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6 May 2021, 5:18 am
The Austin City Council today will consider relaunching its police academy after it was shuttered amidst allegations of cadet hazing and a "culture of violence. [read post]
29 Dec 2017, 7:47 am
At least 33 city police lieutenants, sergeants, detectives, corporals and officers have left the Austin Police Department this month in the wake of City Council’s decision to reject a new union contract two weeks ago. [read post]
16 Dec 2007, 9:16 am
Bet if I went there right now, I couldn't find law blogs for 10% of the major areas of practice for these top cities. [read post]
7 Apr 2023, 3:34 pm
Reagan Outdoor Advertising, Inc v City of Austin, 2023 WL 270582 (5th Circ. [read post]
19 Sep 2019, 9:34 am
But this week Student Government at UT-Austin voted to support the city council's decrim measures. [read post]
15 Dec 2010, 7:55 am
The Austin Statesman published a story by Tony Plohetski the other day revealing some interesting tidbits about staffing of SWAT teams after an Austin SWAT member totaled his city vehicle driving home drunk from a football-watching party with fellow SWAT members and other officers ("SWAT officer's wreck spurs changes in elite Austin unit," Dec. 11). [read post]
29 Nov 2018, 6:14 am
The Washington Post interviewed emergency-room physicians in seven cities, including Austin, Atlanta and Nashville, with doctors in each place reporting a spike in severe accidents after the devices launched on their streets. [read post]
10 Jan 2009, 1:52 am
The Supreme Court granted review today in Northwest Austin Municipal Utility District Number One v. [read post]
25 Jul 2019, 7:19 am
The Dallas ordinance we previously reported on now seems poised for a fight similar to the Austin and San Antonio ordinances. [read post]
2 Sep 2012, 11:26 am
An earlier Statesman report found that, even adjusting for inflation, "The property tax bill for a typical Austin home rose 38 percent between 2000 and 2010," with tax levies by the City of Austin increasing an inflation-adjusted 44%.Almost all of the City of Austin's recent increased spending is attributable to the public safety budget. [read post]
19 Dec 2009, 7:49 am
The union has more sway with city council at the end of the day than Acevedo does, as has been the case with all of his predecessors since I've lived in Austin. [read post]
11 May 2011, 6:37 pm
Whatever happened to the Austin City Limits?... [read post]
12 Aug 2008, 6:11 am
Cities spend a lot of money because of homelessness, whether it's to lend a helping hand or to sweep the problem under the rug.Two Texas cities - Fort Worth and Austin - are taking decidedly different approaches to the problem. [read post]
27 Jan 2008, 11:10 pm
Hope in the City, an Austin, Texas Christian church, is challenging the city's use of a law enacted to protect water quality in the Barton Springs watershed to prevent the church from paving over additional parts of its property for use as a parking lot. [read post]
25 Aug 2020, 4:15 am
The small town that once served as a pit stop between Dallas and Austin has turned into its own charming cosmopolitan city, serving almost as a bedroom community for those with periodic work in Dallas and Austin.... [read post]
1 Sep 2017, 8:55 am
They presented the video to the Austin City Council last night arguing to reject the meet-and-confer agreement with the union and address the police department's staffing and discipline issues through normal city processes:According to Casaday, "half" of Austin PD officers see no problem with the way this young schoolteacher was treated. [read post]
12 Nov 2014, 6:57 pm
This post is coming to you as a public service message if you should be coming into beautiful Austin for our Austin City Limits Music Festival, the Formula One races, South by Southwest, or perhaps a quaint Texas Longhorns football game. [read post]
3 Sep 2019, 8:23 am
Municipal Court is responsible for the due process and administration of the cases filed.In 2018, according to City of Austin performance measures, APD reviewed 36,116 images taken by red-light cameras, but only filed cases 35.56 percent of the time, rejecting nearly 2/3 of the cases.In 2017, only 12.8 percent of images reviewed by APD resulted in cases being filed.While considering the department's latest request for more officers, City Council should ask Chief Brian… [read post]
31 Jan 2020, 7:27 am
Good for the Austin city council for taking this on.Austin police chief orders arrests for crimes cops can't proveIn other Austin PD news, Grits finds bizarre Chief Bryan Manley's position that the department will continue to arrest and cite people for marijuana possession after the City Council forbade them from doing the lab testing to prove THC levels were above .3% and the substance could be distinguished from hemp. [read post]
7 Aug 2008, 5:53 pm
The state auditor has proposed boosting trooper pay 9-14% to keep them competitive with big-city departments. [read post]
