Locally elected prosecutors who do not enforce certain laws could be removed from office under a bill the Texas House preliminarily approved. Some elected prosecutors in Texas' large, left-leaning counties have said they will not prosecute abortion cases.
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If HB 17 passes both chambers, it would tweak the definition of “official misconduct” to include adopting or enforcing a “policy of categorically refusing to prosecute specific criminal offenses under state law,” with certain exceptions. “We are very focused on holding accountable people who commit acts of violence in our community,” Travis County District Attorney José Garza. “Pulling resources away from that to focus on this kind of case would be reckless and endanger the safety of our community.”
“If a prosecutor can’t afford and doesn’t have the bandwidth and doesn’t have the prosecutorial wherewithal because of limited resources, that’s not a policy,” Canales said. “That’s reality.”
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