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Grummet: Transparency should be non-negotiable at police contract bargaining table
March 17, 2024
City, police union resume bargaining over long term police contract
March 15, 2024
Austin police contract not available to public during negotiations, negotiations will be streamed
March 13, 2024
- RELEASE: Equity Action sues over City of Austin’s non-compliance with the Austin Police Oversight Act
- Authors of police oversight act sue city for failing to fully implement ordinance
- RELEASE: City Poised to Finally Implement Prop A, More improvements to come
- Austin slowly expands police oversight powers voters passed in the spring
- Recent AG ruling could give Austin Office of Police Oversight more access to police
- City Must Give Secret Police Records to the Chronicle, Texas A.G.’s Office Says City’s “G File” no longer exists
- STORY: Austin Community Groups Unite to Fight for a Share of City Budget
- STORY: Community groups propose Community Investment Budget
- Yes on A: Understanding Prop A and B and the Policing Paradigm Shift on the Ballot
- Yes on A: May 2023 Austin election ballot propositions: Voter resource
- Yes on A: 100+ community organizations, city leaders show support for Prop A, opposition of Prop B
- Yes on A: ‘Accountability and transparency are important’ | Community launches campaign in support of more police oversight
- Yes on A: Editorial: Police should ditch false tweets, return to bargaining table
- Yes on A: Council Goes for Short-Term Police Deal, Ignores Union Noise
- Yes on A: Council wants a one-year contract with Austin police to allow voters to weigh in on oversight measures.
- Yes on A: Why your vote on Austin police oversight measures will matter.
- Yes on A: Sources: City Manager Spencer Cronk Will Be Asked to Resign. Brazen police-contract gambit follows ice-storm SNAFUs.
- Yes on A: Council Balks at Deadline Pressure on Police Contract
- Yes on A: Council delays vote on one-year police contract extension, citing confusion
- Yes on A: Dueling Austin police oversight measures set to appear on May ballot