Law Enforcement

The group DeFlock Carrollton is circulating a petition for the city to get rid of controversial Flock license plate readers. The mayor said there are no plans to and says the technology has been used to solve crimes and locate missing people.

White Settlement Police Chief Christopher Cook took the job as top cop in his hometown after working for Arlington police, where he achieved the rank of deputy chief.

Houston Police Chief Noe Diaz sent a letter, at Mayor John Whitmire’s request, to the Texas Department of Public Safety, requesting such an investigation. The fatal shooting has already prompted local and federal investigations.

President Donald Trump says Immigration and Customs Enforcement should continue traffic stops after recent fatal shootings, seeming to contradict a new policy to halt them. Trump wrote early Wednesday on his social media site ICE is “doing a GREAT job, one that has to be done.”

Local immigrant women shared stories of detention, family separation and fear during an Austin vigil for Lorenzo Salgado Araujo.

The other men in the van with Lorenzo Salgado Araujo told their lawyer that agents fired into the vehicle unprovoked, according to the Washington Post.

The move comes after an ICE agent fatally shot 52-year-old Mexican immigrant Lorenzo Salgado Araujo during an enforcement operation in Houston on July 7.

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a 52-year-old father of three, was on his way to work when he encountered federal immigration officers in Houston’s East End.

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Houston resident originally from Mexico, was fatally shot Tuesday morning during what the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has called a “targeted enforcement operation” in the city’s predominantly Latino East End.

An analysis found that between February 2025 and February 2026, more than 38,000 people in Texas without criminal convictions or pending charges were arrested by ICE.

Dallas County's Juvenile Department director said staffing changes have lowered violence among juveniles and staff by 90 percent.

The girl in critical condition after Sunday's sledding accident died. The investigation is ongoing.