A Fort Worth officer was unaware his name was on a list of law enforcement officers to investigate deaths in the county jail, ...

The Tarrant County Sheriff’s Office was late in reporting an in-custody death to the state, citing a clerical error.

including the Tarrant County Sheriff’s Office jail staff, the TCSO Criminal Investigations Division, an outside law enforcement agency, JPS Medical Staff, The Texas Commission on Jail Standards ...

She was then transferred to the Tarrant County jail a day later and placed under medical observation, the news release said. She was sent to the hospital on Feb. 15 before dying three days later ...

A U.S. district judge dismissed the claims against Tarrant County in the civil case brought by the family of Anthony Johnson Jr., who was killed at the county jail in April, according to the ...

Failure to report a custody death within 30 days constitutes a class B misdemeanor crime, per the Texas Penal Code.

Tarrant County Jail Administrator Shannon Herklotz is one of many public officials copied on the letter. The letter cites the statute in the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure that requires the ...