SAN ANTONIO (KTSA News) — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott used a San Antonio appearance Tuesday to highlight the state’s fentanyl prevention efforts and outline public safety priorities for the next legislative session.
During a roundtable with law enforcement officials and mothers who lost children to fentanyl, Abbott said the state is targeting the crisis through border enforcement, highway interdiction, community outreach and school education. He also pointed to a Texas law allowing murder charges when fentanyl supplied by someone causes a death, saying more than 40 such cases have been filed.
Abbott said he plans to seek statewide expansion of the state’s repeat offender task force and a new state prosecutor position that could intervene when local prosecutors decline to pursue cases against dangerous offenders. He also wants district attorneys to be subject to impeachment…