Lawmakers don’t have enough information to manage Texas’ criminal justice system, and they should create a legislative committee to study the system’s most pressing problems and create reports with guidance and improvements — that was the assessment of a state review in 2006. Texas legislators heeded that recommendation. The next year, in 2007, they created the Criminal Justice Legislative Oversight Committee.
![State committee tasked with improving Texas’ criminal justice system sits unfunded, unused for over a decade](/sites/default/files/styles/blog_featured_image/public/articles/2021-11/kxan-111921.png?itok=dGUTEjEs)