Sakai says Bexar County is ‘doing our very, very best’ to fix new criminal justice management system

SAN ANTONIO – The head of Bexar County’s government said people are working around-the-clock to fix the rocky rollout of the county’s new criminal justice management system. Odyssey Case Manager was rolled out on May 30, but it has resulted in a host of issues. Incorrect verdicts and expunged records have appeared in the system, … Read more

‘Very frustrating’: Local attorney speaks about expunged case still showing up in new county court system

SAN ANTONIO – We’re learning more about the major software change within the Bexar County Judicial System that’s caused huge problems and issues with a human cost. Ten days ago, Bexar County installed a new court management system called Odyssey to help simplify online records. Since then, former inmates, their families and attorneys say this … Read more

Democrats block Cruz’ IVF bill, saying it doesn’t go far enough to protect the procedure

WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz’s effort to protect access to in vitro fertilization was blocked on Wednesday as Democrats instead rallied around their own version of the legislation. The bill, first introduced last month by Cruz and fellow conservative Sen. Katie Britt of Alabama, would have withheld Medicaid funding from any state that passes a ban on … Read more

17-year-old man sentenced to 30 years in prison for shooting death of man outside a bar

SAN ANTONIO – A 17-year-old man was sentenced to 30 years in prison on Tuesday for the shooting death of a man outside a bar. According to the Bexar County District Attorney’s Office, Albert Gonzalez and his brother, Bryan Gonzalez, confronted Enrique Santiago Gasca-Sanchez at a bar on the South Side on Dec. 6, 2021. … Read more

Motorized mobility chair sparked house fire that killed man, arson investigators say

SAN ANTONIO – Arson investigators believe a local man’s main form of transportation — a motorized mobility chair — is what sparked a house fire that led to his death. In a statement from the San Antonio Fire Department’s public information office, spokesman Woody Woodward said investigators stressed that they did not know specifically what … Read more