Texas's primary state law enforcement agency, overseeing highway patrol, criminal investigations, driver licensing, and statewide public safety programs.
North Richland Hills, a Fort Worth suburb, quoted a privacy group $2.3 million for records on how its police use Flock plate cameras. Because each Texas city prices these requests itself, whether the public can check police searches comes down to a local estimate of staff time.
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Texas AG nominee Nathan Johnson would investigate Deloitte after a DPS software error left at least 178,000 voter registrations unprocessed. His pledge also covers other state vendors, and it takes effect only if he beats Republican Mayes Middleton in November.
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Two Dallas men posed as delivery workers, one armed, to get into a San Jose home they believed held large crypto holdings, police say. The attempt ended when nobody answered the door. For crypto holders, the case points to security that covers the house and a low public profile too.
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Two Republican states moved against automated license plate readers inside three weeks, one revoking permits it had already granted and one cutting off state money, while Flock Safety's cancellation count keeps climbing.
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The Motor Vehicle Crime Prevention Authority routed at least $30 million in insurance-fee grants to local police before the order, and the governor's office says most of the remaining camera money is federal.
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