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Judge requests reassignment of mental‑health court staff; court directs investigation and follow‑up
Summary
Judge Yolanda Huff asked the court to reassign the support staff for her misdemeanor mental‑health court to County Court Administration, saying the team had been staffing a second, felony docket and that the split supervision had created unsustainable workloads.
A dispute over staffing and supervision of specialty‑court personnel surfaced in Commissioners Court March 11 when Judge Yolanda Huff asked the court to reassign support staff for her county misdemeanor mental‑health court from the Office of Criminal Justice to County Court Administration.
Judge Huff said the same specialist staff have worked both her misdemeanor mental‑health docket and a felony post‑trial diversion mental‑health docket for several years and that team members are “tired, overwhelmed” and sometimes pulled in conflicting…
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