Overview

• Mayor John Whitmire announced on July 6 that Sade Perkins will be permanently removed and not reappointed to the Houston Food Insecurity Board in response to her social media remarks.
• Perkins’s TikTok video labeled Camp Mystic an “all-white, white-only” conservative Christian girls camp and asserted Hispanic missing girls would draw less sympathy.
• The Houston Food Insecurity Board, formed to advise the mayor and council on hunger issues, appointed Perkins in October 2023 and saw her term expire in January 2025.
• Whitmire condemned Perkins’s comments as “deeply inappropriate” while families grieve confirmed flood fatalities and continue searching for missing campers.
• Officials report 59 confirmed deaths, including 21 children, from the Texas Hill Country floods and say search operations for several unaccounted campers are ongoing.