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,

The former Houston mayor’s funeral drew more than 1,000 mourners on Saturday, including 20 of his congressional colleagues from both political parties.

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

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.