This series of policy briefs by the Center for Effective Justice cover nine areas of criminal justice reform including victim restitution, parole reform, business overcriminalization, juvenile justice, prison overcrowding, offender reentry, student overcriminalization, empowering victims, and probation reform.
Health Care
From Clipboard to Cloud: Ensuring Patient Privacy and Portability in Health Records
From Clipboard to Cloud: Ensuring Patient Privacy and Portability in Health Records Key Points HIPAA protects institutions, not information. Once health data leaves a covered entity for an app, vendor, or broker, federal protection ends, and Texas law leaves that gap open. The interest at stake is not only access to clinical records. It is...
August 12, 2026