Houston Chronicle by St. John Barned-Smith March 9, 2020
Lawmakers call on Chief Art Acevedo to release audit on Houston police's narcotics division
State lawmakers sent Police Chief Art Acevedo a letter Friday urging him to release the results of an internal audit of the Houston Police Department’s embattled Narcotics Division conducted after a fatal drug raid last year.
The letter comes days after the HPD sought permission from the Texas Attorney General to keep the audit from the public, citing sweeping sections of the state’s public records laws.
In the March 4 letter, State Rep. Gene Wu, D-Houston, wrote that the continuing revelations of misconduct that have emerged about the Jan. 28 2019 drug raid that ended with the deaths of Rhogena Nicholas and Dennis Tuttle have “severely compromised†the public’s trust of HPD’s special units and criminal investigations. Democratic state Reps. Anna Eastman, Christina Morales, Jon Rosenthal and Senfronia Thompson all co-signed the letter.
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