SB 23 is not alone. There's a slate of bills at the #txlege that would punish cities for ANY REDUCTION in police budgets, or any reallocation of funds from law enforcement to other community programs/budget areas. See bills here: txcivilrights.org/bills-that-pun…
statesman.com/story/news/202…
statesman.com/story/news/202…
Some of these bills since their initial filing have been replaced in committee with versions that include
exceptions for cities making across-the-board cuts or reductions following disaster declarations, but....
exceptions for cities making across-the-board cuts or reductions following disaster declarations, but....
...these attempts to mitigate the draconian consequences of these bills do not go nearly far enough to protect reasonable and necessary local decision-making: txcivilrights.org/bills-that-pun…
The catch-all exception they have included is nothing more than an open door for an unelected group of state bureaucrats to substitute their decision-making for that of local elected leaders in arbitrary, subjective, and retaliatory ways.
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