Commissioners postpone IT services decision after county server catastrophe

Mar 4, 2026

After a recent server failure forced dispatch and jail staff to work on paper, the court voted to postpone a decision on IT services for the sheriff's department; officials reported 51 overtime hours to re-enter data and that dispatch handled 781 calls during the outage.

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Burleson County commissioners unanimously voted to postpone a decision on information-technology services for the sheriff's department after hearing that a catastrophic server failure three weeks earlier disrupted operations.

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