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Residents, advocates press Tarrant County for independent reviews after jail deaths; call for compliance with Sandra Bland Act
Summary
Multiple speakers at the May 6 commissioners' court urged the county to investigate recent jail deaths, ensure compliance with the Sandra Bland Act and release missing or delayed footage; they named specific recent deaths and urged outside investigations.
Dozens of residents and advocacy speakers at the May 6 Tarrant County Commissioners Court meeting urged the court to order independent investigations into multiple jail deaths and to bring the Tarrant County Jail into compliance with the Sandra Bland Act.
Speakers named several recent deaths in custody and said families remain without satisfactory answers. Linda Hanratty, a frequent public commenter, said recent county submissions to state investigators “lack the three minutes immediately preceding the medical emergency” in at least one case and that the medical examiner had identified dehydration and malnutrition as a cause of death in another case. "The fact is 25 of our jail deaths from 2021 through 2024 somehow escaped that statutory mandate," she said, referencing…
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