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| CLEAT TRAINING |
CALLING ALL FEMALE TCSOA MEMBERS!!!!!
TCSOA WILL BE SENDING 15 FEMALE MEMBERS TO THE CLEAT TRAINING
"THE WINNING MIND FOR WOMEN." FREE OF CHARGE.
THE CLASS WILL BE HELD ON SEPTEMBER 25,2014 AT THE APA HALL { AUSTIN POLICE ASSOCIATION HALL.} YOU WILL ALSO RECEIVE 8 HOURS OF TCOLE CREDIT FOR THIS TRAINING CLASS.
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| TRMS Votes to Update Mortality Tables |
TMRS Votes to Update Mortality Tables
Posted by CLEAT October 10, 2013
By Chris Jones
On average, since 1980, life expectancy has increased, approximately 2 years for females (to age 85) and 3 years for males (to age 83). What you may not know is that longevity directly impacts the calculation of pension benefits.
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| CLEAT does battle; saves officer pension |
From the President’s Desk
Posted by CLEAT August 5, 2013
Todd Harrison
I want every member to understand what’s been going on at the State Capitol here in Austin. That’s because we saved your retirement from the hands of those who intended to destroy it.
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| CLEAT continues to look out for Members Retirement |
CLEAT continues to diligently watch and protect the retirement benefits of our members. On November 29th, CLEAT was the only labor representative in attendance for the quarterly meeting of the Texas County and District Retirement System. The TCDRS board made important decisions with regards to plan benefits for 2013 during this meeting.
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| CLEAT Wins $1.2 Million Back Pay in El Paso |
The City of El Paso miscalculated its po-lice officers’ pay scales. It’s a good thing CLEAT was there to prosecute the EPM-POA’s grievance. After marathon negotia-tions, the city agreed to settle the dispute on very favorable terms and pay its police officers over $1.2 million in back pay andbenefits.
“This was a huge effort,” said EPMPOA President Ron Martin.
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| Officer retirement to be top issue in the 83rd Texas legislative session in January |
Posted by CLEAT December 19, 2012
Governor Rick Perry and the CLEAT Executive Board
CLEAT began preparing for the worst legislative storm of the decade years ago. In fact, in 2011 CLEAT opposed the largest number of bad bills that would have impacted Texas law enforcement in a negative way that had ever been filed in the history of the state.
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| FBI tries to stem rising death rate of police officers |
FBI tries to stem rising death rate of police officers
Austin Police work the scene of a shooting at a Walmart April 6, 2012 where a police officer was shot in the neck and died at the scene. The department identified him as Senior Police Officer Jaime Padron. Padron was responding to a call about a drunk man inside the store around 2:30 a.m., officials said.
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| TCSOA Partners with Allstate |
The Travis County Sheriff's Officers Association has partnered with Allstate Benefits to provide Supplemental Insurance Benefits to all TCSO employees. The association has used its size to your advantage and brought you benefits that are not available from the County. These Insurance products will be available to you on a simplified underwriting basis, making it easier to qualify.
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| It's Not Us; Beware of Schemes |
Posted by CLEAT February 3, 2012
By Charley Wilkison
Director of Public Affairs
Recently Texas Attorney General Gregg Abbott sued an alleged law enforcement organization regarding their telemarketing claims to the general public versus what they actually did with the money. We agree with General Abbott that these folks need to be hauled into court and stopped.
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What's it like being a corrections officer?
By Brian Dawe, American Cop Magazine
Photos by Dave Douglas
Like most kids growing up, I often spent days with my friends playing cowboys and Indians, soldier, fireman, and cops and robbers. Never once can I recall locking my friends in the basement and playing Correctional Officer.
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Civil Rights Commission alleges Howard Co. Sheriff's Dept. unlawfully fired jail officer
By Carson Gerber
Kokomo Tribune
INDIANAPOLIS — The Indiana Civil Rights Commission says the Howard County Sheriff’s Department likely violated the state’s civil rights laws after denying a former jail officer recovering from an illness a light-duty assignment and later terminating him.
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What is a corrections officer worth to the taxpayers? Part I
In the last couple decades, I’ve heard people call corrections officers everything from “badge-carrying babysitters for adults” to law enforcement superheroes. Clearly, there is a wide variety of opinion on the value corrections officers provide to society.
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TCSOA Partners with AFLAC
TCSOA has partnered with AFLAC to bring you supplemental insurance at a substantially reduced rate. Because it is through TCSOA, no physical or medical information is required through this initial signup. If you are sick or injured, AFLAC pays you directly regardless of any other coverage you may have. It is simple, you sign up and you are in.
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Texas inmate receives 4 years for assaulting COs
By Jennifer Rios
San Angelo Standard-Times
SAN ANGELO, Texas — Billy Vercher, a man convicted of aggravated robbery last year, was sentenced to four years in prison for assaulting two Tom Green County jailers.
His sentence will run concurrently with the 30-year sentence he received in September.
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US jails struggle with role as makeshift asylums
By Adam Geller
Associated Press
CHICAGO — Peering through the chain link of a holding pen at the Cook County Jail, a man wrapped in a navy varsity jacket leans toward clinical social worker Elli Petacque Montgomery, his bulging eyes a clue that something's not right.
"They say I got bipolar, that's all," he says.
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