An Oct. 20 Dallas County Commissioners Court order so concerned Criminal District Court No. 1 Judge Robert D. Burns III that he wrote a letter to the commissioners asking them to rescind it. But on Nov. 3, the commissioners declined to do so.
The commissioners’ Oct. 20 order, approved by a 3-2 vote, authorized the seizure of the hard drives on the Precinct 5 constable’s work computers as part of an ongoing investigation into employment practices. The order came a week after county information technology department staff members’ Oct. 13 removal of hard drives from Precinct 5 Constable James Cortes’ computers. According to two commissioners, Jim Foster, the Dallas County judge who presides over the commissioners’ meetings, arranged for the hard drives to be removed.
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