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Court approves local mutual-aid agreement allowing mental-health deputies from Frio County to assist in Atascosa County
Summary
Commissioners approved a local agreement to accept two mental-health deputies from Frio County to assist Atascosa County law enforcement with mental-health crisis response.
Atascosa County Commissioners Court approved a local mutual-aid agreement that allows two Frio County deputies serving as mental-health officers to operate in Atascosa County to assist with mental-health crisis responses.
Sheriff Garrett explained the agreement as a mechanism to bring two Frio County mental-health deputies into the county to help officers respond to people in crisis. He described the measure as a way to expand on-county mental-health response capacity under an interlocal arrangement with neighboring jurisdictions and service providers.
Commissioner Riley moved the motion and Commissioner Gillespie seconded; the court approved the agreement on a voice vote with no further discussion recorded.
The recorded item describes the operational intent of the agreement but does not include deployment schedules, funding commitments, duration of the agreement, or detailed operational protocols in the open-session discussion; those items may be addressed in the underlying agreement document.
