Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 143.090 · Subchapter F. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
RELEASE OF PHOTOGRAPHS OF POLICE OFFICERS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
A department, commission, or municipality may not release a photograph that depicts a police officer unless:
(1) the officer has been charged with an offense by indictment or by information;
(2) the officer is a party in a civil service hearing or a case before a hearing examiner or in arbitration;
(3) the photograph is introduced as evidence in a judicial proceeding; or
(4) the officer gives written consent to the release of the photograph.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 300 (H.B. 2006), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2011.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/LG/htm/LG.143.htm
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- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
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