Worth noting for those who werenโt there at the time/have forgotten: city staff estimated this ballot proposition would have cost between $54-$119 million annually. https://t.co/OQtPmVmDG6
What did James 'tough on crime' Talarico mean by this while he was campaigning against an Austin proposition that would have expanded the police force?
"The only way to achieve true public safety is to invest directly in communities"
Read the full story here and see what Police Chief Lisa Davis thinks about allegations that response times have slowed because officers are quiet quitting. https://t.co/b8W3Zv8U8R
whatever happened to those guys who used to post about austin politics on here with the teddy Roosevelt profile picture and the other guy with the al capone profile picture? you don't hear much about them anymore. They got replaced by a new crop of guys, it seems.
Great story. I haven't followed this one super closely, but learned today that the consultant the city hired to look for IT efficiencies compared Austin's IT staffing to other cities...but they won't say which other cities!
Austin council could halt a proposed IT consolidation just weeks before it was supposed to start. Officials say the reorganization could save up to $142 million per year. Read my latest for @statesman here:
https://t.co/pmNFPto6UC
The map does not contain exact locations of encampments, but you can search addresses to find nearby sites that may be cleared when the crackdown begins in mid-May. https://t.co/UZ8nRB2IO2
The city is preparing to launch a large and sustained effort to sweep homeless encampments throughout the city in what is the most significant expansion of that work since Austin voters banned public camping in 2021.
This map shows what parts of the city will be targeted.
Happy Friday y'all! Today is my last day @HoustonChron. Come Monday I'll be an investigative editor/reporter at the Texas Newsroom, a public media collaborative including @NPR, @KUT, @keratx, @HoustonPubMedia & other stations. You can find me at [email protected].
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Austin officials will soon launch an expanded effort to clear out homeless encampments across the city, according to a draft plan I obtained last week. Read about it only in the Statesman: https://t.co/oR7GLIySDW
A random attack in Austin's Central Library last month highlights the challenges the justice system faces in dealing with mentally ill people who repeatedly commit violence. The @statesman explains why. https://t.co/0KcrsykaYI
having crazy flashbacks here because my literal first day on the beat as the chronicle's AISD reporter in 2018 was covering a press conference where the school board prez resigned over a text messaging scandal involving community advocates... https://t.co/nqHJH04772
Carmen Mejia is home with her daughters, attorney Vanessa Potkin tells me.
The exonerated Austin mother was released from the Travis County jail last night around 11 p.m. after ICE abruptly announced it would lift a detainer on Mejia that could have led to her deportation.
ICE has lifted its immigration hold on Carmen Mejia. The Austin mother, exonerated after two decades in prison, will soon be released from jail and reunited with her family. https://t.co/x1D69cr0rk
After a judge formally exonerated Carmen Mejia yesterday, she hugged her daughters for the first time in over 20 years.
Then, she went back to jail because ICE has indicated agents may deport her. Mejia will know her fate sometime tomorrow afternoon. https://t.co/ZVTYPmQPjN