Coverage of Harris County government: Commissioners Court agendas and votes, the county budget and property tax rate, the Flood Control District, county contracts and audits, and the countywide offices that spend the money. We link the primary document on every claim so you can check us.
The 11,000 is the manual review subset, not 15 percent of the backlog. Hundreds are still under review 14 days before early voting opens October 19.
League City will take a nonbinding vote on its 55 Flock cameras. Harris County’s 480 readers and $868,975 contract go to five commissioners on October 15, with no agenda posted.
All five voter approval tax rate elections on the Harris County ballot carry the same state-mandated warning. The amounts range from $102,350,532 to negative $20.30.
The adopted FY27 flood control rate is 5.266 cents, exactly the voter-approval rate. The county’s own budget reports 25 of 181 bond project groups paused and names none of them.
Three of four Harris County judge candidates said at an October 1 forum they would not renew the $868,975 Flock contract as written. The court that decides meets October 15 with no agenda posted.
Harris County’s figure for the DPS voter registration failure is about 75,000 records. The October 5 deadline is Monday, and the Secretary of State says a DPS transaction by then counts.
The current Flock contract runs to June 5, 2027, five months into the next county judge’s term. A special Commissioners Court meeting on oversight is set for October 15.
Commissioner Lesley Briones spent $223,000 of county money on billboards between January 2024 and August 2026. Precinct 3 spent nothing.
Trustees adopted an unchanged 96.9 cent rate September 28 while certified values fell 2.4 percent. The 2026-27 shortfall is $3.3 million wider than it was in May, with no published reconciliation.
Commissioners voted to eliminate the office. The soonest a statewide ballot can do it is November 2027. The job itself is on the Harris County ballot in 33 days.
A federal judge vacated FEMA’s election conditions and its 20 percent holdback on Monday, in a case Harris County filed August 19. The county won the legal question and not the injunction.
The county’s Legistar calendar lists one future Commissioners Court meeting, October 6, and marks it cancelled. The agenda portal shows October 15 with no agenda.