Sec. 143.090.  RELEASE OF PHOTOGRAPHS OF POLICE OFFICERS.  A department, commission, or municipality may not release a photograph that depicts a police officer unless:
(1)  the officer has been charged with an offense by indictment or by information;
(2)  the officer is a party in a civil service hearing or a case before a hearing examiner or in arbitration;
(3)  the photograph is introduced as evidence in a judicial proceeding; or
(4)  the officer gives written consent to the release of the photograph.
Added by Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 300 (H.B. 2006), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2011.