me that a marriage is a contractual agreement and under a contract, if one party leaves and fails to buy out the other party, per agreement, something could be done about that! That is the approach I would use and I would see about learning how to file my own papers in court. There is a book which may be in the UT or Travis County law library it is published by West publishing ( who, I think, was bought out by Lexis nexis) called Texas Legal Forms where you jsut type up what is there and fill in the blanks as it pertains to your situation. If I were you I would look it up and then I would go after the deadbeat dad...Big time! There shouldn't be anything to keep you from filing papers in court if a relative of mine can file writes of haebus corpus from prison. There used to be a support group for divorced people that met in Travis COunty. I kinow for sure that there is a women's center where someone might be able to help you. Maybe even the Battered Women shelter "Safeplace" might be able to put you in touch with someone who might help you collect. There is just no excuse for some man to bring some kids into the world and then just skip out on them! It is intolerable and something should be done. Kids just miss not having a Daddy around. I know that first-hand. DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOUR EX IS? You might have to find his sorry self for Bastrop County... After you file, the papers then are served by the constable wherever he is located in Texas. ANd the constable's office WILL be able to find him, one way or the other. IF he gives them grief, they will arrest him . Better make sure the warrant is current. I am also wondering if you can file in fedeal court because I think you have to have filed when you apply for food stamps and I feel sure that the feds will do something. Or at least, I have heard that they do. I also think that since you now live in Austin, that Bastrop County thinks that you can no longer vote there and thus YOU ARE OUT OF THERI JURISDICTION AND THEY DON'T HAVE TO FOOL WITH YOUR SITUATION ANYMORE! That said, see if you can refiled your case with Travis County officials since you are living there now. GOOD LUCK!

The only thing I could think of is to consider filing a new civil charge on him. Have you talked to the constable in your precinct in Travis County and see what they could do? Who was your judge in the original case anyway anyway? Does your ex live in Bastrop County? WHO is your attorney? Maybe you should put your attorney on the rip-off report if they can't get you what the court says that you are supposed to have. He is in COMTEMPT of court now. Travis County has usually been very gung h*o about making sure that deadbeat dads pay! What does your ex do for a job or who is his family that would make a Court of law reluctant to file on him or not prosecute him for non-payment of child supprt? Have you seen the advertisement on the Rip Off Report concerning Deadbeat Dads? That might shame him into paying up. I am NOT an attorney but it seems to me that a marriage is a contractual agreement and under a contract, if one party leaves and fails to buy out the other party, per agreement, something could be done about that! That is the approach I would use and I would see about learning how to file my own papers in court. There is a book which may be in the UT or Travis County law library it is published by West publishing ( who, I think, was bought out by Lexis nexis) called Texas Legal Forms where you jsut type up what is there and fill in the blanks as it pertains to your situation. If I were you I would look it up and then I would go after the deadbeat dad...Big time! There shouldn't be anything to keep you from filing papers in court if a relative of mine can file writes of haebus corpus from prison. There used to be a support group for divorced people that met in Travis COunty. I kinow for sure that there is a women's center where someone might be able to help you. Maybe even the Battered Women shelter "Safeplace" might be able to put you in touch with someone who might help you collect. There is just no excuse for some man to bring some kids into the world and then just skip out on them! It is intolerable and something should be done. Kids just miss not having a Daddy around. I know that first-hand. DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOUR EX IS? You might have to find his sorry self for Bastrop County... After you file, the papers then are served by the constable wherever he is located in Texas. ANd the constable's office WILL be able to find him, one way or the other. IF he gives them grief, they will arrest him . Better make sure the warrant is current. I am also wondering if you can file in fedeal court because I think you have to have filed when you apply for food stamps and I feel sure that the feds will do something. Or at least, I have heard that they do. I also think that since you now live in Austin, that Bastrop County thinks that you can no longer vote there and thus YOU ARE OUT OF THERI JURISDICTION AND THEY DON'T HAVE TO FOOL WITH YOUR SITUATION ANYMORE! That said, see if you can refiled your case with Travis County officials since you are living there now. GOOD LUCK!

I am completely sure of the accusation I have made or I would never have wrote it. Why would I make something like this up? The facts are clear -the warrant was not where it was supposed to have been - it was hidden in his desk. Evidently he's not the person you thought he was. Yes I have written a letter to the judge and have received no response. I have also contacted the Attorney General, who has been handling my case for 10 years, and they have told me there is nothing they can do - that it is up to the police to arrest him now. I do have an attorney, but he told me the same thing as the Attorney General. I have even called Bastrop County Sheriffs Dept and the response I got was "We do not have designated officers who go and arrest people with child support warrants, if he gets pulled over and he has a warrant they will arrest him." God only knows why they keep electing him - obviously they dont know what is its like to be a single parent in Bastrop County. My brother, who is a cop in a nearby county, has even tried calling and asking some of the officers to arrest him with no avail. So now Im stuck at a dead end - the Sheriffs Dept - THAT DOES NOTHING! All my ex has to do is not speed the rest of his life so he wont get pulled over and he gets away - this is so f**ked up.

I am completely sure of the accusation I have made or I would never have wrote it. Why would I make something like this up? The facts are clear -the warrant was not where it was supposed to have been - it was hidden in his desk. Evidently he's not the person you thought he was. Yes I have written a letter to the judge and have received no response. I have also contacted the Attorney General, who has been handling my case for 10 years, and they have told me there is nothing they can do - that it is up to the police to arrest him now. I do have an attorney, but he told me the same thing as the Attorney General. I have even called Bastrop County Sheriffs Dept and the response I got was "We do not have designated officers who go and arrest people with child support warrants, if he gets pulled over and he has a warrant they will arrest him." God only knows why they keep electing him - obviously they dont know what is its like to be a single parent in Bastrop County. My brother, who is a cop in a nearby county, has even tried calling and asking some of the officers to arrest him with no avail. So now Im stuck at a dead end - the Sheriffs Dept - THAT DOES NOTHING! All my ex has to do is not speed the rest of his life so he wont get pulled over and he gets away - this is so f**ked up.

I am completely sure of the accusation I have made or I would never have wrote it. Why would I make something like this up? The facts are clear -the warrant was not where it was supposed to have been - it was hidden in his desk. Evidently he's not the person you thought he was. Yes I have written a letter to the judge and have received no response. I have also contacted the Attorney General, who has been handling my case for 10 years, and they have told me there is nothing they can do - that it is up to the police to arrest him now. I do have an attorney, but he told me the same thing as the Attorney General. I have even called Bastrop County Sheriffs Dept and the response I got was "We do not have designated officers who go and arrest people with child support warrants, if he gets pulled over and he has a warrant they will arrest him." God only knows why they keep electing him - obviously they dont know what is its like to be a single parent in Bastrop County. My brother, who is a cop in a nearby county, has even tried calling and asking some of the officers to arrest him with no avail. So now Im stuck at a dead end - the Sheriffs Dept - THAT DOES NOTHING! All my ex has to do is not speed the rest of his life so he wont get pulled over and he gets away - this is so f**ked up.

I am completely sure of the accusation I have made or I would never have wrote it. Why would I make something like this up? The facts are clear -the warrant was not where it was supposed to have been - it was hidden in his desk. Evidently he's not the person you thought he was. Yes I have written a letter to the judge and have received no response. I have also contacted the Attorney General, who has been handling my case for 10 years, and they have told me there is nothing they can do - that it is up to the police to arrest him now. I do have an attorney, but he told me the same thing as the Attorney General. I have even called Bastrop County Sheriffs Dept and the response I got was "We do not have designated officers who go and arrest people with child support warrants, if he gets pulled over and he has a warrant they will arrest him." God only knows why they keep electing him - obviously they dont know what is its like to be a single parent in Bastrop County. My brother, who is a cop in a nearby county, has even tried calling and asking some of the officers to arrest him with no avail. So now Im stuck at a dead end - the Sheriffs Dept - THAT DOES NOTHING! All my ex has to do is not speed the rest of his life so he wont get pulled over and he gets away - this is so f**ked up.

If you need to collect child support, you need to contact the Texas Attorney General's office. They have been doing a rather good job of collecting child support and locating deadbeat parents who don't pay child support. My family happens be acquainted with Bastrop County Sheriff Richard Hernandez, one of my family members attended several law enforcement training classes with him when he was the police chief of the City of Bastrop in fact, and he is not the kind of person that harrasses his officers for just doing their job nor would he permit anyone in his family to do so! He would want your kids to get the full support money that is due to them legally. Somehow I doubt his niece --if he even has one -- would stoop to something like you say because it would infuriate the public and a savy politician like Sheriff Hernandez would not let that happen!She's not the sheriff. Mr. Hernandez is the sheriff. I have never worked with or for or around Sheriff Hernandez, I just know about his general reputation and the fact that the people of Bastrop County continue to elect him because they like the job he does. If he ran a goon squad where reprisals took place, he would NOT get reelected by the BIG majorities that he gets at the polls. I have never worked on his campaign and I have only attended one training class at his sheriff's department and just got a fleeting glimpse of him. So I am not a "yes-man" for him!" Have you thought about getting your attorney to contact the judge in the original case and tell the judge that your ex is not paying child support? Then the judge can have him picked up for contempt of court. Depends on the county where the divorce took place,I would imagine as to who would serve the papers. Maybe you could tell the judge yourself with a certified letter. Maybe you could get an independent child support collection agency to collect the child support but they take a LOT of it, too much. Check out the Rip Off Report and make sure you don't get one of THOSE... Good luck. I am sorry you were involved with a bum who won't at least take responsibility for his own flesh and blood but the world is full of the me-firsters! Better luck the next time you get involved with someone and maybe you won't make the same mistake twice!

If you need to collect child support, you need to contact the Texas Attorney General's office. They have been doing a rather good job of collecting child support and locating deadbeat parents who don't pay child support. My family happens be acquainted with Bastrop County Sheriff Richard Hernandez, one of my family members attended several law enforcement training classes with him when he was the police chief of the City of Bastrop in fact, and he is not the kind of person that harrasses his officers for just doing their job nor would he permit anyone in his family to do so! He would want your kids to get the full support money that is due to them legally. Somehow I doubt his niece --if he even has one -- would stoop to something like you say because it would infuriate the public and a savy politician like Sheriff Hernandez would not let that happen!She's not the sheriff. Mr. Hernandez is the sheriff. I have never worked with or for or around Sheriff Hernandez, I just know about his general reputation and the fact that the people of Bastrop County continue to elect him because they like the job he does. If he ran a goon squad where reprisals took place, he would NOT get reelected by the BIG majorities that he gets at the polls. I have never worked on his campaign and I have only attended one training class at his sheriff's department and just got a fleeting glimpse of him. So I am not a "yes-man" for him!" Have you thought about getting your attorney to contact the judge in the original case and tell the judge that your ex is not paying child support? Then the judge can have him picked up for contempt of court. Depends on the county where the divorce took place,I would imagine as to who would serve the papers. Maybe you could tell the judge yourself with a certified letter. Maybe you could get an independent child support collection agency to collect the child support but they take a LOT of it, too much. Check out the Rip Off Report and make sure you don't get one of THOSE... Good luck. I am sorry you were involved with a bum who won't at least take responsibility for his own flesh and blood but the world is full of the me-firsters! Better luck the next time you get involved with someone and maybe you won't make the same mistake twice!