Fort Bend County commissioners voted during a heated meeting Monday to approve a new voting precinct map after months of debate over a rare, mid-decade round of redistricting.
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Fort Bend County Commissioners will choose a new, redistricted voter map on Monday.
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Fort Bend County commissioners passed a more than $760 million budget for the 2026 fiscal year, a roughly 3.9% increase from last year’s budget.
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A Fort Bend resident is seeking County Judge KP George’s removal, claiming in a recently filed lawsuit that the county's top elected official violated her First Amendment rights and is incompetent to hold office.
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Fort Bend County commissioners on Tuesday passed a resolution affirming that the county’s redistricting committee is exempt from the Texas Open Meetings Act and the Texas Public Information Act.
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A divided Fort Bend County Commissioners Court voted Tuesday to approve several appointees to its redistricting committee and clashed over the role of the county attorney, after Judge KP George proposed that the county hire outside legal counsel.
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The Fort Bend County Libraries’ website may not be fully operational until late summer or early fall, following a cyberattack earlier this year.
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Library Director Roosevelt Weeks says there is no evidence that patrons’ personal data has been breached as part of the cyberattack, which the county became aware of in late February. During a special session on March 6, Fort Bend County commissioners approved more than $2.6 million in IT contracts under an agenda item titled "library update."
A divided Fort Bend County Commissioners Court on Tuesday rejected a voter map put forward by Elections Administrator John Oldham after approving the creation of a committee and agreeing to hire a law firm to assist with redistricting.
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A divided commissioners court rejected a proposed voter map from Elections Administrator John Oldham that would have brought the county's voter precincts closer to state population requirements.
After a heated meeting this week that included booing from the crowd and about an hour of public comment, the Fort Bend County Commissioners Court remained in a deadlock over redrawing its voter precincts.
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Amidst the competing interests of Democrats and Republicans, Fort Bend County commissioners reached a deadlock over voter precincts after failing to pass two proposals to hire an outside law firm to advise the county on redistricting.
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Republican Commissioner Andy Meyers and County Attorney Bridgette Smith-Lawson, a Democrat, clashed on Tuesday over who had the authority to choose the law firm to help the county redraw its voter precincts. Some precincts don't meet the state's population requirements.
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