Law Enforcement

Members of the Texas Senate's Criminal Justice Committee heard testimony Wednesday on five bail-related bills aimed at tightening rules on who gets bail and how it's set.

Dallas officials announced the installation of vehicle surveillance cameras in southwest Dallas. The company providing the service is named in a federal lawsuit.

With more people looking for clarity on what to do if they are confronted by immigration agents, Lubbock lawyers spoke to a local advocacy group encouraging citizens and immigrants alike to know their rights.

Advocates worry that rapidly shifting federal and state immigration initiatives will prompt more city police to funnel migrants without criminal records to federal agents.

Dozens of people were arrested in North Texas alone as part of Donald Trump’s crackdown on people who may be in the country without legal status.

Local government officials around the U.S. signal they won't assist — and in some cases they'll actively oppose — the Trump administration's efforts to conduct a massive deportation of migrants.

Three weeks after a Blue Alert was issued for a man wanted in the shooting of a police chief in Memphis, Texas, Seth Altman was arrested by law enforcement officials in Fort Worth. KERA's Miranda Suarez reports Tarrant County has made its first conviction under the state's new fentanyl overdose murder law, which allows prosecutors to seek murder charges against people who give someone else a fatal dose of fentanyl.

The Department of Public Safety's alert early Friday about a suspect in the Panhandle went statewide — and riled some sleepy Austinites.

After a person was seriously injured in a shooting at a Lubbock game room Wednesday morning, a call for tighter regulations on the venues has resurfaced. And Congressman Jodey Arrington introduced an amendment that would defund plans to expand conservation efforts in the United States, including protections for up to 700,000 acres at the Muleshoe National Wildlife Refuge.

The number of child abuse and neglect cases reported in Lubbock County has decreased for the first time in a decade. This could be following a nationwide trend, but some say it’s only because of a definition change.