Previous post on this (There is also additional video in detail on the Somervell County Salon Youtube page)
Danny Chambers did a lawless and fact-free action to send cops, on the suggestion apparently of County Attorney Trey Brown, to tell me to leave the public building at the Somervell County Annex. There was no reason for doing it, and the cop, Jeff Haynes, who came down the hall to a public office had to call up Trey Brown to ask him why after I repeatedly asked why this was happening. Imagine that. You’re in a public building, paid for by taxpayers, going to the public clerk’s office and then to a public office across the hall to jawbone with a couple of people you know (these are NOT private offices, and, although I was not in a commissioners office, those are ALSO not private) , and BOOM up comes a cop to order you out of the room and then the building. NOT telling you a reason why, no paperwork to show with a reason.
The video above is a combination of body cam video and hallway video asked for through Texas Public Information and also from a video I took with my own camera in the public hallway after I was ordered out of Evelina Ramos (admin) office as I wanted to have a record of what was happening. Turned out since Jeff Haynes was not wearing a body cam, that was a good idea. Trey Brown did not want me to be able to see the hallway video and his request not to provide it was shot down by the Texas Attorney General; that video included here, has no audio as, according to Haley de Los Santos, while everyone is video recorded, the county does NOT record audio with it.
When you watch Chambers talk about this to me after I went back up the hall to speak to him, it appears he was trying to deflect, and did not directly answer about his part in this. According, however, to Sheriff Alan West, who I spoke with after this happened on the same day, May 9, 2025, criminal trespass warnings cannot happen without the express decision of the judge, ie, Trey Brown could not have, on his own, done that AND it is apparently not required that a written document or form showing WHY someone is being CTd, that has to accompany the action, beforehand. I don’t know why that is, it sure seems like a defect of the law if true. Makes Chambers look stupid and gullible, as if this was a reaction to something Trey Brown said, and they could clearly see through their video setup in the judge’s office, that there was NOTHING I was doing that was disruptive or illegal, etc. What kind of judge is Chambers to just up and do an action without ascertaining whether it was true. Makes him look like a clueless pawn of Trey Brown, as well as trying to hide his own top-level responsibility.
Let me put this plainly. If this can happen to me, it can happen to anyone. I had heard a story last year about a man who was hanging out at the Expo, one of those situations where he liked to hang out and talk to people but was not bothering anyone. The manager at the time, Cindy Gray, called up Chambers to ask that he be criminally trespassed from the building. I did an open records request to verify what I had heard and was told there was NO paperwork before the action, it was done verbally, and only after the man was evicted was there w a writeup. That is, based on the telephone conversation of Gray directly with the judge (Incidentally, Gray also had her own criminal trespass warning and despite having a felony indictment for theft, was kept in her job as not only the Payroll Dept, HR deprt, but also manager of the Expo thus showing the extremely bad judgement of the commissioners, Chambers and Brown)
I believe this is an abuse of power by both Danny Chambers AND Trey Brown with regard to me. Because they did this as a *warning*, there was no court date in which I could contest an actual charge, so it seems to me this was done merely to harass. I believe they both owe me a written apology but that admitting it was, gasp, actually their fault without a law that was broken, it might make them look worse than they already do. It’s really a shame that we have such low standards of professionalism in Somervell County, especially from the offices that are supposed to be fair arbiters of existing law.
