Sanchez v. Bexar County Sheriff's Department

The Texas Local Government Code provides that a party seeking judicial review in a district court of a county civil service commission decision “shall offer, and the reviewing court shall admit, the commission record into evidence as an exhibit.” TEX. LOC. GOV’T CODE § 158.0122(c). The issue in this case is whether this provision precludes an appellate court from considering a commission’s record that was relied on as evidence by the parties and the district court but was not formally admitted into evidence at the district court’s review of a commission’s decision. We hold that the court of…