Sheriff Salazar requested funding for a boat, but Bexar County Commissioners aren t buying it just yet
Sheriff Salazar said County Commissioner Trish DeBerry s comments on his plan were personal, political, and uncalled for. Author: Zack Briggs Updated: 11:37 PM CDT April 6, 2021
SAN ANTONIO Sheriff Javier Salazar’s request for a $20,000 rescue and recovery boat was met with questions and criticism during Tuesday’s Commissioners Court meeting. I’m going to be blunt here. I think it’s insulting and I think it’s insensitive that you’re spending $20,000 on a shiny new toy or a boat,” said Precinct 3 Commissioner Trish DeBerry.
Mar 4, 2021
Several city and county leaders are calling for a vaccination site in northern Bexar County. County Commissioner Trish DeBerry, along with City Council members Manny Pelaez, John Courage and Clayton Perry, want Metro Health and the Bexar County Hospital District to co-manage the site. In the week ahead, Texas is expected to receive 200-thousand doses of the single-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine. DeBerry says the shipment will enable the city and county to create the new vaccination site.
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Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar briefed county commissioners this week on his long-term plans to reduce huge overtime costs for staffing the jail.
The county spent $10 million on overtime in 2020, according to the county manager’s office.
Salazar on Tuesday pitched perhaps the biggest proposal of all to reduce the jail population and associated overtime for the jail staff the creation of a mental health facility to house and treat eligible inmates.
“Use that as a means of taking care of them other than trying to rely on our jail as a long-term solution to our ongoing mental health and growing mental health crisis,” he said.
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Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar talks with the media in November 2019. Salazar is taking a multi-pronged approach to improving operations at the jail as he starts his second term by continuing to hire quality recruits, converting unused space to a separate but adjacent mental health facility for inmates with mental health issues and providing better pay and working conditions to keep detention officers from leaving.Marvin Pfeiffer /San Antonio Express-News
A section of Bexar County Jail’s South Tower could become a mental health facility with room to house and treat several hundred people who Sheriff Javier Salazar says should be patients, not inmates.