San Antonio Police Officers Association

Prop A is a criminal justice reform city charter amendment, but its length and the heated debate about it may make it hard to sort fact from fiction.

San Antonio’s police union and the city have a new five-year contract after approval from the San Antonio City Council. The decision among council members was not unanimous however, with an 8-3 split that saw Mario Bravo, Jalen McKee-Rodriguez and Teri Castillo dissenting.

After a year of negotiations, the City of San Antonio and San Antonio Police Officers Association have reached a tentative agreement on a union contract. Although negotiations have finished, the city council and union membership will have to vote before its final.

Proposition B is on the On the May 1 municipal election ballot. It would repeal collective bargaining for the police union. Supporters say this would allow the public to have a say in future police contracts. Opponents claim this will make it harder for the department to recruit and maintain officers.

The City of San Antonio wasted no time in getting to its key points of discipline reform during opening negotiations with the San Antonio Police Officers Association over a new five-year contract Friday.

Police Chief William McManus joined the San Antonio Police Officers Association for a press conference at the city’s Public Safety Headquarters Monday as the union denounced two petitions that could amend protections and collective bargaining rights for police officers in San Antonio.

SAPD claimed that Darrell Zemault Sr. grabbed an officer’s gun during an attempted arrest for outstanding warrants. But the department continues to withhold body camera footage of the encounter. The killing kicked off a familiar cycle: a lack of transparency from law enforcement, muddied coverage from local news media and promises of incremental reform from elected officials.

The San Antonio City Council approved the city’s $2.9 billion operating budget for 2021 on Thursday.The budget’s passage came as the city saw a massive…

A recent investigative series by the KSAT 12 Defenders, "Broken Blue," looks into why officers involved in some of SAPD's most notorious firings were…

The president of the San Antonio Police Officers' Association is asking the City Council to place Police Chief William McManus on leave. This follows the…