📢𝗥𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝗥𝗼𝗰𝗸 𝗜𝗦𝗗’𝘀 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗲𝗳, 𝗠𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝗛𝗮𝗿𝗺𝗼𝗻, 𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗽𝘀 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝗮 𝗱𝗲𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗮 𝗱𝗼𝗰𝘂𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗵𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗶𝗱 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿, 𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗹𝗲𝗺𝘀, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗳𝗲𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗴𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻—𝘄𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗲 𝗵𝗲 𝗵𝗶𝗺𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗳 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗸𝗲𝘆 𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗰𝘆𝗺𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗿 𝗶𝗻 𝗮 𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗲𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗰𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗹-𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀 𝗹𝗮𝘄𝘀𝘂𝗶𝘁 𝗮𝗴𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗖𝗲𝗱𝗮𝗿 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝗸. Harmon, who spent 28 years with the Cedar Park Police Department (including the last five as chief), was announced as RRISD’s next chief in early October 2026. He is scheduled to start November 9 after retiring from Cedar Park on November 6. Superintendent Hafedh Azaiez has praised the hire. At the same time, a 42-page federal complaint filed April 30, 2025, in the Western District of Texas (Tanya Zurba v. City of Cedar Park, No. 1:25-cv-642) identifies Harmon as the final municipal policymaker whose alleged “ad hoc policy” of a “culture of indifference” was the “moving force” behind constitutional violations. The lawsuit centers on former Cedar Park Officer Keco Motton. Multiple women alleged Motton, while uniformed, armed, and on duty (and using his mental-health officer designation), sexually assaulted or groped them during domestic-related calls, including the plaintiff in May 2023. The complaint states Motton admitted sexual contact during interviews with Texas Rangers; he was arrested, resigned, and died by suicide days later. Plaintiffs allege the department (under Harmon) failed to adequately train, supervise, investigate prior complaints, or discipline Motton despite earlier reports, internal affairs activity, and warnings—creating deliberate indifference to citizens’ Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment rights to bodily integrity. These remain allegations; the City is the named defendant under § 1983 municipal-liability theories. This arrives against RRISD’s own record of police-department instability: ❌Jeffrey Yarbrough (first chief, roughly 2020–2022) left for the Hutto Police Department. He and other officers were named as defendants in ongoing federal litigation arising from arrests of parents at board meetings. ❌Dennis Weiner (hired ~2022/2023) faced a 2023 Texas Commission on Law Enforcement investigation finding he and an assistant chief had not completed required licensing and background processes before serving. An internal review described a “toxic,” divided department with favoritism and communication failures. After Weiner alleged district leadership delayed notifying police of a sexual assault of a five-year-old on a school bus and raised other non-reporting issues, he was placed on leave and his contract was not renewed. He sued under the Texas Whistleblower Act; the case remains pending in federal court (with a jury trial scheduled). ❌Ryan Urrutia (hired September 2024 from the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office) departed earlier in 2026. Whistleblower-style complaints circulated (noted by observers as not independently verified) alleging retaliation, confidentiality issues, skipped hiring exams, high turnover, and other operational problems. ❌Interim leadership, including Latriesha Grandy, also cycled out quickly (Grandy departed July 2026). The department has seen multiple chiefs or interims leave in roughly six years, with ongoing staffing shortfalls reported. ❌Harmon’s wife, Julie Harmon, is already an officer in the RRISD department and has raised questions about chain-of-command and conflict-of-interest optics, as well as her prior involvement in background work tied to an earlier chief Weiner hire that TCOLE later faulted. Mike Harmon has publicly stated his wife will resign once he becomes Chief. Julie Harmon is still listed as of today (10/26/2026) on the Round Rock ISD police website. The pattern under Superintendent Azaiez, who has a one-way permanent restraining order for violence against a pregnant woman, has included licensing lapses, culture complaints, whistleblower litigation, and now the arrival of a chief whose prior department is defending a serious federal suit alleging systemic failures around an officer who sexually assaulted women and later died by suicide. Whether Harmon brings the “stability” the district has publicly sought remains to be seen; parents and taxpayers have legitimate reasons to scrutinize both the incoming chief’s record and the district’s broader history of police oversight. @M4LWilCoTX

Direct Quotes from Federal lawsuit Tanya Zurba v. City of Cedar Park, Texas (W.D. Tex. Case No. 1:25-cv-642) Involving recently hired Round Rock ISD Police Chief Mike Harmon: “acting by and through its policy maker, Chief of Police, Mike Harmon, who is directly responsible for the enforcement of the laws of the State of Texas to timely prevent the commission of such acts by its police officers, and in particular Keco Motton. These failures constitute deliberate and reckless indifference, including by failing to properly train, supervise, and discipline officers…” “The Cedar Park Police Department has long had an institutional ad hoc policy that constitutes a culture of indifference that operates as official policy promulgated by the municipal policymaker, the Chief of Police…” “Officer Motton was allowed to go unsupervised from 2015 until 2023, including under Chief of Police, Mike Harmon because of the culture of indifference.” “Chief of Police, Mike Harmon, is a policy maker for the City of Cedar Park and its Police Department, who also performs supervisory duties over the training and disciplining of officers under his command.” “In an interview on May 28, 2021 Chief Harmon admitted in an interview that ‘Culture is shaped by the worst behavior that leaders will tolerate.’” “As Chief of Police, Mike Harmon, acting under color of law, and within his scope of employment, committed one or more acts of deliberately intentional or recklessly indifferent conduct, including by omission, by failing to properly implement, train, and supervise discipline for infractions of law, by not having in place any relevant policies and procedures for criminal investigations, as well as for other officers to report misconduct in a timely manner without fear of retaliation…” “As a policy maker of the City of Cedar Park, Chief of Police Mike Harmon is responsible for the lack of training, supervision, and discipline that supported and encouraged the ad hoc policy of a culture of indifference to not report, timely or properly investigate, and to conceal information of sexual assaults…” “Defendant, Chief of Police, Mike Harmon, was the chief or final policymaker for all matters related to the activities of the CP-PD including all law enforcement activities…” “The City of Cedar Park and Chief of Police, Mike Harmon, as policymakers, instituted an unlawful ad hoc policy of a culture of indifference…”

𝐒𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐦, 𝐝𝐢𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐲: 𝐑𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐑𝐨𝐜𝐤 𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐲 𝐯𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐥𝐬𝐨 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲—𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐬 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐳𝐚 𝐲𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐃𝐢𝐰𝐚𝐥𝐢 𝐅𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥 This looks like election interference in more than one place. Same pattern just down the road in Round Rock, Texas (Williamson County). At the BACA center, one of the busiest early-voting locations in the county, contractors moved candidate signs yesterday (10/23) from the plaza to a smaller side area. Today the main parking lot and the usual handicap voting location are blocked off while an event is set up and held. Democrats have a booth promoting their candidates outside the 100-foot zone, and the school district also has a booth with VATRE signs. That raises a fair question: why should candidates, parties, or districts have to pay for festival booth space just to reach voters at an official polling place on the one full Saturday of early voting? A volunteer reported no line at 3 p.m. today at a site that normally sees steady traffic. Volunteers are documenting restricted access to parking and the relocated signs. Officials in Southlake and Williamson County both knew the early-voting calendar. Parking and access restrictions at active polling places on the only full Saturday deserve the same public explanation: who approved them, when, and why voter access was not protected first. H/T @cslape @wilcogop @Carlos__Turcios