District 1 Lubbock City Councilman Victor Hernandez calls for expanded Department of Justice investigation of Lubbock Police Department after recent controversies
A League City, Texas, man appeared in federal Court in Lubbock and pleaded guilty to a federal child obscenity offense after a lengthy correspondence with an undercover officer representing the Lubbock City Police Department.
Jeremy Wayne Griffith of Trent, Texas, pleaded guilty in federal court in Abilene, announced U.S. Attorney Sarah Saldana of the Northern District of Texas, on Thursday, September 4. Griffith, 28, was arrested in November 2013 for a video voyeurism charge and was released on bond.
The announcement of the Eric Holder-led Department of Justice filing another lawsuit against the State of Texas came late Thursday morning. The lawsuit alleges that Texas' Voter ID law (SB 14) violates Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act and guarantees made by the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments of the U...