April 17, 2014 5:33 PM

Whitmire and others ask for investigation of sex offender housing plan

Dean of the Senate is “shocked by the decisions” of the Office of Violent Sexual Offender Management

Sen. John Whitmire, D-Houston, is asking the Travis County Public Integrity Unit, the State Auditor's office and the Office of the Attorney General to look into what has been reported as a "secret plan" to build a center for violent sex offenders east of Houston.

The plan, as uncovered by the Houston Chronicle, was part of an agreement between the Office of Violent Sexual Offender Management and a company in Houston that’s owned, in part, by a Houston police officer who was implicated in the theft of funds from the police union. The center has been planned for a site in Liberty County.