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DAN FREE PATRICK: His failure to take action seems to say: BUT NOT CHEAP “IF IT AIN’T BROKE, DON’T FIX IT” BORRIS MILES: CHARLES SCHWERTNER: Interns allege FONDLING Did the SKEEVY and FOUL LANGUAGE: SENATOR send SALACIOUS “B***H, SEXTS to YOU WANT a GRAD TO F**K STUDENT? WITH ME TONIGHT?” CARLOS URESTI: Were his INTERVIEWS with female members of the press a little TOO EXCLUSIVE? ma asks: Mary WTuILL IT TAKE WtoH cAuTr bm Ceanpt?itolP .14 harass TEXAS HOUSE BOMBSHELL: Representatives conduct BUSINESS AS USUAL after adopting SENSIBLE WORKPLACE RULES. JANUARY 25, 2019 VOLUME 38, NUMBER 22 austinchronicle.com austinchronicle.com JANUARY 25, 2019 THE AUSTIN CHRONICLE 3 CONTENTS JANUARY 25, 2019 VOLUME 38, NUMBER 22 PUBLISHER Nick Barbaro EDITORIAL EDITOR Kimberley Jones NEWS EDITOR Mike Clark-Madison ARTS Robert Faires FOOD Jessi Cape SCREENS Richard Whittaker MUSIC Raoul Hernandez WEB James Renovitch CHRONEVENTS ARTS LISTINGS & FOOD EVENTS Wayne Alan Brenner SPECIAL SCREENINGS & COMMUNITY LISTINGS Danielle White GAY PLACE & CIVICS LISTINGS Sarah Marloff CLUB LISTINGS Greg Stitt STAFF WRITERS Kevin Curtin, Nina Hernandez, Michael King, Mary Tuma CONTRIBUTING WRITERS FILM Marjorie Baumgarten FAR FLUNG CORRESPONDENCE Emily Beyda DAY TRIPS Gerald E. McLeod 14 COVER STORY: Scandal! MR. SMARTY PANTS R.U. Steinberg COVER BY THE CHRONICLE ART STAFF PRODUCTION ART DIRECTOR Jason Stout 5 FEEDBACK PRODUCTION MANAGER Zeke Barbaro WEB DIRECTOR Brian Barry DIRECTOR OF DIGITAL STRATEGY Michael Bartnett GRAPHIC DESIGNERS Jeff Gammill, Katie Neustaedter 6 NEWS STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERS John Anderson, Jana Birchum, David Brendan Hall PROOFREADERS Jasmine Lane, Kat McNevins, 6 AUSTIN AT LARGE Greg Stitt, Beth Sullivan INTERNS Todd Bernhagen, Lilli Hime, Alex Puente BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON ADVERTISING 7 ADVERTISING DIRECTOR Cassidy Frazier Naked City; Medicaid; Petty SENIOR ACCOUNT EXECUTIVES Jerald Corder, Patrick; AISD; APD Rape Case Carolyn Phillips, Lois Richwine Audits; SOAH; Death Watch; more 13 ACMCaOrUisNaT MEXirEaCbUaTl,I VGElSo rDiaa vWidil lKialempspoen, 14 SEX AND THE SENATE What will CLASSIFIEDS/LEGAL NOTICES Bobby Leath it take to curb Capitol harasshment? OPERATIONS COORDINATOR Trace Thurman BY MARY TUMA DIGITAL COORDINATOR Tamar Price MARKETING DIRECTOR/PR Sarah Wolf MARKETING MANAGER Karena Rogers LUV DOC/CIRCULATION/SPECIAL EVENTS Dan Hardick 20 ARTS & CULTURE STREET TEAM Kelsey Baker, Sommer Brugal, Anna Cherian, Andrea Dane, Andrea Fuentes, Daniela Garcia,A Oshrclehyi dG Greaerncisat,e iSna, nJdenran aG iHsie, rLriinsgat oGno,s Esleiatts, 20 VALUE MEALS At UT’s Visual Arts Center, The Supper Club Huerta, Will Josma, Allen Martinez, Patricia May, gives artists of color an important place to be seen and heard Bobby Mickey, Camille Morell, Andrew Osegi, BY ROBERT FAIRES NATJIOonNaALs ASDpVirEaR, TCISoIkNaG TVreovicineo M, Aeldlyia W Garroruepn 8 CIVICS 101 33 (888/278-9866, www.vmgadvertising.com) 18 CALENDAR OFFICE STAFF 30 FOOD 31 CONTROLLER Liz Franklin 22 ARTS EVENTS Sweat, Hope of Loving, and “When OFFICE MANAGER/SUCBRSECDRITIP MTIAONNASG CERa rcriine dYyo usonog 30 REVIEW Otherside Deli Everything Has Been Said” ACCOUNTING ASSISTANT Chelsea Taylor BY JESSI CAPE 25 QMMUNITY BY SARAH MARLOFF INFO DESK Zach Pearce SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR Brandon Watkins ICYMI Milano Cafe 28 COMMUNITY EVENTS HE’S IN PARTIES Hank BY LAUREN JONES DAY TRIPS BY GERALD E. MCLEOD Leticia de la Vega, PCerIryR DCrakUe, JLarAedT EsIqOuivNel, 31 KETO BAGELS 29 SOCCER WATCH BY NICK BARBARO Tom Fairchild, Ruben Flores, Jonina Foel-Sommers, Pflugerville’s alternative Andrew Gerfers, Suzette Johnson, Kevin Kinkade, bakery sells goods at 31 FOOD EVENTS Eric McKinney, Grant Melcher, Paul Minor, Cherrywood Coffeehouse Norm Reed, Nick RosemanB,r Zyaenb ZSiorkmemlbearcsh, and other local spots 33 MOVIE LISTINGS Cold War, The Kid Who Would Be King, BY JESSI CAPE Serenity, Stan & Ollie CONTRIBUTORS 72 DGoruegg FBreeeemtsa, nR,o Rby Barne Hzsennyn, eEsliszeaeb,e Stha mCo Hbubret,, 36 SPECIAL SCREENINGS Lauren Jones, Matthew Monagle, Lance Myers, 32 SCREENS 38 SHOWTIMES Alejandra Ramirez, Rachel Rascoe, Austin Sanders, MTaorcm S Taovmloovr, rJoewre, mDye rSetke iUndbeenrgsei,r ,T Modicdh aV.e lW Toollfasnodn, 32 REDRAWING THE FUTURE IN GEN:LOCK Rooster Teeth’s 44 ARrEtuCrOo MSaMnEdNovDaEl Dof fTeHrsI Sja Wzz EeEdKuc Cautiboann; ptrluusm Tpuertk guraeza, t newest animation brings an all-star cast to dark horizons Wifisfuneral, Alex Cameron, Robyn Hitchcock, Joan BY RICHARD WHITTAKER Osborne, Toni Price, Jon Irabagon, Ensiferum, Tony MacAlpine, Peter Murphy, Devil Makes Three, and more 40 MUSIC 46 VENUES 48 ROADSHOWS + LIVE MUSIC 40 FASTER THAN SOUND BY RACHEL RASCOE 42 HUNT SALES Tin AUSTINCHRONICLE.COM/EVENTS Machine drummer and longtime Austinite cleans up, gets his BACK shit together, and opines on David Tbhye T Ahues Atiuns tCinh rCohnrioclnei c(lIeS SCNo:r p1o0ra7t4io-0n7 w4e0e)k ilsy p5u2b ltiismheeds Bowie, Iggy Pop, Jimi 56 THE LUV DOC per year at 4000 N. 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THOMPSON General email address: [email protected] Hey Doc, Letters online: austinchronicle.com/feedback I think you’re hysterical. Your rapportee (I Mailing address: The Austin Chronicle, can’t spell worth a shit) is mighty crunchy. I PO Box 4189, Austin, TX 78765 wonder at times if being the Luv Doc is just a front for your social commentary, your satire, and you should just step into being the Austin Hunter S. Thompson that you truly are. Tell the guy to stick to “Dear Abby.” [“Luv Doc: Embarrassing Stupidity,” Jan. 11.] Or maybe, get “It is not the critic who counts; not the man a blow job. Or go online for touchy-feely stuff if who points out how the strong man stumbles, he can’t handle pithy. or where the doer of deeds could have done Sono Osato them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives CARRY ON, SOLDIER valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and Dear Luv Doc, again, because there is no effort without error I read your reasoned response to unfounded and shortcoming; but who does actually strive criticism today and remain firmly in your court to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, [“Luv Doc: Embarrassing Stupidity,” Jan. 11]. the great devotions; who spends himself in a Those brave individuals who dare enter the worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end arena of human relationships are bound to be the triumph of high achievement, and who at attacked by those who sit on the sidelines and the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring jeer. Sure, you may hit a couple of rim shots at greatly, so that his place shall never be with times, but I find your responses to be both those cold and timid souls who neither know humorous and spot-on most of the time. victory nor defeat.” I am reminded of the quote from Theodore Carry on, Soldier. Roosevelt: Joe and June Spann UPDATED DAILY AUSTINCHRONICLE.COM/POSTMARKS austinchronicle.com JANUARY 25, 2019 THE AUSTIN CHRONICLE 5 NEWS QUOTE WEEK of the “I have a recommendation for Miss Sylvester and her lips and my back end.” – State Sen. Kel Seliger, R-Amarillo, whose “lewd comment” about Dan Patrick’s adviser Sherry Sylvester escalated the petty squabbling between the wayward senator and the lieutenant governor. See p.9. HEADLINES Austin ISD Superintendent Paul Cruz sported original TEXAS WOMEN’S MARCH L.C. Anderson High gear as he assured alumni of the Roughly 1,000 pre-integration black school that its legacy was not to participants rallied at the Texas Capitol on be tarnished. The district is moving Eastside Memorial Saturday, marking the second anniversary of the Early College High School to the L.C. Anderson site post-Trump Women’s March and the 46th anniver- in East Austin, and then moving the Liberal Arts sary of the Roe v. Wade ruling. The event featured and Science Academy to the former Johnston High dozens of speakers, including former state Senator campus, where Eastside is now. See p.10. and gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis. PAXTON VS. BDS Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has predictably asked federal district judges to deny any motion for a preliminary injunction against Texas’ law preventing state-funded compa- nies and their employees from boycotting Israel. Last month, Pflugerville ISD speech pathologist Bahia Amawi and, separately, four others repre- sented by the ACLU sued the state over the anti- boycott law, which they see as an infringement on their First Amendment rights. ARE YOU RUNNING? It seems everybody else is, for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomi- nation, as Sen. Kamala Harris and South Bend (Ind.) Mayor Pete Buttigieg joined Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Kirsten Gillibrand and former San Antonio Mayor Julián Castro as already declared candidates. A brace of others seem ready to follow: Sens. Cory Booker, Sherrod Brown, Amy Klobuchar, and occasional Democrat Bernie Sanders, maybe N former VP Joe Biden, maybe even Beto O’Rourke … O S R E HOME PRICES STEADY According to a AND report from the Austin Board of Realtors, the medi- HN O an price for single-family homes in Austin increased J 4.1% in 2018, to $375,760. Sales were flat at 9,357 Get Out of Jail, Free homes, but dollar volume increased 5.3% – and monthly housing inventory declined slightly. ABOR reported that the median price for the Austin- Round Rock metro area stayed above $300,000 for IN THE PURPLE LIGHT OF TODAY’S TEXAS, CASH BAIL LOOKS QUITE UGLY 10 consecutive months, a new record. Last August a woman named Debora Texans were (are) awaiting trial on misde- vatives have also, literally, come to Jesus, FEEDING THE FEDS The Texas AFL-CIO, the Lyons hanged herself with a bedsheet in a meanor charges. The likelihood they pose a who had something to say on this subject.) Central Labor Council, and local Democratic officials common area at the Harris County Jail in flight risk, or a danger to others, or to them- Three years ago, justice advocates and have begun a food drive in support of federal work- Houston. She had already threatened sui- selves, is quite small. lawyers brought suit in Houston federal ers harmed by the government shutdown. Bring cide at least once since being brought in on If you can afford even a fraction of your court to overturn cash bail for misdemean- canned goods and other nonperishable items to the a theft charge days earlier. Her bail was set bail amount, or have enough social capital to ors in the nation’s third-largest county, part AFL-CIO at 1106 Lavaca during business hours at $1,500. She couldn’t afford it. Just last avoid cash bail entirely, you’ll be out within of the same legal effort that resulted in Thursday and Friday, noon to 4pm Saturday and week, Tracy Whited, detained on a California’s abolition of money bail Sunday. The donations will be delivered to the misdemeanor criminal mischief statewide last fall. This month, they Central Texas Food Bank on Monday. charge, ended her life the same AUSTIN AT LARGE effectively won, and then – as an way in the same building at the observance of MLK Day – this past DOWNTOWN HATE CRIME? Austin police same jail. Her bail had been set at BY weekend filed a similar action to MIKE CLARK-MADISON have confirmed they’re investigating an attack on $3,000. She couldn’t afford it either. target felony arrests. It’s not just two gay men as a hate crime. The brutal incident Let’s just start out by calling that they won, but how they won, occurred Saturday morning in Downtown after the this not just unfortunate, but that bears some further study. couple left Rain on 4th on Austin’s small but immoral, and totally unnecessary, and not hours, costing taxpayers less than a dollar a mighty “gay strip.” See p.25 for more. even that unlikely. Just in that one jail, day to keep an eye on you, or about 1% of ELECTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES there were (as of Dec. 1) well over 6,000 the cost of keeping you in county jail. That’s It was actually way back in April 2017 TACOS AND TRANSIT Capital Metro has people in pretrial lockup; statewide, more why not just left-leaning voices for justice that the Houston plaintiffs secured an launched a new video series that hopes to get than 40,000. (In Travis County, about 1,700.) but also fiscal conservatives are on board injunction, but that was appealed by Austinites as excited about bus rides as they are Studies typically show that two-thirds of with eliminating wealth-based detention as Harris County – at the behest of 14 of the about tacos. Taco journalist Mando Rayo discussed pretrial inmates were arrested for nonvio- part of the cross-party campaign to reform county’s 16 court-at-law judges who hear the pairing on Tuesday’s first episode; next month, lent offenses; more than 5,000 of those criminal justice in America. (Some conser- CONTINUED ON P.8 AISD Superintendent Paul Cruz will hop a bus for Veracruz. Tune in via Cap Metro’s YouTube channel. ONLINE//HATE CRIME CASE | NADINE ECKHARDT | AUSTINCHRONICLE.COM/NEWS 6 THE AUSTIN CHRONICLE JANUARY 25, 2019 austinchronicle.com Carrie York NAKED CITY knows Austin! CARGILL HUMPS HIS GUN INTO THE HALL “They have to be potty-trained,” Patterson said. Local gun enthusiast and entrepreneur Michael “That’s really important.” The ACC Board approved the Cargill last week won his years-long struggle against pilot program in September and plans to expand simi- the city of Austin over his right to carry his weapon into lar services to other campuses in the future. Patterson Austin City Hall. Cargill filed the suit in 2015 after the said at least two YMCA staffers will be present at the && city, in the wake of the state’s legalizing open carry in center, with more available should the class size grow. YourDowntown, Central, most public places in Texas, declared City Hall an She expects the morning hours to be their busiest. It’s East Austin Real Estate Expert around-the-clock gun-free zone on the basis that it “first come, first served,” so Patterson recommends 512-801-0436 (sometimes) hosts courts and other functions where arriving at the campus early to make sure there is room guns are not permitted. Cargill railed against the available. The center will be open 8am-8pm Mon.-Thu., decision on his radio show on KLBJ-AM and in court as a and 8am-2pm Fri.-Sat. Parents can register online at [email protected] www.carrieyork.com violation of his Second Amendment rights, now www.austincc.edu/students/child-care/child-watch- Sales, leasing, & property management protected by Texas statute. After a protracted legal drop-in-center. – Austin Sanders battle that (of course) was joined by Texas Attorney Austin Real Pros, REALTORS® General Ken Paxton, Travis County District Judge Lora Livingston ruled on Jan. 17 that the city must comply with the 2015 law as it was intended. Cargill, and any other licensed holder, can now bring his gun into the building as long as there isn’t a Council meeting or court hearing in session. Livingston also fined the city $9,000 for violating the statute – much less than Paxton had wanted, with the judge levying the statutory fine only for those days when the AG’s own investigators were disarmed at the City Hall doors. “Consistent with the Court’s order, we will continue to ban handguns from City Hall during those times when the legislature’s limitations allow, and we will be amending our communications to clarify when our handgun ban will be in effect,” the city said in a statement. Cargill captured his triumphal armed entry into the hall for posterity on his social media. – Nina Hernandez IN CD 10, THE RACE GOES ON On Sunday afternoon, Jan. 20, Austin Assistant City Attorney Mike Siegel resumed his campaign to defeat seven-term incumbent Republican Michael McCaul in the Texas 10th Congressional District, which stretches from Austin to Houston. In November’s midterm, Siegel lost to McCaul by four points – a considerable improve- ment over McCaul’s 19-point margin in 2016 over Tawana Cadien. Siegel – who says he’ll resign from his position at the city in order to campaign full-time – said he is resuming his campaign “because the people of this district need real representation.” More than 100 people attended his “Appreciation and Action” event at his Guadalupe Street campaign headquarters. In a new campaign video, Siegel said he supports “direct democ- racy – the idea that we all have the ability to partici- pate in building a better world. … If we really do reach out and unite, there is nothing we can’t accomplish.” Siegel’s 2018 campaign was notable for its extensive field operation throughout the district, which is gerry- mandered to elect Republicans. In contrast to McCaul’s close identification with “homeland security,” Siegel emphasized universal health care, rural hospitals, and infrastructure improvements throughout CD 10. He says he’ll “hold the president accountable and work to end the dysfunction in D.C.” On Tuesday, McCaul announced his intention to seek re-election. – Michael King ACC CHILD CARE READY TO LAUNCH The YMCA-run child care drop-in center at the ACC Highland campus is now accepting registrants for the service, which is set to launch Jan. 28. Parents currently enrolled in a class, taking a test, or using a program at the Highland campus will be able to drop their children off at the center for a maximum of three hours a day, or 12 hours per week. It’s $4 per hour and open to children aged 3-12, though YMCA District Executive Director Tiffany Patterson told us that younger children could be accepted – so long as they’re not still in diapers. austinchronicle.com JANUARY 25, 2019 THE AUSTIN CHRONICLE 7 NEWS ARTS & CULTURE FOOD SCREENS MUSIC AUSTIN AT LARGE CONTINUED FROM P.6 Start Your Engines ring to it. One of the primary ways that pro- misdemeanor cases. (The sheriff, who cess failed was in the fits-and-starts pace of actually runs the jail, was named as a its stakeholder involvement and communica- defendant even though he agreed with tion. Repeatedly, the code team took in a the plaintiffs, as did the district attorney COUNCIL GEARING UP FOR LAND USE DISCUSSIONS? huge gulp of public input – from citizens, land and most of the Commissioners Court.) use commissions, and interested parties Because they were Tuff-on-Krime, and Austin City Council holds its first real ing something they can perhaps all agree on. such as the American Institute of Architects also because they were Republicans, the meeting of the new year next Thursday, Jan. They should be able to find more of those. – then went into a black box to come up with judges spent $9 million fighting bail 31. It’s also the first meeting for Council’s On the other hand, there’s Item 51, the an entirely new draft code, without ongoing reform … until they all lost, every last one two new members, and for a newly embold- second and third readings of a proposal by collaboration with those stakeholders. In the of them, in last year’s midterms, as did ened Mayor Steve Adler after his November the UT Law School Foundation to rezone end, they produced three successive first scores of other GOP judges throughout re-election victory. And that’s expected to be two properties in the North Campus area drafts – each with its merits, but each also urban Texas. And that was that. a big deal: This is supposed to be the from LR to GR, meaning from “neighborhood” flawed and incomplete – without reaching a When we talked back in November about Council That Gets Things Done – in particular to “community” retail. First reading was second or third draft on any of them. turning Texas blue inch by f*cking inch, on land use and the stalled-out land devel- approved on Dec. 13 on a 6-4 vote, with CMs Now, we’ve taken all of the feedback from this is what we meant. Now, it remains to opment code rewrite. (R.I.P. CodeNEXT.) Alter, Houston, Pool, and Tovo opposed, and that massive debacle, given it to one man – be seen how the new wave of leftist judges, Indeed, at the recent Austin FC/Major CM Renteria absent. If nothing has changed City Manager Spencer Cronk, who’s never some of whom are Socialists and Strong League Soccer celebration, Adler introduced here but Harper-Madison replacing Houston done this sort of work before – and are wait- Women of Color, will vibe with the rightist incoming CM Natasha Harper-Madison as in D1, that 6-4 will likely now be an 8-3, and ing with bated breath for him to pull a rabbit reformers who have started to breach the “cavalry” that “voters just sent us” (to … possibly the first of many such. out of yet another black box. So far, there’s walls of the prison-industrial complex. For well, kill the natives, I guess, but the meta- (Meanwhile, seven of the 10 speakers at no public indication of what he’s going to pro- example, a popular bridging step away phor kind of breaks down around there). citizen communication will be there to talk duce, or when. But it’s important to remem- from cash bail has been the adoption of Suffice to say, there’s a lot of anticipation about animal services issues.) ber that it’s just going to be the starting risk-assessment algorithms that, in princi- around this first meeting. point. He’s tasked not with fixing the code, ple, render more sensitive and just out- Ironic – and perhaps auspi- Council’s surrogates over at but with figuring out who should fix it and how. comes than does just locking up poor peo- cious – then, that the first the Planning Commission PUBLIC ple. That’s what California did, and the land use decision of the new seemed to be in a holding Supporting Federal Workers Houston-based, GOP-friendly Laura and era will be a highly technical NOTICE pattern Tuesday night. With As we approach the second missed paycheck for John Arnold Foundation (also big on school resolution, co-sponsored by much of the agenda already choice and pension reform) has designed frequent dais opponents BY tabbed for postponement, furloughed federal workers, local labor groups and the NICK Central Texas Food Bank are joining forces to collect one of the most-used tools, called the PSA. Leslie Pool and Alison Alter most of the evening was food for those harmed by the government shutdown. However, justice advocates have come on the neighborhood side, BARBARO spent on two relatively minor You can drop canned goods and other nonperishable down firmly against algorithmic approach- and Jimmy Flannigan and zoning cases, and no one items at Texas AFL-CIO headquarters (1106 Lavaca es that can and do perpetuate socioeco- Greg Casar on the density saw much point in revving up #200) through this weekend: 9am-5pm Thursday and nomic and racial disparities. side, plus cavalrywoman the arguments that will surely Friday, noon-4pm Saturday and Sunday. Harper-Madison herself. The ensue when the code rewrite And for the duration of the shutdown, your federal IT CAN’T HAPPEN HERE? changes relate to “alternative equivalent project starts up again. Even Commissioner government employee ID lets you ride free on all Cap It also remains to be seen how this tide compliance with front and street side Greg Anderson, while delivering his usual Metro services, including MetroRail and MetroAccess. will wash up on the sands of Travis County, upper-story building façade stepback exasperated laments about how slowly Old City of Austin Utilities is on board as well, post- which hasn’t elected a GOP judge since development standards” in the North Austin is getting torn down to make way for poning collection activities and disconnections for Jurassic times and has for years touted its Burnet/Gateway Regulating Plan. That’s seri- New Austin, ended each one with some variant those who are affected by the shutdown and helping to progressive approaches to pretrial diver- ously opaque and boring stuff, and hard to fit of, “But I guess we’ll just have to wait for now, match folks up with the Customer Assistance Programs sion, restorative justice, etc. However, in a headline; but then, that’s what zoning and see what the city manager brings us.” available at www.austinenergy.com. n Austin is not as woke as we like to think. and building codes are. Not to read too much For everyone who lived through the On a per capita basis, our jail is just as full- symbolism into a minor resolution, but it’s CodeNEXT slow-motion train wreck of the last Send gossip, dirt, innuendo, rumors, and other up with pretrial detainees as Houston’s good to see Council starting the year by find- four years, that has an ominously familiar useful grist to [email protected]. (the local incarceration rate is worse in rural counties), and justice advocates have CIVICS 101 DUTY NOW FOR THE FUTURE pushed back on, for example, building more women’s beds at the Travis County Jail. Some of our local criminal district and THURSDAY 1/24 SATURDAY 1/26 MONDAY 1/28 WEDNESDAY 1/30 court-at-law judges may feel a draft blow- HOUSING AFFORDABILITY The LBJ READY, SET, PLANT! Volunteer to plant CAP METRO BOARD DISPARITY STUDY The SMBR ing from their left when the 2020 primary Future Forum unites local leaders and citizens seedlings along Williamson Creek at Heart wood. MEETING The Austin department wants feedback. 6-7pm. filing period opens at year’s end. to discuss ideas and ongoing efforts. 6-7:30pm. Wear closed-toe shoes and long pants! 9am- Coalition for Transit asks Mexican American Cultural Center, 600 River. At the same time, the center-right of the LBJ Library, 2313 Red River. www.atxfriends.org. noon. 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Registration required. www.treefolks.org. sion, experience, or common sense. The Cover Texas Now coalition discuss health Noon-2:30pm. AARC, 8401 Cameron. www. BIZAID ORIENTA- CITY COUNCIL MEETING See Statesman and KXAN have both ridden care and the current legislative session. 6:30- communityadvocacyhealing.org. TION An overview of Public Notice, above. 10am. City Hall, that “investigative” train, met at the sta- 8:30pm. Willie Mae Kirk Library, 3101 Oak Springs. FIX-IT CLINIC Bring broken jewelry, electron- onpeessn inagn da rnee-ewv aslmuaatliln bg uasni- 301 W. Second. www.austintexas.gov. tion by legislators – or, last fall, Greg FRIDAY 1/25 ics, etc., and learn how to fix them. Noon-3pm. existing one. 9-10:30am. AARC COMMUNITY MEETING Abbott himself – offering new laws, bear- Recycled Reads, 5335 Burnet. www.austintexas.gov. Entrepreneur Center, 4029 Help develop a master plan that aligns HEALING IN THE VILLAGE A confer- STAND FOR CHOICE The counter pro- Capital of TX Hwy. 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Online. www.allgo.org. 8 THE AUSTIN CHRONICLE JANUARY 25, 2019 austinchronicle.com Injunction Lifted in Medicaid Case The conservative-leaning 5th U.S. Court The 5th Circuit order, issued Jan. 18, did of Appeals has lifted an order blocking not address the merits of the case, but the Texas from ousting Planned Parenthood three-judge panel peppered its 36-page filing affiliates as Medicaid health care providers. with skepticism over Sparks’ ruling, knocking A three-judge panel of the New Orleans- the judge for not giving the state’s case the based appellate court remanded the case deference they thought it deserved. Upon back down to Austin-based U.S. Judge Sam remand, the 5CA has ordered Sparks to Sparks for reconsideration; for now, determine if Texas’ actions were “arbitrary Planned Parenthood remains in Medicaid and capricious,” a more difficult standard until Feb. 8. to meet. Texas has sought to withhold funding from Previously, the appellate court had ruled Planned Parenthood for years, but the highly that Louisiana’s similar effort to defund politicized 2015 decision to kick PP out of Planned Parenthood was unmerited (a deci- Medicaid entirely was spurred by deceptively sion left standing by the Supreme Court this edited and widely discredited “sting” videos past December), but Judge Edith Jones – produced by the anti-choice Center for who often ardently sides with the state in Medical Progress. These purported to show abortion cases – criticized Sparks for being PP physicians discussing the use of fetal tis- too “dismissive” of the Texas Health and sue in research. Planned Parenthood, which Human Services Com mission’s official denied any improper conduct, delivers about report concluding the videos did show $3 million annually in preventive and repro- Planned Parenthood doing wrong. (It’s no ductive health care to about 12,000 low- wonder why Sparks did so: The HHSC inspec- income Texans. tor general admitted during testimony he had The resulting nationwide uproar led to not actually watched the videos prior to issu- (failed) efforts to defund PP at the federal ing the termination letter, and the state level; Texas officials announced their intent offered no other evidence.) The judges sig- to do the same, but delayed final action for naled their own leanings by including a graph- more than a year, by which time Planned ic, bloody image of fetal tissue from the Parenthood had filed suit. In February 2017, video in their ruling. Sparks found the state’s action would cause Planned Parenthood tells us it is currently irreparable injury to PP’s Medicaid clients and weighing its legal options. “Rest assured, issued his injunction, slamming Texas’ argu- Planned Parenthood’s doors are open to its ment as more like a “bestselling novel” than patients today and they will be open tomor- a deliberate investigation of Medicaid malfea- row,” said Yvonne Gutierrez, executive sance (“Judge Blocks Texas From Kicking director of Planned Parenthood Texas Votes. Planned Parenthood Out of Medicaid,” Feb. “We will fight tooth and nail to protect access 21, 2017). to health care for all Texans.” – Mary Tuma YES, DAN PATRICK IS REALLY THAT PETTY The first throwing of hands in the 86th Texas about lewd comments from senators, see our cover Legislature has gone down within the ruling GOP, story on p.14.) Seliger apologized for being mean to between Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and Sen. Kel Seliger, Sylvester when his beef is really with Patrick, because R-Amarillo, a more moderate voice in the upper cham- “I have consistently stood up for rural Texas, local con- ber. Last Friday, Patrick released his committee assign- trol, and public education rather than trumpeting the ments for the session with some notable changes, such lieutenant governor’s pet projects of bathroom regula- as relieving alleged sexter Charles Schwertner, tion and private school vouchers.” R-Georgetown, of his chairmanship of As is quickly becoming the norm, the Health and Human Services and ousting adults in the House managed to avoid Seliger from his high-profile seats on any of this strange behavior when that Higher Education (which he chaired), chamber’s committee assignments LEGE Public Education, and Finance. Instead, were announced Wednesday. he assigned Seliger to helm Agriculture Continuing to sound his progress- LINES (a reduced committee stripped of its over-party theme, new Speaker previous purview over water issues). Dennis Bonnen, R-Angleton, named Drama ensued. El Paso Democrat Joe Moody as Seliger called the move a “very speaker pro tem (a role Bonnen served clear warning” that Patrick will punish last session under Joe Straus); noncompliant Republicans. Patrick adviser Sherry Democrats, with 12 more reps than in 2017, also gained Sylvester then said that if the new post is “beneath” the chairmanships of Higher Education and him, Seliger should let the Lite Guv know so he can Transportation. Bonnen named Dustin Burrows, appoint someone else. Then, on a radio show, Seliger R-Lubbock, to replace himself at the helm of Ways and called Sylvester’s remarks “snide and unbecoming” Means; Dade Phelan, R-Beaumont, to take over State and told her … well … “I have a recommendation for Affairs; and Four Price, R-Amarillo, to chair Calendars, Miss Sylvester and her lips and my back end.” Burn! with John Zerwas, R-Richmond, remaining atop the After taking a break for MLK Day, the high-school budget-writing Appropriations committee. Of the local hijinks resumed, with Patrick deposing Seliger from the delegation, Austin Reps. Gina Hinojosa and Donna Agriculture chairmanship for refusing to apologize for Howard will serve as vice chairs of, respectively, the “lewd” comment about a “female staffer that Human Services and House Administration. shocked everyone.” (To see what Patrick really thinks – Mary Tuma, Mike Clark-Madison austinchronicle.com JANUARY 25, 2019 THE AUSTIN CHRONICLE 9 NEWS ARTS & CULTURE FOOD SCREENS MUSIC Starting to Shuffle AISD SETS EASTSIDE HIGH SCHOOLS IN MOTION The “Eastside Shuffle” is officially under- practices – and LBJ, which offers a program way at Austin ISD, after a groundbreaking that allows students to gain college credit in ceremony Saturday at what will be the new health sciences courses. home for students at Eastside Memorial The moves have caused a stir among the Early College High School. Beginning in district’s Eastside communities. While on August 2021, after $80.6 million in upgrades, the board, former District 1 Trustee Ted Eastside Memorial will occupy a modern- Gor don took issue with moving LASA ized campus at the site of the original L.C. because, he said, moving the LASA magnet Anderson High School on Thompson Street school out of LBJ would deprive the dis- in East Austin. trict’s east and northeast families from hav- The shuffle will impact students at three ing one of AISD’s best schools in their AISD high schools, the outcome of con- backyard. At the same time, alumni of L.C. struction projects included in the $1.05 bil- Anderson High School have expressed con- N lion bond package approved by voters in cern that the district will fail to honor that O S District officials and community leaders November 2017. Currently, school’s long legacy as a DER turn dirt at Old Anderson, to become students at Eastside “WE CARE ABOUT point of pride in Austin’s AN the new home of Eastside Memorial N Memorial attend school at THE FUTURE, BUT WE black community. OH the former Johnston “Old Anderson” was J High School campus in WANT TO MAKE SURE opened in 1889 as part of the groundbreaking Saturday was a full-on handle the reopening of the school. AISD East Austin, but they THAT WE HONOR the Robertson Hill School, ceremony, with area elected officials in has applied for state and national historic (along with students in Austin’s first school for attendance and a speaker lineup that includ- recognition of the site, and the district has WHAT’S HAPPENED IN AISD’s International High black students. After ed AISD Superintendent Paul Cruz, Board committed to restoring the school’s iconic School, which shares OUR PAST AND MAKE being spun off in 1907, it of Trustees Vice President Cindy Anders on, entryway as one way of honoring its legacy. space with Eastside) will was named first for E.H. and members of the Original L.C. Ander­ But as Gilbert Jones, class of ’69, put it, THINGS RIGHT.” move to the old Anderson Anderson (founding prin- son Alumni Association. The program also AISD “has to do more than just preserve campus – site of the – PAUL CRUZ cipal of what is now featured panel conversations with current the building.” He said the school “shaped district’s pre-integration Prairie View A&M) and Eastside Memorial students and L.C. me and my life” as not just a venue for his black high school. then for his brother L.C. Anderson (first Anderson alumni, spotlighting issues such education, but also as a community hub for Meanwhile, the Liberal Arts and Science principal of the Austin school) upon the lat- as “pride,” “pain,” and “perseverance.” him and his Eastside neighbors. “I want to Academy (LASA), currently housed at the ter’s death in 1938. Formerly located where The proceedings and discussions returned make sure [AISD] preserves that history for LBJ Early College High School campus in Kealing Middle School is now, Old Anderson often to themes of preservation and of future generations.” Northeast Austin, will move to the Johnston opened at the Thompson Street location in redressing past wrongs to AISD’s Eastside Another speaker, Johnnie Mae Coleman campus following a $10.3 million modern- 1953 but was ordered closed in 1971 as part communities. “We care about the future, Overton, who graduated from L.C. Anderson ization effort there. (That campus may also of the years-long court battle to desegregate but we want to make sure that we honor in 1952, reminded AISD leaders that their be renamed before then, as it currently Austin schools. The current L.C. Anderson what’s happened in our past and make handling of the shuffle would be watched bears the name of Confederate Gen. Albert High School in Northwest Austin opened in things right,” Cruz told the audience. closely. “I have a special request for Dr. Sidney Johnston.) District leaders say that 1973; that campus’ first principal, Charles “That’s what today is about: making things Cruz, board members, and those from the shuffle will allow more students to Akins, now also has an AISD high school right, and making them right with pride, Eastside Memorial, International High enroll at both LASA – one of the district’s named for him. integrity, and honor.” School, and the original Anderson alumni,” most popular and academically successful With district leaders aware of the precari- Several L.C. Anderson alumni inter- said Overton. “I hope you will remember schools, although it has come under scruti- ous lines they’re walking as they execute viewed at the ceremony echoed a sense of that a promise made is a promise kept.” ny in the past for its selective admission the “Eastside Shuffle,” it’s no surprise that cautious optimism at how the district will – Austin Sanders APD POISED FOR COMPREHENSIVE RAPE CASE AUDIT were closed without meeting a single one of the four criteria. On Jan. 21, the eight named plaintiffs in the sexual assault class action suit filed against the city, Travis Count y, local Last week, Austin Police Chief Brian Manley announced cess will likely be a topic of discussion at next week’s meet- law enforcement, and the District Attorney’s Office issued an that the department’s handling of sexual assault cases – ing.) Grassroots advocate group Survivor Justice Project open letter in response to Manley’s announcement. The plain- from the 911 call to case closure – will undergo a third-party has applauded Alter and co-sponsors Greg Casar, Delia tiffs – local rape survivors who allege that systemic failure audit. He isn’t the only one calling for a comprehensive Garza, Ann Kitchen, and Mayor Steve Adler. led to the mistreatment and neglect of their cases – wrote review; City Council Member Alison Alter’s These moves follow the recent Texas they’re “encouraged to hear” APD is calling for the audit. “We office confirmed that she will sponsor a resolu- Department of Public Safety audit requested by believe the issues raised in our case should be addressed in tion at the Jan. 31 Council meeting to direct the Manley, in the wake of local criticism and national such an audit, and hope we can be a productive part of City Manager’s Office to conduct a “start to fin- headlines suggesting the department has been too changing the department in a way that is responsive to vic- ish” review of APD’s full catalog of sexual quick to close cases that should be pursued in the tims. This is a good first step.” The letter then turns toward assault cases from the past seven years. cause of justice. The DPS team reviewed 95 sexual the D.A.’s Office, which has also been accused of failing sur- Alter’s office said the resolution, which has assault cases from 2017 to ensure the depart- vivors by too often failing to prosecute sexual assault cases. been in the works for “well over a month,” will ment was correctly using the federal “exceptional “The [D.A.]’s Office decided that our testimony wasn’t call for a retrospective look to identify root JA clearance” code for cases closed without an arrest. enough, our physical injuries weren’t enough, the level of vio- causes for how APD ended up with numerous NA Under federal guidelines, four requirements must lence perpetrated against us wasn’t enough, the presence of misclassified cases, and recommendations on BIR be met to close a case “exceptionally”: Officers DNA wasn’t enough, and our efforts to cooperate and partici- how to best move forward and avoid future mis- APD Chief Brian Manley CH need to have identified a suspect, know their pate throughout the criminal justice process weren’t enough. U takes. With the resolution, which should be post- M whereabouts, and have enough evidence to make … We look forward to the day [D.A.] [Margaret] Moore com- ed by Friday, Alter asks not just for a third-party review as an arrest, but for some legitimate reason do not. Of the 95 mits to the same type of independent and transparent exter- Manley has pledged, but for an evaluation conducted by a randomly selected cases reviewed by DPS, fewer than a third nal audit, and ultimately, to a … criminal justice system that nongovernmental entity without ties to APD. (How that could were closed correctly; around a third failed to meet at least prioritizes survivors, justice, and public safety.” – Sarah Marloff be managed through the city’s and APD’s procurement pro- one of the requirements – 17 missed two, while five cases See the plaintiffs’ open letter with this story online. 10 THE AUSTIN CHRONICLE JANUARY 25, 2019 austinchronicle.com

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DAN FREE PATRICK: His failure to take action seems to say: BUT NOT CHEAP “IF IT AIN’T BROKE, DON’T FIX IT” BORRIS MILES: CHARLES SCHWERTNER: Interns allege FONDLING Did the SKEEVY and FOUL LANGUAGE: SENATOR send SALACIOUS “B***H, SEXTS to YOU WANT a GRAD TO F**K STUDENT? WITH ME TONIGHT?” CARLOS URESTI: Were his INTERVIEWS with female members of the press a little TOO EXCLUSIVE? ma asks: Mary WTuILL IT TAKE WtoH cAuTr bm Ceanpt?itolP .14 harass TEXAS HOUSE BOMBSHELL: Representatives conduct BUSINESS AS USUAL after adopting SENSIBLE WORKPLACE RULES. JANUARY 25, 2019 VOLUME 38, NUMBER 22 austinchronicle.com austinchronicle.com JANUARY 25, 2019 THE AUSTIN CHRONICLE 3 CONTENTS JANUARY 25, 2019 VOLUME 38, NUMBER 22 PUBLISHER Nick Barbaro EDITORIAL EDITOR Kimberley Jones NEWS EDITOR Mike Clark-Madison ARTS Robert Faires FOOD Jessi Cape SCREENS Richard Whittaker MUSIC Raoul Hernandez WEB James Renovitch CHRONEVENTS ARTS LISTINGS & FOOD EVENTS Wayne Alan Brenner SPECIAL SCREENINGS & COMMUNITY LISTINGS Danielle White GAY PLACE & CIVICS LISTINGS Sarah Marloff CLUB LISTINGS Greg Stitt STAFF WRITERS Kevin Curtin, Nina Hernandez, Michael King, Mary Tuma CONTRIBUTING WRITERS FILM Marjorie Baumgarten FAR FLUNG CORRESPONDENCE Emily Beyda DAY TRIPS Gerald E. McLeod 14 COVER STORY: Scandal! MR. SMARTY PANTS R.U. Steinberg COVER BY THE CHRONICLE ART STAFF PRODUCTION ART DIRECTOR Jason Stout 5 FEEDBACK PRODUCTION MANAGER Zeke Barbaro WEB DIRECTOR Brian Barry DIRECTOR OF DIGITAL STRATEGY Michael Bartnett GRAPHIC DESIGNERS Jeff Gammill, Katie Neustaedter 6 NEWS STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERS John Anderson, Jana Birchum, David Brendan Hall PROOFREADERS Jasmine Lane, Kat McNevins, 6 AUSTIN AT LARGE Greg Stitt, Beth Sullivan INTERNS Todd Bernhagen, Lilli Hime, Alex Puente BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON ADVERTISING 7 ADVERTISING DIRECTOR Cassidy Frazier Naked City; Medicaid; Petty SENIOR ACCOUNT EXECUTIVES Jerald Corder, Patrick; AISD; APD Rape Case Carolyn Phillips, Lois Richwine Audits; SOAH; Death Watch; more 13 ACMCaOrUisNaT MEXirEaCbUaTl,I VGElSo rDiaa vWidil lKialempspoen, 14 SEX AND THE SENATE What will CLASSIFIEDS/LEGAL NOTICES Bobby Leath it take to curb Capitol harasshment? OPERATIONS COORDINATOR Trace Thurman BY MARY TUMA DIGITAL COORDINATOR Tamar Price MARKETING DIRECTOR/PR Sarah Wolf MARKETING MANAGER Karena Rogers LUV DOC/CIRCULATION/SPECIAL EVENTS Dan Hardick 20 ARTS & CULTURE STREET TEAM Kelsey Baker, Sommer Brugal, Anna Cherian, Andrea Dane, Andrea Fuentes, Daniela Garcia,A Oshrclehyi dG Greaerncisat,e iSna, nJdenran aG iHsie, rLriinsgat oGno,s Esleiatts, 20 VALUE MEALS At UT’s Visual Arts Center, The Supper Club Huerta, Will Josma, Allen Martinez, Patricia May, gives artists of color an important place to be seen and heard Bobby Mickey, Camille Morell, Andrew Osegi, BY ROBERT FAIRES NATJIOonNaALs ASDpVirEaR, TCISoIkNaG TVreovicineo M, Aeldlyia W Garroruepn 8 CIVICS 101 33 (888/278-9866, www.vmgadvertising.com) 18 CALENDAR OFFICE STAFF 30 FOOD 31 CONTROLLER Liz Franklin 22 ARTS EVENTS Sweat, Hope of Loving, and “When OFFICE MANAGER/SUCBRSECDRITIP MTIAONNASG CERa rcriine dYyo usonog 30 REVIEW Otherside Deli Everything Has Been Said” ACCOUNTING ASSISTANT Chelsea Taylor BY JESSI CAPE 25 QMMUNITY BY SARAH MARLOFF INFO DESK Zach Pearce SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR Brandon Watkins ICYMI Milano Cafe 28 COMMUNITY EVENTS HE’S IN PARTIES Hank BY LAUREN JONES DAY TRIPS BY GERALD E. MCLEOD Leticia de la Vega, PCerIryR DCrakUe, JLarAedT EsIqOuivNel, 31 KETO BAGELS 29 SOCCER WATCH BY NICK BARBARO Tom Fairchild, Ruben Flores, Jonina Foel-Sommers, Pflugerville’s alternative Andrew Gerfers, Suzette Johnson, Kevin Kinkade, bakery sells goods at 31 FOOD EVENTS Eric McKinney, Grant Melcher, Paul Minor, Cherrywood Coffeehouse Norm Reed, Nick RosemanB,r Zyaenb ZSiorkmemlbearcsh, and other local spots 33 MOVIE LISTINGS Cold War, The Kid Who Would Be King, BY JESSI CAPE Serenity, Stan & Ollie CONTRIBUTORS 72 DGoruegg FBreeeemtsa, nR,o Rby Barne Hzsennyn, eEsliszeaeb,e Stha mCo Hbubret,, 36 SPECIAL SCREENINGS Lauren Jones, Matthew Monagle, Lance Myers, 32 SCREENS 38 SHOWTIMES Alejandra Ramirez, Rachel Rascoe, Austin Sanders, MTaorcm S Taovmloovr, rJoewre, mDye rSetke iUndbeenrgsei,r ,T Modicdh aV.e lW Toollfasnodn, 32 REDRAWING THE FUTURE IN GEN:LOCK Rooster Teeth’s 44 ARrEtuCrOo MSaMnEdNovDaEl Dof fTeHrsI Sja Wzz EeEdKuc Cautiboann; ptrluusm Tpuertk guraeza, t newest animation brings an all-star cast to dark horizons Wifisfuneral, Alex Cameron, Robyn Hitchcock, Joan BY RICHARD WHITTAKER Osborne, Toni Price, Jon Irabagon, Ensiferum, Tony MacAlpine, Peter Murphy, Devil Makes Three, and more 40 MUSIC 46 VENUES 48 ROADSHOWS + LIVE MUSIC 40 FASTER THAN SOUND BY RACHEL RASCOE 42 HUNT SALES Tin AUSTINCHRONICLE.COM/EVENTS Machine drummer and longtime Austinite cleans up, gets his BACK shit together, and opines on David Tbhye T Ahues Atiuns tCinh rCohnrioclnei c(lIeS SCNo:r p1o0ra7t4io-0n7 w4e0e)k ilsy p5u2b ltiismheeds Bowie, Iggy Pop, Jimi 56 THE LUV DOC per year at 4000 N. 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THOMPSON General email address: [email protected] Hey Doc, Letters online: austinchronicle.com/feedback I think you’re hysterical. Your rapportee (I Mailing address: The Austin Chronicle, can’t spell worth a shit) is mighty crunchy. I PO Box 4189, Austin, TX 78765 wonder at times if being the Luv Doc is just a front for your social commentary, your satire, and you should just step into being the Austin Hunter S. Thompson that you truly are. Tell the guy to stick to “Dear Abby.” [“Luv Doc: Embarrassing Stupidity,” Jan. 11.] Or maybe, get “It is not the critic who counts; not the man a blow job. Or go online for touchy-feely stuff if who points out how the strong man stumbles, he can’t handle pithy. or where the doer of deeds could have done Sono Osato them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives CARRY ON, SOLDIER valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and Dear Luv Doc, again, because there is no effort without error I read your reasoned response to unfounded and shortcoming; but who does actually strive criticism today and remain firmly in your court to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, [“Luv Doc: Embarrassing Stupidity,” Jan. 11]. the great devotions; who spends himself in a Those brave individuals who dare enter the worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end arena of human relationships are bound to be the triumph of high achievement, and who at attacked by those who sit on the sidelines and the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring jeer. Sure, you may hit a couple of rim shots at greatly, so that his place shall never be with times, but I find your responses to be both those cold and timid souls who neither know humorous and spot-on most of the time. victory nor defeat.” I am reminded of the quote from Theodore Carry on, Soldier. Roosevelt: Joe and June Spann UPDATED DAILY AUSTINCHRONICLE.COM/POSTMARKS austinchronicle.com JANUARY 25, 2019 THE AUSTIN CHRONICLE 5 NEWS QUOTE WEEK of the “I have a recommendation for Miss Sylvester and her lips and my back end.” – State Sen. Kel Seliger, R-Amarillo, whose “lewd comment” about Dan Patrick’s adviser Sherry Sylvester escalated the petty squabbling between the wayward senator and the lieutenant governor. See p.9. HEADLINES Austin ISD Superintendent Paul Cruz sported original TEXAS WOMEN’S MARCH L.C. Anderson High gear as he assured alumni of the Roughly 1,000 pre-integration black school that its legacy was not to participants rallied at the Texas Capitol on be tarnished. The district is moving Eastside Memorial Saturday, marking the second anniversary of the Early College High School to the L.C. Anderson site post-Trump Women’s March and the 46th anniver- in East Austin, and then moving the Liberal Arts sary of the Roe v. Wade ruling. The event featured and Science Academy to the former Johnston High dozens of speakers, including former state Senator campus, where Eastside is now. See p.10. and gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis. PAXTON VS. BDS Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has predictably asked federal district judges to deny any motion for a preliminary injunction against Texas’ law preventing state-funded compa- nies and their employees from boycotting Israel. Last month, Pflugerville ISD speech pathologist Bahia Amawi and, separately, four others repre- sented by the ACLU sued the state over the anti- boycott law, which they see as an infringement on their First Amendment rights. ARE YOU RUNNING? It seems everybody else is, for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomi- nation, as Sen. Kamala Harris and South Bend (Ind.) Mayor Pete Buttigieg joined Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Kirsten Gillibrand and former San Antonio Mayor Julián Castro as already declared candidates. A brace of others seem ready to follow: Sens. Cory Booker, Sherrod Brown, Amy Klobuchar, and occasional Democrat Bernie Sanders, maybe N former VP Joe Biden, maybe even Beto O’Rourke … O S R E HOME PRICES STEADY According to a AND report from the Austin Board of Realtors, the medi- HN O an price for single-family homes in Austin increased J 4.1% in 2018, to $375,760. Sales were flat at 9,357 Get Out of Jail, Free homes, but dollar volume increased 5.3% – and monthly housing inventory declined slightly. ABOR reported that the median price for the Austin- Round Rock metro area stayed above $300,000 for IN THE PURPLE LIGHT OF TODAY’S TEXAS, CASH BAIL LOOKS QUITE UGLY 10 consecutive months, a new record. Last August a woman named Debora Texans were (are) awaiting trial on misde- vatives have also, literally, come to Jesus, FEEDING THE FEDS The Texas AFL-CIO, the Lyons hanged herself with a bedsheet in a meanor charges. The likelihood they pose a who had something to say on this subject.) Central Labor Council, and local Democratic officials common area at the Harris County Jail in flight risk, or a danger to others, or to them- Three years ago, justice advocates and have begun a food drive in support of federal work- Houston. She had already threatened sui- selves, is quite small. lawyers brought suit in Houston federal ers harmed by the government shutdown. Bring cide at least once since being brought in on If you can afford even a fraction of your court to overturn cash bail for misdemean- canned goods and other nonperishable items to the a theft charge days earlier. Her bail was set bail amount, or have enough social capital to ors in the nation’s third-largest county, part AFL-CIO at 1106 Lavaca during business hours at $1,500. She couldn’t afford it. Just last avoid cash bail entirely, you’ll be out within of the same legal effort that resulted in Thursday and Friday, noon to 4pm Saturday and week, Tracy Whited, detained on a California’s abolition of money bail Sunday. The donations will be delivered to the misdemeanor criminal mischief statewide last fall. This month, they Central Texas Food Bank on Monday. charge, ended her life the same AUSTIN AT LARGE effectively won, and then – as an way in the same building at the observance of MLK Day – this past DOWNTOWN HATE CRIME? Austin police same jail. Her bail had been set at BY weekend filed a similar action to MIKE CLARK-MADISON have confirmed they’re investigating an attack on $3,000. She couldn’t afford it either. target felony arrests. It’s not just two gay men as a hate crime. The brutal incident Let’s just start out by calling that they won, but how they won, occurred Saturday morning in Downtown after the this not just unfortunate, but that bears some further study. couple left Rain on 4th on Austin’s small but immoral, and totally unnecessary, and not hours, costing taxpayers less than a dollar a mighty “gay strip.” See p.25 for more. even that unlikely. Just in that one jail, day to keep an eye on you, or about 1% of ELECTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES there were (as of Dec. 1) well over 6,000 the cost of keeping you in county jail. That’s It was actually way back in April 2017 TACOS AND TRANSIT Capital Metro has people in pretrial lockup; statewide, more why not just left-leaning voices for justice that the Houston plaintiffs secured an launched a new video series that hopes to get than 40,000. (In Travis County, about 1,700.) but also fiscal conservatives are on board injunction, but that was appealed by Austinites as excited about bus rides as they are Studies typically show that two-thirds of with eliminating wealth-based detention as Harris County – at the behest of 14 of the about tacos. Taco journalist Mando Rayo discussed pretrial inmates were arrested for nonvio- part of the cross-party campaign to reform county’s 16 court-at-law judges who hear the pairing on Tuesday’s first episode; next month, lent offenses; more than 5,000 of those criminal justice in America. (Some conser- CONTINUED ON P.8 AISD Superintendent Paul Cruz will hop a bus for Veracruz. Tune in via Cap Metro’s YouTube channel. ONLINE//HATE CRIME CASE | NADINE ECKHARDT | AUSTINCHRONICLE.COM/NEWS 6 THE AUSTIN CHRONICLE JANUARY 25, 2019 austinchronicle.com Carrie York NAKED CITY knows Austin! CARGILL HUMPS HIS GUN INTO THE HALL “They have to be potty-trained,” Patterson said. Local gun enthusiast and entrepreneur Michael “That’s really important.” The ACC Board approved the Cargill last week won his years-long struggle against pilot program in September and plans to expand simi- the city of Austin over his right to carry his weapon into lar services to other campuses in the future. Patterson Austin City Hall. Cargill filed the suit in 2015 after the said at least two YMCA staffers will be present at the && city, in the wake of the state’s legalizing open carry in center, with more available should the class size grow. YourDowntown, Central, most public places in Texas, declared City Hall an She expects the morning hours to be their busiest. It’s East Austin Real Estate Expert around-the-clock gun-free zone on the basis that it “first come, first served,” so Patterson recommends 512-801-0436 (sometimes) hosts courts and other functions where arriving at the campus early to make sure there is room guns are not permitted. Cargill railed against the available. The center will be open 8am-8pm Mon.-Thu., decision on his radio show on KLBJ-AM and in court as a and 8am-2pm Fri.-Sat. Parents can register online at [email protected] www.carrieyork.com violation of his Second Amendment rights, now www.austincc.edu/students/child-care/child-watch- Sales, leasing, & property management protected by Texas statute. After a protracted legal drop-in-center. – Austin Sanders battle that (of course) was joined by Texas Attorney Austin Real Pros, REALTORS® General Ken Paxton, Travis County District Judge Lora Livingston ruled on Jan. 17 that the city must comply with the 2015 law as it was intended. Cargill, and any other licensed holder, can now bring his gun into the building as long as there isn’t a Council meeting or court hearing in session. Livingston also fined the city $9,000 for violating the statute – much less than Paxton had wanted, with the judge levying the statutory fine only for those days when the AG’s own investigators were disarmed at the City Hall doors. “Consistent with the Court’s order, we will continue to ban handguns from City Hall during those times when the legislature’s limitations allow, and we will be amending our communications to clarify when our handgun ban will be in effect,” the city said in a statement. Cargill captured his triumphal armed entry into the hall for posterity on his social media. – Nina Hernandez IN CD 10, THE RACE GOES ON On Sunday afternoon, Jan. 20, Austin Assistant City Attorney Mike Siegel resumed his campaign to defeat seven-term incumbent Republican Michael McCaul in the Texas 10th Congressional District, which stretches from Austin to Houston. In November’s midterm, Siegel lost to McCaul by four points – a considerable improve- ment over McCaul’s 19-point margin in 2016 over Tawana Cadien. Siegel – who says he’ll resign from his position at the city in order to campaign full-time – said he is resuming his campaign “because the people of this district need real representation.” More than 100 people attended his “Appreciation and Action” event at his Guadalupe Street campaign headquarters. In a new campaign video, Siegel said he supports “direct democ- racy – the idea that we all have the ability to partici- pate in building a better world. … If we really do reach out and unite, there is nothing we can’t accomplish.” Siegel’s 2018 campaign was notable for its extensive field operation throughout the district, which is gerry- mandered to elect Republicans. In contrast to McCaul’s close identification with “homeland security,” Siegel emphasized universal health care, rural hospitals, and infrastructure improvements throughout CD 10. He says he’ll “hold the president accountable and work to end the dysfunction in D.C.” On Tuesday, McCaul announced his intention to seek re-election. – Michael King ACC CHILD CARE READY TO LAUNCH The YMCA-run child care drop-in center at the ACC Highland campus is now accepting registrants for the service, which is set to launch Jan. 28. Parents currently enrolled in a class, taking a test, or using a program at the Highland campus will be able to drop their children off at the center for a maximum of three hours a day, or 12 hours per week. It’s $4 per hour and open to children aged 3-12, though YMCA District Executive Director Tiffany Patterson told us that younger children could be accepted – so long as they’re not still in diapers. austinchronicle.com JANUARY 25, 2019 THE AUSTIN CHRONICLE 7 NEWS ARTS & CULTURE FOOD SCREENS MUSIC AUSTIN AT LARGE CONTINUED FROM P.6 Start Your Engines ring to it. One of the primary ways that pro- misdemeanor cases. (The sheriff, who cess failed was in the fits-and-starts pace of actually runs the jail, was named as a its stakeholder involvement and communica- defendant even though he agreed with tion. Repeatedly, the code team took in a the plaintiffs, as did the district attorney COUNCIL GEARING UP FOR LAND USE DISCUSSIONS? huge gulp of public input – from citizens, land and most of the Commissioners Court.) use commissions, and interested parties Because they were Tuff-on-Krime, and Austin City Council holds its first real ing something they can perhaps all agree on. such as the American Institute of Architects also because they were Republicans, the meeting of the new year next Thursday, Jan. They should be able to find more of those. – then went into a black box to come up with judges spent $9 million fighting bail 31. It’s also the first meeting for Council’s On the other hand, there’s Item 51, the an entirely new draft code, without ongoing reform … until they all lost, every last one two new members, and for a newly embold- second and third readings of a proposal by collaboration with those stakeholders. In the of them, in last year’s midterms, as did ened Mayor Steve Adler after his November the UT Law School Foundation to rezone end, they produced three successive first scores of other GOP judges throughout re-election victory. And that’s expected to be two properties in the North Campus area drafts – each with its merits, but each also urban Texas. And that was that. a big deal: This is supposed to be the from LR to GR, meaning from “neighborhood” flawed and incomplete – without reaching a When we talked back in November about Council That Gets Things Done – in particular to “community” retail. First reading was second or third draft on any of them. turning Texas blue inch by f*cking inch, on land use and the stalled-out land devel- approved on Dec. 13 on a 6-4 vote, with CMs Now, we’ve taken all of the feedback from this is what we meant. Now, it remains to opment code rewrite. (R.I.P. CodeNEXT.) Alter, Houston, Pool, and Tovo opposed, and that massive debacle, given it to one man – be seen how the new wave of leftist judges, Indeed, at the recent Austin FC/Major CM Renteria absent. If nothing has changed City Manager Spencer Cronk, who’s never some of whom are Socialists and Strong League Soccer celebration, Adler introduced here but Harper-Madison replacing Houston done this sort of work before – and are wait- Women of Color, will vibe with the rightist incoming CM Natasha Harper-Madison as in D1, that 6-4 will likely now be an 8-3, and ing with bated breath for him to pull a rabbit reformers who have started to breach the “cavalry” that “voters just sent us” (to … possibly the first of many such. out of yet another black box. So far, there’s walls of the prison-industrial complex. For well, kill the natives, I guess, but the meta- (Meanwhile, seven of the 10 speakers at no public indication of what he’s going to pro- example, a popular bridging step away phor kind of breaks down around there). citizen communication will be there to talk duce, or when. But it’s important to remem- from cash bail has been the adoption of Suffice to say, there’s a lot of anticipation about animal services issues.) ber that it’s just going to be the starting risk-assessment algorithms that, in princi- around this first meeting. point. He’s tasked not with fixing the code, ple, render more sensitive and just out- Ironic – and perhaps auspi- Council’s surrogates over at but with figuring out who should fix it and how. comes than does just locking up poor peo- cious – then, that the first the Planning Commission PUBLIC ple. That’s what California did, and the land use decision of the new seemed to be in a holding Supporting Federal Workers Houston-based, GOP-friendly Laura and era will be a highly technical NOTICE pattern Tuesday night. With As we approach the second missed paycheck for John Arnold Foundation (also big on school resolution, co-sponsored by much of the agenda already choice and pension reform) has designed frequent dais opponents BY tabbed for postponement, furloughed federal workers, local labor groups and the NICK Central Texas Food Bank are joining forces to collect one of the most-used tools, called the PSA. Leslie Pool and Alison Alter most of the evening was food for those harmed by the government shutdown. However, justice advocates have come on the neighborhood side, BARBARO spent on two relatively minor You can drop canned goods and other nonperishable down firmly against algorithmic approach- and Jimmy Flannigan and zoning cases, and no one items at Texas AFL-CIO headquarters (1106 Lavaca es that can and do perpetuate socioeco- Greg Casar on the density saw much point in revving up #200) through this weekend: 9am-5pm Thursday and nomic and racial disparities. side, plus cavalrywoman the arguments that will surely Friday, noon-4pm Saturday and Sunday. Harper-Madison herself. The ensue when the code rewrite And for the duration of the shutdown, your federal IT CAN’T HAPPEN HERE? changes relate to “alternative equivalent project starts up again. Even Commissioner government employee ID lets you ride free on all Cap It also remains to be seen how this tide compliance with front and street side Greg Anderson, while delivering his usual Metro services, including MetroRail and MetroAccess. will wash up on the sands of Travis County, upper-story building façade stepback exasperated laments about how slowly Old City of Austin Utilities is on board as well, post- which hasn’t elected a GOP judge since development standards” in the North Austin is getting torn down to make way for poning collection activities and disconnections for Jurassic times and has for years touted its Burnet/Gateway Regulating Plan. That’s seri- New Austin, ended each one with some variant those who are affected by the shutdown and helping to progressive approaches to pretrial diver- ously opaque and boring stuff, and hard to fit of, “But I guess we’ll just have to wait for now, match folks up with the Customer Assistance Programs sion, restorative justice, etc. However, in a headline; but then, that’s what zoning and see what the city manager brings us.” available at www.austinenergy.com. n Austin is not as woke as we like to think. and building codes are. Not to read too much For everyone who lived through the On a per capita basis, our jail is just as full- symbolism into a minor resolution, but it’s CodeNEXT slow-motion train wreck of the last Send gossip, dirt, innuendo, rumors, and other up with pretrial detainees as Houston’s good to see Council starting the year by find- four years, that has an ominously familiar useful grist to [email protected]. 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Online. www.allgo.org. 8 THE AUSTIN CHRONICLE JANUARY 25, 2019 austinchronicle.com Injunction Lifted in Medicaid Case The conservative-leaning 5th U.S. Court The 5th Circuit order, issued Jan. 18, did of Appeals has lifted an order blocking not address the merits of the case, but the Texas from ousting Planned Parenthood three-judge panel peppered its 36-page filing affiliates as Medicaid health care providers. with skepticism over Sparks’ ruling, knocking A three-judge panel of the New Orleans- the judge for not giving the state’s case the based appellate court remanded the case deference they thought it deserved. Upon back down to Austin-based U.S. Judge Sam remand, the 5CA has ordered Sparks to Sparks for reconsideration; for now, determine if Texas’ actions were “arbitrary Planned Parenthood remains in Medicaid and capricious,” a more difficult standard until Feb. 8. to meet. Texas has sought to withhold funding from Previously, the appellate court had ruled Planned Parenthood for years, but the highly that Louisiana’s similar effort to defund politicized 2015 decision to kick PP out of Planned Parenthood was unmerited (a deci- Medicaid entirely was spurred by deceptively sion left standing by the Supreme Court this edited and widely discredited “sting” videos past December), but Judge Edith Jones – produced by the anti-choice Center for who often ardently sides with the state in Medical Progress. These purported to show abortion cases – criticized Sparks for being PP physicians discussing the use of fetal tis- too “dismissive” of the Texas Health and sue in research. Planned Parenthood, which Human Services Com mission’s official denied any improper conduct, delivers about report concluding the videos did show $3 million annually in preventive and repro- Planned Parenthood doing wrong. (It’s no ductive health care to about 12,000 low- wonder why Sparks did so: The HHSC inspec- income Texans. tor general admitted during testimony he had The resulting nationwide uproar led to not actually watched the videos prior to issu- (failed) efforts to defund PP at the federal ing the termination letter, and the state level; Texas officials announced their intent offered no other evidence.) The judges sig- to do the same, but delayed final action for naled their own leanings by including a graph- more than a year, by which time Planned ic, bloody image of fetal tissue from the Parenthood had filed suit. In February 2017, video in their ruling. Sparks found the state’s action would cause Planned Parenthood tells us it is currently irreparable injury to PP’s Medicaid clients and weighing its legal options. “Rest assured, issued his injunction, slamming Texas’ argu- Planned Parenthood’s doors are open to its ment as more like a “bestselling novel” than patients today and they will be open tomor- a deliberate investigation of Medicaid malfea- row,” said Yvonne Gutierrez, executive sance (“Judge Blocks Texas From Kicking director of Planned Parenthood Texas Votes. Planned Parenthood Out of Medicaid,” Feb. “We will fight tooth and nail to protect access 21, 2017). to health care for all Texans.” – Mary Tuma YES, DAN PATRICK IS REALLY THAT PETTY The first throwing of hands in the 86th Texas about lewd comments from senators, see our cover Legislature has gone down within the ruling GOP, story on p.14.) Seliger apologized for being mean to between Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and Sen. Kel Seliger, Sylvester when his beef is really with Patrick, because R-Amarillo, a more moderate voice in the upper cham- “I have consistently stood up for rural Texas, local con- ber. Last Friday, Patrick released his committee assign- trol, and public education rather than trumpeting the ments for the session with some notable changes, such lieutenant governor’s pet projects of bathroom regula- as relieving alleged sexter Charles Schwertner, tion and private school vouchers.” R-Georgetown, of his chairmanship of As is quickly becoming the norm, the Health and Human Services and ousting adults in the House managed to avoid Seliger from his high-profile seats on any of this strange behavior when that Higher Education (which he chaired), chamber’s committee assignments LEGE Public Education, and Finance. Instead, were announced Wednesday. he assigned Seliger to helm Agriculture Continuing to sound his progress- LINES (a reduced committee stripped of its over-party theme, new Speaker previous purview over water issues). Dennis Bonnen, R-Angleton, named Drama ensued. El Paso Democrat Joe Moody as Seliger called the move a “very speaker pro tem (a role Bonnen served clear warning” that Patrick will punish last session under Joe Straus); noncompliant Republicans. Patrick adviser Sherry Democrats, with 12 more reps than in 2017, also gained Sylvester then said that if the new post is “beneath” the chairmanships of Higher Education and him, Seliger should let the Lite Guv know so he can Transportation. Bonnen named Dustin Burrows, appoint someone else. Then, on a radio show, Seliger R-Lubbock, to replace himself at the helm of Ways and called Sylvester’s remarks “snide and unbecoming” Means; Dade Phelan, R-Beaumont, to take over State and told her … well … “I have a recommendation for Affairs; and Four Price, R-Amarillo, to chair Calendars, Miss Sylvester and her lips and my back end.” Burn! with John Zerwas, R-Richmond, remaining atop the After taking a break for MLK Day, the high-school budget-writing Appropriations committee. Of the local hijinks resumed, with Patrick deposing Seliger from the delegation, Austin Reps. Gina Hinojosa and Donna Agriculture chairmanship for refusing to apologize for Howard will serve as vice chairs of, respectively, the “lewd” comment about a “female staffer that Human Services and House Administration. shocked everyone.” (To see what Patrick really thinks – Mary Tuma, Mike Clark-Madison austinchronicle.com JANUARY 25, 2019 THE AUSTIN CHRONICLE 9 NEWS ARTS & CULTURE FOOD SCREENS MUSIC Starting to Shuffle AISD SETS EASTSIDE HIGH SCHOOLS IN MOTION The “Eastside Shuffle” is officially under- practices – and LBJ, which offers a program way at Austin ISD, after a groundbreaking that allows students to gain college credit in ceremony Saturday at what will be the new health sciences courses. home for students at Eastside Memorial The moves have caused a stir among the Early College High School. Beginning in district’s Eastside communities. While on August 2021, after $80.6 million in upgrades, the board, former District 1 Trustee Ted Eastside Memorial will occupy a modern- Gor don took issue with moving LASA ized campus at the site of the original L.C. because, he said, moving the LASA magnet Anderson High School on Thompson Street school out of LBJ would deprive the dis- in East Austin. trict’s east and northeast families from hav- The shuffle will impact students at three ing one of AISD’s best schools in their AISD high schools, the outcome of con- backyard. At the same time, alumni of L.C. struction projects included in the $1.05 bil- Anderson High School have expressed con- N lion bond package approved by voters in cern that the district will fail to honor that O S District officials and community leaders November 2017. Currently, school’s long legacy as a DER turn dirt at Old Anderson, to become students at Eastside “WE CARE ABOUT point of pride in Austin’s AN the new home of Eastside Memorial N Memorial attend school at THE FUTURE, BUT WE black community. OH the former Johnston “Old Anderson” was J High School campus in WANT TO MAKE SURE opened in 1889 as part of the groundbreaking Saturday was a full-on handle the reopening of the school. AISD East Austin, but they THAT WE HONOR the Robertson Hill School, ceremony, with area elected officials in has applied for state and national historic (along with students in Austin’s first school for attendance and a speaker lineup that includ- recognition of the site, and the district has WHAT’S HAPPENED IN AISD’s International High black students. After ed AISD Superintendent Paul Cruz, Board committed to restoring the school’s iconic School, which shares OUR PAST AND MAKE being spun off in 1907, it of Trustees Vice President Cindy Anders on, entryway as one way of honoring its legacy. space with Eastside) will was named first for E.H. and members of the Original L.C. Ander­ But as Gilbert Jones, class of ’69, put it, THINGS RIGHT.” move to the old Anderson Anderson (founding prin- son Alumni Association. The program also AISD “has to do more than just preserve campus – site of the – PAUL CRUZ cipal of what is now featured panel conversations with current the building.” He said the school “shaped district’s pre-integration Prairie View A&M) and Eastside Memorial students and L.C. me and my life” as not just a venue for his black high school. then for his brother L.C. Anderson (first Anderson alumni, spotlighting issues such education, but also as a community hub for Meanwhile, the Liberal Arts and Science principal of the Austin school) upon the lat- as “pride,” “pain,” and “perseverance.” him and his Eastside neighbors. “I want to Academy (LASA), currently housed at the ter’s death in 1938. Formerly located where The proceedings and discussions returned make sure [AISD] preserves that history for LBJ Early College High School campus in Kealing Middle School is now, Old Anderson often to themes of preservation and of future generations.” Northeast Austin, will move to the Johnston opened at the Thompson Street location in redressing past wrongs to AISD’s Eastside Another speaker, Johnnie Mae Coleman campus following a $10.3 million modern- 1953 but was ordered closed in 1971 as part communities. “We care about the future, Overton, who graduated from L.C. Anderson ization effort there. (That campus may also of the years-long court battle to desegregate but we want to make sure that we honor in 1952, reminded AISD leaders that their be renamed before then, as it currently Austin schools. The current L.C. Anderson what’s happened in our past and make handling of the shuffle would be watched bears the name of Confederate Gen. Albert High School in Northwest Austin opened in things right,” Cruz told the audience. closely. “I have a special request for Dr. Sidney Johnston.) District leaders say that 1973; that campus’ first principal, Charles “That’s what today is about: making things Cruz, board members, and those from the shuffle will allow more students to Akins, now also has an AISD high school right, and making them right with pride, Eastside Memorial, International High enroll at both LASA – one of the district’s named for him. integrity, and honor.” School, and the original Anderson alumni,” most popular and academically successful With district leaders aware of the precari- Several L.C. Anderson alumni inter- said Overton. “I hope you will remember schools, although it has come under scruti- ous lines they’re walking as they execute viewed at the ceremony echoed a sense of that a promise made is a promise kept.” ny in the past for its selective admission the “Eastside Shuffle,” it’s no surprise that cautious optimism at how the district will – Austin Sanders APD POISED FOR COMPREHENSIVE RAPE CASE AUDIT were closed without meeting a single one of the four criteria. On Jan. 21, the eight named plaintiffs in the sexual assault class action suit filed against the city, Travis Count y, local Last week, Austin Police Chief Brian Manley announced cess will likely be a topic of discussion at next week’s meet- law enforcement, and the District Attorney’s Office issued an that the department’s handling of sexual assault cases – ing.) Grassroots advocate group Survivor Justice Project open letter in response to Manley’s announcement. The plain- from the 911 call to case closure – will undergo a third-party has applauded Alter and co-sponsors Greg Casar, Delia tiffs – local rape survivors who allege that systemic failure audit. He isn’t the only one calling for a comprehensive Garza, Ann Kitchen, and Mayor Steve Adler. led to the mistreatment and neglect of their cases – wrote review; City Council Member Alison Alter’s These moves follow the recent Texas they’re “encouraged to hear” APD is calling for the audit. “We office confirmed that she will sponsor a resolu- Department of Public Safety audit requested by believe the issues raised in our case should be addressed in tion at the Jan. 31 Council meeting to direct the Manley, in the wake of local criticism and national such an audit, and hope we can be a productive part of City Manager’s Office to conduct a “start to fin- headlines suggesting the department has been too changing the department in a way that is responsive to vic- ish” review of APD’s full catalog of sexual quick to close cases that should be pursued in the tims. This is a good first step.” The letter then turns toward assault cases from the past seven years. cause of justice. The DPS team reviewed 95 sexual the D.A.’s Office, which has also been accused of failing sur- Alter’s office said the resolution, which has assault cases from 2017 to ensure the depart- vivors by too often failing to prosecute sexual assault cases. been in the works for “well over a month,” will ment was correctly using the federal “exceptional “The [D.A.]’s Office decided that our testimony wasn’t call for a retrospective look to identify root JA clearance” code for cases closed without an arrest. enough, our physical injuries weren’t enough, the level of vio- causes for how APD ended up with numerous NA Under federal guidelines, four requirements must lence perpetrated against us wasn’t enough, the presence of misclassified cases, and recommendations on BIR be met to close a case “exceptionally”: Officers DNA wasn’t enough, and our efforts to cooperate and partici- how to best move forward and avoid future mis- APD Chief Brian Manley CH need to have identified a suspect, know their pate throughout the criminal justice process weren’t enough. U takes. With the resolution, which should be post- M whereabouts, and have enough evidence to make … We look forward to the day [D.A.] [Margaret] Moore com- ed by Friday, Alter asks not just for a third-party review as an arrest, but for some legitimate reason do not. Of the 95 mits to the same type of independent and transparent exter- Manley has pledged, but for an evaluation conducted by a randomly selected cases reviewed by DPS, fewer than a third nal audit, and ultimately, to a … criminal justice system that nongovernmental entity without ties to APD. (How that could were closed correctly; around a third failed to meet at least prioritizes survivors, justice, and public safety.” – Sarah Marloff be managed through the city’s and APD’s procurement pro- one of the requirements – 17 missed two, while five cases See the plaintiffs’ open letter with this story online. 10 THE AUSTIN CHRONICLE JANUARY 25, 2019 austinchronicle.com

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