Priscilla Villarreal Treviño, aka, La Gordiloca Announced Her Candidacy For City Council District 4 In Laredo

Treviño vowed to work with her constituency in City Council District 4 to bring change, representation and accountability to the City.

By H. Nelson Goodson 

Hispanic News Network U.S.A.

February 16, 2024

Laredo, Texas - On Friday, Priscilla Villarreal Treviño, 39, aka, La Gordiloca announced in her Facebook Lagordiloca News LaredoTx page that she is a candidate for the City Council District 4, which the incumbent Council member Albert Torres Jr.'s term ends on November 2024 and will be an open seat.

First day to file to be placed on the ballot for the Laredo City Council is July 1, 2024 and candidates have until July 28, 2024 deadline to file in order to be place on the ballot.

Treviño is best known in Laredo for exposing City corrupt officials and law enforcement officers including members of the Webb County District Attorney's Office who decided to file criminal charges against her for publishing information about a suicide provided by a Laredo female police officer who was later terminated for giving unauthorized information about the suicide to Treviño. Treviño was taken into custody and criminally charged for publishing the information, but charges were later dropped. She then filed a federal lawsuit against the City of Laredo, the Laredo Police Department and the Webb County District Attorney's Office.

In January 2024, the majority of judges (9-7) in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth District ruled to throwout a federal lawsuit filed by Priscilla Villarreal Treviño v. City of Laredo (case No. 20-40359) because law enforcement has the justification to arrest online news bloggers that publish leaked information through government and law enforcement backchannels (back door), when the government and a law enforcement agency didn't authorized information for news reporting from a pending and ongoing investigation to be made public. (80 page ruling: https://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/20/20-40359-CV3.pdf)

Currently, Treviño is considering filing an appeal of her case to the U.S. Supreme Court. 

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