The Harris County Universal Services said they had an issue while upgrading their system and lost access to a system necessary to file charges.
HARRIS COUNTY, Texas -- An investigation is underway into what caused an outage in a county database that forced more than 100 defendants to be released from custody last week.
ABC13 obtained a list of the 118 defendants who were released during that time, because either they were not able to have a probable cause hearing in the amount of time required by law or their charges could not be filed. Those offenses ranged from DWIs, indecent exposure and racing. While they are mostly non-violent offenses, at least a dozen have criminal histories that include violent offenses.
She said that the processing center had about 250 prisoners in custody, at one point, that could not be processed, which caused a safety concern for staff. During this time, data remained secure, however, our customers lost the ability to access a very small percentage of databases.
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