Jose Garza

Perry made the comments before and after killing 28-year-old Black Lives Matter protester Garrett Foster in 2020. Last week, Perry was convicted of murder.

People can have their arrest records expunged, or erased, if they were never convicted of the crime.

The jurors were considering whether to charge an off-duty and an on-duty police officer with a crime for their role in the fatal shooting of the 27-year-old in January 2021 after an alleged road rage incident.

The pilot program was part of a study to examine the benefit of providing legal counsel to people immediately after their arrest. But staffing shortages in the sheriff's office have made the program unworkable.

The governor said Wednesday that time will tell whether he "must take action to exonerate any police officer unjustly prosecuted." The statement comes after a Travis County grand jury indicted 19 Austin police officers.

Justin Berry is one of 19 officers facing charges pursued by a Democratic district attorney. Republicans call the allegations politically motivated.

The Travis County district attorney, a Democrat, says the Republican attorney general has four days to provide communications, multiple Texas news outlets first reported.

In a letter to the city, District Attorney José Garza and County Attorney Delia Garza accused officers of not doing their jobs in protest of county policies aimed at reducing jail bookings for low-level offenses.

The suit accused APD and Travis County of failing to investigate and prosecute sexual assault cases. Travis County settled the case for an undisclosed amount Tuesday.

Newly minted Travis County District Attorney José Garza also laid out plans to pursue 21 other cases involving police shootings, deaths in custody, use-of-force and an accusation of sexual assault.