Todd and Oz Show 4-30-26

About this episode

The episode discusses Austin's upcoming homeless encampment sweeps, concerns about self-driving vehicles, and legislative actions regarding Camp Mystic.

The city of Austin is preparing to ramp up homeless encampment sweeps in the coming weeks as a proposal outlines targeted cleanups across the city, but it’s already drawing criticism from activists who say the approach risks doing more harm than good like Eli Cortez with the group "Vocal TX" tells KVUE the police department is causing a lot of fear among the homeless community, which makes it difficult to get them help, Austin's first responders are taking their concerns about self-driving vehicles to city leaders after the 6th Street mass shooting early last month, an ambulance was blocked from getting to the scene by a self-driving Waymo vehicle that was stuck in the middle of the roadway, and Texas lieutenant governor Dan Patrick reiterated his call for state health officials to block the license of Camp Mystic following a two-day legislative hearing in which investigators, families of flood victims, and the camp's operators took hours of questions from lawmakers. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

People in this episode

Hosts: Todd, Oz

Topics covered

• homelessness
• city policy
• self-driving vehicles
• public safety
• legislation

Keywords

• Austin
• homeless encampment
• self-driving vehicles
• Dan Patrick
• Camp Mystic

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Vocal TX, Camp Mystic

Places: Austin, Texas, 6th Street

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