Video & Transcript Research : 'judicial accountability'

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LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Judiciary May 20th, 2026

Judiciary

Transcript Highlights:
  • Will the judicial administrative officers work with their vendors to waive that fee for these types of
  • There are courtesy forms that have been developed by the Judicial Administrator's Office of the State
  • So someone in the judicial system would review that petition and decide what, if any, ex parte order
  • But it would have some sort of judicial review before it's definitely granted. Oh, absolutely.
  • What I understand from the judicial administrator is that it was assessed that the Judicial Administrator's
Bills: HR245, SCR30, SCR40, SB259
MN

Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session

House State Government Finance and Policy Committee 3/25/25

State Government Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • I am chambered in Fillmore County in the Third Judicial District.
  • I spend most of my judicial district.
  • <00:03:54.000> council allow both MDJa and the judicial council allow both MDJa and the judicial
  • Um in your typical judicial branch one.
  • Um, and so code of judicial conduct.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Public Education Aug 21st, 2025

Public Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • This bill also improves the accountability system by modifying the accountability refresh process so
  • A data and accountability nerd.
  • First, on accountability.
  • To review assessment items and accountability indicators, and we strongly urge that the accountability
  • Educators are not afraid of accountability.
Bills: HB8
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Public Education Aug 21st, 2025

Public Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • I mean, accountability is good.
  • Be encouraged to help school accountability by first focusing on state accountability.
  • Nature instead of being an actual accounting. It's not an accounting.
  • We want accountability.
  • Into account in our accountability system.
Bills: HB8
TX

Texas 89th 2nd C.S.

Public Education Aug 21st, 2025

Public Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • This bill also improves the accountability system by codifying the accountability refresh process so
  • system and updates to the accountability rules.
  • In short, I am absolutely a data and accountability nerd.
  • Y'all, educators are not afraid of accountability.
  • Accountability is important, but it has to be fair.
Bills: HB8
Summary: The House Committee on Public Education met to hear House Bill 8, which would replace STAAR with a new assessment and accountability system beginning in the 2027-28 school year. The chair described the bill as reducing testing time, limiting benchmark tests, adding beginning-, middle-, and end-of-year assessments, requiring faster score turnaround, involving Texas teachers in test development, and tightening accountability timelines and transparency rules. Members also discussed provisions on A-F ratings, cut scores, CCMR, local accountability plans, and TEA reporting requirements. Committee members and invited witnesses split sharply on the bill’s approach. Supporters, including the chair, TEA Commissioner Mike Morath, and Ed Trust’s Nicholas Munyon Penny, argued the bill would reduce high-stakes pressure, provide quicker and more actionable data, limit over-testing, and better align assessments to Texas standards while preserving criterion-referenced accountability. They said the new system would help teachers and parents intervene sooner and would improve transparency, including parent access to student responses and automatic rescoring in some writing cases. Opponents, including Rep. Hinojosa and student witness Ella Moran, argued the bill still increases testing and replaces one high-stakes test with multiple TEA-created tests. Moran testified that STAAR creates anxiety, disrupts instruction, and does not reflect real learning, while Hinojosa said the House had previously passed a better bill based on a nationally norm-referenced model and criticized the new proposal as a concession to the Senate. Questions also focused on AI scoring of writing, rescoring rates, and whether the bill’s new accountability rules would be reliable and fair. The committee did not take a final vote during the portion provided, but the chair said a vote on HB 8 would be called after public testimony later in the day.
TX
Bills: SB9, SB7, SB17, SB4, SB1, HB4
Summary: The Senate briefly convened and received a message from the House stating that the House was taking a vote. No bills, motions, or substantive policy matters were discussed in the exchange. Pursuant to a previously adopted motion, the Senate then adjourned until 7 p.m. on Thursday, August 21.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence Apr 2nd, 2025

Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence

Transcript Highlights:
  • Accountable, it doesn't help make us safe.
  • Did you just say that the Texas Judicial Council recommends that the implicit bias...
  • Well, we want our judicial system to be fair and impartial.
  • , and restoring some public. ...public trust in our judicial system.
  • Studies consistently demonstrate that implicit biases affect judicial decisions.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence Apr 2nd, 2025

Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence

Transcript Highlights:
  • Jennifer Lundy I show you as with Texans for judicial accountability and you are against the bill.
  • Jennifer Lundy, Executive Director of Texans for Judicial Accountability and I'm against 933. 933 is
  • It's going to change judicial rules or judicial financial interest or special interest in many . . .
  • We have no accountability in this.
  • There is zero accountability in the judiciary. None.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Senate Session (Part I) Aug 22nd, 2025

Texas Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Does it take any race data into account? Not to my knowledge.
  • Did they tell you which districts' race was taken into account? To make sure that they're legal?
  • So we know race was taken into account to make it legal. We know I.
  • I'm curious, how was race taken into account in the drafting?
  • Do you know how race was taken into account?
Bills: SB 2, SB 5, SB 9, SB 7, SB 17, SB 4, HB4, HB1, HB3, HB20, HB22, SB9, SB7, SB17, SB4, HB4, SB2, SB5
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Senate Session (Part II) Aug 22nd, 2025

Texas Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Are you accountable?
  • Yes, I'm accountable to God, I'm accountable to my wife, I'm accountable to my family, I'm accountable
  • Okay, you're accountable to this body, you're accountable to the people of Texas, correct?
  • So you're a lawyer, you're an accountant. You're accountable to the courts.
  • You're accountable.
Bills: SB 2, SB 5, SB 9, SB 7, SB 17, SB 4, HB4, HB1, HB3, HB20, HB22, SB9, SB7, SB17, SB4, HB4, SB2, SB5
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Senate Session (Part III) Aug 22nd, 2025

Texas Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • hand of safety upon the people of Texas, our fellow members in the House, the Executive Branch, the Judicial
  • We have got to take a real account of who we are. Of ourselves, because folks, what do we gain?
  • I mean, the judicial recourse isn't all that great either.
Bills: SB 2, SB 5, SB 9, SB 7, SB 17, SB 4, HB4, HB1, HB3, HB20, HB22, SB9, SB7, SB17, SB4, HB4, SB2, SB5
TX

Texas 89th 2nd C.S.

Finance Aug 27th, 2025

Finance

Transcript Highlights:
  • a, we're very close to getting rid of the SAR test, continuing to strengthen the A through F accountability
  • system in the state as well as, uh, years later being able to uh make sure that we have a public accountability
  • That's as good, uh, as our public accountability system, and with that I'd be happy to answer any questions
  • For one requires the agency to notify school districts when there will be changes to the accountability
  • they were just some creative ways of getting around it that I think they're trying to fix here, accounting
Bills: HB8, HB26, HB192