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The Latest Breaking News from the Texas Department of Public Safety

After Abbott’s order limiting Flock cameras, DPS to continue using its vast surveillance network

Law enforcement agencies from across the country search the DPS Flock database once every four seconds, on average. After the Tribune inquired, DPS said it will limit which agencies can access the network.

The Texas Tribune

Texas Man Arrested After Ranting About Age Verification Laws Blocking His Anime

Did he make a true threat? Or was this just hyperbolic ranting about bad policy?

Reason

Flock license plate cameras are surging in Texas. So is an anti-surveillance backlash.

More than 200 local law enforcement agencies have data-sharing agreements with DPS, providing wide access to vehicle information.

The Texas Tribune

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Pickleball players killed in Texas plane crash included a school tennis star, trauma counselor

Five members of a pickleball club who died after the small plane carrying them crashed in Texas are being mourned by a tight-knit community of fellow players

The Independent UK

Trump voter whose son, an American citizen, was killed by ICE says she ‘doesn’t blame’ the president for his death

A federal immigration agent killed Ruben Ray Martinez in Texas last year

The Independent UK

A blossoming Texas medical marijuana industry adds new businesses, products and patients

The Texas Department of Public Safety has issued provisional licenses to nine new medical marijuana operators while existing ones have started opening new manufacturing and cultivating facilities.

The Texas Tribune

Under Operation Lone Star, Texas State Police More than Doubled Their Drone Fleet

The Department of Public Safety has acquired an army of unmanned aerial vehicles—nearly as large as the U.S. Border Patrol's.

Texas Observer

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'Premeditated and Corny': LeBron James Calls Out Texas Cop in Viral Confrontation With South Carolina's Nyck Harbor

A video of a Texas trooper aggressively confronting South Carolina player Nyck Harbor during a college football game went viral and drew widespread criticism, including from LeBron James.

International Business Times UK

Shane Beamer Thanks Texas A&M for Sending State Trooper Home After Strange Move

A Texas state trooper was dismissed from Saturday's game after he bumped into South Carolina players in the tunnel, then seemed to rebuke them.

Sports Illustrated

Texas Turns Its Sprawling State Police Force Into Immigration Agents for Trump

The notorious 287(g) task force program has finally reached DPS, raising fears of widespread racial profiling.

Texas Observer

Driver causes school bus full of children to flip onto its roof in horrifying accident. What they did next is even worse

Those are kids, how can they do that?

We Got This Covered

Gov. Abbott activates Texas National Guard ahead of “No Kings” protest in Austin

Austin's mayor clarified in a statement later Thursday that the troops would not be on the streets unless there was “emergency need.”

The Texas Tribune

Hero delivery driver alerts cops to hostage situation after customer orders hatchet and zip ties to motel, report says

A Texas delivery driver called police after a suspicious delivery to the Sweetwater Inn, leading to the arrests of a man and the person initially believed to be his hostage

The Independent UK

Greg Abbott Deploys State Troopers As Dozens Of Texas Democrats Flee To Stall GOP-Favored Maps

Gov. Greg Abbott (R) on Monday ordered the Texas Department of Public Safety to "locate, arrest and return" Democratic state representatives who left Austin to break quorum and block a mid-cycle congressional map that could hand Republicans five more U.S. House seats in 2026.

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Who Is Benjamin Song? Why Did Texas Issue A Blue Alert Because Of Him?

A coordinated attack at a Texas detention centre involves a military-trained suspect, prompting a nationwide manhunt and a Blue Alert.

Texas Observer

Texas Quietly Downsizes Border Security Spending

But outlays remain far above state funding prior to the Operation Lone Star era.

Latin Times

ICE Arrests 25 Undocumented Immigrants at Texas Construction Sites as Raids Intensify Nationwide

ICE agents, with support from the Texas Department of Public Safety and the U.S. Marshals Service, arrested 25 migrants at two construction sites in South Padre Island and Brownsville.

Latin Times

Texas Law Enforcement Arrests 40 Suspected 'Tren de Aragua' Members in ICE-Led Raid

Authorities said that the raid occurred after more than a year of investigation by the FBI, ICE, the San Antonio Police Department and the Texas Department of Public Safety

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3 Arrested In El Paso Drug Bust; Firearms And Cocaine Seized

The suspects were identified as Arturo Ramirez Manzano, 27, also known as Tadeo, Mario Ivan Ramirez, 21, and Corina Hernandez, 30, all from El Paso. Officers seized two rifles and nearly one kilogram of cocaine during the operation.

The Texas Tribune

Freeman Martin selected to lead the Texas Department of Public Safety

Martin, a senior official, takes the helm of the agency on Dec. 1, replacing retiring director Steve McCraw.

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Illegal Venezuelan Gang Member Arrested In Houston By Texas DPS

Illegal alien and Tren de Aragua gang member arrested in Houston for criminal activities. Joint effort by law enforcement agencies.

The Texas Tribune

Texas voter guide for college students

The deadline to register to vote is Oct. 7. The last day to apply to vote by mail is Oct. 25. Early voting in person is from Oct. 21 to Nov. 1.

The Independent UK

Former Uvalde schools police chief says he's being 'scapegoated' over response to mass shooting

The former Uvalde schools police chief says he thinks he's been “scapegoated” as the one to blame for the botched law enforcement response to the 2022 mass shooting at Robb Elementary School

The Independent UK

Texas trooper gets job back in Uvalde after suspension from botched police response to 2022 shooting

The Texas Department of Public Safety has reinstated a state trooper who was suspended after the botched law enforcement response to the shooting at a Uvalde elementary school in 2022

Latin Times

El Paso is asking Texas for millions of dollars to cover cost of jailing migrants

Authorities have been cracking down on unlawful immigration as part of the state's Operation Lone Star

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