AUSTIN, Texas — Austinites now have access to personnel files of the city's police officers as part of a voter-approved measure that was passed last year. The G-files show records of police officers ...
More than a year after Austinites voted overwhelmingly to make secret police personnel files public, the Austin Police Department has begun to release those documents. Requesting so-called G-file ...
A Travis County judge ruled that the city of Austin and Austin Police Department have “unlawfully” maintained a secret police personnel file known as the “G file” that was outlawed by the Austin ...
AUSTIN (KXAN) — A Travis County district court judge ruled Friday that the City of Austin acted unlawfully by not ending its practice of withholding certain police records called “g-files” from the ...
In siding with activists, a Travis County judge ordered the Austin Police Department and city leaders to end the use of a confidential police personnel file, which voters elected to get rid of more ...
In 1998, the San Antonio Police Department (SAPD) began requiring officers to fill out reports any time they had to use force, a big step toward tracking when and why police resorted to strong-arming ...
AUSTIN (KXAN) — The status of police oversight provisions Austin voters passed in May 2023 has been in limbo ever since that vote. One of the primary measures includes public access to what’s called a ...
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