Why, after Tulia, Texas should re-think its Big Government ...Or at Least Get Insurance !

Taylor County to require drug task force insurance

By Jerry Daniel Reed / Reporter-News Staff Writer
February 9, 2005

Spurred partly by a busted undercover drug investigation that cost the city of Amarillo $5 million last year, Taylor County commissioners voted Tuesday to require this area's drug task force to carry liability insurance.

The liability insurance requirement is no reflection on the performance of the area agency or the necessity of its mission, but is simply prudent, said County Judge George Newman.

The experiences of task forces elsewhere, including the Texas Panhandle town of Tulia, were a spur to seek liability coverage, said Newman.

''What happened in Tulia is certainly fresh on our minds,'' he said.

The Panhandle Regional Narcotics Trafficking Task Force was disbanded last year after the city of Amarillo, which supervised the agency, paid $5 million to settle a lawsuit.

The claimants where more than 30 Tulia residents who were convicted in 1999 on drug trafficking charges brought solely on unsupported testimony of an undercover agent.

source: http://www.reporter-news.com/abil/nw_local/article/0,1874,ABIL_7959_3533859,00.html
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