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Missing 6-Year-Old Texas Boy Found Safe; Parents Arrested on Kidnapping Charges

The child's disappearance triggered an Amber Alert, sparking a statewide search.

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Families of Uvalde shooting victims sue Texas DPS officers for waiting to confront gunman

In a separate settlement, the city of Uvalde will pay $2 million to the families, create a permanent memorial to the victims and provide enhanced training for police officers.

The Texas Tribune

1 person killed and 13 injured in semitrailer crash at a Texas public safety office

A Texas semitrailer driver rammed a stolen 18-wheeler into a public safety building where his renewal for a commercial driver's license had been rejected, authorities said. The driver was arrested.

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Texas DPS Director Steve McCraw testifies before grand jury investigating Uvalde school shooting

McCraw, the state police chief, traveled to Uvalde to appear before a grand jury considering criminal charges against officers for their botched response to the 2022 school shooting.

The Texas Tribune

This West Texas town has a lot of money in the bank. Why can't it pick up its trash?

Like local leaders in many other towns in West Texas, the Kermit City Council spent years saving its tax revenue fearing the energy economy would crash. Now it is struggling to keep up with essential services like trash and road repair.

The Texas Tribune

DPS Still Avoiding a Public Hearing on Uvalde Massacre

By delaying an appeal, Director Steve McCraw is postponing a reckoning.

Texas Observer

In video, Rep. Ronny Jackson yells profanities at Texas trooper, is put on ground

"I'm gonna call the governor tomorrow," Rep. Ronny Jackson, R-Texas, said as he shouted obscenities at a trooper during an altercation at a rodeo.

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State troopers will resume patrolling Austin streets in July, with some changes in response to criticism

Texas Department of Public Safety officers were criticized for the disparate number of Latino and Black residents arrested during the first iteration of a partnership to help Austin with policing duties.

The Texas Tribune

After Title 42’s end, Texas DPS pauses Austin patrols so officers can head to the border

Despite no major influx in border crossings, state troopers will be relocated to border cities. Austin and the Texas Department of Public Safety faced criticism for the racial disparities in state trooper arrests in the capital.

The Texas Tribune

Once again, tension builds after state police are deployed to a major Texas city

A month after the Texas Department of Public Safety began patrolling Austin streets, city officials have both praised a drop in violent crime and condemned the operation’s disparate impact on Latino and Black residents. In 2019, Dallas faced the same challenges.

The Texas Tribune

Texas DPS scraps plan for $1.2 billion active-shooter training facility

The Texas Department of Public Safety is instead asking lawmakers for $381.5 million to upgrade its current facilities with better technology, dormitories and cafeteria for trainees from across the state.

The Texas Tribune

Texas DPS review of officer response to Uvalde shooting has ended with no more discipline

AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas Department of Public Safety will not be disciplining any more of its officers over the botched police response to the Uvalde school massacre, agency officials said Thursday.

Tribune News Service

Texas safety officials stop enforcing handgun age limits for young adults

AUSTIN, Texas – The Texas Department of Public Safety is no longer enforcing a state law that bars adults under 21 from carrying handguns in public.

Tribune News Service

Death of public safety officer at Texas-Mexico border was preventable, experts say

EAGLE PASS, Texas — The patrol arrived around sunset and entered a stretch of rolling hills dense with cactus, sage and towering carrizo cane. The way into the property was an unlit, narrow dirt road pockmarked with potholes, near a hydroelectric power plant.

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US border guard shoots, injures migrant in Texas

Houston (AFP) - A US border guard shot and injured a migrant trying to escape immigration authorities in Texas this week, local media and officials said Friday.

The Texas Tribune

Uvalde DA gets initial state police report on school shooting but doesn’t expect full investigation for months

The preliminary report has not been made public by either the district attorney’s office or the state. The Texas Rangers are conducting a criminal investigation into the shooting at Robb Elementary.

The Texas Tribune

Criminal cases in South Texas are unraveling because of a Texas Ranger’s suspension after the Uvalde shooting

After the Texas Department of Public Safety suspended Texas Ranger Christopher Ryan Kindell, one of hundreds of officers who responded to the May 24 mass shooting, felony cases he investigated are in jeopardy and experts have questioned the justification for his suspension.

Tribune News Service

Texas AG Ken Paxton sought data on transgender Texans, report claims

AUSTIN, Texas — Employees in the Texas Department of Public Safety were asked to provide a list of people who changed their sex on state documents in the past two years to the state attorney general’s office, according to the Washington Post.

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Texas Department of Public Safety renews enhanced vehicle inspections along Mexican border

AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas Department of Public Safety announced Tuesday it would renew enhanced vehicle inspections across border points of entry, a move that frustrated business leaders when it was used earlier this year and was soon halted.

Al Jazeera

Uvalde school shooting victims seek $27bn in class-action lawsuit

US lawsuit says officials failed to follow active attacker protocol as they waited too long to confront the attacker.

The Independent UK

Uvalde shooting victims seek $27B, class action in lawsuit

Victims of a Texas elementary school shooting are seeking a $27 billion class action lawsuit against city and state police, the city of Uvalde and other school and law enforcement officials for failing to follow active shooter protocol, according to the lawsuit filed this week

The Independent UK

Uvalde sues local prosecutor over school shooting records

The city of Uvalde has sued the local prosecutor’s office seeking access to records and other investigative materials on the May shooting at Robb Elementary School that left 19 children and two teachers dead

The Independent UK

Mother of girl killed in Uvalde shooting hits out at school district after her surviving daughter was dress-coded

Kimberly Mata-Rubio said she received a message from a school official asking her to bring leggings for her surviving daughter

Daily Mirror

Uvalde shooting: Girl, 10, trapped with gunman frantically called 911 over and over

Khloie Torres pleaded with law enforcement for help as her classmates lay dead and dying around her. Shooter Salvador Rolando Ramos was allowed to carry on killing indiscriminately for a further 40 minutes before finally being stopped

Daily Mirror

Girl, 15, got text from Uvalde school shooter before he massacred 21 - but did nothing

Salvador Ramos had told her that he had just shot his grandmother in the head and was about to "shoot up an elementary school" in Uvalde, Texas, US. The teenage girl just replied "cool" and did not alert the police

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