Criminal Justice

The Texas Racing Commission's law enforcement team collaborated with state partners to arrest of nine individuals at an illegal racetrack in Levelland earlier this week. And in the upcoming election, how voters see the abortion issue could determine who they vote for in some of the state's most competitive races. Texas Public Radio’s David Martin Davies has more.

Now that autumn has begun, the city of Lubbock is switching to its fall and winter irrigation restrictions. Our reporter Samantha Larned has more on what that means for residents. And KERA's Caroline Love reports on domestic violence and firearms in Texas.

The number of Texas women killed by their intimate partner with a firearm has nearly doubled the last decade.

More than 10,000 books are banned inside Texas prisons.

Texas Tech University released its annual Security and Fire Safety Report last week, revealing campus crime statistics for 2023. Our reporter Bishop Van Buren has a breakdown of the numbers and comparisons from the past three years.

Lubbock county commissioners will meet to vote on the county’s property tax rate for what could be the last time before the end of the fiscal year when the county is mandated to cut the budget to the no-new-revenue rate. And KERA's Miranda Suarez reports the Dalby Correctional facility in Garza County is set to shut down at the end of the month — after Tarrant County decided to pull out of its contract early.

The Giles W. Dalby Correctional Facility failed a state safety inspection last year. Even though it passed a reinspection, Tarrant County commissioners voted to end its contract early.

A joint effort between federal, state, and local law enforcement led to the arrest of eight people in Lubbock on Wednesday. Officials are using the takedown to underline issues with stolen guns, modified weapons, and enforcing current gun laws in Texas.

Our reporter Brad Burt has more on how a joint arrest effort involving federal and local law enforcement has officials highlighting the issue of stolen guns and a need for responsible gun ownership. And the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality has received complaints about smoke from underground smoldering at the site of buried debris from Lubbock’s 1970 tornado.

A lawsuit has been filed against Tarrant County, two former Tarrant County jailers, and unnamed jailers three months after Anthony Johnson Jr. died in the county jail.