police oversight

The high court's Friday ruling sets an even higher standard in proving whether governments can be sued over 911 responses.

State lawmakers and criminal justice experts offer some insight into what drives the lawmaking process in Texas and whether police chases – a phenomenon that killed nearly 100 people in Texas in 2022 – will ever be regulated in the law.

Special prosecutors charged former Marion Police Chief Gideon Cody with one count of interference with the judicial process, a low-level felony, for asking a restauranteur to delete text messages after his controversial raid of the Marion County Record.

Marion, Kansas, Police Chief Gideon Cody — formerly a member of the Kansas City Police Department — resigned after an earlier suspension. A reporter for the Marion County Record has also resigned, saying she no longer feels comfortable in the community.

Kansas police have reported seizing more than $9.5 million in cash and $2.5 million in property since a new state law took effect in July 2019. But a review of nearly 2,000 reports found widespread inconsistencies in how those seizures are logged — or if they're even reported at all.

Sedgwick County Commissioner Lacey Cruse made a formal request for an outside investigation in the death of Cedric Lofton – but other commissioners are not supportive of it.

A new political action committee is trying to put a state law governing police oversight on the ballot next May. “I think it’s really unique and kind of...