Just as city and Austin Police Department officials move to slowly open up the police misconduct black box known as the “G file,” labor negotiations between the city and police association could get ...

A Travis County judge is expected to issue a ruling in the Austin Police Oversight Act lawsuit that could have a transformative effect on police accountability and transparency at the Austin Police ...

AUSTIN, Texas — Austinites now have access to personnel files of the city's police officers as part of a voter-approved measure that was passed last year. The G-files show records of police officers ...

More than a year after Austinites voted overwhelmingly to make secret police personnel files public, the Austin Police Department has begun to release those documents. Requesting so-called G-file ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — A Travis County district court judge ruled Friday that the City of Austin acted unlawfully by not ending its practice of withholding certain police records called “g-files” from the ...

Late last summer, the city began to release once-secret Austin Police Department personnel records. Known colloquially as the “G-file,” the records detail internal investigations into alleged officer ...

Last month, a Travis County judge ordered the City of Austin to comply with a voter-approved initiative that would make private police personnel records, known as G-Files, a matter of public record.

In 1998, the San Antonio Police Department (SAPD) began requiring officers to fill out reports any time they had to use force, a big step toward tracking when and why police resorted to strong-arming ...

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The Texas House late Thursday passed a bill shielding most police misconduct files — but following emotional appeals from Uvalde families, they added exceptions so Robb Elementary parents could see ...