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Edgar Walters

Edgar Walters

Texas Tribune

Edgar Walters covers health care for The Texas Tribune, where he started as an intern in September 2013. When not in the newsroom or at the Capitol, he can be found on the volleyball court, where he stands 6'7".

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At the Texas Capitol, Victims of Sexual Harassment Must Fend for Themselves

By Alexa Ura, Texas Tribune, Morgan Smith, Texas Tribune, Jolie McCullough, Texas Tribune and Edgar Walters, Texas Tribune | November 14, 2017

Interviews with current and former lawmakers and legislative aides indicate sexual harassment regularly goes unchecked at the Texas Capitol.

child welfare system

Texas Has Hired Its First-Ever Director of Human Trafficking Prevention

By Edgar Walters, Texas Tribune | November 9, 2017

Earlier this year, the Texas Tribune’s Sold Out series examined how state policies – including a severely underfunded child welfare system – failed to help child sex-trafficking victims. Since then, lawmakers set aside a budget increase of more than $500 million for the foster care system, and the governor’s office approved new funds for trafficking prevention initiatives — which includes the state’s first-ever Director of Human Trafficking and Child Exploitation.

Gov & Politics

Texas Sen. Carlos Uresti Indicted on Fraud Charges

By Edgar Walters, Texas Tribune and Jim Malewitz, Texas Tribune | May 16, 2017

Uresti, a personal injury attorney, has been entwined in a complicated saga involving FourWinds Logistics, which sold sand used in hydraulic fracturing

Gov & Politics

Senate Budget ‘Unambiguously’ Unconstitutional, House Leadership Says

By Edgar Walters, Texas Tribune | April 19, 2017

At issue is a controversial accounting maneuver intended by the Senate to free up $2.5 billion by strategically delaying a payment to the state’s highway fund.

Gov & Politics

House Lawmakers Take a Stab at Funding for Trafficking Victims

By Edgar Walters, Texas Tribune | April 10, 2017

A Texas House member’s proposal would cut $3 million from Gov. Greg Abbott’s homeland security budget and give it to victims of human trafficking.

Gov & Politics

Texas Senate Accounting Maneuver Finds $2.5B in Budget; Straus Calls it ‘Cooking the Books’

By Edgar Walters, Texas Tribune | March 22, 2017

By delaying a diversion of sales tax money for transportation projects, Texas Senate leaders said they had an extra $2.5 billion to spend on other needs.

Gov & Politics

Citing Sex Trafficking Series, Texas Dem Urges Paxton to Stop Fighting Foster Care Suit

By Edgar Walters, Texas Tribune and Neena Satija, Texas Tribune | February 22, 2017

“If there was ever a call to action for state officials to get serious about reforming foster care, this was it,” State Rep. Chris Turner said.

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Texas Leaders Won’t Commit to More Resources for Sex Trafficking Victims

By Edgar Walters, Texas Tribune, Morgan Smith, Texas Tribune and Neena Satija, Texas Tribune | February 21, 2017

Top State leaders have remained silent on whether they’ll provide more resources for sex-trafficking victims or more funding for the child welfare system.

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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, Rep. Senfronia Thompson D-Houston and Sen. Joan Huffman R-Houston during a press conference on Jan 12, 2017.

Solutions: What Texas Can Do to Help Child Sex-Trafficking Victims

By Edgar Walters, Texas Tribune, Morgan Smith, Texas Tribune and Neena Satija, Texas Tribune | February 20, 2017

The Texas Tribune asked Texas leaders closest to the sex trafficking issue how they would begin addressing the problem. Here’s what they said.

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Sarah: Why It’s so Hard to Help

By Edgar Walters, Texas Tribune, Morgan Smith, Texas Tribune and Neena Satija, Texas Tribune | February 17, 2017

Texas only has one specialized treatment center that can care for up to 20 of the state’s estimated 80,000 child sex trafficking victims at any given time.

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