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Central Track editor hit with flash-bang grenade while covering Dallas protest

Incident Details

Date of incident: May 30, 2020
Location: Dallas, Texas
Targets: Pete Freedman (Central Track)

Assailant →: Law enforcement
Was the journalist targeted? →: No

Dallas Morning News reporters targeted by law enforcement with tear gas

Incident Details

Date of incident: May 30, 2020
Location: Dallas, Texas
Targets: Jesus Jiménez (The Dallas Morning News)

Assailant →: Law enforcement
Was the journalist targeted? →: Yes

Dallas Morning News reporters targeted by state trooper with tear gas

Incident Details

Date of incident: May 30, 2020
Location: Dallas, Texas
Targets: Corbett Smith (The Dallas Morning News)

Assailant →: Law enforcement
Was the journalist targeted? →: Yes

As CBS Channel 11 prepared to go live in Dallas, an officer tossed a tear gas canister toward the news crew

Incident Details

Date of incident: May 29, 2020
Location: Dallas, Texas
Targets: Steve Pickett (KTVT)

Assailant →: Law enforcement
Was the journalist targeted? →: Yes

Photojournalist targeted with tear gas while covering Dallas protest

Incident Details

Date of incident: May 29, 2020
Location: Dallas, Texas
Targets: Bret Kelly (KTVT)

Assailant →: Law enforcement
Was the journalist targeted? →: Yes

Journalist subpoenaed for communications in ongoing defamation suit

Incident Details

Date of incident: January 29, 2020
Location: Sherman, Texas
Targets: Cassandra Fairbanks (The Gateway Pundit)

Legal orders →: subpoena for communications or work product

Jan. 29, 2020: Pending
Legal order target →: Journalist
Legal order venue →: Federal

Astros fire assistant general manager for inappropriate comments to reporters

Incident Details

Date of incident: October 19, 2019
Location: Houston, Texas
Targets: Stephanie Apstein (Sports Illustrated)

Other Incident

Documentarian questioned about film when returning from West Bank

Incident Details

Date of incident: October 10, 2019
Location: Dallas, Texas
Targets: Michael Rowley (Independent)

Border point →: Dallas Fort Worth International Airport
Target nationality →: United States
US citizenship status of target →: U.S. citizen
Denied entry? →: No
Stopped previously? →: No
Asked for device access? →: No
Asked intrusive questions about work? →: Yes

Journalists barred from asylum hearings held in tent courts at border

Incident Details

Updated on: December 29, 2019
Date of incident: September 11, 2019
Location: Laredo, Texas
Targets: Media

Government agency or public official involved →: Federal government: Agency
Type of denial →: Other

BBC journalist questioned by border official, passport reviewed

Incident Details

Date of incident: August 29, 2019
Location: Brownsville, Texas
Targets: Stephanie Hegarty (BBC News [United Kingdom])

Border point →: Brownsville & Matamoros International Bridge
Target nationality →: United Kingdom
US citizenship status of target →: U.S. non-resident
Denied entry? →: No
Stopped previously? →: No
Asked for device access? →: No
Asked intrusive questions about work? →: Yes

Owner and reporter for Texas weekly threatened, arrest warrant issued

Incident Details

Date of incident: August 1, 2019
Location: Rio Grande City, Texas
Targets: Dina Garcia-Peña (El Tejano)

Other Incident

Broadcast journalist threatened at gunpoint in Texas

Incident Details

Updated on: August 21, 2025
Date of incident: May 30, 2019
Location: Killeen, Texas
Targets: Emani Payne (KCEN-TV)

Assailant →: Private individual
Was the journalist targeted? →: Yes

Rolling Stone journalist stopped for secondary screening, has electronics searched while asked invasive questions about reporting

Incident Details

Date of incident: May 13, 2019
Location: Austin, Texas
Targets: Seth Harp (Rolling Stone)

Border point →: Austin-Bergstrom International Airport
Target nationality →: United States
US citizenship status of target →: U.S. citizen
Denied entry? →: No
Stopped previously? →: Yes
Asked for device access? →: Yes
Asked intrusive questions about work? →: Yes

Equipment searched or seized →: Cellphone, 1

Computer, 1

Work product, 1
Status of equipment →: Returned in full
Search warrant obtained →: No

Texas high school journalism adviser resigns; district implements prior review policies

Incident Details

Date of incident: April 1, 2019
Location: Katy, Texas
Targets: Katy Times

Other Incident

Texas law enforcement seizes gear from TV crew

Incident Details

Date of incident: March 28, 2019
Location: Austin, Texas
Case number: 1:21-cv-00275
Targets: Colin Mika (Big Fish Entertainment)
Case status: Dismissed
Type of case: Civil

Equipment searched or seized →: Camera, 1

Camera equipment, 1
Status of equipment →: Returned in full
Search warrant obtained →: No

Texas law enforcement seizes cameras, equipment from TV crew

Incident Details

Date of incident: March 28, 2019
Location: Austin, Texas
Case number: 1:21-cv-00275
Targets: Jeff Moriarty (Big Fish Entertainment)
Case status: Dismissed
Type of case: Civil

Equipment searched or seized →: Camera, 2

Camera equipment, 1
Status of equipment →: Returned in full
Search warrant obtained →: No

Cameraman, other reporters attacked at Trump rally

Incident Details

Date of incident: February 11, 2019
Location: El Paso, Texas
Targets: Ron Skeans (BBC News [United Kingdom])

Assailant →: Private individual
Was the journalist targeted? →: Yes

Man threatens to blow up Dallas magazine for publishing controversial columnist

Incident Details

Date of incident: November 13, 2018
Location: Dallas, Texas
Targets: D

Other Incident

Man intentionally crashes truck into local TV station in Dallas, Texas

Incident Details

Updated on: November 18, 2021
Date of incident: September 5, 2018
Location: Dallas, Texas
Targets: KDFW

Equipment damaged →: Building, 1
Actor →: Private individual

Citizen journalist arrested for publishing information before local police

Incident Details

Updated on: April 8, 2025
Date of incident: December 13, 2017
Location: Laredo, Texas
Case number: 5:19-cv-00048
Targets: Priscilla Villarreal (Independent)
Case status: Dismissed
Type of case: Civil

Arrest status →: Arrested and released
Arresting authority →: Laredo Police Department
Charges →: Misuse of official information

Dec. 13, 2017: Charges pending

March 28, 2018: Charges dropped

Misuse of official information

Dec. 13, 2017: Charges pending

March 28, 2018: Charges dropped
Unnecessary use of force? →: No

Legal orders →: warrant for other

Dec. 5, 2017: Pending

Dec. 13, 2017: Carried out
Legal order target →: Journalist
Legal order venue →: State

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