NEW: A felony charge against a Fox 7 Austin photographer have been dismissed, his attorney, Gerry Morris confirms. The DPS detective in the case withdrew a warrant after acknowledging it did not allege a felony crime but could later resubmit it later, Morris said.

This week, I got to do something that journalists are not always given the opportunity to do after they publish stories: return to the community they spent months reporting at to distribute the story in person. 🧵

So proud of this team for their incredible commitment and of the partnership between Texas Tribune ProPublica FRONTLINE, which won the Collier Prize. The families and the children of Uvalde deserved and continue to deserve better from their government.

And Perla Trevizo Jessica Priest analyzed hundreds of bills filed in Texas to find that despite decades of mass shootings in the state, lawmakers have repeatedly failed to pass measures that would limit access to guns, instead easing restrictions.

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Honored to be awarded the Collier Prize for government accountability for our team’s Uvalde reporting & hope that it keeps attention on the devastating failures that day, the warnings they should send every community, & the lack of accountability & transparency 2 years later. 🧵

How a migrant farmworker built generational wealth, penny by penny latimes.com/world-nation/s…

Send us any political mailers you've received about upcoming school board and bond races here: airtable.com/appWALB0sKnpVS…

This East Texas town hasn’t held a city council election in at least 18 years texastribune.org/2024/04/25/tex… via Texas Tribune

UT Austin published this video for Free Speech Week 6 mos ago.

Q: Why can members of the public come to campus at any time and engage in demonstrations

A: State law in Texas allows members of the public...to come onto campus and use our common outdoor areas for speech activity

“Who failed Uvalde? DPS.” Quite the chant at UT Austin yesterday as Texas DPS arrested student protestors. (DPS had the most police at Uvalde, 91, after CBP, which had about 200.) Only a handful of DPS have been disciplined for their inaction at Robb. texastribune.org/2024/03/29/uva…

As a result of the posting failures, voters did not have easy access to filings that showed at least 2 school board candidates with massive campaign hauls of more than $30k each. Hopefully this article leads to all school districts putting their campaign finance reports online!

NEW: Texas School Districts Violated an Election Transparency Law propublica.org/article/texas-… by Lexi Churchill Jessica Priest

NEW from ⁦Lexi Churchill⁩ ⁦Jessica Priest⁩ ⁦Texas Tribune⁩ ⁦ProPublica⁩: We analyzed 35 Texas school districts that held trustee elections last fall. None posted all of the required campaign finance records #transparencyfail #txlege texastribune.org/2024/04/25/tex…

Here’s what the law says about protesting on Texas college campuses texastribune.org/2024/04/24/pro… via Texas Tribune

A $34 million, 32-bed behavioral health campus is breaking ground in summer in Uvalde statesman.com/story/news/pol… via Austin Statesman

Gov. Abbott goes door-to-door in bid to oust anti-voucher Republicans in upcoming runoff election houstonchronicle.com/politics/artic… via @houstonchron

Texas is in for an ‘extremely active’ 2024 hurricane season. Here's why. houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-w… via @houstonchron

Here’s how to vote in Texas’ May 4 local elections texastribune.org/2024/04/17/tex… via Texas Tribune

Texas Surgeon Is Accused of Secretly Denying Liver Transplants nytimes.com/2024/04/11/us/…

Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick pushes pastors to run for political office chron.com/culture/religi… via Chron