Bill would require TxDOT to retain traffic camera video to help solve crimes

The Brief

  • A Highland Park widow testified before the Texas House Transportation Committee on Thursday in support of a bill that would require TxDOT to record and save video from traffic cameras.
  • Christina Murzin’s husband, Chris, was killed in a road rage shooting on I-20 in Dallas in 2021.
  • Investigators have told her that video from traffic cameras may have helped to solve her husband’s murder.

DALLAS The widow of a University Park man killed in an apparent road rage shooting urged lawmakers on Thursday to pass a new traffic safety bill.

House Bill 2621

What we know:

House Bill 2621 would require the Texas Department of Transportation to record and retain video from its traffic cameras for 30 days.

TxDOT has cameras all around the state. But they only serve as a live window to the highways. The cameras don’t record or retain any video.

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