Department of Public Safety Director Steve McCraw declined to update the commission overseeing his agency on Operation Lone Star on Thursday in his first appearance before the panel since the state deployed a wall of buoys in the Rio Grande, began separating families and faced accusations of mistreating migrants.

The Public Safety Commission agenda included an update on the border crackdown, but McCraw did not give one publicly. When asked by a commissioner if he planned to talk about Operation Lone Star, McCraw replied simply: “No.”