April Walker, an associate professor at Thurgood Marshall School of Law at Texas Southern University and an associate municipal judge in Houston, sued Harris County and former Sheriff Tommy Thomas in federal court on Dec. 29, 2008, alleging the county, through the Sheriff’s Department and the District Attorney’s Office, has a policy and practice of retaliating against citizens who file civil rights complaints with the Sheriff’s Department.
“The Sheriff and his deputies in conspiracy with other Harris County officials have a policy and practice of retaliation against citizens who file civil rights complaints,” Walker alleges in her complaint in April Walker v. Harris County, et al.
