Lawyer Referrals
Texas State Bar Lawyer Referral Service
Texas Legal Services
Legal Services and Other Advocacy in Texas
Texas Rural Legal Aid
Pro Bono Attorney Resources in Texas
Texas Women's Advocacy Project (domestic violence)
Legal Services of North Texas
Legal Services of Central Texas
Consejos Legales (free legal consultation in Spanish, Houston only)
ACLU of TX Case Selection Criteria

Law Enforcement Links
Austin Police Department
Travis County Sheriff
Texas police and sheriff web sites
Texas Department of Public Safety
DPS Criminal Records Search (pay-per-use)
Texas Department of Criminal Justice
Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles
Texas Criminal Justice Policy Council
The Austin Police Association (Officers' union)
Travis County Sheriff Officers Association
Combined Law Enforcement Associations of Texas (Umbrella group of police unions)
Texas Police Chiefs Association
Texas District and County Attorneys Association
Texas Municipal League
Texas Police and Firefighter Civil Service Code
Texas Narcotic Control Program Rules
Sam Houston State Law Enforcement Manangement Institute of Texas
Center for American and International Law (police training center in Dallas)
Texas Police Central (run by Burleson officer)
The Blues News newspaper

Texas Reformer Links
The ACLU of Texas Police Accountability Project
Texas Criminal Justice Reform Coalition
Texas League of United Latin American Citizens
Texas NAACP
American Friends Service Committee Immigration Law Enforcement Monitoring Project (Houston)
Texas Inmate Family Assocation
Texas Prison Labor Union
Equal Justice Center (indigent defense)
Tulia Friends of Justice
Austin CopWatch
Houston CopWatch
Texans for Medical Marijuana
Texas Justice (On APD's yogurt shop murder case) and (related) Charlene Cox's web site.
Texas Police Brutality (website from Rockwall, TX)
Texans for Justice
Civilians Down (Houston)
Corpus Justice (Houston)
Site on Williamson County Justice
Darlie Routier case: North Richland Hills
People of the Heart (created for Austin's Lacresha Murray case)
Justice for Pedro Oregon (Houston)
Informed Citizens and Public Officials Oversight Forum (critiques of Houston DAs Holmes and Rosenthal)
Free Alvaro Luna Hernandez (Odessa case)
Texas racial profiling documents and info

National Police Accountability Links
Racial Profiling Data Collection Resource Center
Amnesty International
Police Complaint Center
October 22 Coalition
National Assn for Civilian Oversight in Law Enforcement
Best Practices in Police Accountability
Chicago Law School Police Accountability Project
Massachusetts Police Brutality
The Amadou Diallo Foundation
National Lawyers Guild Police Accountability Project
The Cato Institute (Libertarians)
Police Executive Research Forum
Truth in Justice
Center for Juvenile and Criminal Justice
US Bureau of Justice Statistics
Refuse and Resist
Cop Crimes (A national compendium of police abuse reports)
DoJ: Addressing Police Misconduct at the Federal Level

Other resources
Fighting Police Abuse: an ACLU how-to manual
ACLU 'bustcard': What to do if you're stopped by the police
Shielded From Justice (Report on US police brutality by Human Rights Watch)
Report: Police Use of Force in America 2001
National Archive of Criminal Justice Data
DoJ: Principles for Promoting Police Integrity
European Union: An Appraisal of Technologies of Political Control
Nolo.com legal encyclopedia
DoJ Office of Justice Programs Financial Guide
GAO Report: Drug related police corruption
Media Awareness Project (clips on drug war abuses)

Police Oversight Models
Austin, Texas' police monitor and board
San Francisco civilian oversight
Other Bay Area civilian oversight
New York City Civilian Complaint Review Board
Baltimore Civilian Review Board and a recent analysis
Minneapolis civilian oversight model and a 2002 proposed redesign
Rochester New York Police Conciliation (voluntary mediation between complainants and officers).
San Jose Independent Auditor
Report: Albuquerque Task Force on police oversight
UK Civilian Oversight Model
Queensland Australia civilian oversight
British Columbia Police Complaints Commissioner
Toronto Police Services Board
CA Police Chief slams civil service, ineffective civilian review