Texas District and County Attorneys Association
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The Texas District and County Attorneys Association, or TDCAA, is a non-profit organization
dedicated to serving Texas
prosecutors and attorneys in government representation. The TDCAA is based in Austin
and serves the people who work in the district and county attorneys offices around the state by:
Non-profit organization
Nonprofit organization is neither a legal nor technical definition but generally refers to an organization that uses surplus revenues to achieve its goals, rather than distributing them as profit or dividends...
dedicated to serving Texas
Texas
Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...
prosecutors and attorneys in government representation. The TDCAA is based in Austin
Austin, Texas
Austin is the capital city of the U.S. state of :Texas and the seat of Travis County. Located in Central Texas on the eastern edge of the American Southwest, it is the fourth-largest city in Texas and the 14th most populous city in the United States. It was the third-fastest-growing large city in...
and serves the people who work in the district and county attorneys offices around the state by:
- producing comprehensive continuing legal education courses for prosecutors, their investigators and key personnel;
- providing technical assistance to the prosecution community and related criminal justice agencies; and
- serving as a liaison between prosecutor and other organizations in the day to day administration of criminal justice.