…pull Texas out of the refugee acceptance program. Then there’s the expensive and broken software Whitley keeps burning taxpayer dollars on with the commissioners’ permission: TechShare.Court and TechShare.Jail, which sources…
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Taxpayers Paid $30 Million for Software That Will Never Work
…the vice chair of TechShare within the Texas Conference of Urban Counties and is now the Chairman of TechShare LGC, said this reduced strength was because Dallas stopped paying maintenance…
Local Official: We’re Not Spending Too Much
Tarrant County Judge Glen Whitley recently doubled down against property tax reform and argued not only that taxes are not too high, but that the government needs to spend even…
TechShare Update: Dallas County Hires Consultant To Assess Failed Software
…that in 2015 when he and Garcia asked for time to evaluate if TechShare.Court and TechShare.Jail were worthy of investing taxpayer dollars, a 3-2 majority overruled them by declaring both…
Whitley Defends Broken Property Tax System, Not Taxpayers
…the board of the Texas Conference of Urban Counties. As a result, he is deeply involved with the taxpayer-funded money pit projects called TechShare.Court and TechShare.Jail. These risky software ventures…
The TechShare Saga Explained
…2017, and with recent news reports it seems timely to review just what TechShare is, what the problems are, and where taxpayers find themselves now. A description on TechShare’s website…
Dallas County to Seek “Pause” From TechShare.Court
…more taxpayer money into the TechShare.Court program. As has been previously reported by Texas Scorecard, TechShare.Court is the failed software boondoggle that’s been in development for around 8 years. It…
Auditor’s Report: Dallas County Spent at Least $24 million on Risky Business Venture
…venture between Dallas County and a government lobby group. TechShare.Court is one of two TechShare software programs that have been in development for years. TechShare.Court was started to replace the…
Dallas Commissioners Vote to Save Taxpayer Money
…TechShare.Court but not the TechShare.Court program itself. “I’m having a hard time seeing why my taxpayers owe $1.4 million for [TechShare.Court],” said Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins. District 4 Commissioner…
Tarrant Commissioners Vote to Burn Taxpayer Money
Tarrant County Commissioners Court voted unanimously this week to burn over a million dollars of taxpayers’ money on a failed software program. TechShare.Court software was created by TechShare, a government-owned…