Toluwani Osibamowo
Law and Justice ReporterToluwani Osibamowo covers law and justice for KERA News. She joined the newsroom in 2022 as a general assignments reporter. She previously worked as a news intern for Texas Tech Public Media and copy editor for Texas Tech University’s student newspaper, The Daily Toreador, before graduating with a bachelor’s degree in journalism. She was named one of Current's public media Rising Stars in 2024. She is originally from Plano.
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Texas aims to contract child welfare services to private providers by 2029 under a system called "community-based care." The abrupt cancelation of its contract with a foster care provider serving eastern North Texas after child deaths has community stakeholders questioning the system's effectiveness. -
Texas' child welfare agency cut ties with the nonprofit Monday, according to an internal email obtained by KERA News. EMPOWER was already under state oversight following the deaths of two children in the provider's care and the hospitalization of another within the past two years. -
A special appeals court ruled evidence did not support allegations that Givens allowed her court coordinator to impersonate her during a virtual hearing nor that Givens intentionally put a man in jail and revoked another’s bond after she recused herself from their cases. -
The Tarrant County Medical Examiner's Office website identifies the inmate as 33-year-old Steven Charles Lenard. His cause and manner of death is pending. -
The order came as part of a federal lawsuit over long wait times for Texas detainees who need their mental competency restored in a state hospital before trial. -
Karmelo Anthony's new defense team has filed motions for a new trial and to recuse Judge John Roach Jr. from the case. -
The parents of Mila Jackson alleged the department put them on an abuse and neglect registry after their daughter Mila’s removal without a clear way to appeal and get their names cleared of any wrongdoing. DFPS says the process is working as it should. -
Susan Kent pleaded guilty to one count of a terrorism-related charge for assisting in shooter Benjamin Song's escape from the ICE facility after the shooting. -
Many of the defendants await trials on state charges in Johnson County, including terrorism. -
Attorneys for Daniel Sanchez Estrada, Savanna Batten, Zachary Evetts and Elizabeth Soto filed notices that they'd appeal their decades-long sentences to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, one that's been regarded as one of the most conservative federal appellate courts in the country. -
There’s no evidence Plano mosque applies 'Sharia law' in its funeral practices, a federal judge saysJudge David Ezra wrote in an order Wednesday that religious bias played a role in the former head of the Texas Funeral Service Commission's oversight of an investigation into the East Plano Islamic Center. -
The high court ruled a Texas woman who regretted a surgery she underwent as part of her gender transition initiated legal proceedings within the time limits outlined in state law.
