Audit: TX gang database flawed, thousands of records miss validation

AUSTIN (KXAN) — A 25-year U.S. Army veteran from New Mexico with no criminal history testified at a 2021 state legislative hearing that he’d been wrongfully placed in Texas’ gang intelligence database, making it difficult for him to access an El Paso veterans hospital and lawfully carry a handgun in the state.Another man, also speaking to the House Homeland Security and Public Safety Committee, said he was a professor with no criminal history yet classified as a gang member in