Overview
- Law enforcement executed 14 court-approved search warrants in September 2026 to obtain electronic records, including Apple iCloud and phone data, from members of the Eastland family and Camp Mystic staff.
- Affidavits filed by a Texas Ranger allege probable cause that camp leaders committed crimes such as manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide, injury to a child, abandoning or endangering a child, and deadly conduct, but no criminal charges have been filed.
- Investigators are concentrating on communications and location data from July 3–4, 2025 to determine what camp leaders knew about the forecast and flash-flood warnings and how they decided whether and when to move campers.
- Earlier state and legislative reviews and court testimony found Camp Mystic lacked required written evacuation plans, ran inadequate training and drills, and delayed or failed to relocate children from low-lying cabins before the flood.
- Families continue civil wrongful-death litigation as Camp Mystic and related entities pursue Chapter 11 bankruptcy and search efforts for one missing child continue, and the warrants raise the prospect of further legal action if the digital evidence supports indictments.