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Editorial Roundup: Texas
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The Lake Travis school board voted unanimously Wednesday night to start the process of establishing a district police department.
The department, which would have five officers and a police chief, is projected to need $400,000 in start-up funds and have a $680,000 annual budget. The start-up money is mostly needed for vehicles and equipment and the annual budget will cover personnel costs such as salary, liability and insurance, according to Superintendent Paul Norton.
The district currently has three resource officers contracted from the Travis County sheriff’s office and spends about $500,000 a year on costs associated with policing, Norton said.
The first step will be to hire a police chief and to go through the process of certifying the program through the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement. While the exact timeline is unclear in part because of the pandemic, Norton said that ideally the department will be in place for the next school year.
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Opinion
They license every cop in the state, and they’ve just been judged to be ‘fundamentally broken’
After this summer’s protests, police reform is set to begin in Austin
Bastrop Republican John Cyrier believes police reform will be the theme of the 2021 legislative session in Austin. We think he’s right. And that effort may find its crux in the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement.
TCOLE needs an overhaul. The agency oversees licensing and training of the state’s 102,000 police officers and jailers. In November, the Sunset Advisory Commission, a panel tasked with periodic reviews of government agencies, issued a report that called TCOLE toothless, outdated, ineffective and “fundamentally broken.”