In 2020, former Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner made Houston the first city in the U.S to create an entire office dedicated to the prevention of human trafficking — and the need for it was ripe. But specifics as to any recent work through the Mayor's Office of Human Trafficking and Domestic Violence Prevention has been unclear this year,

On Saturday, late Houston mayor and congressman Sylvester Turner was laid to rest during services at the Church Without Walls.

The public was invited to attend the funeral, but the church released a statement saying that they had reached capacity for the service.

The district has been a Democratic stronghold, held for decades by Sheila Jackson Lee and most recently by former Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner, who died March 5.

Harris County Attorney Christian Menefee submitted his bid on Saturday for the now vacant congressional seat of the late U.S. Rep. Sylvester Turner. According to a Federal Election Commission document filed Saturday evening by Menefee's campaign,