Governor Greg Abbott today signed several critical pieces of public safety legislation passed during the 88th Regular Legislative Session into law at the Texas Capitol. The comprehensive package of eight
Texas DAs will be barred from setting any blanket policies blocking prosecutions of entire classes of crime, such as low-level marijuana possession. Texas district attorneys will be barred from setting
Abbott said a bill that would let Texas residents recall soft-on-crime prosecutors is ‘transformative’ Texas is about to crack down on “rogue” district attorneys who refuse to prosecute entire classes
A box of files for one medical child abuse case sits in the office of Tarrant County Sheriff’s Office Detective Mike Weber at the Tarrant County Plaza Building on Feb.
Update: April 28: This story was updated to reflect the bill’s passage out of the House. AUSTIN — A bill creating a path for removing district attorneys from office for
The legislation is in response to elected prosecutors in Texas’ large, left-leaning counties who have said they will not prosecute abortion cases. Locally elected prosecutors who do not enforce certain
