WITNESS LIST
Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs Committee
April 23, 2025 - 10:30 AM or upon final adjourn./recess or bill referral if permission granted
Against:
Hendrickson, Sven (Self)
Molnar, Mary Sue (Self; Texas Voices)
Ramirez, Diane (Self)
Smith, Scott (Self)
Zalewski, Diana (Self)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Carroll, Nathan (Houston Police Department)
Deline, Steven (Self)
Flatt, Bryan (TMPA)
Foster, Robin (Harris County Deputies’ Organization FOP Lodge 39)
Hunt, Ray (Self; Houston Police Officers’ Union)
Kivela, Anthony (Self; HOUSTON POLICE RETIRED OFFICERS ASSOC)
Martinez, Adrian (SAPOA)
Ortiz, Carlos (San Antonio Police officers Association)
Parkinson, Thomas (Self)
Szimanski, Jennifer (Combined Law Enforcement Associations of Texas (CLEAT))
Against:
Carden, Richard (Self)
Castillo, Alycia (Texas Civil Rights Project)
Jones, Brenda (Self)
Martinez, Justin (Self; LatinoJustice PRLDEF)
Meyer, Cole (Texas Appleseed)
Mitchell, Kathy (Self; Equity Action)
Place, Allen (Texas Criminal defense lawyers association)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Deline, Steven (Self)
Martinez, Adrian (SAPOA)
Ortiz, Carlos (San Antonio Police officers Association)
Parkinson, Thomas (Self)
Watson, Robert (Texas Impact)
Against:
Bolgiano, John (Self)
Harris, Chris (Texas Civil Rights Project)
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For:
Saloom, Stephen (Ideas42)
On:
Woolley, J.R. (Self; Justices of the Peace and Constables Association)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Castillo, Alycia (Texas Civil Rights Project)
Cobb, Gary (Self; Trusted Driver)
Deline, Steven (Self)
Maksoud, Rylan (Self; Texas Fair Defense Project)
Meyer, Cole (Texas Appleseed)
Mitchell, Kathy (Self; Equity Action)
Stewart, Susan (Self)
Stout, Trent (Self)
Against:
Martinez, Adrian (SAPOA)
Ortiz, Carlos (San Antonio Police officers Association)
On:
Flatt, Bryan (TMPA)
For:
Carreon, Jennifer (Texas Appleseed)
Maksoud, Rylan (Self; Texas Fair Defense Project)
Sutton, Nina (Self)
Against:
Hansen, Melody (Justice of the Peace, Pct 1 Kendall County)
Houston, Melanie (Texas Municipal Courts Assoc)
On:
Woolley, J.R. (Self; Justices of the Peace and Constables Association)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Castillo, Alycia (Texas Civil Rights Project)
Deline, Steven (Self)
Mitchell, Kathy (Self; Equity Action)
Sheetz, Samuel (Self; Americans for Prosperity)
Stewart, Susan (Self)
Against:
Alcorta, Victor (Self; OmniBase Services of Texas)
Flatt, Bryan (TMPA)
Hunt, Ray (Self; Houston Police Officers’ Union)
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Against:
Martinez, Adrian (SAPOA)
Ortiz, Carlos (San Antonio Police officers Association)
Rubin, Scott (Texas Police Chiefs Association)
Szimanski, Jennifer (Combined Law Enforcement Associations of Texas (CLEAT))
On:
Stevens, Greg (Texas Commission on Law Enforcement)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Bolgiano, John (Self)
Borskey, Mark (Texas State Rifle Association)
Against:
Deline, Steven (Self)
Szimanski, Jennifer (Combined Law Enforcement Associations of Texas (CLEAT))
For:
Baxter, Todd (Texas Cable Association)
Hasslocher, Jimmy (Operation Game Thief, Bexar Metro 9-1-1 Network)
Hawthorne, Brian (Sheriffs’ Association of Texas, Chambers County Sheriff’s Office)
Tate, David (AT&T Texas)
Wright, Benjamin (Fort Worth Police Department)
On:
Wright, Mel (Self; Recycling Council of Texas)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Ali, Zanir (CPS Energy)
Barksdale, Jay (Irving - Las Colinas Chamber of Commerce)
Bell, Mark (Association of Electric Companies of Texas)
Blake, Frances (Texas Association of Builders)
Botkin, Shelly (Texas Broadband Association)
Carcerano, Eric (Self; Chambers County District Attorney’s Office)
Carroll, Nathan (Houston Police Department)
Chenelle, Rebekah (Dallas Regional Chamber)
Cruz, Velma (Comcast)
Deline, Steven (Self)
Fairbanks, Lauren (Texas 9-1-1 Alliance)
Flatt, Bryan (TMPA)
Foster, Robin (Harris County Deputies’ Organization FOP Lodge 39)
Gonzalez, Christina (CenterPoint Energy)
Hunt, Ray (Self; Houston Police Officers’ Union)
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For:
Martinez, Adrian (SAPOA)
Morehead, Tracy (Texas Rural Broadband Association)
Morris, Joe (Game Warden Peace Officers Association)
Ortiz, Carlos (San Antonio Police officers Association)
Patterson, T. J. (City of Fort Worth)
Rubin, Scott (Texas Police Chiefs Association)
Ruggieri, Michael (Southwestern Elec. Power Co. (SWEPCO))
Songer, James (Dallas Police Department)
Szimanski, Jennifer (Combined Law Enforcement Associations of Texas (CLEAT))
Young, Larry (Self; Game Warden Peace Officers Association)
Zinsmeister, Julia (Charter Communications)
On:
Cubriel, Randy (Nucor)
For:
Hawthorne, Brian (Self; Sheriffs’ Association of Texas)
Lawrence, Kevin (TMPA)
Against:
Bennett, Becky (Self; Safety Cop Llc)
CALDWELL, JARREL (Self)
Du, Jimmy (Self; Newton county constable pct 4)
Gonzalez, Jesse (Self; Webb county)
Hoppe, Christian (Self)
James, Linda (Self)
Jasso, Tomas (Self)
Naff, Valerie (Self; City of Von Ormy)
Nash jr, Johnny (Self)
Pue, Daniel (Self)
Ramirez, Gerardo (Self; Webb County)
Rhodes, Jason (Safety Cop)
Sill, Chris (Self; Texas reserves officers association)
Teague, Nicholas (Self; Guadalupe County Constable Pct 4)
Torres, Alberto (Webb County)
Trevino, Christopher (Self)
Walsh, Cody (Self)
Walsh, Jennifer (Self)
Williams, Frank (Self)
On:
Baker, Dowell (Self; TTC Security Services)
Burmaster, Kolin (Self)
Cunningham, William (Self; Polk County Constables office)
Goddard, Clifford (Self)
Ng, Willie (Self; Reserve Peace Officers Association)
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On:
Stevens, Greg (Texas Commission on Law Enforcement)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Carroll, Nathan (Houston Police Department)
Deline, Steven (Self)
Foster, Robin (Harris County Deputies’ Organization FOP Lodge 39)
Hunt, Ray (Self; Houston Police Officers’ Union)
Lee, Mike (Self; Harris County Sheriff’s Office)
Rubin, Scott (Texas Police Chiefs Association)
Against:
Albrecht, Gary (Self; Police)
Cedillo, Incela (Self)
Clark, Ronnie (City of Staples)
Cortez, Maria (Self)
Delagarza, Nicole (Self; Police)
Diaz, Ivan (Self)
Ferdin, Robert (Self)
Garcia, Gerry (Self)
Goddard, Samantha (Self)
Gonzalez, Raul (Self; BRAGON PUBLIC SAFETY)
Jones, William (Self)
Lopez, Deric (Self; Shepherd Police Department)
Loreto, Ruben (Self; City of Von Ormy Police Department)
Luna, Miguel (Self)
Macias, John (Self; Alamo City Public Safety Inc.)
Pardo, Jerry (Staples police department)
Peterson, Stephanie (Self)
Reyes, Eduardo (Webb county)
Sanchez, Eric (Self; Shepherd PD)
Sendejo, Ernest (Self; Phalanx Traffic Control)
Smith, Clayton (Self; Self)
Thrash, Thomas (Self)
Torres, Raul (Self)
Villalobos, Alexander (Self; Strategic Resource Solutions)
Warren, Jason (Self; BadgeHire LLC)
Wessels, David (Self; Reserve officer)
Wessels, Jacob (Self; Police)
Williams, Erin (Self)
Zelinsky, Christopher (Self)
For:
Gardner, Mariah (Self)
Harrison, Tabetha (Texas Council on Family Violence)
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For:
On:
Borjes, Joy (Health and Human Services Commission)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Bellino, Heather (Self; Texas Advocacy Project)
Carcerano, Eric (Self; Chambers County District Attorney’s Office)
Cross, Clarice (Asian Family Support Services of Austin)
Deline, Steven (Self)
Flatt, Bryan (TMPA)
Foster, Robin (Harris County Deputies’ Organization FOP Lodge 39)
Gharakhanian, Stephanie (Travis County District Attorney’s Office)
Golden, Nicole (Self; Texas Gun Sense)
Grace, Jim (Houston Area Women’s Center)
Hawthorne, Brian (Sheriffs’ Association of Texas)
Hunt, Ray (Self; Houston Police Officers’ Union)
Lenau, Kristen (Texas Association Against Sexual Assault)
Malone, Nicole (National Association of Social Workers- Texas Chapter)
Martinez, Adrian (SAPOA)
Ortiz, Carlos (San Antonio Police officers Association)
Setliff, Aaron (Self; The El Paso County Attorney’s Office)
Stewart, Susan (Self)
Strandberg, Katherine (Self; Every Body Texas)
Szimanski, Jennifer (Combined Law Enforcement Associations of Texas (CLEAT))
Tamayo, Elisa M. (El Paso County)
Watson, Robert (Texas Impact)
For:
Franklin, Jesse (Incode Technologies)
Zapata, Mireya (Lumbermen's Association of Texas)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Brewster, Whitney (Incode Technologies)
Embrey, Celeste (Texas Bankers Association)
Hawthorne, Brian (Sheriffs’ Association of Texas)
Hunt, Ray (Self; Houston Police Officers’ Union)
Mikell, Rob (Incode Technologies)
Against:
Deline, Steven (Self)
On:
Colby, Adam (Self; TX Financial Crimes Intelligence Center)
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Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Castro Garcia, Josie (Dallas County)
Davis, Doug (Wholesale Beer Distributors of Texas)
Flatt, Bryan (TMPA)
Foster, Robin (Harris County Deputies’ Organization FOP Lodge 39)
Green, Shelton (Texans for Safe and Drug-Free Youth)
Hawthorne, Brian (Sheriffs’ Association of Texas)
Hunt, Ray (Self; Houston Police Officers’ Union)
Lively, Lance (Texas Package Stores Association)
Martinez, Adrian (SAPOA)
Ortiz, Carlos (San Antonio Police officers Association)
Shannon, Melissa (Bexar County Commissioners Court)
Spilman, Tom (Wholesale Beer Distributors of Texas)
Against:
Castillo, Alycia (Texas Civil Rights Project)
Deline, Steven (Self)
For:
Teague, Nicholas (Self; Bastrop/Travis Counties ESD1)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Cole, Tommye (Self)
Flatt, Bryan (TMPA)
Foster, Robin (Harris County Deputies’ Organization FOP Lodge 39)
Hawthorne, Brian (Sheriffs’ Association of Texas)
Hunt, Ray (Self; Houston Police Officers’ Union)
Against:
Castillo, Alycia (Texas Civil Rights Project)
Deline, Steven (Self)
For:
Ballarta, Erwin (Self)
Lehrmann, Lesley (Mercy Gate Ministries)
Parry, Keith (Self)
Ticknor, Adam (Self)
Williamson, Sean (Self)
Against:
Gillespie, Mark (Self; Texas Association of Licensed Investigators (TALI))
Moore, Jeff (Associared security services and investigators of the state of Texas)
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WITNESS LIST
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Deline, Steven (Self)
Flatt, Bryan (TMPA)
Hawthorne, Brian (Sheriffs’ Association of Texas)
Hunt, Ray (Self; Houston Police Officers’ Union)
Marshall, Karen (Self)
Martinez, Adrian (SAPOA)
Ortiz, Carlos (San Antonio Police officers Association)
Szimanski, Jennifer (Combined Law Enforcement Associations of Texas (CLEAT))
For:
Flatt, Bryan (TMPA)
Foster, Robin (Harris County Deputies’ Organization FOP Lodge 39)
Leonard, Robert (Combined Law Enforcement Associations of Texas - CLEAT)
Songer, James (Dallas Police Department)
Against:
Mitchell, Kathy (Self; Equity Action)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Brannan, Ryan (Austin Police Association)
Byerly, Sloan (Axon, The Department of Public Safety Officer's Association)
Carroll, Nathan (Houston Police Department)
Deline, Steven (Self)
Hunt, Ray (Self; Houston Police Officers’ Union)
Lee, Mike (Self; Harris County Sheriff’s Office)
Martinez, Adrian (SAPOA)
Morris, Joe (Game Warden Peace Officers Association)
Ortiz, Carlos (San Antonio Police officers Association)
Rubin, Scott (Texas Police Chiefs Association)
Szimanski, Jennifer (Combined Law Enforcement Associations of Texas (CLEAT))
Young, Larry (Self; Game Warden Peace Officers Association)
Against:
Gharakhanian, Stephanie (Travis County District Attorney’s Office)
Harris, Chris (Texas Civil Rights Project)
Hendrickson, Andrew (ACLU of Texas)
Libal, Bob (Self)
Mitchell, Bryan (Dallas County Criminal District Attorney - John Creuzot)
For:
Soberon, Luis (Texas 2036)
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WITNESS LIST
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Castillo, Alycia (Texas Civil Rights Project)
Deline, Steven (Self)
Mitchell, Kathy (Self; Equity Action)
Wagner, BJ (Coruth Police Institute at the Meadow Mental Health Policy Institute)
On:
Stevens, Greg (Texas Commission on Law Enforcement)
For:
Cooke, Earl (Texas Independent Automobile Dealers Association)
Taormina, Tchad (Texas Automotive Recyclers Association)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Vane, Mark (LKQ Corporation)
Against:
Deline, Steven (Self)
On:
Quintero, Annette (Texas Department of Motor Vehicles)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Bolgiano, John (Self)
Marshall, Karen (Self)
Against:
Deline, Steven (Self)
Stewart, Susan (Self)
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