SAN ANTONIO – The San Antonio Police Department has closed an internal affairs investigation into how details of Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones’ home security measures were leaked to the media, with no officers disciplined, a department spokeswoman confirmed this week.
The investigation was announced last fall by then SAPD-Chief William McManus, after KSAT Investigates revealed that officers were assigned to protect the mayor at her home overnight.
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Jones told Axios San Antonio earlier this week she was no longer receiving the after-hours security detail.
A spokesperson for the mayor declined to confirm the scaling back of security and told KSAT via email, “Risk assessments and security protocols are determined by the San Antonio Police Department, therefore, we refer you to the Chief of Police.”
An SAPD spokeswoman then told KSAT via email, “For security reasons we do not comment on the details of the mayor’s protection as it concerns sensitive security procedures.”
City officials last year repeatedly delayed the release of public records showing the cost to provide SAPD staffing for the Mayor Jones Residence Post Orders.
The city eventually released 19 pages of records but redacted both the cost and hours sections related to the mayor’s residential security.
SAPD employs an executive security detail for Jones while she is conducting city business, which is in line with protective measures provided to previous mayors of San Antonio.
But an overnight detail made up of SAPD officers was a unique level of security offered to a San Antonio mayor, sources and a previous mayor told KSAT last year.
The after-hours security included an officer stationed in a hallway.
Officers could use a chair during the overnight shift but were required to return it to the lobby before the last officer left in the morning.
A second officer was assigned outside the property and was ordered to conduct regular patrols of the property perimeter and surrounding blocks, according to orders obtained by KSAT that contained the seal of SAPD’s Executive Protection Detail.
Jones has faced multiple threats since taking office in the summer of 2025.
Marcos Olvera was arrested in August 2025 after investigators said he wrote “we need to kill the mayor” in a social media group chat that discussed Project Marvel, the city’s plans for a multi-billion-dollar sports and entertainment district.
Olvera was charged with retaliation, a third-degree felony.
Prosecutors in March dismissed the criminal charge, however, citing insufficient evidence.
Memo from mayor blamed council staffer for leak
In May, Jones authored a memo accusing the then-District 7 city council chief of staff of refusing to comply with the SAPD internal affairs investigation into how the overnight security details got out.
Multiple sources last fall provided KSAT details of the mayor’s home protection plan. The then-District 7 chief of staff was not one of those sources.
The mayor’s memo stated that 115 SAPD officers had been interviewed as part of the department’s investigation. One of those officers noted that a council aide had access to the security information.
The District 7 staffer left City Hall for the private sector in July.
