Joe Gonzales

His time in office was marked by a pandemic that shut down many aspects of the courts, seeing a ballooning backlog of cases.

Bexar County Judge Peter Sakai praised District Attorney Joe Gonzales during Tuesday's commissioners meeting for making major progress on a backlog of high-risk criminal cases.

San Antonio's top two crime fighters shook hands in public Monday evening at a far West Side Catholic church following a well-publicized dispute over the root causes of a rash of shootings.

San Antonio Mayor Ron Nirenberg and Bexar County Judge Peter Sakai want Joe Gonzales and William McManus to sit with other city and county leaders to discuss the issues that may have led to the release of violent offenders from police custody and how to prevent it from happening again.

Irma Reyes came to court to get justice for her daughter. Instead, the defendants received far less than what she thought they deserved. Reyes considered the sentence a betrayal.

In his two elections, Gonzales proved adept at navigating tides of national issues to victory. In 2018 he unseated incumbent Nico LaHood in his Democratic primary, running on a police accountability and reform platform. His challenger this time, Republican Marc LaHood (Nico’s brother) was swimming against the tide of abortion access.

Republican challenger is leaning into criticism of Democratic incumbent Joe Gonzales, his record and his administration of the district attorney's office. But with gun control and abortion access at the fore of politics, will his messaging work?

After three years, the DA's office says police have issued 6,200 citations rather than arrest for low-level crimes.

Bexar County District Attorney Joe Gonzales said he will work to protect reproductive freedom, but he’s unable to pledge he won’t prosecute providers of illegal abortions in his jurisdiction.

Bexar County District Attorney Joe Gonzales said if Roe v. Wade is overturned, leading to an almost total ban of abortion in Texas, nothing will change at his office. Gonzales said he will not prosecute anyone involved in an abortion.