Criminal Justice

The Damon Allen Act is named after a state trooper who was slain in 2017 by a man out on cash-bail for another crime. SB6 doesn't eliminate cash-bail, it encourages it, and it encourages it for the for-profit cash bond industry.

The owners of Garden Bistro Bar say an SAPD officer wrongfully arrested them and the altercation resulted in broken bones for one of them.

A new San Antonio Police Department text alert system has been applauded by some criminal justice and criminology experts for bringing increased transparency and communication between police and the public, but there were also concerns about its potential to circumvent the media.

Two years after the mass shooting, El Pasoans remember the 23 victims and worry conditions are ripe for more hate crime violence.

Since 2020, the police department has followed a policy of trying to release these videos within 60 days. On Friday, it said it would try to do so much more quickly.

The co-counsel for Bexar County's opioid lawsuit finds himself at the center of another courtroom drama.

A federal judge has found the U.S. Air Force 60% responsible for the Sutherland Springs attack for failing to send the shooter's felony conviction to the FBI background check database.

The Gun Violence Archive reports that shootings across the country this holiday weekend claimed the lives of more than 180 people.

24-year-old Alexander Lance filed the suit in a Bexar County District court. The suit alleges that a San Antonio Police officer shot Lance at close range twice with a paintball gun, once in the arm and once in the leg.

Four teams of explosive-sniffing dogs go on duty at San Antonio International Airport as early as this fall, according to a joint announcement by airport officials and the Transportation Security Administration.