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Uvalde school police chief blamed in Texas shooting response 28 May 2022 The police official blamed for not sending officers in more quickly to stop the Uvalde, Texas, school shooting is the chief of the school system’s small police force, a unit dedicated ordinarily to building relationships...

Greg Abbott Screwed Over Truck Drivers in a Misguided Attempt to Increase Border Security The new inspection initiative duplicated screenings that were already being carried out, irking trade officials and truckers—even those who have supported Abbott up until this point. 15 April 2022 Last...

First lady Sarah Stitt has crashed two state vehicles in less than a year 15 February 2021 In less than a year, first lady Sarah Stitt has crashed two state vehicles. On Dec. 17, Sarah Stitt was driving a 2019 black Chevy Suburban when she failed to stop for a traffic signal at N.E. 36th...

Police Banned From Enforcing Traffic Laws In Oklahoma Town Over Abuse Of Traffic Tickets For Money 28 January 2014 When police departments begin viewing themselves as revenue generating entities rather than law enforcement entities, it has a deleterious effect on the public, which is now...

Migrants Detained in Texas Border Operation Are Fighting Back — and It's Not Going Well For Gove. Greg Abbott A Texas judge ruled that the state’s arrests of migrants caught crossing the border is an unconstitutional encroachment on federal authority. 26 January 2022 Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s...

Texas sheriff under investigation for routinely seizing cash from undocumented immigrants Search warrants show that Real County Sheriff Nathan Johnson is under scrutiny by state investigators, accused of illegally confiscating cash and a pickup truck from immigrants stopped by his deputies. 10...

Augmenting the cops with armed soldiers: Texas National Guard Filmed Trespassing During Border Operations Soldiers patrolling border communities with assault rifles is the latest escalation in Gov. Greg Abbott’s Operation Lone Star. 17 December 2021 It was early November when Marianna...

Nacogdoches police officer arrested for DWI 5 December 2021 An off-duty Nacogdoches police officer was arrested by Texas DPS for driving while intoxicated on Sunday morning. Daniel Aburto, 30, was arrested Sunday morning around 7:45 a.m. after Nacogdoches Combined Communications Center...

Texas Troopers Opened Fire From a Helicopter In 2012 - Families Are Still Fighting To Hold Them Accountable A state police marksman unloaded 19 bullets into a speeding pickup, killing two men. Now depositions unearth startling new details about what happened. 30 November 2021 In the village...

Clay Co. Sheriff Jeffrey C. Lyde facing Official Oppression charges 18 November 2021 The 97th District Court District Attorney Casey Polhemus has provided KAUZ with a statement saying that its office has been recused from the investigation, and that the case will be handled by the 46th...

Students Have Rights: Court Dumps Evidence After Cops Rely On A Month-Old Anonymous Tip To Search A Minor 9 November 2021 As courts seemingly have to remind school administrators (and their partners in unconstitutional crime, school police officers), students -- even minors -- still have...

State trooper arrested for alleged drug trafficking 4 November 2021 A trooper with the Texas Department of Public Safety stationed in the Valley is charged with drug trafficking. According to a criminal complaint obtained by Channel 5 News, Trooper Pablo Talavera Jr. was arrested last week...

Nearly 90% of all corruption cases investigated by Texas Rangers aren’t prosecuted 20 September 2021 For decades, public corruption cases against state officials were investigated and prosecuted in Texas’ capital city. But in 2015, after a dustup at the highest levels of state government...