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Committee approves substitute for bill standardizing law-enforcement personnel-file practices
Summary
The Senate Committee on Criminal Justice adopted a committee substitute and voted 6–1 to report Senate Bill 781, a measure to standardize handling of law-enforcement personnel records based on a TCOLE model policy and to align practices across jurisdictions, with clarifications about sealed files and criminal discovery.
The Senate Committee on Criminal Justice voted 6–1 to adopt a committee substitute to Senate Bill 781 and report it to the full Senate with a favorable recommendation. Senator King described the measure as an effort to make personnel-file policies consistent across Texas and to codify a model policy developed by a Texas Commission on Law Enforcement (TCOLE) work group.
Why it matters: The substitute aims to create consistent procedures for what information is public and what is held in a sealed personnel file for law-enforcement officers, affecting public records requests, hiring…
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