Greg Shugart News Today

A proposed plan to restructure Tarrant County's courts is being rethought after Tuesday's backlash from neighbors, attorneys, and judges.

Zenorah was barely one week old when doctors took her off life support. She exhaled her last breath in the arms of her grandmother. “I held her until she was, you know,” Kimberly Hammond said. “I held her until she went on and her body was cold. It was like somebody ripped out my soul.” Zenorah’s official cause of

“The people of Tarrant County gathered up and wanted to talk to the sheriff. I wanted to be available,” Waybourn said after hearing concerns about conditions in the jail.

The company the county is contracting with to revamp its case management system has had legal troubles nationwide, and county officials appear to have been unaware of the problems when they signed a five-year contract.