Outrage over the mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, could finally lead to changes in the state's public records law to close a notorious loophole that lets police hide records of deaths in custody, the Texas Observer reports.
The Observer reports that Texas state Rep. Joe Moody (D–El Paso) has once again introduced a bill, H.B. 30, to close what's become known in the state as the "dead suspect loophole," an exception to Texas public records statute that allows police to withhold records in cases where the suspect of an investigation was never convicted of a crime.
