Sean Teare will serve as the next District Attorney of Harris County, replacing current DA Kim Ogg. Ogg lost the primary election to Teare earlier this year.
The race for who will be the next District Attorney of Harris County has been determined by voters.Unofficial final results show Sean Teare received 50.82% of the vote, while his opponent, Dan Simons, received 49.18% of the vote. This comes as the current Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg lost in a primary election to Sean Teare.
Eventually, I came to the realization that improving the system would be impossible as long as the current leadership continued to place personal interests over public service.Today, the Harris County DA’s office is facing serious challenges. Morale is at an all time low, causing prosecutors to leave in droves to take lower paying jobs elsewhere because the work environment is so toxic.
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