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Waller County constable raises access and treatment concerns after being denied vehicle service at Road & Bridge
Summary
Constable Herschel Smith urged commissioners to treat elected officials and staff equitably after a dispute over vehicle servicing at the county Road & Bridge shop led to a yearlong disagreement and public comments alleging inconsistent notification and due‑process failures.
Constable Herschel Smith told the Waller County Commissioners Court on March 19 that he was denied service for a county vehicle by county Road & Bridge staff in February 2024 and later received an email from engineer Ross McCall instructing him to use outside vendors. Smith said he had used Road & Bridge for vehicle service for 12 years without issue and asked the court to place the matter on a future agenda as an action item so it could be resolved.
Smith said he paid county taxes, is an elected official, and that he had not been given an opportunity to respond to the allegations that prompted the engineer’s memo. He described the resulting posture as a denial of due process and said efforts to arrange a private meeting after last…
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